Seminar: Space Invaders: Converting Spaces - Creating Theatres 12 September

26th July 2011

This seminar and discussion session focuses on the specific challenges of project management and technical installations associated with converting existing buildings into theatres. It includes the findings from The Theatres Trust’s annual conference in June 2011, ‘Converting Spaces – Creating Theatres’ which looked at ways in which civic buildings, warehouses, offices and town halls undergo conversion into theatres.

Space Invaders: Converting Spaces – Creating Theatres
11.00am – 12.00pm
Victoria Room, Earls Court 2
Book Session

Mhora Samuel, Director of The Theatres Trust and Alistair Fair, the author of Trust’s Conference 11 Report, will introduce the best practice principles that emerged from the conference. The Arcola Theatre was one of the Theatres featured during this conference. David Salter, the Technical Manager, and Jon Satow, the Project Manager, will consider the particular technical issues associated with the conversion of their new theatre at 24 Ashwin Street in Dalston, East London, and how they were addressed

Speaker(s):

Chaired by Billy Differ, Delfont Mackintosh | Speakers include: Mhora Samuel, The Theatres Trust | Alistair Fair, University of Cambridge, Conference Reporter for Conference 11 | Jon Satow, Cragg Management Services | David Salter, Technical Manager, Arcola Theatre.

Audience:

Anyone interested in converting existing buildings into theatres, those working in technical departments and production in theatres, technicians working for installation companies.

Source: PLASA 11