The Moonee Valley Festival was spread across many events in the Moonee Ponds area over February and March with local culture, performances, art and food, culminating with a water spectacular named Illuminate the River on Saturday 30th March 2019. The Maribyrnong River came alive with the Illuminate the River spectacular featuring a sculpture burn and fireworks followed by a choreographed …
MAC Aura XBs Impress Michael Zagarn
Michael Zagarn has added 14 x Martin MAC Aura XBs to his inventory treating them to a day out at the SummerSalt festival featuring Xavier Rudd and Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project. “The MAC Aura XBs did a great job and looked amazing,” commented Michael. “They were so bright and matched well with the MAC Quantums and Claypaky Unicos …
ShowPRO Fusion Bars Widen Scope for Popular Venue
Situated within the picturesque landscapes of Sydney’s Bicentennial Park, Waterview blends modern elegance with tranquil park and lake views, offering an ideal setting for events. Impact AV has been the venue’s in-house AV supplier for several years and recently they upgraded the lighting with the purchase of twenty-six ShowPRO Fusion Bars. The Fusion Bars allow the venue to create many …
ACLX look to the future with grandMA3
Aaron Chesham, Managing Director of New Zealand’s ACLX, says he was ‘that close’ to buying an MA Lighting grandMA2 when he heard that the grandMA3 was in the pipeline. Founded on the legacy of the previous grandMA consoles, the grandMA3 represents a radical re-think of what’s possible from a lighting control platform. “Getting onto the grandMA3 as soon as we …
Glen Street Theatre Transition to LED with Show Technology
Sydney’s Glen Street Theatre is the Northern Beaches’ most enduring and loved performance space presenting professional theatre productions, music concerts, kids shows, and community events. Recently the venue upgraded their lighting rig transitioning towards an all LED solution. Their old Halogen Cyclorama fixtures were getting old and unreliable so rather than spending money fixing these fixtures, which were also expensive …
PAV Hit a Home Run with PROLIGHTS Panorama
Perth-based PAV Events has invested in eight PROLIGHTS Panorama IP65 Airbeams which can deliver an incredibly bright, fat 2° beam ideal for an outdoor searchlight and big air look. The Panoramas played an integral part in the recent Big Bash League events held at Optus Stadium with lighting designed by Hugh Taranto. PAV worked with Kojo Events, the stadiums Sports …
Ayrton Mistral-S and MA3 for Creative’s Summer Shows
For several months Dave Jackson, Managing Director of Creative Productions, had been searching for the ideal spot fixture to replace aging Chinese stock the business started with. “Obviously as business has grown and we’re doing bigger jobs, we needed a respected brand,” began Dave. “It also had to be small, lightweight and punchy. We looked at several brands but it …
Michael Zagarn couldn’t resist MA3
Michael Zagarn is the latest lighting professional to purchase an MA Lighting MA3 full-size console saying he has always been impressed with the MA range. “Suddenly there was the right product at the right time and it was a no brainer,” he commented. “My older consoles had paid themselves off and it was time to buy something more updated. Switching …
More, more, more for New Zealand
Technical Event Solutions (TES) provide comprehensive event solutions throughout Christchurch and the South Island of New Zealand. Over the past few months they have increased their stock of Show Technology gear starting with four Martin RUSH MH7 and twelve MH6 fixtures. “As the work has increased, we’ve purchased more gear as we need it including ShowPRO LED Blinders and ShowPRO …
EventSound Set Up with Ease with ShowPRO
Sydney’s EventSound has expanded their lighting inventory with a variety of ShowPRO LED fixtures including ColorDoQ wireless battery washlights, Pharos Profiles, LED Grafik ultrabright LED gobo projectors and iGOBO wireless battery-operated LED Gobo projectors with infrared remote control. Owner Keith Clarkson has been impressed by the quality of this range, finding the value for money to be incredible. The first …










