The Channel Seven Perth Telethon is the most anticipated weekend on WA television and this year, the 55th Telethon was an amazing spectacle that hit an epic milestone raising a staggering $500 million since it began more than five decades ago. The 26-hour event was held at Telethon’s new home at RAC Arena in Perth’s…
Located within the re-imagined Kingston Butter Factory building in Logan, the brand new Butter Box Theatre features a catwalk, lx rigging system and a custom seating bank with a seating capacity of 200+ people. The stage area is 13m x 10m with a 5.45m stage height to the bottom of the catwalk. The theatre infrastructure…
Tasmanian production supplier VJAM has upped the ante with the purchase of 32 x Ayrton Mistrals and 16 x Claypaky AXCOR Beam 300! Eight of the Ayrton Mistrals were immediately installed in Hobart’s Odeon Theatre replacing the previous fixtures in an attempt to reduce the rigged weight in the venue. “The venue was almost at…
The Kingston Butter Factory has been transformed into a world-class community precinct for arts, culture and entertainment including Logan’s largest outdoor event space with a capacity for up to 5,000 people. Even though most of the lighting fixtures are located beneath the stage roof they still needed to be IP-rated as they are permanently housed…
You need to be 100% confident in a piece of software when you use it for the first time on a live to air TV spectacular! This is exactly what Paul Collison did for Sydney’s popular Australia Day Live celebrations when he chose to run the MA Lighting grandMA3 software on an event televised to…
When Mal Brown of Bundaberg’s Corporate AV saw just what his six Martin ERA 300 Profile lights could do … he promptly purchased four more! The Martin ERA 300 Profile is a very compact profile fixture with an extremely efficient 260W white LED engine that produces a sharp gobo projection with a flat field and…
2021 was the year that Burwood Girls High School in Sydney decided to upgrade their theatre’s sound and lighting system under the professional eye of Live Event Services. Unfortunately, no sooner had the install been almost completed, Covid-19 shut down all of the city’s schools. “The school contacted us after we were recommended to them…
PROLIGHTS’ new LED spotlight has won a Build Back Better gold award. The recently released fixture is the latest innovation in the architectural range by the Italian manufacturer, and it has sparked a lot of interest since its debut. The Build Back Better initiative, an industry plan to help accelerate innovation, technology and change in…