Thank god for reading week....

Hey guys

  It's been a while since I posted last, but we survived the Opera Workshop. Now we are going full tilt into Dal Theatre's production of The Country Wife. I have the privilege of working with an amazing director named James Dodding . I had the wonderful experience of meeting him my first year at Dalhousie and, I am absolutely delighted to be working with him. Also in recent news, I have been named the lighting crew chief and the lighting board operator for The Country Wife. I am pretty happy, I came to Dalhousie Theatre's Sceneography program wanting to specialize in lighting, so to end this year doing exactly what I entered the program for, it's definitely a good send off.

  In other news, I have been keeping pretty busy the last couple of weeks. I have been getting a lot of work from Tour Tech East Ltd. working on the Canada Games. It's been pretty simple rigs all around, and it's nice to see the guys from the shop, but it has been eating up my break, so far I am booked for the rest of the weekend. But I can't complain, it puts money in my pocket and I love doing the work, what more could anyone ask?

Cheers
Cody

PS.
  Because I don't have any pictures here are a couple of commercials I worked on back in 2010.

These were recruiting adds commissioned by the Department of National Defense. I was hired by RPM Productions to serve as a Special FX daily for these two commercials in particular. I got to spend some time on CFB Gagetown, with a lot of fake snow, some big fans, some bigger guns, and some even bigger vehicles, not to mention the live ammunition and the helicopter! It was a great time and despite some mystery meat for lunch on day 1, I think a good time was had by most if not all.

Operas open tonight!

Hey guys

  I have been pretty busy the last couple weeks. Since my last post I worked the Tour Tech East Ltd. Annual After Xmas Party, did school work, teched the Dal Music Opera Workshop, and I have some work coming up with IATSE 680 as well as Neptune Theatre.

  The Tour Tech party was awesome this year. The wonderful people at Tour Tech East Ltd. host this (invitation only) event to raise funds for the Aids Coalition of Nova Scotia. The staff do a great job of setting up their warehouse space, and in the three years I have participated, it always gets better and better. Tour Tech brings a variety of entertainers to the stage. This year Sweet (Ballroom Blitz) headlined on the main stage, with various performers opening, including many local performers (Atlantic Cirque and Three Sheet just to name a couple). This year I not only did I aid in setup, I participated in a running crew capacity as production assistant.

  Got some update photos of my Cabriole Leg. After tracing my design onto a solid block of wood, I then cut out the pattern with a band saw, and this is what I ended up with.

Still a lot of sanding and shaping to do, but it's getting there.

  And now to plug the show I am working on!
  The Dalhousie Music Department's Opera Work Shop has been a great introduction to opera (at least for me). Directed and designed by Brent Krysa, Conducted by Adam Burnette, with a Lighting Design by Jeremy Powell it honestly looks great, I am apart of the running crew and assisted  in the construction of the set pieces, and the focusing, hanging of the lighting fixtures. And finally, after a lot of prep, cutting it close to deadlines, and looming weather, we have a show. Tonight Dalhousie Music Department presents Comedy on the Bridge and Dido and Aeneas. Show opens tonight, in The Sir James Dunn Theatre at 7:30 and runs at that time tonight, Friday and Saturday. There will be a Sunday Matinée at 2:30, which will be our last performance. For more information check out the Dalhousie Music Department's Website. Now just because you checked out my Blog I have some pictures of the Operas.

Thanks for having a look, hope to see you at the show!