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Help Spread a Message of Hope

4 Mar 20214 Mar 2021
Technicians for Change is collecting short (5-15 second) videos of entertainment folx (technicians, designers, stage managers, performers, etc) with the message of "Standing by." We want it to be upbeat,…
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Podcast Introduction: We Shadows

5 Jan 202127 Jan 2021
By Leazah, Anita, and Rachel Published January 2021 Rachel: Welcome to We Shadows, a podcast featuring event and performance technicians, designers, and production folks in Minnesota. Today we’re introducing our…
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Misclassification Question and Answer

5 Jan 2021
By David Published January 2021 Back in September 2018, Allana and I wrote an article about worker classification. It discussed some of the factors used to consider whether a worker…
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Advanced Gig Tracking

5 Jan 2021
By Roger Published January 2021 In March 2020, we shared a simple spreadsheet to help keep track of work, pay, and employers. It was a basic, straightforward record of what…
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Pivot

5 Jan 2021
By Gaea Published January 2021 Theater people are masters of the side hustle. For the most part, we started our professional careers as freelance labor, jumping from one gig to…
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Not so Micro: How You (and I) Might Not Fully Understand Microaggressions

1 Oct 2020
By Kenji Published October 2020 2 Things before I get into the article: CW: As an Asian-American theater maker, I am going to be mainly focusing on racial microaggressions/racism in…
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Your Next Gig Will Suck…

1 Oct 2020
By Roger Published October 2020 Days go by, then…your phone buzzes, your buddy says “we’re doing a gig and we want you, need you.  Are you in?”  Stupidest question ever…
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Minneapolis Road Case March

1 Oct 20205 Oct 2020
Video by Leazah; Photo by John Bartley Published October 2020 On September 10th, 2020, approximately 154 Live Entertainment workers, who are out of work, pushed road cases from the loading…
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Foundations of Courage: Do You Have a Baseplate?

1 Oct 2020
By Anna Robb Published October 2020 “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear” – Mark Twain I remember the exact moment I read this…

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