Equity's Bristol & West General Branch are hosting “Mental Health in the Entertainment Industry” in Bristol Old Vic Theatre's Coopers’ Hall on Wednesday 2nd October.
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The 2019 Equity #ArtsMinds Symposium is being held on October 2nd at Bristol Old Vic Theatre as an effort to bring the workers and industry leaders within the Entertainment Industry together.

"Good mental health and wellbeing are founded on empathy, kindness, patience and understanding holistically within the workplace," says one Equity Member who has struggled with mental wellbeing issues throughout her 40+ year career in the industry.

Equity, the trade union for UK performers and production creatives in the Entertainment Industry have funded this Bristol symposium. It is not the first time Equity Members have initiated events, written reports or demanded change. For the Bristol and West General Branch of the union who meet monthly at Bristol Old Vic, one of Bristol's premier live theatre venues, it will not be the last.

Are you interested in adding MoCap to your resume this year?
Then this next general meeting below is for you!
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​This is an online General Meeting through video-chat platform WeAudition, with top MoCap actress & specialist Victoria Atkin.

Victoria was cast as the first playable female Assassin on the next generation consoles for the Assassins Creed Franchise.

Victoria is Evie Frye, the playable female lead character for Assassins Creed Syndicate, set in Victorian London.

Victoria performed the full performance capture for the character, and provided Evie's voice. Victoria's performance as Evie has been highly acclaimed in the gaming world.

Victoria has gone on to work with Warner Bros, Sony Playstation, Guerrilla Games, Respawn Entertainment, Monolith Productions, Action Square, Kakao Games, Blizzard, Digital Domain and Activision.

Check out Victoria’s www.imdb.me/victoriaatkin
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Los Angeles (PT) - 9.00am Saturday 12th January 2019
Check your timezone!

Session timeframe - 30 mins.  
Please keep your meetings brief!

​NOTE: This is NOT an audition.  

​A general meeting is a chance for the Industry Expert to meet you briefly and find out a little about you and your work, and for you to ask any questions you have.

Auditions & General Meetings are always free at WeAudition and we do not pay the casting directors or experts to do them. They do it because they genuinely want to meet actors.This is a live general meeting through private video chat. 

Important:
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• You need a laptop or desktop computer with a camera, microphone & good internet connection.
• Please use Chrome browser.
• Please be in a quiet, well-lit room.
• Be lit from the front. Being against a window makes you look bad.
• You can enter the video room before to check your equipment.
• Check the video room for any scripts, sides and notes.

Victoria and Trine C. Jensen are also running an in-person course on MoCap at Vault 501 in Santa Monica, California soon.  For full details and to book, click here.

Written for
The Stagemanagement Association’s Winter Edition of CUELINE

​Just in time for Kultur i Väst (Culture in the West's) 2018 conference at the Grand Theater on August 23, audience - an anthology of art, culture and development, was completed and launched.

This public lecture was part of CAMEo’s conference
​'Care in the Media and Cultural Industries'.

For more information visit www.le.ac.uk/cameo.

“So what happens now? How do we change the atmosphere in the entertainment industry so radically that the perpetrators of sexual harassment and bullying can find no oxygen for their behaviour?

We have earned a brief period of grace in the wake of the high profile scandals that have unfolded over the past year, but the would-be harassers and bullies haven’t gone away: they’re just lurking in the shadows.

​When they finally re-emerge blinking in the light Equity, with its Agenda for Change and Safe Spaces campaign, will be waiting for them.”