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Inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference
NEWS Inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference Announces Second Round of Speakers The inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC) will be held across 24-25 October 2019 at Opal Cove Resort in Coffs Harbour, NSW. Founder and organiser, Carlina Ericson, has unveiled AFIC’s program of speakers, who represent some of Australia’s biggest names in festival management, consulting…
Read MoreClair Cohesion Series Debuts at Muriel’s Wedding
After a first sold-out season at the Roslyn Packer Theatre, Muriel’s Wedding has returned with a Melbourne run finished and Sydney currently packing in the audiences. Next stop is Brisbane for the highly rated production that has grown and changed a little since the 2017 premiere. Again JPJ Audio are supplying the audio equipment with…
Read MoreAvid S6L 32D and E6L-192
ROADTEST Avid S6L 32D and E6L-192 by Tony Bryan. Tony Bryan is a prominent Australian FOH audio engineer. Over 20 years of live touring, Tony has pushed faders for Grinspoon, Hoodoo Gurus, Jimmy Barnes, and Parkway Drive, among others. When not on tour, Tony can be found working for WA production company Audio Technik as…
Read MoreBose Professional – Daydream Island Resort
INSTALLATION First opened to guests back in 1939 and counted as one of 74 islands that make up The Whitsundays, Daydream Island Resort is a private hideaway that stretches about a mile long and is dotted with secluded coves for that total castaway feel. In April this year the iconic space officially reopened with a…
Read MoreThe Bille Brown Theatre
INSTALLATION The Bille Brown Theatre, where “great and amazing things are found.” The late Australian actor William Gerard ‘Bille’ Brown was a proud Queenslander, and like many from that vast Australian state, a larrikin. He once told a newspaper reporter that schoolteachers should teach their students that theatre is a bad influence. “They’d be lining…
Read MoreFCTN Nightclub
INSTALLATION FCTN is a multi-purpose entertainment venue in the heart of Canberra that can host anything from concerts to club nights, exhibitions, theatre, live art, and innovative performances. Housed in an old renovated movie cinema with charismatic industrial décor, FCTN is a two-tiered basement venue that can cater for up to 1000 people. The name…
Read MoreANZAC Hall Prince Alfred College, Adelaide
INSTALLATION Adelaide’s Prince Alfred College (PAC), one of Australia’s leading private boys’ colleges, celebrated 150 years since its foundation this year. As part of the festivities, the college has upgraded it 800 seat theatre, ANZAC Hall, with new audio, lighting and control systems installed by integrator Andy J Sound. PAC sought an audio consultant’s recommendation…
Read MoreLeaders of the NZ Entertainment Industry Acknowledged
NEW ZEALAND Leaders of the NZ Entertainment Industry Acknowledged An Instigator, a Pioneer, and a Guru Claiming 170 years’ experience between the three of them, Rex Gilfillan, Peter Frater and Chris McKenzie all received achievement awards at the recent ETNZ Conference in Wellington, NZ. With careers spanning six decades, and hurtling towards seven, these unstoppable…
Read MoreLord of the Flies
THEATRE by Cat Strom.Photo Credits: Zan Wimberley At first sight, Sydney Theatre Company’s latest production of Lord of the Flies offers a naked rehearsal stage under harsh fluorescent light, but then stagecraft takes over and the stage is transformed. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a 20th century masterpiece, as relevant today as it…
Read MoreRobe Launches the ESPRITE LED Moving Light with replaceable LED engine
The ESPRITE moving light is the first to use Robe’s ground-breaking new generation 650W WTE (White Transferrable Engine) light source. It was designed, developed, patented and manufactured by Robe in the Czech Republic, and is the first in a new series of Robe luminaires to feature a fully replaceable and transferable white source LED engine.…
Read MoreLabour Hire Licenses Snare Productions – AV firms may breach new laws
by Julius Grafton The State of Victoria is the latest to bring in an onerous new license system for labour hire that will affect any firm that rents labour. It is not restricted to crewing agencies but also applies if a line item on an invoice includes labour by the hour. From 30 October 2019,…
Read MoreCrew get free counselling and psychology – Support Act detail extra services
by Julius Grafton Production crew from music, AV and theatre suffer a mortality rate that is a lot higher than the Australian societal average. Proof came when the ARCA reunion events several years ago resulted in a list of former crew from the 70s and 80s that grew to around 400 names – with the…
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