From January 2009 until mid-March 2009, I will be working with young students who have learning disabilities to train them in basic lighting design and production skills. This flagship new course is being run by the Heart & Soul group.
There are five entertainment professionals, including myself who are taking a group of students once a week in sessions that will teach them all the basics to inspire and empower them with knowledge.
Heart & Soul produces two clubs regularly at The Albany in Deptford for younger and older groups. These clubs involve all the art forms including Music, Dance, Drama and Circus. The "I Did That" students will have the opportunity to work on these events professionally as well as other events Heart & Soul are involved with.
Visit http://www.heartnsoul.co.uk for more information.
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( 2.9 / 444 )Welcome to the official Blog of Lawrence Stromski.
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( 3.1 / 434 )This week sees a corporate event with an usual twist - the Lord Lieutenant's charity ball hosted at Chatham Historic Dockyard Number 3 slip. The Astral Lighting team came together once again, headed by James Waudby was the perfect choice for the venue having lit many unusual buildings, environments on scales of equal and greater size.
This historical wooden shipyard building used to be the construction hub and launching point for old sailing ships is now converted to a museum for some of the armed forces most exotic pieces of machinery, tanks and ships.
The new upstairs pavilion was the base for the evenings event.
The building is large and open and a very cold place to be in mid-January. One of the first tasks was heating the venue to keep the guests warm with only two 63-amp three-phase supplies to work with. With the building being as long as an old sailing ship, cable lengths were an important consideration and after careful planning the heating power was distributed from four main distribution boxes.
This left little power for sound, lighting and catering so it was decided that LED lighting would make up the bulk of the rig.
LED wash lights were used down the length of the venue along with source4 profiles to project gobo patterns onto the ceiling. Two 2 Kilo-watt flood lights were used with blue HQI lamps to light the exterior and lower level of the venue providing an interesting and atmospheric blue glow on the interior.
The effect was finished off with some small 250-watt moving lights and some more LED units, combined with a haze machine to give the dance floor a bit of party finish.
Redundancy for the event was provided by having spare power distribution available at all the key points.
Light, warmth, good food and good drink were brought to a cold January night on the Medway estuary.
Further info: http://www.chdt.org.uk/Galleries/3_Slip ... 3Slip.html From Chatham Historic Dockyard website (Accessed April 2009)
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