USA/UK - ESTA and PLASA have announced the release of an updated Version 2.0 of the International Code of Practice for Entertainment Rigging (ICOPER), which is available as a free download at www.esta.org/icoper or www.plasa.org/icoper. Submissions from the international rigging community were received in response to a call for comments in late 2021. The document’s authors, Nick Barnfield [...]

MADRID (AP) — A stage structure being set up for a music festival collapsed Friday in northwestern Spain, injuring four workers, regional emergency services said. Spanish National Television said 20 people had been working on the main stage when the accident occurred outside the city of Santiago de Compostela shortly before midday. The four workers [...]

Note from Blumano: The following summary is a news extract made by Blumano via an English translation of the articles from Infobae and La Semana (via Pressreader) regarding this story.  On May 14th, artist Gloria Trevi postponed her show at the USBI Baseball Stadium in Xalapa, Mexico due to part of the stage collapsing. Luckily, [...]

Five people were injured, with two taken to major trauma units, when parts of spectator stands collapsed at a Trooping the Colour rehearsal at Horse Guards Parade in central London. The Army said one stand gave way just before 11:00 BST and part of a second stand collapsed a short time later. London Ambulance Service [...]

The following summary is a news extract made by Blumano via BSI.  Starting from 1st January 2023, the CE Marking "will no longer be accepted on most new products placed on the market in Great Britain and UKCA will be required". BSI is hosting an on-demand webinar replay of their "UKCA Webinar: Securing market access [...]

UK hauliers working on music concerts, sporting and cultural events will be able to make unlimited international trips under new rules. Since Brexit, British specialist hauliers have been limited to three EU stops per tour, the government said. But from late summer they will be able to move freely between the UK, the EU and [...]

The RIGGERS project has been developed to answer the needs of riggers in professional circus schools, with the aim of enhancing the quality of safety measures and creating an international community eager to exchange skills, advice and expertise to be transmitted to future generations. In the last 15 years, the circus education sector has grown [...]

Professional skater and performer Lukasz Malewski was doing a stunt at the Flic Flac circus in Duisburg, Germany when the incident happened. The clip shows Lukasz getting his running take-off badly wrong and falling over before he has even got to a jump over the arena. The momentum he has built up on the slope [...]

UK – PLASA, the lead association for the entertainment technology industry and #WeMakeEvents, the global campaign to save live events, have published a detailed global survey report on the current position and future recovery of the live events industry. The survey ran from 1 November 2021 to 21 December 2021 and was completed by 1,948 respondents [...]

Note from Blumano: The following summary is a news extract made by Blumano via TPI and Vision: 2025. Comments recently closed on January 14th for the Green Code of Conduct, which was a code of practice recently launched to "provide clear minimum environmental standards for all UK outdoor events". The comments period aimed at getting [...]