Technical Training Handbook by ABTT

The ABTT is supporting current national initiatives for training and participating in the consultative process with Creative & Cultural Skills, the Sector Skills Council for Advertising, Crafts, Cultural Heritage, Design, Music, Performing, Literary and Visual Arts. With recent stories in the press of a predicted shortfall of trained technicians in the future, the ABTT sees this book as the perfect tool to encourage and inspire a new generation to enter the profession. It will also help those already working in the industry to identify how they will continue their professional development. The Performing Arts Technical Training Handbook is a useful and practical resource for people today, who are interested in pursuing a career backstage or who are, as yet, unaware of the huge range of vocational opportunities the entertainment industry has to offer.

The Handbook gives comprehensive details of various courses at over 100 universities and colleges across the UK and acknowledges every major contributor working in the training arena:

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• Society of British Theatre Designers
  
• Stage Management Association
  
• Association of Lighting Designers
  
• Skillscene
  
• Creative & Cultural Skills
  
• Conference of Drama Schools
  
• National Council for Drama Training
  
• Arts & Entertainment Technical Training Initiative
  
• Professional Lighting and Sound Association
  
• Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers
  
• Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians

Endorsements received to date include:
Rosemary Squire, Co-Founder and Joint CEO Ambassador Theatre Group & President of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT): "The Performing Arts Technical Training Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to work in the theatre industry. Ambassador Theatre Group fully supports any initiative to drive forward recruitment into this sector and the Association of British Theatre Technicians should be applauded for encouraging development of essential skills and promoting the training opportunities and advances that exist within the theatre world".

Richard Pulford, Chief Executive, Society of London Theatre & Theatrical Management Association: "Being involved with the Creative Apprenticeships Task Force and the Creative and Cultural Sector Skills Council, many initiatives are emerging to encourage and develop careers in the theatre. This handbook is an excellent step in the right direction. It is particularly gratifying that it has been developed in full consultation with the sector itself".

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