Tag: education
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GDPR compliance – it just makes sense
We are in the process of finalising the elements of our Data Protection Compliance in line with the new General Data Protection Regulations which come into force from May the 25th 2018. It’s one of those common sense things that should have been legislated for a long time ago: whose details are you storing, where,…
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Actors in Immersive Training.
More and more people are seeing the benefits of using actors to enhance and improve their training objectives these days. It makes sense: it’s an arena where people can try out new techniques and learn from mistakes in a way that they will remember and gives confidence in a real situation. What is the actors…
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It’s kicking off!
It’s the time of year for us when the entertainment side of work overlaps slightly with the training and conference needs of businesses. Many companies have their kick off conferences between February and April to review the previous year, then plan ahead financially, and look to add something special to their day and make it more fun…
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Customer service
It’s all about customer service. We strive to always get the customers key messages across, whether that’s in an entertainment forum or training in some way, THE most important thing is that what the client is paying for is the best it can be. We’ve said it before but it’s worth mentioning again that our…
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He Stoops to Scrum!
It’s all about rugby this weekend! One of our actors, Nathan Morris was portraying the character of a young Adrian Stoop for the 150th anniversary of the inception of the Harlequins Rugby club! Adrian Stoop is one of their most lauded players, first appearing for the team in 1905 and is widely credited with revolutionising the game…
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Being useful
We’re having a valuable week. Training police investigators. Getting people to try new things in an arena they can happily learn from any mistakes in is a task in itself: people don’t want to make mistakes, they naturally want to get it right first time. When they let go of that inhibition though, we see…
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Literary Dinosaurs!
So we were asked to be part of London Book fair at Olympia recently and this is the result! Fresh from our successful launch for Penguin/Puffin books we were asked if we could bring a character to life from a book called “Supersaurs”, a fictional romp in Victorian times involving factory “farmed” dinosaurs. Here is…
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A flying Start!
We had some trouble trying to post this so it got saved as a draft. here it is in retrospect anyway! What a great start to the year! Despite all the sad news in the media of great performers passing, we’ve not had time to The start of this year has been so busy on…
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Tommy talks
Everyone seems to be talking about the First World War because it all started 100 years ago this month. We spent last year carefully researching and writing two educational interactive character drama presentations in the form of a soldier and a young woman. The soldier talks about his understanding of how it all started and…
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Fight school: Manchester!
ADHOC ACTORS Presents Impact Fight Unit: Fighting for Stage and Screen – Manchester fight school Rapier + Dagger and Unarmed The Basic Weapons of all good Stage/Screen Fighting Mon – Fri 28th July – 1st Aug Film Rehearsal Footage for Feedback and possible Showreel Material £295 for the week course. LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE Learn from fight director…