News

Stay up to date with the latest happenings in the live events and technical production industry. From product launches and training sessions to behind-the-scenes stories and project highlights, our news section is where you’ll find it all.

Get the scoop on what’s new at DWR, follow our journey with industry partners, and discover the people and moments that make our community so unique. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, information, or innovation — this is the place to be.

Sound Stylists invests in Robe Pointe workhorses

With the South African Winter months usually a time to gear down a notch and prep for “silly season” which takes place in the last quarter of the year, it has been anything but for most technical supply companies who just have not stopped. Johannesburg based Sound Stylists is no

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Robe LEDBeam 350s are Ultra Popular in Cape Town

  Cape Town based rental and production company Ultra Event Technical Solutions has been extremely busy since the industry re-energised post-covid, a challenging time that nonetheless saw them retain their complete staff through resourcefulness, creative thinking and adapting the facilities and skill base they had to a pandemic economy! Thankfully

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Expo City Dubai Converts to grandMA3

  Expo City Dubai is “a human-centric” metropolitan vision of the future currently in the making, and being developed as a large district with offices, homes, exhibition spaces, convention centres and entertainment venues on the site of Dubai’s impressive Expo 2020. Right at the heart of this is the Al

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grandMA3 for Norwood Productions

  Norwood Productions, a South African company that offers a full turnkey experience from assisting with event planning to supplying technical equipment, has taken the plunge and purchased a grandMA3 onPC command wing XT from local MA Lighting distributor, DWR Distribution. The owner of the company, Chris Norwood, is thrilled.

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Meet Tina Le Roux

Tina Le Roux* is a lighting designer and the production manager at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in KwaZulu-Natal. Known for her endless dedication and talent, Tina never, ever gives up. We asked Tina a few questions and as she does, she moved our hearts with her story of love for

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Nomvula Molepo shares her story

Meet the beautiful, talented and dedicated Nomvula Molepo, Head of Technical and Stage Services at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg.  Nomvula literally blocked out any voices that said “she couldn’t” and went out to prove that “she could”. In this Q&A, she also thanks her mentors who recognized her steadfast

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Chatting to Tanya Brown, Head of Rigging!

  Meet Tanya Brown, Head of Rigging at the Gearhouse Group of Companies, an equipment and technical solutions company in South Africa. We sent Tanya a few questions and were inspired, as we know you will be, by her story.   Were there signs from a young age that pointed

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Jason Johnstone to expand Pro AV market at DWR

DWR Distribution has appointed Jason Johnstone, a longtime friend from the industry, to accommodate its growth in the world of professional audiovisual and system integration. Jason will work closely with Dylan Jones, DWR’s brand manager for products including Absen, Green Hippo and Magnimage. With experience that stretches over two decades,

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Callan van Zyl joins the DWR sales team

  South African-based DWR Distribution takes pleasure in welcoming Callan van Zyl to the Johannesburg sales team. Callan is a skilled sound engineer, rentals manager and product listings manager with a background in the live and film events industry. A love for audio came naturally to him, and during high

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zactrack gets into the Starlight Zone

The Guinness World Record breaking German version of long-running musical phenomenon Starlight Express celebrated 35 years of performance in June 2023 … and zactrack celebrated its own slightly shorter ‘milestone’ all the same … in November 2022 with a Starlight Express 5 year ‘show anniversary’ dating back to 2017 when

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DiGiCo delivers to a jam-packed audience at Loftus

Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria came to life with three performances over a four-day period with the Bethel Music SA Tour, Theuns Jordaan Tribute concert and the Boots and All Country Festival featuring Kip Moore, with all shows skilfully produced by The Hit Factory. MGG was appointed full technical supplier

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Small is Beautiful for Robe Getting Back to its Base

Basement Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand is living proof of how the ‘small is beautiful’ concept can become a hub of creative endeavour, a hot bed of ideas, experimental art, and the instigator of lively political and social discourse as well as an inclusive place for talented live performance imagineers

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First Robe FOOTSIES in the US on CMA Fest

  Lighting designer Mike Swinford of UpLate Design loves new tech as much as he loves the chance to be the first to use it, so he was delighted when everything aligned for rental company Fuse to invest in the first Robe FOOTSIE luminaires to arrive in the USA …

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DiGiCo Quantum 338 triumphs at The Voice Lithuania grand finale

      “After two years of using the DiGiCo Quantum 338, we can confidently say that our experience has been overwhelmingly positive. The Quantum 338 has demonstrated exceptional reliability and consistently delivers high-quality output, surpassing our expectations.” [Jurgis Stasikėlis, Garsisc Sound Team]   This year was The Voice Lithuania 10th

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Neutrik stock available at DWR

  DWR Distribution is pleased to announce that Neutrik and Rean stock is now available in our stores. Our goal for Neutrik is to ensure that this fantastic product range is easily accessible to users across the country. “Kyle Robson has been appointed the Neutrik Product Manager at DWR and

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Prolyte Basic Rigging Campus in JHB and Cape Town

It brings DWR Distribution pleasure to invite you to attend The Prolyte Basic Rigging Campus presented by Rigging Commando, Eric Laanstra, and our very own, Robert Izzett. The course will be held in Johannesburg on 9 and 10 October and in Cape Town on 12 and 13 October from 9

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Waves Announces the eMotion LV1 Session Editor

— Prepare eMotion LV1 live mixer sessions offline, on any laptop or desktop —   Knoxville, TN, July 19, 2023 — Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, announces the eMotion LV1 Session Editor, allowing engineers to efficiently prepare for their live performances

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Share your MA Story!

  As MA Lighting turns 40 years, they are asking the industry to share their best MA story! First there was an idea. Then a prototype. That was 40 years ago now. Since its foundation in 1983, MA Lighting has developed into one of the leading international companies for computer-controlled

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Murangi Productions Invests in Robe

Murangi Productions started as a family-based technical production and rental company way back in the year 2000. The company is now based in Edenvale, Johannesburg, South Africa and run by Hendrick Nemalili and his wife Rose. The company is named in memory of their late firstborn son, Murangi Nemalili who

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Astera Shines Bright in Cape Town

  Peter Lambert owns and runs a busy independent medium-sized camera and lighting system rental company based in Cape Town, South Africa whose clients work across a broad spectrum of broadcast and film / recording sectors including music videos, commercials, and streaming events. They also have a healthy cross rental

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tvONE CORIOmaster mini perfectly blends multi-projections at TAFE Queensland

Robina, Queensland, Australia – Australian training organization TAFE has launched a state-of-the-art new campus in the Gold Coast city of Robina, offering learners AV-rich facilities and projections driven by a tvONE CORIOmaster® mini video processor. Australian integrator Videopro was approached to specify a sustainable, smart and ‘progressive’ audio and video

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A Wise Move for Robe

  Soundwise is a busy Aarhus, Denmark-based full production rental company which was founded by Lars Thorsager in 2001, initially, as you might expect from the name, as an audio specialist. Their client base includes music and cultural shows and events, touring and corporates, the latter being a rapidly expanding

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L-Acoustics System & Workflow training, JHB

  Please join Richard Smith for an L-Acoustics System and Workflow training course on 22 August from 9 am to 4 pm at DWR Distribution, Johannesburg. Please note that delegates who pass this course and receive certification will be able to attend future L-Acoustics training. The L-Acoustics System and Workflow

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Microphone Techniques Training

  You are invited to join Jaco Beukes for a dynamic session of  Microphone Techniques training at DWR Distribution on 17 August from 9 am to 4 pm in Johannesburg. The day includes a theory session in the morning and after lunch, the fun begins with the practical side. The

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Vectorworks Spotlight 2023 Training in Johannesburg

You are invited to join Jade Manicom as she presents Vectorworks Spotlight 2023 Training in August from 9 am to 4 pm at DWR Distribution, Johannesburg. The Vectorworks 2023 brings big updates that will accelerate your BIM workflows without getting bogged down by technology. The course will be split up

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Anolis for The Godfrey Hotel New Lighting Scheme

A spectacular new Anolis external lighting scheme is illuminating the facades of The Godfrey Hotel in Boston, picking out the detail and architectural intricacies of the impressive former Blake & Armory Building, a historic commercial site at the corner of Temple Place and Washington Street in the city’s Downtown Crossing

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Lighting Design Training in Cape Town

Take a performance from page to stage with Michael Taylor-Broderick as he presents a Lighting Design training course to be held on 2 August from 9am to 4pm at DWR Distribution, Cape Town. Having lit countless shows in his career, Michael must be acknowledged for writing, directing and lighting The

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‘Fundamentals of Lighting’ training in Cape Town

DWR Distribution takes pleasure in inviting you to attend the Fundamentals of Lighting, a training course presented by lighting designer Michael Taylor-Broderick, on 1 August from 9 am to 4 pm at our offices in Cape Town. This engaging lighting workshop is a reminder that no matter what genre you

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Core Productions light up with grandMA3 and Claypaky!

  Core Productions, a Cape Town based company established in 2015 by Bernard Gramann, has taken ownership of a grandMA3 onPC command wing XT and 8 Claypaky Axcor Beams 300s, all supplied by DWR Distribution. Business has picked up in the live events industry! “I think all the companies that

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Welcome Dray to the DWR sales team!

DWR Distribution takes pleasure in welcoming Andrea Fowler, better known as Dray, to the sales team in Johannesburg. For the past nine years, Dray has worked for a company that specialises in signage lighting while her career has seen her operate in business finance, office automation and sales. Of Scottish

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Good times with grandMA3 for Stage Effects

  Extra! Extra! Read all about it! South African technical supplier, Stage Effects Group, has purchased a grandMA3 full-size for their shows and yours. There is great excitement in the air for company owner Theo Papenfus and director Erik de Bruin, who recently took ownership of a new MA3 full-size

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Clear-Com Arcadia Upgrade Expands Northridge Church’s Creative Boundaries

Northridge Church’s fusion of technology and creativity – as evidenced by their praise band playing against an LED backdrop of digitally rendered but stunningly effective stained glass ‘windows’ – is immediately compelling. That fusion is integral to their mission at their Plymouth, Michigan main campus, says Brandon Schultz, Northridge’s Live

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Green Hippo Training, Johannesburg

  Jade Manicom invites you to join a two-day Green Hippo Training Session held on 2 and 3 August at DWR Distribution, Johannesburg. HippoSchool will show you how to operate, configure and get the most out of your Hippotizer Media Server with a focus on the v.4.8.2 software. HippoSchool Basic

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Ross Learmonth is Wild About Astera

  Ross Learmonth, well known as frontman of popular South African rock band Prime Circle, recently delighted fans with his “Wild Summer” solo tour, his first as a solo artist, complete with an exciting brand-new solo album, Carousel. Both tour and album campaigns have been a great success and were

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Robe Fixture Maintenance Training

Join Tyler Pugin as he shows you how to troubleshoot, clean and maintain your lighting units at the Robe Fixture Maintenance Training to be held on 27 July from 9 am to 4 pm at DWR Distribution, Johannesburg. Topics covered during this hands-on workshop include: Fixture Maintenance and Basic Practices

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grandMA3 User Training

  The grandMA3 User Training presented by Jaques Pretorius will be held at DWR Distribution from 25 to 26 July,  9 am to 4 pm.  The aim of this course is to familiarize the operator with the basic functions of the grandMA3 software and lighting consoles, as well as the

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L-Acoustics A Series Open Day in JHB, CT and DBN

  Once you hear the L-Acoustics professional sound system, it’s difficult to want anything else. DWR Distribution invites you to attend the A Series demonstration to be held in Johannesburg on 28 June, Cape Town on 3 July and Durban on 10 July, any time between 10 am to 4

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Luke Combs 2023 World Tour takes Klang for a full spin

Michael Zuehsow equips his SES-supplied DiGiCo Quantum7 console with a DMI-KLANG card for immersive ambience capture and IEM mixing. Photo courtesy David Bergman. With his fourth and latest record, Gettin’ Old, released this past March, less than a year after 2022’s companion album, Growin’ Up, Luke Combs is on top

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Friends unite at KKNK festival

Once you get bitten by KKNK (Klein Karroo Nasionale Kunstefees) bug, it’s a festival you’ll want to attend every year. Families travel from all over the country to enjoy the music, drama, works of art and delicious food and a place where the crew work hard and ‘kuier lekker’ (socialize). 

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DiGiCo S-Series Training

Kyle Robson invites you to join him for DiGiCo S-Series Training on 18 July  2023 from 9 am to 4 pm at  DWR Distribution, Johannesburg. The course will cover the following topics: Introduction and console design Console navigation, layout and operation I/O configuration and patching Networking and external control Tips

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