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Covid Nightlife Guidance Published
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Specific Covid-19 guidance for nightlife venues has been published online.
"The guide includes steps on how to plan a safe venue layout, when and where face masks should be worn and how to serve drinks safely."
The guide takes input from experts across various fields from tech, healthcare, live events and festival management. Including steps on how to plan a safe venue layout, when and where face masks should be worn, how to serve drinks and how they should be positioned on tables safely, the guide drills down into specific situations.

The brainchild of Morgan Deane, managing partner of 508 Events and founder of Lasher Louis Productions, 'A Light in the Night, Reopening & Operating Nightlife Venues in the Time of Covid-19' is a guide for small nightlife venues reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, and is available for free to support the industry.
"Venues should think about switching focus from internal spaces to using the car parks, beer gardens to create outside dancing spaces."
Particular attention has been made for venues to think carefully about the space that they have and to use it wisely. With an 'outside is safest' approach, the guidance even suggests turning a lobby into areas where ventilation can provide safe social space where tables could be positioned. Venues should think about switching focus from internal spaces to using the car parks, beer gardens to create outside dancing spaces.
Deane said: “We believe local, independent nightlife is vital to the health and survival of arts and culture. Small venues all over the world are incubating new talent, exciting trends, and remarkable ideas. Still, others are honoring history and maintaining cultural traditions. Some are even doing both... the intention is to offer independents some support and a place to start. It is not a checklist. Rather, it’s our hope that this is the beginning of a global conversation about the value and importance of small, local nightlife and how to keep it alive... Save the Dancefloor”

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