Spring 2017: Training News

| ETCP Certifiable News: Spring 2017 |

ALPS Entertainment Rigging Sessions
3 Day Rigging Session July 11-13, 2017

ALPS is pleased to announce its latest ALPS Academy training event to be held July 11-13, 2017 at our new location in Canton, MA.

Days 1 & 2 cover topics including:
OSHA • ANSI • Fall Protection & Fall Arrest • Hardware • Truss • Hoists • Complex Structures • Ground Supported Systems • Rigging Load Calculations • Rigging Tools • and more!

Day 3 is hands-on and includes:
Building a Ground Supported Structure • Implementing PFAS & Rescue Planning • Performing Destructive Testing on Rigging Hardware

For more information visit: http:///entertainmentriggingsessions.com or register here.

ALPS / Advanced Lighting & Productions Services, Inc.
125 Shawmut Rd., Canton, MA 02021 • 781-961-3066 • www.alpsweb.com

Jay. O. Glerum Rigging Masterclasses
The Masterclasses honor the memory of one of our industry's great advocates for safety and training, Jay O. Glerum. Taught annually beginning in 2016, these masterclasses will have two tracks of learning, advanced and entry level. The advanced track will be taught for ETCP renewal credit and include training on the latest innovations in rigging as well as advanced safety such as life rescue and other topics. The entry track is geared towards students and educators and includes both counterweight and automated rigging safety and operations.
 

Registration Now Open	Registration Now Open
Glerum Entry Level Masterclass	Glerum Entry & Advanced Level Masterclass
June 13-14, 2017 Jonesboro, Georgia	Aug 14-15, 2017 Hartford, Connecticut
REGISTER NOW	REGISTER NOW

These classes are offered through the support of donors and corporate sponsors. Through their generous giving these courses are offered at reasonable rates. Proceeds support the education offered by USITT including the Rigging Safety Initiative.

If you would like to help sponsor these classes, please contact the USITT Office.

New England Center for Circus Arts

Three-day workshop on Rigging and Risk Management for Aerial Performance 

New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, VT, • April 17-19

This intensive hands-on, participatory workshop will focus on principles and practices of rigging and risk management for circus, acrobatic, and aerial dance performance. Featuring practical demonstrations and hands-on rigging activities, it will explore many typical and unusual scenarios, and provide access to an array of skills and techniques for safe and effective performance rigging. Fundamentally, we will treat acrobatic rigging as an extreme dynamic application of the principles and practices underlying all good entertainment rigging, both Arena and Theatrical.

Topics to be explored include dynamic loads and forces (including shock loads with live performance demonstrations using load-cells to monitor peak loads), strength and properties of materials and hardware design factors and determination of allowable loads, use of non-rated and invented apparatus (including bungee), risk assessment and risk management, inspection and retirement protocols, emergency planning, manual performance rigging techniques using mechanical advantage and counterweight, touring considerations, and rigging math. While we will touch on the basic principles underlying automated performer rigging systems, this is not an automation class and will not deal in any depth with specific systems, design, or operational considerations. 

The course will be led by ETCP Recognized Trainer Jonathan Deull, along with circus and stunt rigging trainer Brett Copes. For more information and to register: https://www.necenterforcircusarts.org/learn/adult2/workshops/circus_rigging_wor

TAIT Towers Conquers the World Market in Innovative Technology

Learn how TAIT’s ETCP-certified Navigator Courses can help you grow in your career. TAIT Navigator is the leading control platform of automation equipment used by the biggest names in the industry. From Justin Timberlake to National Geographic, Disney and Cirque du Soleil, TAIT helps their clients automate large and small scale operations. Navigator can be found around the world, used in commercial spaces, theatres, themed attractions, motion pictures, and touring production markets. TAIT Navigator is capable of everything from simple axis moves to complex three dimensional flights, as well as integration of simple control input and output for complete show control interaction.

Currently, TAIT’s Navigator is engineering the largest kinetic light installation in concert touring history for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. With the use of Navigator, TAIT also created the first-ever commercial use of the Cable Coaster Virtual Reality simulator for National Geographic “Experience Mars.” Have you seen the OMNIA Nightclub Chandelier in Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas? TAIT fabricated the stunning Chandelier, a spectacular kinetic installation that provides an ever-changing visual display of LED lights and programmed configurations controlled by TAIT’s Navigator. 

Navigator is constantly expanding to new technologies. As TAIT Navigator develops, so does the demand for Navigator Operators. TAIT offers several ETCP credited Navigator courses through their training program TAIT University. The University courses are designed to develop and enrich highly skilled and knowledgeable operators by developing fundamentals of automation theory and components in addition to Navigator Software Training. Emphasis is placed on safety and best practice in use of automation control systems. If you are interested in expanding your knowledge, growing your career, and resume, TAIT University is the place to be. TAIT’s training facility in Lititz Pennsylvania is housed in part of the fabrication and integration spaces where TAIT Towers integrates staging and automation equipment for concert touring productions and various installations of automation for entertainment. This facility brings the unique opportunity to see the creation of some the biggest entertainment spectacles traveling the world today!

Public Navigator courses are held monthly at TAIT’s Lititz Pennsylvania location with custom classes available in Lititz or at your location. Our highly trained and knowledgeable instructors lead classes that allow you to learn at your own pace. The limited class size of 8 people allows for individual attention, a comfortable environment to learn and ask questions, and the opportunity to network with fellow industry professionals. 

Current Public Course offerings include (All ETCP Recognized): 
NAV 103: Basic TAIT Navigator
NAV 201: Advanced Cue Programming
NAV 208: IO, Axis IO and Tuning Basics
NAV 301: Objects and Lace Attachments

More information can be found on TAIT’s website at TaitTowers.com.  Select the Navigator tab to learn more about our training program and to enroll in a class.

Introducing The Basics of Performer Rigging and Flying

 Early Bird Registration for TOP Flight, the four-day performer flying and rigging workshop taught by the staff of Vertigo is now open! Learn more >> 

Learn: Rigging And How To Do It Correctly
Grasp rigging math, rigging safety, and the installation and operation of manual performer flying systems. Available for ETCP renewal credits! Learn more >> 

Experience: Flying Choreography
On the workshop's last day, learn how to create, design and coordinate your own flying performance, or fly in it yourself! Learn more >> 

This year's TOP Flight will be hosted at Kaneland High School in Maple Park, IL from August 2nd - 5th​. Discounted hotel rates are limited, so reserve your spot ASAP!

 

Reed Rigging - CM Mega School 2017 
Event Date: May 8-12, 2017
Event Address: Reed Rigging, Inc. 4400 W 45th Street Chicago, IL 60632
Contact us at: 773-521-7333 or training@reedrigging.com 
To Register:  https://reedrigging.com/megaschool/ 

This 5-day training program is a combination of CM-ET’s well-known RTC training plus hands-on rope access and rigging training. Manufacturers’ representatives from Xtreme Structures & Fabrication and Motion Laboratories will also be on hand to teach proper safety and use of truss and motor control systems. 

Rigging Techniques (36 ETCP Renewal Credits)

• Structure Climbing and Work Positioning
• Rope Access, Ascending, Descending, and Rescue
• Entertainment Rigging
• Truss Use and Inspection
• Motor Control and Load Monitoring

RTC Motor Certification School (12 ETCP Renewal Credits) 
This ETCP-recognized training session covers all aspects of the design and operation of hoists, maintenance needs, inspection requirements and troubleshooting procedures. This course also delves deep into electrical theory and troubleshooting of the popular Lodestar and Prostar hoists.

Meet Your Trainers: 
Dave Carmack is in his 40th year with CM and has served many roles during his tenure. From 20 years of manufacturing the Lodestar, to Engineering Research and Development Lab Technician and Product Engineer before becoming our Entertainment Trainer. Dave has taught classes on 6 of the 7 continents.

Bob Lannon is an ETCP Arena /Theater certified rigger, Society of Rope Access Level 3 Technician and CM Certified Hoist Technician. He is a working Entertainment and Traveling production Rigger with over 20 years of experience working at height in the Entertainment, Building Maintenance, and Media Marketing Industries. He has worked on a variety of locations and structures from Arenas and Stadiums, High Rise Buildings, Towers, and Smoke Stacks.