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Work has had me burning the candle hard.
Last week was 67 billable hours, this week is 50ish.
And I’ll probably still be doing some mahi next week to try get stuff wound up and handed over for other people to finish picking up.
There are A Lot of partially finished things that I’m having to leave behind for various reasons (politics being a large part of the reasons). But there’s a chance some will come back my way as special projects later. Fun huh?!
A flurry of updates about life in Ninja-land.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is my last day of work for #HeritageTheatreRefurb!
I’m definitely looking forward to being out of the political side of it, there’s been some really big dramas and power plays going down - which has been part of the reason I’ve been pretty absent - and I’m honestly looking forward to heading back to my squad in Tāmaki Makaurau.
But I’m also really sad to be leaving my awesome new friends behind.
PomPom was hired about three months after ground was broken on the rebuild, six months after the design and budgets were signed off on.
This is where a huge amount of problems have come from in this build - there was no one on the venue side to ask the hard technical questions or flag practicalities.
If you want to build a #Theatre or do a #HeritageTheatreRefurb, or open a #MusicVenue, get a couple of experienced professional technicians involved BEFORE the architects and consultants.
I started on this theatre build coming up 18 months ago. My boss, PomPom, has been on coming up 2 years. We are the technical theatre specialists (with awful job titles that don’t reflect this).
Both of us have opened venues before.
PomPom has opened heritage venues, and one of about the same size.
I’ve opened found spaces & cabaret venues, and I’ve opened venues in Nz which he hasn’t.
Our skill sets have large overlaps but complimentary skills & gaps.
This time in four weeks, all going to plan, I will have just armed the #HeritageTheatre having had our official Grand Opening Gala, and be about to lock the door.
We have what is probably best described as A Metric Fucktonne of things to complete between now & then.
Many of them are not my responsibility but somehow my problem.
A bunch are both my responsibility and my problem.
This will be a wee thread on the weeks ahead. & a bit of a warning for folks considering a #HeritageTheatreRefurb
Because I have feelings about threads not ending with polls, have one of my favourite photos from the stage.
Taken at 6:45am during the build
Not all the seats are in, but this was one of the first times it felt like a real theatre in the first 12 months of me being here
#HeritageTheatre #HeritageTheatreRefurb #1940s #Aotearoa
#TechniciansLove #LushColours & #PlushFabrics and #Infrastructure
On this #HeritageTheatreRefurb I have an awful official title, but my job is venue design and delivery second.
Where PomPom (my boss) is the king cheese, I’m the creamy blue that is sharp & sweet depending on the context. And how badly you done goofed.
I’ve helped design systems; asked annoying questions; tracked #Budgets; driven equipment #Procurement; helped with #LightingDesign, #SoundDesign; argued a lot about #Drapes, #Paint, & yes we need fucking door handles there are you shitting me
Those of you who are part of the #TwitterMigration may recognise some of these pictures and tales, as this has been like 85% of my life since Sept 2021, but hopefully there’s some new things too.
This will be a bit of an ongoing series now I have a little bit of headspace, so feel free to ask questions or request things for me to talk about!
I’ll start with this thread being a bit of an #introduction to me & my role in this #HeritageTheatreRefurb
Today I learned that some of the new power points in my venue don’t work.
About half an hour before an event.
Cue scrambling around to find one that did, somewhere I could drop a cable without it being offensive to look at or a tripping hazard.
Which. Is a bit frustrating when we’ve been assured they’ve all been pinned out.
And, more relevantly, they were all working fine.
Ahh well
#TechniciansLove #HeritageTheatreRefurb
Cw: photos hidden as third contains direct eye contact