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There’s Demonstrated Need For Straightforward Practices To Stop A Show
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 aspect has been handled differently by different events, with varying degrees of success. In the worst case, event visitors have lost their lives in a crowd surge.
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Showstop Procedure courses launched in the UK last year. At the recent edition of Roskilde Festival in Denmark, 60 people, including some from other European festivals, attended a two-day course.
In the U.S. the Showstop Procedure launched in collaboration with the Pink Bows Foundation, which just announced a string of training courses across the country, teaching event professionals a tried-and-tested standard for stopping a show.
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A training course that can make the difference between life & death: Showstop Procedure launches globally
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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. […]
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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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