Since winning Breakthrough Talent Awards Standout Talent at Production Futures, Spiralstagelighting’s Elliot Baines has been involved in lighting numerous live shows, festival slots, installations and livestreams as well as breaking ground as an 18-year-old business owner. Speaking from his Croft Myl headquarters in Halifax, he recaps a busy year. “I have been designing shows and...

Having upskilled amid the lockdown of live events, TPi Breakthrough Talent, Cedric Duré of Outdream Creative was finally able to put his newfound capabilities to the test for My House – an interactive dance performance with Unreal Engine, utilising a system originally designed for consumer/prosumer VR gaming market as an indie BlackTrax. Duré was brought...

Despite being relatively new to the world of live events, TPi Breakthrough Talent Awards Standout Talent winner, Dylan Barber has built up an impressive resumé as freelance engineer. Working in both the live and corporate spheres, Barber has already worked with a range of high-profile clients, from the likes of Joe Talbot of IDLES fame...

Uniting under the banner of AUDIOVERSITY, NEXO and Yamaha Professional Audio have been proactive in developing and maintaining their education and training offerings amid the COVID-19 crisis. Considered the industry’s largest free training resource, unlike most manufacturer-led incentives, AUDIOVERSITY is accredited by the AVIXA Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) programme, providing attendees the skills and knowledge...

Earlier this summer, during one of TPi’s virtual team meetings, the topic of Production Futures came up. Like many, we naively assumed that when the UK was plunged into lockdown in March that we’d be out of this mess by autumn, or at the very latest, winter time. However, as the months dragged on it...

Taking place this year from 9 to 13 November, TPi’s Production Futures goes online, offering a week of free web-based learning, resources and engagement with the global live events industry. The event also marks the return of the TPi Breakthrough Talent Awards, where students, freelancers and young people can be in with a chance of...

With the next generation of events professionals adjusting to the ‘new normal’, introducing new talent to the industry and how live event students are completing their studies without live events has become a topic of paramount importance among university course leaders and prospective students. For the past 16 years, Lecturer, Liam Devine has taught a...

With webinars, online tutorials and smaller in-person academic sessions filling the education-shaped void of the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions are now in the process of opening their doors, on a university by university basis, to students across UK. One such student looking to return to the University of South Wales in September to complete the...

Morgan Evans is a freelance Programmer and Designer, currently studying Creative Lighting Control at Rose Bruford College, London. Developing his skills in lighting and video through academic studies and professional hands-on work, Morgan sat down with TPi – remotely – to discuss the challenges he’s faced breaking into an extremely competitive industry, and what skills...

At the age of 25, burgeoning Southampton-based audio system engineer Oli Crump has already played a significant role in a range of projects during his brief time in the live events industry. His work as an audio project manager at the Lion’s Den stage of Boomtown Chapter 11: A Radical City saw him go on...