Online training It's taken me a while to launch the first two lessons on our online rigging theory course. We've reshot and remade the content a couple of times as we decided to include video footage from Aerial Edge's rigging course in Glasgow in lesson 1. The intent was to

What we've been up to... This month we've been building out our rigging training content by recording the 5-day rigging course at Aerial Edge so you can experience it online. We'll be publishing the first modules from our course in the next few weeks. We've interviewed Steve Dawson from Arco

Lots of activity over the last month; we've produced six videos and 3 articles in partnership with Firetoys on rigging silks. Last month we had a live stream on risk assessments that is worth watching. Silks The following links will take you to the three articles on silks which have

Livestream: Risk Assessments Chris Higgs & Mark Gibson will be talking about risk assessments, how we do them and what approach we should take in this month's live stream The original 30th September date has been postponed due to illness. Join us on 14th October at 4 pm BST on our

Rigging from truss article We have just published a new article on Rigging from truss [https://circusrigging.info/circus-rigging-from-truss/] which is the result of the last couple of live streams and a lot of behind-the-scenes work. If you are interested in understanding the specifics of rigging circus equipment from truss,

Friday 27th May at 4 pm BST on YouTube we will have our next Circus Rigging & Safety live stream. We'll be discussing how to do inspections and doing them live across a range of equipment. This will be targeted at performers and teachers who want to better understand how to

Last week, we released another in-depth article from our project on equipment inspection [https://circusrigging.info/inspection-in-circus-rigging/]s, covering what the regulations say about inspection and how that applies to circus in different ways. I would love to get your feedback on the article and any questions you may have

What happened at the Technical Symposium? How can you watch the content you missed? What can you look forward to next?

The good news for this month is we have been awarded some funding from Articulation Arts [https://www.articulationarts.org] for this year's conference (Technical Symposium). We are still working out all of the details, but have taken their advice to postpone the event to organize the new speakers and

The last couple of months have allowed us to focus on our rigging at home content. This content is designed for parents or recreational students who want to set up a training space at home and need to know what is involved. Currently we have created two articles and two

This month we've been busy with a few different initiatives including creating some public guides on rigging, safe training at home and recording two videos on hoop rigging. We've been delving deeper into COVID-19 as we prepare to open again next month. We've also been setting up some new events

This month’s updates: * Training and Covid-19 * Factors of Safety research * The website & membership * Our next event Training and Covid-19 risk factors This month, 40 people attended our event which explored how we can return to training in this Covid-19 environment, with representatives from the UK, US and the EU.