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Crowd Safety: How One Nonprofit Is Improving Training For Event Profs Globally
Mar 28, 2025
The Pink Bows Foundation, launched after the Astroworld Festival tragedy, is co-producing training events across the world in partnership with leading safety experts.
On Nov. 5, 2021, 23-year-old Madison Dubiski was one of 10 concertgoers who lost their lives in the Astroworld Festival tragedy. About 50,000 people gathered at NRG Park in Houston to watch rapper Travis Scott perform when chaos ensued from a crowd crush, resulting in 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries. When a pink bow was placed at the stadium following the event, among flowers and candles honoring the victims, it started a movement: #PinkBowsForMadison.
“Madison’s favorite color was pink, and the bows really took a form of their own. People started putting them out in their yards, on their office buildings and on bridges around Houston, and then that grew to supporters on naval bases and across the pond in Europe, the UK and Africa. It was heartwarming,” Brian Dubiski, Madison’s father, told EM. “I think people were appalled that this happened, and we, searching for something at that time to just grab onto, thought about how we could give our daughter a voice that’s been taken away from her. And thus, we came up with the Pink Bows Foundation.”
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Showstop Procedure – Learning when to say no
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Since it was launched by the Pink Bows Foundation at the Event Production Show, the Showstop Procedure training and certification programme has expanded its reach internationally. Access hears why global adoption of the procedure is essential. The launch of the Professional Certificate in Showstop Procedure course, at the Event Production Show in February, saw Steve […]
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The Deadly Astroworld Tragedy Sparked An Urgent Safety Debate. Then, One Family Took Action.
Jun 13, 2025
The parents of Madison Dubiski said it’s been a “hard pill to swallow” to know the entire tragedy was preventable. It’s hard to forget the calamitous events of the 2021 Astroworld Festival, as what began as a carefree Travis Scott-run concert event quickly spiraled into a harrowing nightmare. On Nov. 5, 2021, at NRG Park in […]
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Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
Jun 10, 2025
A new Netflix documentary takes us back to the fateful Astro World Festival, a Travis Scott concert right here in Houston where people were crushed in a crowd surge. 10 people died in the chaos, including 23 year old Madison Dubisky. FOX 26 Houston: Watch Segment
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