UK - TPA 05 - the Graduate Exhibition and Trade Show of the Technical and Production Arts department of the RSAMD (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) will take place on 22 and 23 March 2005. Once again, Graduating students from the BA Technical and Production Arts Course will be showing their work over the past three years in the Academy's Chandler Studio Theatre. Supporting this in the New Athenaeum, the RSAMD's main house, the industry supporters of the course will be showing a large range of production equipment.

Triple E and Black Light have joined the list of course sponsors this year and will exhibiting alongside PRG Europe, Le Mark, Rosco, Rope Assemblies, White Light, Zero88, Autograph Sales and Hall Stage. Also new to the show will be Lift Turn Move and Learn 2B Safe, as well as several industry organizations such as the ABTT, SMA, PSA, PLASA and the ALD, many of whom are arranging membership meetings during their visit.

The exhibition will run alongside various seminars from a wide range of suppliers and organizations. Chris Martin from Martin Architectural and Philip Norfolk from PRG Europe/Vari-Lite will lead talks on moving light and the associated technology, whilst Hall Stage will be talking about the new DGS system, which will be on display at the show. Lift Turn Move's John Jones will host a seminar on the use and abuse of Lodestar Chain Hoists.

Design interests are well represented by talks and demonstrations of VectorWorks (Francis Gallop, Queen Margarets University College), AutoCAD (David Ripley, RSAMD) and SketchUp (Sanjay Patel, @last Software) programs, whilst Ron Knell will take people through Rosco's paint range and techniques. There will also be seminars and meetings for the organizations represented at the show, such as ABTT, SMA, PSA and ALD.

Finally, the Leonardo Matrix project, which RSAMD is a partner in, will be doing a presentation on the ongoing work to create an EU-wide qualification for the events industry. The full seminar schedule can be found at the web address below:

(Lee Baldock)


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