GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
THEATRE & CIRCUS
Deputy Stage Manager
Big Squid is incredibly proud to be involved in this extraordinary festival year on year, bringing stage management skills to the team at Mavericks. Playing a part in the build and derig, and the smooth running of these late night, high octane, three hour cabaret shows is without doubt a heady mix of excitement and hard work.
Mavericks show takes place in a 250-capacity cabaret tent in the Theatre and Circus fields at Glastonbury.
OPEN STREETS EDINBURGH
Event Management Services
Big Squid worked closely with The City of Edinburgh Council in the establishment and delivery of the Open Streets Initiative. Edinburgh was the first city in the UK to join this global movement, trialling the pedestrianisation of city central streets including the famous Royal Mile and stunning Victoria Street.
Forming part of the Council’s City Centre Transformation Plan, funded and supported by the Places for Everyone programme which is managed by Sustrans, its aims were to tackle climate change and improve air quality through pedestrianisation and increased access for active travel.
With responsibility for setting up and managing infrastructure, managing health and safety around road closures, facilitating community involvement and providing a talented team of staff, Big Squid helped make Open Streets as successful as its global counterparts.
'Thanks for all you have done to develop, promote, support and deliver Open Streets. You should be very proud of what you have achieved.'
Ian Buchanan// City Centre Programme// City of Edinburgh Council
Please find here links to just some of the press around Edinburgh's Open Streets:
The Guardian, The Herald, The Edinburgh Reporter, The Independent and Air Quality News
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE STREET EVENTS
Production Management
Pre Squid experience includes seven years as Assistant Street Events Manager for the largest arts festival in the world.
Producing the Fringe’s large scale, outdoor, street theatre events over two city central spaces: The Royal Mile and Mound Precinct. Playing host to many of the world's finest performers, this event sees an estimated one million visitors a year.
In this dynamic environment the role involved designing and implementing scheduling systems to programme over 500 performance artists into 4000 time slots, over 25 days.
Experience with the Edinburgh Fringe includes project managing the design and build of a new city central box office - the Virgin Money Half Price Hut; the Hut was installed on The Mound each year. Management of communications between the suppliers, architects, the Box office team, The National Galleries, structural engineers and Edinburgh Trams was key to the success and delivery of this project. The site brought many design and installation challenges as The Mound is part of the gallery's roof. Tracy managed the budget, design and build. Access and technical challenges were overcome to great effect.
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL
SCIENCE FESTIVAL
Festival & Programme Management
Pre Squid experience includes eight years on board with the Science festival whose key aim was to popularise science and take it to new audiences.
Managing the planning and production and delivery of a two-week annual Festival popularising science. Attracting around 76,000 visitors, the programme consisted of over 120 events citywide, produced in collaboration with cinemas, galleries and publishers. Key responsibilities including strategic planning, budgeting, managing partner relationships, programming, print management and recruitment.