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Hawthorn@Home 2006
Following their success in 2005, Hawthorn have organised a new series of events to take place at its base in Old Dalby in Leicestershire. The events run under the heading ‘Hawthorn@Home 2006’ will give lighting, sound and AV users the opportunity to get hands on with the latest equipment and technology. Hawthorn@Home gives users and specifies an opportunity to get hands-on and allows manufacturers, suppliers and users to discuss the products and to gain an insight not normally available outside the large tradeshows.
Hawthorn’s hire and sales team will once again host the events, which will kick off with lunch and an informal get together, followed by the hands on/demo of the equipment. The first three events are;
March 3rd: ‘Moving Lights and Lighting Desks’
Companies taking part include Avolites, Martin Professional, ETC, MA Lighting, Robe and Zero88. Hawthorn will also have on show their range of Clay Paky Alpha Spots and Washes as well as other moving lights in their rental and sales brochures. Moving lights technicians, from Hawthorn, as well as company representatives from the companies exhibiting will be on hand to discuss any aspects of moving lights or control desks.
April 7th: ‘Trussing, Rigging and Staging’
Products and representation from Prolyte, Doughty, Rope Assemblies and Hall Stage. A senior engineer from Prolyte will give a presentation on Prolyte trussing, stresses, tolerances and best practices in using the Prolyte range of trussing. A wide selection of Prolyte truss and staging will be available for inspection. Hawthorns rigging and mechanical engineering staff will be on hand as well as representatives from the companies taking part to answer questions and give advice on rigging and staging.
May: ‘Sound and Video’
A demonstration of the latest sound, video equipment and media servers/controllers.
“The events were a great success in 2005 and we have been inundated with requests for events in 2006. We hope to increase the attendance in 2006,” said Hawthorn’s Alan Jackson, “giving everyone an opportunity to get to grips with all types of equipment and, being centrally-based, gave us some great events in 2005 which we hope to build on in 2006.”
For further information or to register your interest in attending please email mailto:leisa@hawthorntheatrical.co.uk
10th February 2006
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