Technical Theatre Preservation GroupOn Tuesday the 9th of September TTPG will be presenting, along with the HSLC and the BECG at London Olympia. After three short presentations, Rob Halliday (Mr. Classic Gear) will chair a Q & A session from the audience.
Attendance at Plasa is free provided registration is done before September 5th. There is lots to see!
Ian Grey will be on the Classic Gear Live stand on the Tuesday afternoon along with lots of interesting items and people.
https://www.plasashow.com/programme
Today was our final visit to Rocket Storage to collect the balance of the Nottingham Trent University/EnLighten Initiative items that had to be rescued last September. We are grateful to Rocket for providing storage and assistance over the last 9 months in an environment more conducive to preservation than a domestic self-store. After loading the van up this morning Mike will be driving it north to Scotland for unloading in the TTPG store.
We are aware that Ian, Mike and Shane haven’t been photographed together until today!
(From Ian)
Our presentation went well this morning, the venue had a hiccup with their laptop (it had applied updates that munged it) but they quickly provided another one well before the doors opened. The only oversight was that I had forgotten to set the taskbar to auto-hide on the new laptop and only noticed when I had set Mike’s presentation going. Mike watched on from my tablet on the speaker’s table and was even able to have a couple of conversations with audience members he knew at the end.
Mike’s pre-recorded presentation is now up on Youtube at https://youtu.be/SB1UUzSRzzQ Ian and Shane were not recorded but we expect the slides to appear on Facebook BETA shortly.
Plasa Focus Leeds opens today and we will be presenting early doors.
If you are reading this after scanning one of our QR cards at the show then rest assured we will get our presentations up here once the dust has settled.
Leeds Armouries today and the Plasa Leeds get-in is well under way. Show laptop tweaked, sound equalised and video projector keystoned, ready to go tomorrow.
…until Plasa Focus Leeds 2025 and the launch of the TTPG.
…has arrived to have some to hand out at the talk on Tuesday at Plasa Leeds.
Our logo is based on an image from the Howard & Wyndham Management book which is undated but thought to have been shortly after WW2. The book is full of ridiculous levels of detail and form filling required for the leadership team back then but it also documented lots of technical detail related to stage dimensions, flying and lighting. This image is based on the stage plan of the Glasgow Theatre Royal tweaked slightly to include our title.
This is a collection of 20th Century theatre lighting equipment that urgently needed a new home in September 2024. It was stored at Nottingham Trent University and collected by Shane Guy, much of it from the Enlighten Initiative. A departmental move to a new building meant a new home was necessary and it is now in the safe keeping of the TTPG using Rocket storage in Nottingham. It will eventually get transported to Mike’s storage unit in Scotland for restoration.