With the aim to make operators familiar with the functions of the dot2 lighting control console, the interface, main features of the software and operating philosophy, Jannie de Jager from DWR Distribution will be presenting dot2 User Training in

DiGiCo is taking South Africa by storm, and with this in mind, Kyle Robson from DWR Distribution will be presenting training in Cape Town and in Durban during July. The course aims to give users an overview of the new

Hippotizer Karst powers Dinamo Riga hockey team to a winning display. Dinamo Riga, the Latvian professional hockey team, teamed with Stage Crew, Latvian technical production service, to mark Dinamo’s final home game of the KHL 2016/17 season. And centre to

AV Company has become the first rental firm in Durban to own a DiGiCo S21 digital mixer. The company purchased the console from the British manufacturer’s South African representative, DWR Distribution. In addition to the S21 surface, the sale included

Walvis Bay, an extraordinary city on Namibia’s coast, with the contrast of sand dunes on one side and the ocean on the other, was the location for the 2017 Namibia Annual Music Awards which was both a ‘livestream’ and ‘live

Teamwork is a great thing, and this was clearly evident for Slovenia’s 2017 PopRock Festival, a high profile national TV live event broadcast from Ljubljana, where lighting designer Crt Birsa and set designer Greta Godnic worked their creative magic in

The most recent RMB Starlight Classics concert, staged at the beautiful, calm and leafy green Vergelegen Wine Estate in Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa … was lit by Chris Bolton of Keystone Productions … with a little help from

The Netherlands – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, announced that its powerful and versatile new lighting fixture, the Philips Vari-Lite VL6000 Beam, featured prominently in the lighting design from specialists Light-H-Art for the finals

As the Naledi Award winners of the night thanked their mothers, their fathers, their oumas (grandmothers) and life partners, as tears flowed, speeches were read and the audience cheered and rose to their feet, it was clear that the ceremony

    Multiple Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Sheryl Crow is on the road with her new ‘Be Myself’ album, together with a brand-new lighting & scenic concept created by LD Jeremy Roth which includes Robe Spiider and BMFL Spot moving lights.

Robe products are known for their ruggedness and reliability, making them ideal for all types of exterior installations and the toughest of operating conditions … which is why LEDForce 18 PARs and Anolis ArcSource Outdoor 4MCs were specified – together

Worldwide – The Claypaky Scenius Unico and Claypaky Mythos2 have been selected by award-winning lighting and production designer Mark Cunniffe and lighting director Matt Jones as the workhorse fixtures for multi-award-winning artist Ed Sheeran in his current record-breaking worldwide new

  Just over two years ago, Bernard Gramann became the sole owner and founder of Core Productions, a Cape Town rental based company. In this time, his equipment retinue has grown to include Robin 300 LEDWash fixtures, Robin Mini Pointes,

Tel Aviv based Light Architects Cochavi & Klein are known for their style and propensity for invention … and they are also really impressed with Robe’s Spiider LED wash beams! The leading designers seized the opportunity of the ‘Picnic Passover

  This year’s Innibos Festival will be hosted from 5 to 8 July in Nelspruit, South Africa. Sandra Jacobs, media and marketing manager of Innibos, gives insight to the early days when, through hard work and passion, ideas turned into

For Ricky Martin’s monitor engineer, Steve May, DiGiCo consoles hold two big advantages: their I/O capacity – which means he never worries about running out of inputs or outputs – and the ability to switch seamlessly between consoles in the

RSA’s AV professionals attend a successful series of Hippotizer training, hosted by Green Hippo’s exclusive distributor. Phil Blue, Sales Manager at Green Hippo, joined with DWR Distribution, a leading player in the installation sector, to deliver a week-long training programme

Robe’s Spikie has been named as one of the 2016-17 Live Design ‘Products of the Year’, which were selected by a panel of industry experts and aficionados, including designers, programmers and engineers active in the essential production disciplines of lighting,

  Hippotizer Media S ervers pull in the trade crowds at NEC’s two-day event with a dazzling ‘virtual sweet shop’ multiscreen presentation. London, UK, 12 June 2017 – Victoria House in London’s Holborn was home to the 2017 NEC Solutions

The Spaladium Arena in the stunning Croatian coastal town of Split was the venue for the 2017 Porin Music Awards (AKA ‘the Porins’), a glamourous, high profile evening which honours the achievements and talent of Croatian artists across a diverse

All the glamour, glitz and fun, all the elaborate costumes, extravagant performances, excitement and high-pressure of one of the world’s biggest live telecasts, the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was staged at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine with 42

  Gearhouse South Africa, Leading Technical Supplier to the Live Event Industry, have taken stock of two Robert Juliat Merlins purchased from DWR Distribution. “It’s a pleasure for the crew to work with the Merlins,” commented Peter Abrahamse, Acting Lighting

Three hi-energy sold out shows at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium launched the new Martin Garrix live show which will tour around the world for the rest of the year as the young Dutch superstar DJ and music producer

During the Palm Expo Mumbai trade show, MA team members kept a keen eye on companies offering and selling MA copies. In a couple of cases, these copies were identified and MA successfully ensured that they were immediately banned from

The Australian TV industry’s biggest night, the 59th annual Logie Awards, were held at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on Sunday 23 April 2017, broadcast live on the Nine Network. Always a great opportunity for the broadcaster to show off its tech

This year will celebrate the sixth St Mary’s Battle of the Bands competition and for the third year DWR Distribution is delighted to be a sponsor once again, prizes including a dot2 Node, DMX Dongle and training! The competition has

  Foto: Jorrit Lousberg The one, the only, the totally awesome Armin van Buuren played two tumultuous gigs at Amsterdam ArenA as ‘The Best of Armin Only’ celebrated the conclusion of the ‘Armin Only’ performance concept. Armin’s largest solo show

UK indie rockers Circa Waves are certainly making some waves right now, and the release of their second album “Different Creatures” brings some more serious, hard-hitting and thought-provoking messages along with solid catchy rhythms. Lighting designer Ed Warren started working

With Mediatech taking place from 19 to 21 July, DWR Distribution is delighted to once again be part of this exciting exhibition. Mediatech is a biennial advanced media and entertainment technology trade show held in Johannesburg. Once again visitors can look

Festival Sound, one of the largest DiGiCo console owners in the South African rental market, has increased its investment in the manufacture’s products by adding an SD11 and a further SD9 to its inventory.     The young and vibrant company

    Reaching the architectural market with Vectorworks, DWR Distribution exhibited at the Digital Construction expo held at the Gallagher Convention Centre on 23 and 24 May 2017. The show, which co-located with the African Construction and Totally Concrete Expo,

Bon Jovi rocked the house with the band’s “This House Is Not For Sale Tour”. The tour’s complex staging featured a grandMA2 full-size console provided by PRG and was in support of Bon Jovi’s eponymous thirteenth studio album released last

ProLight + Sound 2017 sees an impressive 3D projection mapping from the latest integration with Hippotizer SHAPE and Notch. ProLight + Sound is a key show for Green Hippo, and at this year’s Frankfurt event, they delivered a stunning display

Ukraine – Internationally renowned lighting designer and director of photography Jerry Appelt specified the new Claypaky Scenius Unico as the main stage workhorse fixture for his richly composed lighting design for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, hosted at the International

Award winning lighting designer Paul Pyant returned to London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to light a production of the Steven Sondheim classic, A Little Night Music directed by Edward Kemp and staged at RADA’s Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre in

Seven hundred and ninety five (795) Robe Spikies are on the road with the incredible Bruno Mars 24K Magic world tour – setting a record for the largest number to date of a single type of Robe fixture on one

  DWR Distribution’s Johnny Scholtz, Dylan Jones and Vectorworks expert, Francois van der Merwe, are looking forward to exhibiting at the Digital Construction expo, once again co-located with the African Construction and Totally Concrete Expo, to be hosted at the

  While renowned Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Greil have worked on phenomenal projects together, they joined forces for the very first time to present a Lighting Design Workshop brought to the South African entertainment industry by DWR Distribution. The workshop

Robe moving lights are making a big impact at the Icelandic National Theatre (Þjóðleikhúsið) in Reykjavík since they became an integral element of the available house lighting rig, a process that started in 2014 and has recently been continued with

Peter Rieck of both Rieck’s Lighting and joint owner of rental company Event Lighting, was selected by Red Pepper Pictures for the second year running, as lighting designer for Lip Sync Battle Africa. This exciting televised lip sync showdown, filmed

“South Africa is not a third world country when it comes to the knowledge and awareness of safety when rigging,” said Ruud de Deugd, who visited Johannesburg to present the Prolyte Campus Workshop hosted by DWR Distribution in March 2017.

Philips VL4000 Spot luminaire “integral” to theatrical design of Wilco’s world tour bringing to life visual concept inspired by Santa Fe temple Dallas, Texas – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its

Join South African Lighting Designer, Michael Broderick, as he presents a Theatre Lighting Workshop at DWR Distribution on 25th May from 9am to 5pm. Working as a lighting designer for over fifteen years, Michael is excited to mentor people, particularly

The lively and varied 2017 U.S festival season continues with the 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival staged at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, where Robe moving lights were chosen by leading LDs like Steve Lieberman of

Amodio and Luzzati’s renowned production of ballet classic The ‘Nutcracker’ made its debut at Teatro Comunale in Modena in November 2016, before touring to other key Italian cities for 10 weeks. It was produced by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment and lit

Eindhoven – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that VL6000 Beam and VL4000 BeamWash fixtures from its iconic Philips Vari-Lite rock and roll lighting product line have been selected by production designer LeRoy Bennett and

 Multi award winning American rock band Panic at The Disco continue their ‘Death of a Bachelor’ tour in the US with a striking production design created by Matt Larivée of Montreal-based creative practice Luz Studio, who worked closely with the

DWR Distribution’s Jannie de Jager will be presenting the Introduction Beginners Television Lighting Workshop on 23rd May 2017. Jannie’s vast experience has seen him involved with several studios and the commissioning thereof with projects including E-Tv Hyde Park LED Upgrade

            Espoo, Finland – The Claypaky Sharpy and A.leda B-EYE K20 were used to create the stunning lighting looks that backed the ten talented hopefuls competing to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 at the country’s national

After eight gruelling     days in the saddle, Robe lighting s.r.o is proud to announce that Team Spiider finished 86th in the general classification (GC) and 17th in the ‘Masters’ of the 2017 Absa Cape Epic, an exceptionally tough mountain

    Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia the Robber’s Daughter) is a classic Swedish children’s tale by Astrid Lindgren. A recent touring musical version in Denmark by Heltemus Productions featured a new and fresh lighting design by Sune Verdier of b-ql.dk who

  Talented Simon King is flying solo after working at the State Theatre in Pretoria for 28 years. He recently took a seat behind the grandMA2 to light La Traviata, a stirring love story brought to The Joburg Theatre by

Having completed a hugely successful tour at the end of last year, Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro are on their way to the US. Both Front of House engineer Jonny Lucas and Dan Speed on monitors rely on the power

Andrew Rodgers, a friend to the industry and known for his proven track record within every facet of the audio and visual industry, has joined South African based DWR Distribution. With his vast experience in project management, technical skill and

For the very first time, the wildly entertaining Blue Man Group visited South Africa and whilst performing at The Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg celebrated the 200th performance of their World Tour. For the past year, South African Sound Engineer Christo

 It is Eurovision selection season … and one of the 43 hopefuls for this year’s event in Kiev, Ukraine, in May is Slovenia’s Omar Naber whose song “On My Way” was chosen at a spectacular Eurovision Melody (EMA – Evrovizijska

DWR Distribution takes pleasure in inviting you to attend the MA Intermediate Training course presented by Gareth Chambers which will be  held in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in August 2017. Topics: Advanced Effects Layout and Bitmap effects Advanced Presets

Join Gareth Chambers from DWR Distribution as he presents a Basic MA Training Course in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in June. Topics for Basic MA  Console Layout and Connections MA Philosophy Show File Management Grouping Controlling Fixtures Storing Cue’s

The Claypaky Scenius Spot is being championed for its superior output, colour and optical quality by lighting designer Dan Williams who is using the award-winning fixture as the main lighting workhorse on British rockers Skunk Anansie’s current European tour ‘Anarchytecture’.

Petrolhedz and adrenaline junkies were treated to a new look for the Live Action Arena at the 2017 Autosport show staged in Hall 5 of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK. An audacious, eye-popping lighting design by Nathan

  DWR Distribution is delighted to join up with Phil Blue from Green Hippo UK, to present a one day training session at our Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg Offices. We hope that existing Hippo clients and anyone interested will

Czech lighting manufacturer Robe lighting s.r.o. enjoyed another incredible Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, taking the opportunity to launch their new German subsidiary, Robe Deutschland GmbH; showcasing 10 new inventive and interesting products and creating another great showspace for visitors on

Saying goodbye to an unforgettable summer, Hunter’s hosted the 3 Heat Seekers, visiting cities in Durban (4 March at Peoples Park East), Johannesburg (11 March at Mary Fitzgerald Square) and Cape Town (18 March at The Ostrich Farm, off N7).

DWR Distribution and our media partner Pro-Systems, are pleased to announce that Patrick Woodroffe will be hosting a sone-day lighting design workshop on Friday, 21 April from 9am to 5pm at the UJ Arts Centre alongside his colleague and friend,

Digital audio solutions company, DiGiCo, is pleased to announce the appointment of Austin Freshwater as its General Manager. Austin joins the DiGiCo team from Canon, the world-leading innovator and provider of imaging and information technology solutions, where he spent the

Czech lighting manufacturer Robe has acquired the rights and IP (intellectual property) from well-known U.S. lighting designer / programmer Seth Robinson of Sightline Design Group for RoboSpot, a remote controlled follow spot system. Seth originally developed the RoboSpot concept a

Robe lighting announces a new wholly-owned subsidiary – Robe Deutschland GmbH – which will be based in Munich and have a regional sales force covering the entire country. The new company hits the ground running in this key European market

Clifton Productions just landed a great quantity of VuePix HD Q3.9 LED panels! “The key features that stood out when deciding on the VuePix Q Series cabinets were it’s excellent grey scale and high contrast black faced LED’s”, says James

South African based DWR Distribution’s Gareth Chambers and Jannie de Jager joined distributors from around the world to attend MA Distributor Training hosted at MA Lighting in Paderborn, Germany which took place from 27th February to 3rd March 2017. “It

Cape Town based event technical solution company, C&S, have invested in an additional 12 Robe BMFL Blade fixtures to complement their existing stock purchased from DWR Distribution.  The BMFLs have been out on rental and have never been back at

It’s been a number of years since Robert Juliat brought the full force of its followspots to a tradeshow, but Prolight + Sound 2017 will see these specialists showcase an army of their followspots, old and new, that have secured

MDG is very proud to announce that it has been chosen as a partner of the PRG Live Entertainment Award (LEA) at Frankfurt’s Festhalle. The event, which celebrates music artists and the creative and technical teams responsible for live productions,

  Green Hippo, manufacturers of the world-leading Hippotizer Media Server range, have appointed DWR Distribution as South African distributor. Hippotizer Media Servers have been on some of the most highly recognized events worldwide, including Eurovision, The Academy Awards and the

Philips Entertainment Lighting luminaires from the Philips Selecon and Philips Showline product lines leave audiences spellbound on The Show Company’s Australian production of Wicked, the Wizard of Oz prequel. Tasmania – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader

Rental company Adlib continues its work with top comedians, having just supplied full production – sound, lighting and video – for Jack Whitehall’s sold out, three week At Large UK arena tour. The Liverpool based company was delighted to be

The Brit Awards is one of the UK music industry’s most prestigious events and was broadcast live to around 5.4 million viewers on British television channel ITV1 alone this February. An event this important necessitates an audio system that can

  NORTH AMERICA – Country music star Brantley Gilbert has launched The Devil Don’t Sleep tour playing arenas in North America through early spring in the first leg.  Nathan Alves and Howard Jones co-designed the show, which features Claypaky Scenius,

There’s a great excitement at Eventech as the crew welcome their newest member to the family, a DiGiCo S21 live mixing console! “The rental market companies and technical riders demanded it,” said Wynand Veldsman from Eventech, a rental company based

  French lighting designer David Seligmann-Forest of Paris based Lite4Life chose ten Robe DL4S LED profiles to be right at the heart of his lighting rig for MasterChef Algeria, which was recorded in a new purpose-built studio and former envelope

                 Wattens Australia – World renowned lighting designer Björn Hermann employed 60 x Claypaky Mythos2 and 20 x Claypaky Supersharpy2 to deliver two titanic light sculptures as part of global crystal producer Swarovski’s Festival of Light, hosted at their seven-hectare fantasy park Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal

The brand new Eesti Rahva Muuseum (Estonian National Museum) in Tartu has recently opened in a fabulous new single story state-of-the-art 350 metre long architectural masterpiece resembling a portion of a runway lifting upwards …  built on the former Raadi

Gerhard Scherer is a happy man since 24 x Robe DL7S Profiles and DL4S Profiles – 12 of each fixture – have been installed at the Theater Akzent Theatre in Vienna … a busy producing and receiving house located in

Dallas, Texas, USA – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its control systems are managing the new stunning color illumination of the landmark 167 feet (50.9 m) high Niagara Falls, the world’s

Thanks to fantastic growth with DiGiCo sales in South Africa, DWR Distribution, are pleased to welcome Jaco Beukes to the family. He will officially join the company on 20th March 2017. “We had no idea that DiGiCo would grow as

  This Sunday at 07h10 will be the starting time for Pierre Griffioen and team mate Fritz Pienaar to ride their hearts out at the Absa Cape Epic, an extreme mountain biking race held from 19 to 26 March 2017

  Eventech, a Centurion based rental company have purchased twelve new Prolyft Aetos motors which will be used for their ground support, for flying PA, or which can be rented out.  “We chose Prolyt for various reasons,” said Wynand Veldsman

Maastricht, Netherlands – Nearly 100 Claypaky Sharpys were exclusively selected to deliver an immersive eight-hour light show to 2,000 partygoers at an underground club night that was hosted by trailblazing Dutch techno music agency Claydrum at Complex nightclub, Maastricht for

Collective Works is a brand new creative visual design practice launched by three highly talented and respected live event production industry professionals – Christopher Bolton, Joshua Cutts and Bradley Hilton. All are well known for their work in South Africa

  DWR Distribution is honoured to be the newly appointed Littlite agents. Littlite was represented in South Africa for many years by Tadco’s Simon Oates, who recently, very generously, made the decision to pass the brand on to DWR. A

The Prolyte Campus will be hosted at DWR next week. Choose a particular day or attend all the sessions, but don’t miss out on this informative training with international Ruud De Deugd from Prolyte. The cost is just to cover

  Seven halls of Amsterdam’s RAI expo centre hosted an annual two day event for a well-known brand. The technical production – lighting, audio, video, rigging and special FX –   for all areas was delivered by Breda based Unlimited Productions

French band M83 has been touring its brand of electro-pop – and its latest album, Junk – around the world, playing festivals including Coachella in the US and Glastonbury in the UK, as well as headlining at academy-sized venues, all

USA – Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, who has lent his talents to 19 Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Claypaky Mythos and Sharpy fixtures to help illuminate Lady Gaga in her solo turn at Super Bowl LI at Houston’s NRG Stadium.

‘I Am Jerusalem’  is a new multimedia interactive experience designed to welcome visitors to one of the most famous cities in the world, offering a fast-moving history and snapshots explaining how cultural diversity is fundamental to the dynamics and development

Established in 2006, Croatian audio rental company PROMO LOGISTIKA offers a full service, from event production and merchandising to equipment rental. Their slogan is ‘Everything is possible’ and their aim is to have the very best equipment in their inventory.

Monitor engineer Chris Fillery and Front of House engineer Trevor Coppen chose an SD11i and SD10 respectively, supplied by audio rental company Eighth Day Sound, for Grammy Award winning American rock band Cage The Elephant’s recent European tour. Each engineer

UK – As part of their European journey, Swedish band Opeth opted for a single show at Wembley Arena for their UK audience.  Magnus Boyd has been lighting the band for the last eighteen months.  The show at Wembley was

Die Fantastischen Vier – AKA iconic German rappers Fanta 4 – hit the road again on “Vier und Jetzt” their biennial tour campaign for 2016-17, reaching out to an ever loyal fan base which spans several generations and stretches across

To all our clients, kindly note that DWR Distribution will be a little slower than usual due to our annual Stock Take which will take place on Friday, 24th February and on Saturday, 25th February. While our office will remain

Houston Skylight Lights Up the Super Bowl Sky with Claypaky Supersharpy Array USA – In the great Texas tradition of going big, Houston welcomed Super Bowl LI with a number of exciting attractions, including the Houston Skylight high atop the

  Edinburgh, Scotland – Claypaky Spheriscans were selected to deliver a display of spectacular lighting effects that merged architectural and entertainment lighting during Edinburgh’s famous Hogmanay torchlight procession. The award-winning fixtures were supplied and installed on The National Monument of

  The Market Theatre have invested in 8 Robin DL4S Profiles for their busy venue in Newtown Johannesburg. The theatre was looking at an LED solution to save on costs and maintenance, a common factor these days. DWR Distribution was

The twelfth season of Idols South Africa wrapped up with a stunning finale at Carnival City Big Top Arena in Johannesburg, broadcast live on the Mzansi Magic network with a highly vocal audience of 3,500 packing into the venue …

The SD9 is one of DiGiCo’s most compact, lightweight consoles, but with 96 channels and a full range of features, it is the perfect choice for Scott Humphries, Front of House engineer and Production Manager, and Rory Mulligan, Monitor engineer,

Photos: Louise Stickland   Over 400 Robe moving lights boosted the magic and spectacle of the 45th Singapore Chingay Parade to celebrate Chinese New Year – The Year of the Rooster. Javier Tan’s colourful high-impact lighting design matched the glamour,

Photos : Louise Stickland The Holiday on Ice ‘Time’ show is back on the road with a new creative team and a new look, with lighting and visuals designed by Jeffrey Goes from Amsterdam based creative design practice Live Legends

  Moscow, Russia – An exclusive Claypaky rig of almost 300 cutting-edge moving-head fixtures delivered the high-impact lighting for international game developer and publisher Wargaming Group’s highly anticipated debut video game event ‘Wargaming Fest’ in Moscow’s Expocentre. Production and lighting designers

What an honour to welcome Dylan Jones to DWR Distribution! Dylan has been appointed as both draftsman and IT support, and in time will also assist in media server development. “I love drawing,” said Dylan, “It’s taking nothing and making

For the better part of a year the Red Hot Chili Peppers have played to fans worldwide with back-to-back festival and arena tours.  Premier Global Production in Nashville provided a large complement of versatile Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures for

Nataniël’s most recent production, Mannequin, received an overwhelming response at Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg. It ran last year from 18th August to the 25th September where once again a familiar formula ensured outstanding lighting results. The show included the use

  DWR Distribution takes pleasure in welcoming Lee Baird, Marketing Coordinator, to the team. Lee is no stranger to the industry. She worked alongside her partner, Rob Young, at Theatre and Studio, for six years, during this time visiting various

With one of the largest community participation events ever held in Denmark, Aarhus recently celebrated its inauguration as one of the two European Capitals of Culture 2017. The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union

Palace are a much anticipated four piece indie blues rock band from London about which there’s lots of anticipation and excitement and an acclaimed debut EP, “Lost in the Night”. Photos : Lindsay Cave Lighting designer Steve Bewley – well known

Nearly 200 Robe fixtures were used by award-winning lighting and show designer Terry Miranda of Lighthouse Productions to light a special production of musical “Fakhrak Ya Watan” (The Pride of a Nation) for the 2016 Ras al-Khaimah National Day Celebrations

The Joburg Theatre have invested in seven more Robin LEDWash 800s to supplement their existing stock and which have been the workhorses on productions like Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, the brand-new pantomime adventure from Janice Honyeman

For the past decade, Hardus Zevenster from Tygerberg FM has been responsible for bringing the popular Gospel Skouspel to the stage. Two years ago he contacted Marius Marais from Audio Logic to discuss a new look and feel for the

Polimeks İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. is a Turkish construction company based in Istanbul that primarily operates in Turkmenistan, Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan. According to the American magazine Engineering News Record, Polimeks is ranked number 59 in the list of 225

Rinus Bakker from Rhino Rigs will be in South Africa to present the Prolyte Rigging Training Course hosted this year in both Cape Town from 6 to 11 February and in Johannesburg from 13 to 18 February in association with

UK –The lighting designers of music superstars Jason Derulo, Dizzee Rascal and Chase and Status requested Claypaky Sharpys and A.leda B-EYE K10s as key fixtures in their touring rigs at UK urban music festival Sundown. Responsible for the mainstage festival

Eindhoven – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its stage lighting will be used in the next leg of Justin Bieber’s rapturously received ‘Purpose’ 2016 world tour. Lighting designer Cory FitzGerald has declared

Italy – A musical masterpiece returned to the stage at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. The moving scenery designed by Cristiano Colombi dynamically creates the various different settings. All of them recall the Upper West Side of New York, where

JAPAN – The New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) is one of the world’s finest art theatres which opened in October 1997 as a complex of theatres dedicated to the performing arts of opera, ballet, dance and drama.  NNTT has three

Ronen Najar, one of Israel’s leading lighting and visual designers has brought his imagination and style to the latest tour by Israeli singer Avram Tal, supporting his latest studio album ‘Now Life’. Photos : Louise Stickland We caught up with the

Innovative and cutting edge French artist / music producer DJ Snake rocked the Paris Zenith with an incendiary set and a spectacular new visual design by Romain Pissenem of creative production company High Scream … utilizing a lighting rig of

Ben Coker, lighting designer for Porter Robinson and Madeon’s co-headlining ‘Shelter’ theatre tour, has just finished an extensive 34 date run in the U.S, with Robe BMFL Spots and WashBeams and Pointes prominent on the rig.Photos : Adam Kaplan The

 Anthony Cherry, producer of Friday Night is Music Night, aired on BBC Radio 2, undertook the ambitious project of recreating Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on stage at the Royal Festival Hall in December. Mark Gatiss, as Narrator and Scrooge,

As part of their European journey, Swedish metal band Opeth opted for a single show at Wembley Arena for their UK audience. Magnus Boyd has been lighting the band for the last eighteen months. The show at Wembley was a

  DWR Distribution’s Kyle Robson would like to introduce the brand new DiGiCo SD 12 console to you. Kyle will be travelling to rental companies in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.   Johannesburg 24 January to 11 February   Durban

Israel’s Gesher Theatre has recently taken delivery of new Robe BMFL Blades and LEDWash 600s to add to their existing LEDWash 1200s as the Czech moving light manufacturer continues to make an impression in theatres and performance installations. The acclaimed

The annual gala Christmas TV show ‘Hodina Detom’ (An Hour for Children) is organised by the Children of Slovakia Foundation to help raise funds and awareness for the charity, which works to empower children and young people nationwide who are

DUBAI – Point a reasonably powered telescope at the planet Mars and you will see the so called canals beloved of science fiction writers. Turn that scope around to view Earth from Mars and a new canal is clearly visible

DWR Distribution’s Gareth Chambers and Jannie de Jager will be travelling to MA Lighting in Paderborn, Germany, for a training week hosted in February which will include MA Networking and the MA Network Switch, Fixture Library tips and tricks, grandMA2

PRG Belgium has recently received a large batch of ProLyft Pro controllers, which will instantly be deployed on productions. After a thorough selection procedure, Prolyte was selected to supply PRG Belgium with its’ high-end control systems. Investing in 30 12-way control units

Lighting designer Adrian Tan from Light Project is using Robe’s CycBar 15 fixtures to – very efficiently – light the cyc on W!LD RICE’s award winning ‘Monkey Goes West’ production, which is playing a limited holiday season run at the

In a season filled with holiday light displays, Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles has debuted “Enchanted: Forest of Light,” a unique, interactive nighttime experience. Visitors enjoy a one-mile walk through eight distinct lighting displays in some of

England and Wales –  An array of Claypaky fixtures were selected by leading Manchester-based technical supplier Audile to provide extraordinary stage lighting for two of this summer’s more alternative festivals; the inaugural Bluedot ‘festival of discovery’ and boutique arts and music

The highly acclaimed World Christmas Circus returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Theatre Carré for their 2016-17 season … for the first time with a new Robe moving light, which was chosen by the hugely popular and successful event’s long term lighting

Leading London based rental company Colour Sound Experiment was the first in the UK to purchase Robe’s brand new Spiider LED WashBeam moving light – with 30 being delivered directly after the PLASA expo in London in October. Photos by

Johannesburg, South Africa – The Atlas Studio in Millpark, formerly an old bakery but now a popular venue for film and television shoots, has upgraded five of its ten dimmers with Philips Strand Lighting Wallrack 24 Way Digitial Dimming panels.

University of University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music – CCM chooses ArKaos PRO MediaMaster for Green Day’s American Idiot. Photos: Credit Mark Lyons, Sam Igel II, and Aaron Bridgman of CCM The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) chose ArKaos

Blackmotion, a lighting, audio visual and rental company, are the first in South Africa to purchase 16 Robin 300 Plus LED Wash fixtures as well as in 12 Clay Paky Mythos and recently 8 Robin Spikies. But this story has

Robe moving lights continue their run on high profile theatre shows worldwide, with the new ‘Phantom of the Opera’ production in Stockholm utilizing DL7S and DL4S Profiles and DL4F washes – from the DL LED range – plus Pointes and

Carols by glowsticks and a picnic was held at the Rosebank Union Church based in Sandton. It was established in 1906 and is actively involved with missions and outreaches both locally and around the world. When a need arose to

U.S. rock band Blink-182 – known for their raw, adrenalized, hi-energy performances – are back on the road and blasted straight back up to the top of the charts in both the U.S. and U.K. with their new studio album

In the midst of university students uprising with the Fees Must Fall campaign in South Africa, Varsity Sing proved that music transcends all boundaries. Hosted by Kyknet, an Afrikaans television channel, Varsity Sing visited universities across the country as their

USA – Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpys lit up the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) at New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden.  Lighting designer Bob Barnhart used a large complement of the fixtures for the live telecast, which

USA – Once again Nocturnal Wonderland owned the night when North America’s longest-running dance music festival marked its 21st anniversary in September.  The festival is presented by Insomniac and Pasquale Rotella. Lighting designer Stephen Lieberman of SJ Lighting, Inc. in

Over R2 million was raised in aid of youth development at the fourth annual Chefs Who Share – the Art of Giving Back. Since its inception, CCPP Group have supplied the full technical for the black-tie gala event which is

Aardklop National Arts Festival 2016, held at Potchefestroom, saw freelancer Jaco Beukes from SJ Audio trying out the DiGiCo S21 on a show for the first time. Jaco was based in the Sanlam Auditorium where he was the main sound

DWR Distribution take pleasure in announcing the appointment of Annalise Hodgson who will lend a helping hand to Duncan Riley as a much-needed assistant. Annalise initially joined the entertainment industry unknowingly, responding to an advert in the Star newspaper that

  ITALY – Lighting manufacturer Osram, which celebrates its 110-year brand anniversary this year, is joined by another famous institution: the Westin Excelsior Hotel in Rome was opened in 1906 and is therefore celebrating its 110 years anniversary. To mark

The 2016 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore tennis tournament was presented by SC Global and staged at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang over a seven day period at the end of October. Photos: OC images are courtesy of Lagardère Sports

DiGiCo’s Ian Staddon was recently in South Africa, his first visit since appointing DWR Distribution as the DiGiCo distributor for Africa. “The trip for me was phenomenal,” said Ian. “I think it was superbly organized and the number of people

  Ireland– Irish lighting designer Conor Biddle, known for lighting some of the largest acts in dance and electronica, selected an array of Claypaky moving heads to illuminate the return of Ireland’s mega-rave, the Winterparty, at Dublin’s 14,500-capacity venue 3Arena.

The main venue for the massive triannual Every Nation Conference organised by Every Nation Church – at the 5000 capacity Grand West’s Grand Arena in Cape Town, South Africa – provided an ideal opportunity for lighting designer Alan Muller of

Peter Vandergoten of 4Ears and Frank Voet of Mono are more than just sound engineers. They are closely involved with their artists during production rehearsals and both deliver a full kit of microphones, wireless systems and mixing consoles to the

Auckland Live is a busy umbrella organisation running all the live performance venues in New Zealand’s largest performing arts and convention centre complex … right in the heart of the city. Their existing stock of Robe moving lights is now

At the beginning of this year, Tom Chaplin, ex-lead singer of Keane, announced his intention to embark on a solo career. In June, he completed his first album The Wave, which was released in mid-October. In the same month, he played a

Arkaos is offering 30% discount off all products for Black Friday, 25 December. This extends to all South African clients. If you are interested in purchasing products, please contact the DWR Distribution sales team who will be happy to assist.