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Welcome to the 33rd Newsletter!
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So, what’s coming up next for our brilliant community:
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✨ Week of Celebrating Women In Live Music✨
London, March 10th – 13th
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March 10th Workshop on Production Management with Alice James (AEG, UK)
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March 11th “Celebrating Women In Audio” Workshop on RF, Dante, WWB7 & 3D IEM
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March 12th Workshop in Monitor Mixing w/Sigri Hovde (monitor engineer for SIGRID)
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March 13th Walk & Talk at the Roundhouse
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Click here for signing up to the workshops:
Day Four – Walk&Talk @ the Roundhouse TBC
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Sigri aka The Pink Monitor Engineer for the Norwegian artist ‘Sigrid’
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Winner of WILMA Monitor Engineer 2025
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***Keep an eye out on our social media for any upcoming events in April/May 👀
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We are Excited! On March 3rd it will be revealed if we are getting the Monitor AudioVisual Award 2025 – Please cross your fingers, legs – everything you got!
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What we have been up to since the last newsletter:
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🇸🇪 “Why don’t you smile some more” – Part Two @ The Node in Stockholm, January
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Ever been asked to “smile some more” while you were working?
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We were pleased to return to The Node in Stockholm to host the second edition of our panel ‘Why don’t You Smile Some More’ Topics we got around to discuss, were: Women’s Health, Imposter Syndrome, Ageism, Parenthood, Is it okay to cry at work? — and much more! You can watch the full debate here at YouTube (starts at 14.30 min) 💃🏽
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The panel was livestreamed by Good Luck Production. So we were in absolutely good hands for this intrigued panel that consisted of:
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✨Malle Kaas – Live Sound Engineer, Nurse Anaesthetist & CEO of WILM, and staff member at RoadieMedic
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✨Mia Ternström – Singer, Actress, Mum, Community Manager at Musikcentrum Öst & Project Manager for Keychange
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✨Christina Svärdström – Mum & Touring Sound Engineer for major acts including the Swedish legendary bob hund
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✨Anna Engberg – Producer, Studio Engineer, Songwriter & Board Member of the Swedish Sound Engineers Society
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✨Gabriella Wilsson – DJ, Multidisciplinary Artist, Songwriter & Producer
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❄️ Skiing Trip 2026 ❄️
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🇸🇪 Yet again we found ourselves in beautiful Romme-land in Sweden with Waffles, Skiing, Vegan sausages and Sauna!
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But for the very first time going with a snow-mobil to have fondue on the hill 🥦🥩
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⛷️ What a lovely way to start 2026: bright sunshine, blue sky and plenty of snow
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London, UK 🇬🇧 January
SHURE x WILM New Year’s Reception
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Mid-January we hosted a small networking meetup at the beautiful location at Shure UK, where new and longtime colleagues had the chance to catch up, reflect on the year gone by, and look ahead at the one to come.
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We also had the pleasure of congratulating two of our members on their recent WILMA wins:
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⭐ Bryony October – FOH of the Year (Levellers, Katie Melua)
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⭐ Hannah Claire Simpson – VIP Management of the Year (Pitbull, Stray Kids)
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Bryony October, Left FOH of the Year – Hannah Claire, Right VIP of the Year
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London, UK 🇬🇧 Laser Workshop
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What A Fantastic Laser Workshop 🎉
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Thank you to everyone who joined the Liberation x WILM Laser Workshop!
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The room was indeed full of great energy, with participants from different backgrounds and interests coming together to learn and connect. It was inspiring to see everyone get hands-on with lasers and build confidence 💜
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Abby Shum is the best! We are so grateful that she took the time to share her passion for lasers with a bunch of our wonderful members 💜
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ISE – Integrated System Europe – Barcelona 🇪🇸
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Were you at ISE? We were — and what a blast it was 🔥
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It was so good to see so many friends, members and partners all in one place!
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We had some fantastic meetings with so many of our associates.
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We also recorded a podcast with our friends at Shure, and managed to squeezed in plenty of other fun moments along the way.
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But perhaps the highlight was Monday evening’s Women Only-network-dinner! The energy that arises when a group of women come together and join forces is truly unique!
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Thank you for the inspiring and creative conversations — and a special thank you to our colleagues from Barcelona who joined us. It was such a pleasure to meet you! 💫
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Walk & Talk @ Alexandra Palace 🇬🇧
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✨Thank you @josh Barnes and his production team for having us at Ally Pally! Josh and his team gave us a valuable insight in their current touring production, highlighting their work on wellbeing for audience members and crew members, diversity and how to make extraordinary visions come alive. A heartfelt thank you for keep providing this space for our members to learn what a larger touring production experience and ethos should be like 🙏
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TPi Awards 2026
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It was amazing to see members of the WILM community win the discoball trophy at the TPi Awards with votes from the touring industry 🪩 A heartfelt thank you to TPi Magazine for once again inviting us to be part of the jury — Congratulations as well on celebrating 25 fantastic years ✨Kudos to the ever-lovely Joanne Croxford and our friends from Roadies In Recovery for hosting the unique Sober tables – Let it be an inspiration for other awards!
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Gig-Postcard
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Scandinavian Newcomer Meet-Up 🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪
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Rosanna from Denmark, Anja Kathrine from Norway and Jill from Sweden met up yesterday at a venue in Copenhagen, where Jill is currently doing a three-month internship as a sound technician.
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Rosanna and Anja Kathrine first got to know each other last year at the WILM Ed Sheeran Walk & Talk — and this weekend they happened to run into Jill.
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This is exactly how the WILM community works: connections that turn into friendships across borders.✨
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From the left Jill, Center Anja Kathrine, Right/front Rosanna
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Please keep those Gig-postcards coming despite the festival season hasn’t really begun yet! We genuinely appreciate our members taking the time to send the postcards and keeping us updated on their activities 💌
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You can send your postcard via email, or simply post it in our private Facebook Group!
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