New Theatrical Lighting Volunteers Needed for Non Profit Theater!

New York City NY

Description

Event #1 - Saturday, Aug 7th Date: Saturday, August 7th Time: 10am-6pm OR 10am-2pm and 2pm-6pm Preferred Headcount: 2-3 Team Leader Count: 1 Supervisors: Asa Lipton Location: The Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 W 28th St, 3rd Floor between 6th & 7th Aves Title: Install New Theatrical Lighting at Non-profit Community Theater Help install new lighting instruments at a non-profit community theater, The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) in preparation for the fall theater season and our award- winning after-school theater-arts education program, which has been serving homeless and at-risk youth living in NYC&'s temporary housing facilities since 1995. We are using a grant to buy a new computer lighting board and new lighting instruments to upgrade our theatrical lighting installation! This important project will help us better illuminate our own programs and productions... and help us attract new rental clients to support our nonprofit mission of arts education to at-risk youth and people from all walks of life. Volunteer under the oversight of ATW’s Lighting Director and several professional electricians. This will be a unique and meaningful project for volunteers to participate in. Under the supervision of ATW’s Lighting Director and professional electricians, volunteers will: ● Taking existing lighting equipment down from 10’ ceilings 2 ● Unrun all the cables from the lighting closet ● Pull everything out of the closet and build it back up from scratch ● Remove unnecessary gear ● Do light cleaning before and after project- dusting, sweeping, mopping. ● Lifting and climbing on a ladder is required for much of this work. We have 10’ ceilings and therefore use 6’ or 8’ ladders. Other important info: ● Participants must be okay to do heavy lifting and go up and down 6-8’ ladders ● Participants must dress comfortably: sneakers / flat shoes and clothes they can move around in. ● Participants should arrive on-time and stay for the whole event. If a volunteer cannot come or stay for the whole event, we'd appreciate that s/he release their spot as soon as they know to allow someone who can stay for the whole event the opportunity to sign-up. ● Please bring a can-do attitude to the work for the day! Event #2 - Monday, Aug 9th Event Date: Monday, August 9th Time: 10am-4pm Preferred Headcount: 2-3 Team Leader Count: 1 Supervisors: Asa Lipton Location: The Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 W 28th St, 3rd Floor between 6th & 7th Aves Title: Install New Theatrical Lighting at Non-profit Community Theater Help install new lighting instruments at a non-profit community theater, The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) in preparation for the fall theater season and our award- winning after-school theater-arts education program, which has been serving homeless and at-risk youth living in NYC&'s temporary housing facilities since 1995. We are using a grant to buy a new computer lighting board and new lighting instruments to upgrade our theatrical lighting installation! This important project will help us better illuminate our own programs and productions... and help us attract new rental clients to support our nonprofit mission of arts education to at-risk youth and people from all walks of life. 3 Volunteer under the oversight of ATW’s Lighting Director and several professional electricians. This will be a unique and meaningful project for volunteers to participate in. Under the supervision of ATW’s Lighting Director and professional electricians, volunteers will: ● Test all existing and new lighting equipment and cables ● Install a new (heavy) dimmer rack on upper shelf. ● Set-up a lower shelf for storage ● Do light cleaning before and after project- dusting, sweeping, mopping. ● Lifting and climbing on a ladder is required for much of this work. We have 10’ ceilings and therefore use 6’ or 8’ ladders. Other important info: ● Participants must be okay to do heavy lifting and go up and down 6-8’ ladders ● Participants must dress comfortably: sneakers / flat shoes and clothes they can move around in. ● Participants should arrive on-time and stay for the whole event. If a volunteer cannot come or stay for the whole event, we'd appreciate that s/he release their spot as soon as they know to allow someone who can stay for the whole event the opportunity to sign-up. ● Please bring a can-do attitude to the work for the day! Event #3 - Tuesday, Aug 10th Event Date: Tuesday, August 10th Time: 10am-6pm Preferred Headcount: 2 Team Leader Count: 1 Supervisors: Asa Lipton Location: The Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 W 28th St, 3rd Floor between 6th & 7th Aves Title: Install New Theatrical Lighting at Non-profit Community Theater Help install new lighting instruments at a non-profit community theater, The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) in preparation for the fall theater season and our award- winning after-school theater-arts education program, which has been serving homeless and at-risk youth living in NYC&'s temporary housing facilities since 1995. 4 We are using a grant to buy a new computer lighting board and new lighting instruments to upgrade our theatrical lighting installation! This important project will help us better illuminate our own programs and productions... and help us attract new rental clients to support our nonprofit mission of arts education to at-risk youth and people from all walks of life. Volunteer under the oversight of ATW’s Lighting Director and several professional electricians. This will be a unique and meaningful project for volunteers to participate in. Under the supervision of ATW’s Lighting Director and professional electricians, volunteers will: ● Install Stage Lights and run cables ● Install House Lights over the audience with incandescent light bulbs ● Install Work Light system. ● Do light cleaning before and after project- dusting, sweeping, mopping. ● Lifting and climbing on a ladder is required for much of this work. We have 10’ ceilings and therefore use 6’ or 8’ ladders. Other important info: ● Participants must be okay to do heavy lifting and go up and down 6-8’ ladders ● Participants must dress comfortably: sneakers / flat shoes and clothes they can move around in. ● Participants should arrive on-time and stay for the whole event. If a volunteer cannot come or stay for the whole event, we'd appreciate that s/he release their spot as soon as they know to allow someone who can stay for the whole event the opportunity to sign-up. ● Please bring a can-do attitude to the work for the day!