NEW YORK – The Long Reach Long Riders and The ESTA Foundation announced plans once again for their annual raffle to benefit Behind the Scenes at the USITT conference. The raffle will be held on April 2, 2010 at the Behind the Scenes booth (#322) on the trade show floor of the USITT Conference in Kansas City. Tickets, which are $5 each or five for $20, may be purchased at the booth throughout the show. Individuals who purchase five raffle tickets will also receive a Stagecraft Mailing List Calendar, which runs through April 2011.
Twelve raffle prizes have been donated. Donors include Altman Rentals (ghostlight), Apollo Design Technology (Smart Move DMX Rotator), Barbizon (Stagehands Tool Kit), Field Template (SoftSymbols and Field Templates), Doug Fleenor Design (DMX/RDM Coffee Pot), Sapsis Rigging ($250 Gift Certificate), SeaChanger (iPod Touch and colorBUG), USITT (2011 Conference registration), Utah Shakespearean Festival (3 pair of theatre tickets), Vectorworks (Spotlight with Renderworks), Vincent Lighting Systems ($250 gift certificate) and Greg Williams (Photo Call and "Photography 101 for the Stage" Seminar).
All proceeds of the raffle go directly to The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes program, which provides entertainment technology industry members with grants for emergency situations, such as serious illness, injury or death.
For more information, please visit www.estafoundation.org/bts.htm and www.lrlr.org .
