Thursday, 16 January 2003
UK - A regional meeting of the Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) is to be held at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on Wednesday the 22 January between 5.30 and 8.00pm. The Conference Room in the Alexander Gibson Opera School has been booked and the meeting is being hosted by David Ripley, the Academy production manager and ALD member. Opera 1, a Ravel Double Bill, is on stage in the New Athenaeum (the main house) and there are also concert halls and a studio that members can have a look around, depending on production schedules.
No agenda has been set, but one of the main intentions of these regional meetings is to give members the chance to meet up and discuss issues about lighting and the lighting industry. It could also be an opportunity to talk about future regional meetings and how the ALD can help support them. A meeting in Bristol came up with several suggestions that the Association hopes to develop and ideas from the other end of the UK would be welcomed! Another possible area of discussion is CAD: David Ripley has been involved in the new CAD Standards in association with the ABTT and also runs the cad4theatre.org.uk web site.
If you would like to attend, please contact the ALD at the address below.
(Lee Baldock)