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, Texas, the Showstop Procedure Course is headed by experienced crowd safety management consultants Steve Allen and Mark Hamilton.
Since launching with The Pink Bows Foundation in the US in March on the back of a conference panel exploring its content at the Event Production Show in London, the course has been attended by more than 320 event professionals across the UK, US and Australia.
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. […]
Read PostAug 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 […]
Read PostJill brings extensive experience in non-profit management, fundraising, development and marketing that will take the Foundation to its next stage of growth. Pink Bows Foundation (“Foundation” or “Pink Bows”) announced today that it has hired JHJ Collective (“company”), a consultancy specializing in strategic growth initiatives in the non-profit sector and empowering organizations to reach their […]
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