with Bryan Barancik – Creative Designer at Luxious Creative
On this episode, we discuss what we can do during the pandemic to maintain mental stability, how to focus on health, how to shift our identity away from our job, how to maintain a support network away from our industry, homeschooling tips, and how to embrace the inevitable curveballs that continue to get hurled at us.
Please visit: https://luxious.com/
With Amanda Valdez – Architectural / Entertainment Lighting Designer at Shop12 Design in conjunction with Steelman Partners and Adjunct Professor at UNLV
with Sammy Ross – Lighting Designer
With Martin Kelley – Account Executive at Christie Lites in Toronto
With Jeff Croiter – Lighting Designer at Jeff Croiter Lighting Design
With Rachel Mullen – Lighting Designer and Director at RF Designs
with Jeff Calderon – Emmy Award winning Lighting Director, Lighting Designer and Director of Photography at Academy Lighting
Don’t let the sound quality prevent you from hearing what Jeff has to say.
On this episode, we discuss the benefits of encouraging inclusivity in entertainment, how unions can lift more people out of poverty, how collective bargaining can make us safer and more profitable, how to remain grateful and creative after 35 years in the industry, how the lighting industry changed for the better/worse, and how retirement from a job you love is a myth
Please visit: www.academylighting.com
Television Academy: https://www.emmys.com/academy/about
Foundation internships: https://www.emmys.com/foundation
Internship program: https://www.emmys.com/foundation/internships
with:
Vickie Claiborne – Training Manager Americas at disguise and Regional Director for WeMakeEvents
Andrew Gumper – Owner and President AG Production Services and National Director for WeMakeEvents
On this episode, we discuss what we can do to show support and solidarity for our brothers and sisters out of work. Nationwide, we can light it up red on Sept. 1st from 9pm-midnight. We can take a photo and share it far and wide on social media with the hashtags #wemakeevents and #redalertrestart. We can send emails to our local representatives. We can reach out to our fellow artists, production professionals and friends and make sure that they are doing well.
Please visit: www.wemakeevents.org
with Zach Boswell, General Manager at Ilios lighting
On this episode, we discuss #wemakeevents, who is most affected in our industry, what we are advocating for, what we can do as entertainment workers, what concertgoers can do to show support, how we can return to our industry, how we can show solidarity, and the very real tragic loss of our industry.
On September 1st, 2020, #WeMakeEvents, a coalition of trade bodies, businesses, unions, and live events workers, will light up their venues, homes, and cities red in over 1,500 locations across North America to raise public and media awareness in support of the live events sector. Will you join us?
#wemakeevents #redalertrestaert
Please visit: www.wemakeevents.org
with Christopher Eguizabal – Owner at AfterGlow Design and Production Designer at Harvest Christian Fellowship.
On this episode, we discuss the differences and the similarities between the house of worship lighting and other branches of our industry, volunteering our labor, learning from Disney, appealing to a broader audience, getting instant feedback from the congregation, consulting for maximum impact, using technology to amplify a message, expanding a business beyond the house of worship, and building durable relationships that last.
Please visit: instagram.com/chris4lites
with Griffin McCravy – Lighting Designer/Lighting Director at Church of the Highlands in Alabama
On this episode, we discuss going from churchgoer to part of the production team, how volunteer work can help move you up the production ladder, how technology helps amplify the message of sermons, how congregations react to technology and spectacle, how the isolation period has affected church attendance and impact, and how to set realistic goals in the production industry.
Please visit: https://www.instagram.com/griffin_mccravy/
With Donny LoDico – Director of Lighting and Senior Account Executive at Video West.