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This is a busy time for us here at Pilot - We have the team up in St Andrews, Scotland fitting up and teching the Fungus show, Sarah and Mandy are managing the Commonwealth Exchange from Malaysia, as the students are now here with us in York. They have spent the day in Bradford at the National Media Museum, and probably the finest curry house in the world - The Kashmir...

I am off to Kent to deliver some training for the Clore Leadrship Fellows on their residential course in Sevenoaks. I am running a new technology training session, and am crossing my fingers that the o2 coverage map is true to its word....as the mobile broadband will need to kick in for me at 3.45 pm tomorrow. Or I have to start making stuff up - again!

Katie Fathers is heading back up to Scotland to see the opening night of Fungus at the Byre and will hook up with our staff director, Katie Posner and the production and acting team

Kind of crazy as we are all over the place at the moment. Literally. Should begin to settle down, but am working up to the wire to get a proposal in for a new project. Good meeting with Kit and Charles today about our green stuff. We are also close to completing our new creative footprint online three year plan and our Olympic project 5circles2012

will post back on the train tomorrow about whether the broadband held up or not

hey ho but just upgraded to the new Skype Video - it just works - and still finding it hard to beat the Google Mission - don't be evil - That too, just works!

til later

Shift Happened...in York!

Well it did, on July 3rd at York Theatre Royal. Shift really did happen. We ran the conference at York Theatre Royal with the help of YTR and ACE and Science City. The speakers cam and did an amazing job and ys we did create our own mini version of TED (Technology/Entertainment/Design) here in Yorkshire

Shift Happens

Julie Borchard Young (New York Met Opera) Bill Thompson, Tom Fleming, Hannah Rudman, Roma Patel, Paul Sutton, Richard Sobey, Kit Monkman, Richard Slaney and Janice Fraser all joined us to make the day a unique event.

Highlights? well lots but for me the live link to San Francisco to Emmet labs with Janice Fraser launching the new wiki story programme software Beta was a TED moment for us. Bill Thompson and the Bit on an atom story...presentations from Roma Patel in 3-D and he fact that we lost the broadband for Second Life only to find it again for Skype just in time made us realise the nature of live interaction. Plus Dave Moutrey keeping it all together for us on the day. Nice one Dave, we owe you one.

Great posting from Richard Slaney on the Shift Happens wikispace, thanks Richard, with some great info and shared links. Plus Kit Monkman and his talk and potential spin offs to future collaborative ventures all highlight the need for this network and group to continue

Already the facebook group is up to 100 and growing during the last two days which is incredible

More to follow, but we open Fungus in St Andrews nex week, and I am off to present to the new Clore Fellows on the Leadership training programme some of the web 2.0 stuff we have been working on.

So onwards and upwards with the production Team in Scotland - Jamie, Stuart and Frankie, plus Katie and Katie who will be up with the acting team - Eamonn, Jo, Rhiannon, Ebony, Michael, and Mel - we are with you on the nex five week run at The Byre and I will be up next week

But big thanks must also go to Tracy, Katie, Sarah and Mandy for working on the Shift Day and managing the whole day and the 145 delegates.


I will post pictures on the Pilot Theatre site in a bit, but back to the presentaion for Wednesday I need to finish first

Marcus

Pilot Theatre

Hi!

This is our Pilot Theatre Blog

We will be adding stuff and pictures and info to this site as part of our ongoing Theatre 2.0 exploration

We have a wide range of social networking platforms a the moment and we are looking at the range and reach of each of them

So far we have Bebo, MySpace, YouTube, Wikispace, iTunes podcasts, Second Life, Facebook, Blogspot, sms text club, which radiate from our coure website pilot-theatre.com

We are looking for feedback and comments about how, as a theatre company we can best use these platforms to increase our engagement and interaction with the online communities

So let us know...we feel that there is a need for artists/actors/and all people interested in creative interaction are looking for a space to discuss and share ideas

What do you want/need/ want to help create? / want to network ideas /

just let us know

we are available onstage/ontour/online/24/7

We look forward to working with you

Thanks

Marcus Romer
Artistic Director
Pilot Theatre