What we’ve been up to since our last newsletter:
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WILM x Neg Earth Lights Workshop on Lighting, Rigging and Power, London – March
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What a turnout! WILM members at Neg Earth Lights in London.
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| To celebrate International Women’s Day, WILM teamed up with NEG Earth Lights who very kindly hosted our 3-part workshop in Rigging, Power and Lighting at their London warehouse! |
It was a fantastic day with three separate workshops, and on top of that: a brilliant talk at the end of the day on how to increase and stabilise diversity backstage.
A big thank you to Neg Earth Lighting for the collaboration and for providing the space for our workshops.
Thank you as well to Ambersphere Solutions & Ayrton for sponsoring swag and networking-drinks.
Also, a big thank you to our incredible tutors Rigger, Ida Borgström and Lighting Designer, Subul Lodi, plus Bryony Berning from Ambersphere and Production Manager Alice James who moderated our panel talk, and of course a massive thank you to all of the attendees! |
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Audio Workshop at d&b in Backnang, Germany – April
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Tutor Banu Sahin teaching d&b Soundscape
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For the 4th time we went down to the beautiful surroundings of Backnang, Germany to visit d&b audiotechnik at their headquarters. This time we brought 10 of our members with us, mainly from Austria on this occasion! 🇦🇹
We enjoyed learning about d&b products such as Soundscape, Array calc & R1 as well as studying line array theory and much more including a very impressive factory tour.
This specially designed workshop was as usual executed by enthusiastic tutors from the d&b staff. Thanks again so much d&b for your hospitality 🙏 |
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Aarhus Sound Association Workshop, Denmark – April
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All the 27 attendees and their tutors
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| An amazing number of people came for this 3-day workshop in Denmark: From several different countries, both older and younger people alike came to learn about Live Sound. Twenty-seven attendees in total! 🙌🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾 |
| Allen&Heath’s distributor in Denmark, Lightpartner, were super helpful with a couple of consoles, so we had a S5000, C3500 and a SQ5 to play with. |
| One of our main reasons for choosing A&H’s products is our experience that we can show people how to mix a live show in a very short time, which makes it a great tool for those just starting out. 10 of the attendees who had never had any experience mixing live had the pleasure of mixing different acts for a live audience on the 2nd night! Well done folks! |
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Intro To Rigging Workshop, Berlin – April
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Valerie, Helen, Olga & Lisa preparing to get those motors up!
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We were so happy to finally be able to do our long awaited Intro-to rigging course in Berlin with TSE AG.
We were happily surprised when we arrived with 14 of our members and discovered that the Rigging Department had created three workstations for us amongst a 6 metre high truss we could climb. Our eager participants had a great time and the only downside was that we wished the day could be longer! Next time we will make sure to make it a full day of rigging! (Hopefully that will be in August or September).
A big thank you to Stephan and the rest of his team, as well as TSE for all the effort. |
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Afternoon Tea at Shure, London – April
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A very British tea party at Shure complete with snacks and excellent conversation!
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In April, WILM had a little afternoon tea party at The Rose Shure Experience Centre with our friends at Shure. It was a lovely turnout of people, and we used the occasion to hand out WILMAward trophies to Production Manager, Alice James and Lighting Technician, Anna Mac.
There was a lot of great conversation and we absolutely loved the story about how The Cure’s crowd would be shouting Anna’s name during their show because they were cheering for her to get the legendary WILMA! Thanks to The Cure and their fans for the support!
We also loved these words from one of our members:
“I’d like to say that I’ve been using Shure SE215 headphones as my daily go-to for over 10 years so I’m delighted to see Shure constantly supporting WILM. Makes me feel even better about using their products (I swear to god no one paid me to say this)” |
We are definitely very happy – and proud too over the support and acknowledgement from Shure for our work for more diversity backstage.
Looking forward to the next workshop, tea party and WILMAwards ceremony at The Rose Shure Experience Centre.
Thanks to Flightcases.dk for the amazing WILMA trophies |
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Walk & Talk with Paramore at the O2, London – April
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WILM members with the Paramore crew at the O2, London
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| Another successful production tour at the O2 in London! This time it was Paramore’s crew who invited us for a walk & talk of how their show comes together. WILM members met the crew and asked questions and learned all about sound, lights, video logistics, rigging and even pyro! A big thanks to Tour Manager Andrew Weiss and the rest of the team for having us along. We can’t wait to do more of these! |
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WILM x ISDV @ Pro Light & Sound, Frankfurt – April
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ISDV and WILM members connecting at Prolight + Sound
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| Our dear WILM member Cora Schönherr took the initiative to team up with ISDV – a German union for freelance event-crew at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt. This resulted in a great meet up where stories from the road, anecdotes and experiences were shared. We are very happy to have been introduced to ISDV, who we are looking forward to connecting with some more in the future. |
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Role Model Day + Walk & Talk in association with SheSaid.So, Iceland – April
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The role model day with Malle Kaas and Anna Jóna Dungal joining online
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| For the first time we teamed up with the amazing global organisation SheSaid.So and started out boldly with a two-day event: First a role model day with with Iceland Airwaves Project Manager, Anna Jóna Dungal, Manager & Tour Manager Erin Lynch from Flying Fox AB and WILM’s CEO, Sound Engineer Malle Kaas, who all told the story behind their career and workday – all well moderated by SheSaid.So’s Cheryl Kara. |
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A couple of the participants at the Laugardalshöll in Reykjavik
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| The next day we had a Walk & Talk with the Icelandic production company Sena at a Backstreet Boys production at the Laugardalshöll Arena in Reykjavik where the participants got a glimpse behind the scenes at what a local production company is doing at such a big event. |
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Production Futures, Manchester – May
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Thank you Subul Lodi and Shelly for taking care of the WILM stand and for having a chat with the many show-goers that came by
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Once again we were delighted to be invited in on the Production Futures Tour, and this time the show was held in Manchester!
It was great to be part of this event that has a goal-oriented focus on the new and upcoming generation in the live event industry. We loved that many of these young people were so interested in the work of WILM for more diversity backstage.
Thank you Production Futures for the invite 🙌 Looking forward to team up with you again at PLASA, London in September! |
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SPOT Festival Panel Talk, Denmark – May
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In May we participated in a panel discussion at SPOT Festival in Denmark where we discussed the live music industry, specifically how we were doing last year and what issues we are facing this year. And what does the backstage world really looks like, and how is the onstage-offstage relationship doing
We had a wonderful and interesting chat with Promoter Emma Hestbæk from Smash!Bang!Pow! and Tour Manager, Tobias Ljungar Sødring (‘Saveus’ and many more) as well as a live audience.
You can visit our Website and find a summary of our panel discussion at Eurosonic earlier this year, which is what inspired the content for this talk at SPOT Festival. |
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