Melbourne’s oldest cinema has been transformed into the city’s newest live music venue. The heritage-listed Northcote Theatre, built on High Street in 1912, reopened in July with its Baroque-style auditorium ready to host up to 1500 punters. Its original facade and interior remain mostly intact, including a grand, high-vaulted ceiling decorated with ornate plaster work.…
DetailsThe National Arts School’s Cell Block Theatre is a grand historic space hidden behind a wall of hand-hewn sandstone in the heart of Sydney. Inside, the 10-metre-high sandstone walls create the awed ambience of a cathedral, an ambience intriguingly inflected by its history as the women’s wing of the old Darlinghurst Gaol. The cells that…
DetailsWestland Industrial Heritage Park in Hokitika, New Zealand, is a working museum and the result of dedicated volunteers’ passion for restoring Westland’s industrial past. It was started by a group of mature (old) men who loved big engines and the like (toys) and wanted to play with the toys and preserve some of the history…
DetailsBased in North Parramatta, The Audio Visual Co. are dynamic, results-driven audio and visual specialists in the events industry. Having been more audio and vision-focused in the past, the company was keen to grow the lighting element of the business so they turned to Show Technology for advice. “We were getting more and more work…
DetailsTasmanian 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…
DetailsJay Productions & Events has added sixteen Claypaky Midi-B to its established family of Claypaky fixtures including Claypaky Mini-B and Axcor 300. “We needed another wash light to complement what we already own,” explained Phillip Dearle, General Manager at Jay Productions. “We have forty of the Mini-Bs and as the Midi-Bs have the same 40w…
DetailsMelbourne’s Front of House Productions had the opportunity to collaborate with Greenfields Events to produce their client’s 25th corporate birthday celebration featuring an incredible line-up including Ben Lee, Yo Mafia!, The Veronica’s, Midnight Mix and headliners The Killers. They provided a full production package for the main tent while also activating the site with a…
DetailsVictoria’s Horsham Town Hall complex provides world-class performance, visual arts and conferencing facilities and allows the community to enjoy the highest quality international, national and locally-produced events. In previous years, the building has been lit up at night by cheap fixtures that started to fail after only a year so when Shane Podolski, Team Leader…
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