[SML] Learning lighting boards

[Blackfaer]

Not sure about down that way, but Local 15 Seattle has an association (The Training Trust) which offers classes in various lighting and sound consoles based on demand for very cheap. Also, LDI and USITT both have classes, and like Dale says, local rental houses are a good bet. If all else fails, come visit the northwest and I can teach you ETC consoles cheap ;)
-Mark Thomason

On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:05 PM, Dale Farmer via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Your local lighting rental house is a good resource for things of this nature. Oh look! I work for ALPS.  (full disclosure)   We offer various seminars and classes on the boards that we carry on rental stock.   I have no idea what the costs or schedules are, that's not my department.  My department is for the fixing of the broken things that got shorts or had a forklift stuck through them or fell off the truck or got dragged from one end of the state to the other hanging off the back of the trailer.  Plus normal wear and tear... and squirrel nest removal.
> 
> --Dale
> 
> On 8/31/2015 7:09 PM, Steven Santos via Stagecraft wrote:
>> I want to learn how to program and operate a lighting board. I spent
>> part of the day today looking for a college class on the subject
>> anywhere near me, and struck out.  It was either stagecraft 101 (for the
>> three to five classes on lighting boards), or one school offered a
>> lighting design class that requires you to already know basics of
>> programming the board they use.
>> 
>> I have more or less unlimited access to lighting boards and lights.
>> 
>> I need to learn how to program and run cues, and I need to learn about
>> operating moving lights from a board.
>> 
>> If I can't find a class, any recommendations for books/video on this?
>> ---
>> Steven Santos
>> Director
>> Simply Circus, Inc.
>> 86 Los Angeles Street
>> Newton, MA 02458
>> 
>> P: 617-527-0667
>> F: 617-934-1870
>> E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com
>> 
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