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A training course that can make the difference between life & death: Showstop Procedure launches globally
Sep 15, 2025
The goal of Pink Bows Foundation is as simple as it is powerful: to prevent parents around the world from having to go through what the Dubiski Family went through in the aftermath of the Astroworld crowd crush in November of 2021 – when they waited in vain for their daughter, Madison, to return home.
Madison was one of 10 concertgoers – children, teenagers, young adults – who lost their lives that night, but it was her parents who eventually turned the paralysis of tragedy into a force for change. They launched Pink Bows Foundation, named after the pink bows that people had put up next to a picture of Madison at the memorial for the victims of Astroworld.
The way Pink Bows Foundation intends to achieve its goal is by helping to create a global standard for the process of stopping a show.
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The Pink Bows Foundation progressed its aim of making events safer, with another positive step towards establishing an international standard. The first courses in the Middle East, in Riyadh and Jeddah, were hosted by ESM Operations, whose own staff were joined by invited attendees from members of The Royal Guard, the Government’s General Entertainment Authority, […]
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Showstop Procedure, a global crowd safety training and certification programme for venues and large-scale event organisers, has been accredited by Highfield Qualifications. Founded by the Pink Bows Foundation in memory of Madison Dubiski, who was 23 years old when she died in a crush during a Travis Scott concert at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, […]
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Managing Crowd Safety at Major Events
Aug 29, 2025
In this episode of the Security Insider podcast, we’re tackling a topic that sits right at the heart of every security, event, and facility manager’s responsibility—keeping crowds safe. In 2021, the Astroworld Festival ended in tragedy when ten lives were lost in a crowd surge that investigators later concluded could have been prevented. Out of […]
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