Vectorworks users in Cape Town are invited to join Dylan Jones from DWR Distribution for a Basic Training course on 28th October from 9am to 5pm. The course will be hosted at DWR Cape Town and will cover a range of topics including Layouts and Palettes, Basic Tools, Classes and

Pretoria based rental company AJR have decided on the L-Acoustics colinear Syva system to offer high-end quality audio to their corporate events. In doing so, they have become the first in South Africa to purchase Syva. Altus van Rensburg is both the owner of AJR as well as a Financial

A soldier in the frontline of the South African technical industry, it’s with a sad heart that the industry bid farewell to Lebogang Sediane, a lighting technician and freelancer, regularly working for companies like MGG, Gearhouse, AV Unlimited, Stage Effects and many more. Lebogang, fondly known as Lebza, passed away

Mythics is an award-winning Oracle systems integrator, consulting firm, and managed services provider. Based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, they deliver technology solutions to the federal government, state and local governments, as well as commercial, higher education and research, utilities, and healthcare sectors. Dissatisfied with the existing beamforming, hanging microphones installed in

Vectorworks has always provided helpful training content such as  Getting Started Guides, webinars, YouTube channel and of course, Planet Vectorworks. Now they’re taking things one step further to ensure users have the opportunity to learn, navigate, and excel in our software in one place. Online classes, tutorials, and webinars on topics such as

    Choosing the right microphone is only the first step to creating great sound. Join DWR Distribution as we present Audix Training in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, taking your audio mix to the next level. In Johannesburg, the course will be hosted by Fanie Pieterse on 11thOctober. Jaco

  With its demanding stage playing host to exhibitions, theatre productions, film screenings, dance and musical performances, lectures and ceremonial gatherings, the Sanlam Auditorium at the North-West University Potchefstroom campus, a 957-seater venue, has invested in an L-Acoustics ARCS WiFo system and a DiGiCo S31 supplied by DWR Distribution. “L-Acoustics

  Robert Juliat emerges from an extremely successful PLASA 2019 with its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions, where it continued to celebrate its Centenary Year with new products. Maestro Robert Juliat’s new Maestro server for SpotMe, developed in collaboration with tracking specialists, zactrack, extends the capabilities of RJ’s award-winning SpotMe,

Spanish performance phenomenon Circo de los Horrores (Circus of Horrors) present “Apocalipsis – A Day After”, their fourth epic circus rock opera production combining the drama of theatre, the pumping rhythm of rock ‘n’ roll and the adrenaline buzz of circus, which is currently touring key Spanish cities after launching

Courtesy TPMEA (The issue is available online now, so see: https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpmea20_digitallr) One of the most hotly anticipated annual events in the country and a potentially life-changing moment for the participants, there’s a lot riding on a Miss South Africa show. TPMEA speaks to Lighting Designer Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier

  Carnival City Casino and Entertainment World, a popular entertainment destination in the East Rand of Johannesburg South Africa, recently upgraded their entertainment facilities with a dot2 XL-F, StageDex and power distribution equipment, all purchased from DWR Distribution. Three venues within the casino now run on the MA Lighting platform

  Claypaky is pleased to announce that Marcus Graser is, with immediate effect, the new CEO of the Company. Marcus takes the place of Pio Nahum who, starting from 1 October 2019, will retire after spending 30 years in the lighting industry. Marcus Graser, 42, is an experienced executive coming

Leading South African lighting designer Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier used Astera Titan Tubes to light various segments of the final of The Voice South Africa 2019, which was staged at the Mosaïek Teatro in Fairlands, Johannesburg, and broadcast on M-Net Channel 101. Josh has lit the series since it

Dallas, USA– Green Hippo, specialist creator of tools for the real-time manipulation of video for the AV industries, has announced that leading US regional sports network, Fox Sports Southwest, has upgraded its media playback system with the addition of Hippotizer Karst+ media servers. The Hippotizer system was chosen for its

Sarah Rushton-Read visited Mediatech 2019 . She met up with the team at dB Audio, and we are very grateful for this wonderful story,  as featured on LSi on Line. Thanks Sarah! Save As PDF

  July saw well over 100 delegates assembled at the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, (one of three theatres within the central London campus of RADA, The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art), for a review of DiGiCo’s new Quantum Engine and designed-for-theatre T software. Hosted by DiGiCo and Autograph Sound, the day

  Haines City FL, USA – Jorge Toro’s company, JMT Show Concepts, is a specialist in media playback systems, providing rental and operation of solutions for concert touring, corporate events and various one-off special shows. For the past year or more, the company has been the proud owner – and

September 2019:  Summer lingered for music lovers at the Festival 39 Aout 2019, August 30-31 at the Domaine de Chalain in France’s Jura region.  The multi-genre music festival was held in a beautiful setting alongside Chalain Lake where an array of Claypaky lighting fixtures illuminated Big Flo & Oli, Martin

Belgium – Filipe Dos Santos, director of photography at RTL Belgium, called on the high-performance features of the VL2600 Spotluminaire from Vari-Lite,aSignify(Euronext: LIGHT) entertainment lighting brand,in his design for Belgium’s annual charity television broadcast, Télévie. Produced by RTL-TVI, Télévieraises funds to help fight cancer and leukemia in adults and children,

Inspired by the launch of its new PLASA Innovation Award-winning ESPRITE moving light with fully replaceable LED engine and a host of other ground-breaking features and the iconic Back to The Futuremovie franchise … Robe presented the first in a new trilogy of expo live performance concepts at the PLASA

Power to the people An enormous thanks to Ledetta Asfa-Wossen and Simon Luckhurst from Pro AVL MEA  for covering the Innibos event. Beautiful photos thanks to Anriette van Wyk of Kief Kreativ. Story below. Ready for the stage Extensive preparations were needed under Mbombela’s gruelling humidity at the Innibos festival.

    While some people use products, others live products and freelancer Fanie Pieterse of CPS Audio could very well be a brand ambassador for Audix. He recently acquired an Audix Studio Elite set of microphones which he has used on a variety of events including Classics is Groot 2019,

      September 2019: Aerosmithhas launched its “Deuces Are Wild” residency at the Park Theater at MGM in Las Vegas with a multi-sensory experience that’s playing to sold-out houses.  The show features Claypaky Mythos 2 and Sharpy Washlighting fixtures provided by PRG. The band, which has sold more than 150 million albums

“The power of our diversity unites us” screamed the headers emblazoning the Main Stage at Budapest’s fabulous Sziget Festival, which saw another amazing lineup including Martin Garrix, The 1975, Florence + The Machine, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran amongst many others thrilling up to 80,000 fans a day for 7

    Hi to our amazing industry I wanted to thank everyone for their love and support at the SOS Charity evening held in July. Because of you, we have been able to reach out and help people in our industry who are going through a tough time. Below are

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Berlin-based creative studio battleROYAL recently drew on the power of Green Hippo’s Hippotizer Media Servers to provide a dazzling ‘product experience’ at a corporate event devised for a leading financial services provider. The new Platinum Corporate card by American Express was a strong motivation for this unique

Christopher Smith (40), better known by his friends as Shu, is a production rigger based in Kwazulu Natal. A knee injury has kept him from working, and while he has finally been given a date for an operation to take place at a local government hospital – 9 September –

  It was devastating to hear that the home of Aaron McIlroy and his wife, Lisa Bobbert, burnt down in Durban while the couple were at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in July, performing in the hilarious comedy shows Bloopers and ADHD. Their daughter and two-family friends were in the

  Robe embraces the spirit and dynamics of multiculturalism and the unmistakable joie de vivrethat marks London as an entertainment hub and PLASA 2019 as a key exhibition and meeting point for the worlds of theatre, performance, rental and staging … making it the first exhibition launch of its brand-new

  When Bongumusa Masondo, a Durban technician, was in a serious motorbike accident on the 9thAugust, a rally of angels, led by Tina Le Roux, stood behind him. Within a month, over R63 000 has been raised and the DWR Distribution’s SOS Charity fund were pleased to assist with an additional

  Jonathan Linley, an audio engineer, musician, worship leader and now pastor at Relentless Love Church, and his wife Carina, are raising funds for their son Uriah. Sixteen-month-old Uriah has just undergone surgery for a cochlear implant to develop his ability for speech and listening. A further implant will also

DWR Distribution’s SOS Charity Fund is proud to once again support the Hilton Arts Festival to be held from the 13 – 15 September at the Hilton College in Hilton, KwaZulu Natal. The sponsorship includes bussing thirty children from the local community to the festival, and in addition, contributing R10 000

Join Robert Izzett from DWR Distribution in Cape Town as he presents a Rigging Basics training course. The course will be held on 11 and 12 September from 9am to 5pm, at DWR Cape Town, Unit 74D, Platinum Junction Business Park, Marconi Beam, Milnerton in Cape Town. Topics covered in

DWR Distribution presented an exclusive L-ISA technology demo experience at the Mosaïek Teatro in Fairlands, Johannesburg, home to The Voice South Africa, which was attended by over one hundred innovation-seeking industry leaders from rental companies and television studios, as well as creative luminaries on 18th June 2019. The new L-ISA

Arcadia Spectacular flies L-Acoustics as they ‘take over the sky’ A suspended moon orbiting the Earth provides the canvas for a mesmerising 3D projected light show. Pyrotechnics and huge balls of flame shoot into the sky. Legendary DJs play from a centre platform to a 60,000-strong crowd in a circular area,

August 2019: Singapore’s 54th National Day Celebrations had an added significance this year, as the country also commemorated its bicentennial milestone. It was 200 years ago that Sir Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore, which in essence marked the arrival of the British in Singapore, transforming the country’s future into a

Lighting designer Jiri Roucek is enjoying a busy summer as the LD for leading Czech pop-rock band Krystof and has also created the production design for the main stage of the 2019 Ceske Hrady Festival tour, a two-day event with an identical line-up that visits eight stunning castle and cultural

  You are invited to a Green Hippo training session, designed to show you how to operate, configure and get the most of your Hippotizer media server, presented by DWR’s Dylan Jones from 19 to 20 September. The hands-on course will cover a range of topics including Hippolauncher, Output Manager,

  7.1 configuration loads in and out as quickly as standard systems across Europe and US, thanks to optimized design by SSE Audio Group   Mark Knopfler is on the road once again, supporting the release of his new Down the Road Wherever album with an epic show presented in

The Bridges of Madison County is a musical based on Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel  produced by OpusOne that is mid-way through an extensive Netherlands tour with stylish lighting designed by Benno Barends who is using Robe DL7S Profile and ColorWash 700 moving lights at the heart of the touring

  Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Vectorworks Training, presented by Dylan Jones, will be hosted from 23 to 27 September at DWR Distribution in Johannesburg. The Course will be split up into Basic Training (23 September) at R850 per person, Intermediate Training (24 and 25 September) at R1 700 per person and