![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
This weekend, four students and two of my fellow faculty/staff and i all have traveled to the USITT Southeast Regional Conference, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
If the Commission Symposia are microcosm conferences divided into disciplines (like the creature-costume event i covered last month, sponsored by the Costume Commission), the regional conferences are similar-sized events divided by geographical location--we've got attendees from all areas of production and design, from professional and academic theatres around the southeastern US. They feature workshops and demonstrations, lectures and facilities tours, networking and social events, and a design/tech expo in which entrants can present projects and compete for prizes (such as "free admission fees to USITT National"). And, of course there are the usual convention swag tables where you can load up on free stuff from sponsors--product samples, literature, coupons, promotional logo merchandise, etc.
I have some photos and a few synopses of what we've done this weekend, to provide an idea what sort of event a regional conference of this sort is! I attended a shadow puppetry workshop, an overview of PatternMaker software, and a seminar on casting with a new expandable "green" foam (both ecologically and literally speaking). I also took a facilities tour of some of the UNC-G costume production spaces, and participated in the Design/Tech Expo.
( Read more... )
I'll wind this up by congratulating ALL THREE of our excellent students--Randy Handley, Amy A. Page, and Shanna Parks--each of whom received an award and all three of whom will be going to nationals on a free ride! Well, fees-wise anyway. Way to go!
We faculty folk don't get quite as good a deal--our division winners get a portion of the national fees waived (entry in the "Cover the Walls" exhibit)--but i'm not griping. Not to blow my own horn or anything, but i was one of the three winners, so hey, way to go, me, too!
To sum up, check out your own regional division conference if you get the chance, and see you at the 2010 USITT 50th Annual Conference and Stage Expo, March 31-April 3 in Kansas City, MO!
If the Commission Symposia are microcosm conferences divided into disciplines (like the creature-costume event i covered last month, sponsored by the Costume Commission), the regional conferences are similar-sized events divided by geographical location--we've got attendees from all areas of production and design, from professional and academic theatres around the southeastern US. They feature workshops and demonstrations, lectures and facilities tours, networking and social events, and a design/tech expo in which entrants can present projects and compete for prizes (such as "free admission fees to USITT National"). And, of course there are the usual convention swag tables where you can load up on free stuff from sponsors--product samples, literature, coupons, promotional logo merchandise, etc.
I have some photos and a few synopses of what we've done this weekend, to provide an idea what sort of event a regional conference of this sort is! I attended a shadow puppetry workshop, an overview of PatternMaker software, and a seminar on casting with a new expandable "green" foam (both ecologically and literally speaking). I also took a facilities tour of some of the UNC-G costume production spaces, and participated in the Design/Tech Expo.
( Read more... )
I'll wind this up by congratulating ALL THREE of our excellent students--Randy Handley, Amy A. Page, and Shanna Parks--each of whom received an award and all three of whom will be going to nationals on a free ride! Well, fees-wise anyway. Way to go!
We faculty folk don't get quite as good a deal--our division winners get a portion of the national fees waived (entry in the "Cover the Walls" exhibit)--but i'm not griping. Not to blow my own horn or anything, but i was one of the three winners, so hey, way to go, me, too!
To sum up, check out your own regional division conference if you get the chance, and see you at the 2010 USITT 50th Annual Conference and Stage Expo, March 31-April 3 in Kansas City, MO!
