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. […]

Sep 3, 2025

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, […]

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 […]

Aug 13, 2025

Over the years, the live events business has become a highly organized, and in many ways standardized, industry, especially in all matters pertaining to the audience’s safety and security at an event. The one aspect that’s been lacking a standardized procedure so far is the moment a show needs to be halted. So far, this […]

Aug 12, 2025

Pink Bows Foundation (“Foundation” or “Pink Bows”) announced today a significant expansion of its Showstop® Procedure training program, the first-ever standardized safety protocol for large scale events. In-person training and certification will take place in seven cities across the U.S. and Canada, including New York, NY; Dallas, TX; New Orleans, LA; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; Charlotte, NC; […]

Aug 11, 2025

What can be done to ensure greater crowd safety? Here, we speak with several experts to understand. […] And then there was the 2021 AstroWorld tragedy, headlined by US rapper Travis Scott. A calamitous series of events claimed the lives of 10 people, while another 11 people suffered cardiac arrest. One of those lost was […]