Luminary Thots
Sat-Sun Feb 8-9 from 12pm-4pm
@ CounterPulse [80 Turk Street, SF]

Join renowned local lighting designer GG Torres for a weekend workshop to learn the process of designing lights for performance. This workshop is geared towards multidisciplinary artists who want to better understand lighting, technicians and AV workers wanting to skill up, and for people who may want to pursue lighting design or theater tech as a job. 

Participants will learn the creative principles and theories of lighting design, lighting equipment and board programming, how to develop and enact a design, and generally have deeper understanding and agency with lights, as designers or performers. 

This workshop will also benefit choreographers and performance directors to better collaborate and communicate with lighting designers and technical directors. How to get the looks you want? How to understand the options, limitations, and possibilities of lighting?

The Bay Area has an ongoing need for workers in theater tech and production, from freelance tech support to technical directors, stage managers, and visual designers. This workshop intentionally opens these career pathways to QT and BIPOC folks whose voices, visions, and perspectives are too rare in the fields of lighting design and theater tech. You can be a lighting designer.

This workshop is free, includes lunch, and is limited to ten participants.