{"id":10773,"date":"2020-01-06T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:22:06","slug":"show-business-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/show-business-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Business 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/show-business-2020\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>We&#8217;ve updated our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Shows.html\">show list<\/a> for the year with confirmed bookings and others that we hope to attend but that we&#8217;re still waiting on confirmations of dates and attendance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/show-business-2018\/colours-2017\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Colours 2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One notable absentee is RobinCon in Nottingham; although we were booked and confirmed for the show, it appears that the organisers have had some operational issues and decided to pull the plug (for this year at least) &#8211; but at least this was done with plenty of notice and as far as we know everyone that had booked a stand or ticket has been refunded (we certainly have). Hopefully they&#8217;ll be able to resolve things and come back in 2021. You can read more on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/www.robincon.co.uk\/\">Facebook page<\/a> should you wish to do so.<\/p>\n<p>There are no new events &#8211; we have made a tentative enquiries about a couple of other shows but there&#8217;s nothing concrete at the moment, so the list looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>23rd February : Cavalier, Angel Centre, Tonbridge<br \/>\n18th April : Salute, ExCel, London<br \/>\n14th June : Broadside, Sittingbourne, Kent<br \/>\nJuly*: The Joy of Six, Hallam University, Sheffield<br \/>\nSeptember* : Hereward, Bretton Centre, Peterborough<br \/>\n12th September : Colours, Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire<br \/>\nOctober*: SELWG, Crystal Palace, London<br \/>\n7th November* : Crisis, Hangarie 29, Antwerp, Belgium<br \/>\n* &#8211; dates\/attendance TBC.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you at our first event in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twws.org.uk\/cavalier_1.htm\">Tonbridge<\/a>, or anytime after that.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s a video from YouTube of our stand at at Salute 2018 (thanks to Robin Fitton for that)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zEpepgnKV0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve updated our show list for the year with confirmed bookings and others that we hope to attend but that we&#8217;re still waiting on confirmations of dates and attendance. One notable absentee is RobinCon in Nottingham; although we were booked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/01\/show-business-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"views":2181,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Colours-2017.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2NL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11009,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/03\/no-show-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":10773,"position":0},"title":"No Show #3","author":"Tony","date":"March 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it was probably inevitable, but Salute is off :-( Not an easy decision for the organisers, but inevitable in the current situation. 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