Wednesday, October 20, 2021
ESTA's Technical Standards Program Has Five Draft Standards in Active Public Review
Lighting&Sound America Online - News: ESTA's Technical Standards Program currently has five draft standards in active public review. The reviews are open to anyone having a material interest in the subject matter. The review opportunities are as follows.
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This may be on the drier side of topics, but it is interesting to get a glimpse into the creation of standards that we might never even think about, like the angle and color temperature specifications for lights on mirrors in dressing rooms. Anyone who’s ever applied makeup to themself or others has probably been annoyed at bad lighting or had a much easier time than usual when you’re in a particularly well lit space, but it would have never occurred to me that there is a specific standard for the angles of lights on mirrors for performer dressing rooms. I assume that’s a voluntary standard, it’s not like it’s a safety issue, but it is probably very helpful for people designing and putting together new performing arts spaces to be able to point to a standard when making small decisions about details that may not be strictly within their areas of expertise.
It is very interesting that they post their standards program online, at least as far as I could tell. I always think it is a good idea for big theatre collectives and just big theatre in general to make as much as they can public information when it comes to things like this. Smaller theatres need that kind of information dissemination. They often don’t have the resources to obtain certain documents or training so when it is posted somewhere accessible it helps build better and safer communities around these small theatres. Additionally, it helps build a sense of a greater theatre community, less like you are on your own and more like a group of peers exchanging knowledge and ideas which is something I really appreciate. Especially for safety reasons. I know of far too many small theatres that are just not safe in the way they do things not because they actively don’t care about people’s safety but more they just don’t know the right way to be safe in theatre.
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