An Original Raucous Rebellious Retelling of The Wizard of Oz
Written and directed by Eleanor Valdebouze
We have now joined with the cast with rehearsals on there upcoming show OZ the musical. We are providing Sound & Lighting, and a few special effects.
Vocal Footprint Groups:
Drama Club
Ages 5 – 18
Callington Town Hall
Singing Club
Ages 5 -18
Callington Town Hall
Singing Club
Parent and Child
Menheniot Parish Hall
Open books!
Vocal Footprint is taking on new talent to join in SEPTEMBER 2024.
– Drama and Singing workshops, ages 5 to 18
– Adult vocal group 18 +
– One on one lessons available.
– All abilities welcome.
To improve on your vocal skills, performance or to simply meet like minded people
DM or email to sign up.
Come join the Vocal Footprint family!
Vocal Footprint has a range of groups suitable for Children from ages 5 to 18 also a parent & child group. The Drama and Singing clubs take place in Callington Town Hall, Mondays for Drama and Wednesdays for singing, with the parent and child singing workshops taking place in Menheniot Parish Hall on Tuesdays, See the above posters for contact details.
The Christmas tree festival will be taking place in St.Marys church, starting on 6th of December until 20th of December with entertainment on the 6th. Entertainment including Callington Town band, local schools, St.Marys choir & Callington CADS
Saturday 7th December
Christmas Floral Demonstration
Christmas craft market
In Callington Town Hall with Santa in his grotto. 10am untill 2pm, run by Callington Town Council. For details see website or call (01579) 384039
Light switch on
The Christmas light switch on starts at 4.00 on the Town square, Santa will be arriving on this sleigh to help turn on the lights (5.00Pm) After this, visit the Christmas market taking place in the pannier market and also see the Christmas tree festival which is inside St.Marys church. (See above for details)
Christmas market
The Christmas market will be in the pannier market as usual. The market starts at 3.30 and runs untill 7.30pm.
“I swear to ell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!” Sants, probably.Santa has been put on trial for the crime of global warming as Jeff Bezos and his merry gang of Christmas thieves stand against him. Without being able to prove he is innocent, Amazon Prime may take over Christmas …. Forever!
Witness the most hilarious courtroom drama unfold at OMF Theatre’s ‘Santa Vs the People’. This production will be performed on stage as a radio play
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Sunday 15th December
Tuesday 17th December
Carols By Candlelight, St.Sampson’s Church
Friday 20th December
Callington Christmas party
Taking place in Callington Town Hall, Tickets from Lost Surfers Cafe, Pannier market
This week we were at South Hill Village Hall in Golberdon, for a Children’s Glow party. We had lots of Brodies friends in to celebrate her 6th birthday party.
Everyone looked amazing with their UV face paint, and glow sticks. Our UV cannon really did a great job!
MultiPlay is a cue system for mainly audio cue, although you can cue lighting software, midi, video etc.
The software is now free to use, download here, Although free to use please support the author with a donation. Take a look at the dev’s website.
The software does take a bit of time to get your head around, but its flawless. So many options for how you play your cues from fades, pre setting volumes, timings etc. Once you have your show set up all you need to do is press the Go button. for easy of use I find a use button very handy. For this I use a Steam deck with a OSC plugin to control the buttons.
Using these buttons to control Multiplay & QLC all with out using the mouse, which helps when doing both sound & Lighting on the same computer with multiple monitors. If your interested I bought mine from amazon. For the Stream Deck to work I use OSC Commands
MultiPlay is a Windows based program designed to play cues for theatre or corporate use. It is free to use in both amateur and commercial environments. Some of the cue types available in MultiPlay 3:
Single (mono or stereo) audio file
A list of audio files to play sequentially for pre-show, intermission, etc
Timed pauses
Control cues to act upon other cues
Serial or network strings to trigger external devices
OSC commands
MIDI sequence (music) playback
MIDI command to control external equipment
MIDI Mute for audio muting on external mixer
Images with transition effects
Video playback
Lots more!
Cues can be linked in various ways to play at the same time or after each other, etc as well as stop/fade other cues. Productions can be named, saved, loaded, printed and exported. Each audio cue can be assigned to one of several audio groups. Each of those groups can be assigned any one of the available stereo audio cards. A preview function can be routed to another stereo output. The beta releases may have small issues, but are generally very usable.
Lighting
QLC+
One of my favourite programs to use for lighting control has to be QLC+. This DMX control software is packed with features and I have used it on lots of shows now and I am still finding new features along the way.
With QLC+ you have the ability to run a small show with only a few fixtures to massive show with multiple universes. As will all DMX control software there is a learning curve as all of these programs work a little differently, but the program is broken down in to simple pages for the basic functions such as individual tabs for fixtures, simple desk, inputs & outputs, and the the best most useful page is the virtual console page.
This visual console page is completely customizable to your needs, and all functions, scenes, etc. can be control from here. And as an added bonus the virtual console is available over http, put simply this means you can control your show away from you desk on another computer, phone or tablet.
As well as the http gui control you can also control the software via midi, osc, or other standalone hardware and software via the input/output tab.
QLC+ has a good userbase, with a forum and lots of videos on YouTube to help you get started. The online help pages are also a great way to get started.
And This software is free, it has to be the best free software for DMX, and probably better than a lot of the paid options.
At the moment I am using Version 4 which is the most stable version of the software, which can be download from: https://qlcplus.org/download
LXplan : LXPlan is an application for drawing light plots and generating paperwork. LXPlan combines drawing a light plot with editing information attached to graphic objects in the drawing. LXPlan produces reports by linking the graphics, attached data, and additional databases related to the properties of these objects. LXPlan is still being developed and tested.
Please help by providing feedback on problems encountered using LXPlan. LXPlan is currently available for Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/Debian). LXPlan runs using Java(tm). A version is available for Windows that includes an OpenJDK runtime so that nothing else needs to be installed.
An alternate Windows version is available, primarily for 32bit systems, that uses Oracle Java 8 if it is installed separately. The Linux version uses whatever Java(tm) is the default for the system it is running on.LXPlan is free to use for non-commercial purposes.
If you find the above software useful consider supporting the authors by sending a donation, so they can continue there good work. If you have any software you recommend leave a comment below.
“I swear to ell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!” Sants, probably.Santa has been put on trial for the crime of global warming as Jeff Bezos and his merry gang of Christmas thieves stand against him. Without being able to prove he is innocent, Amazon Prime may take over Christmas …. Forever!
Witness the most hilarious courtroom drama unfold at OMF Theatre’s ‘Santa Vs the People’. This production will be performed on stage as a radio play
I bought this handy little jump start pack a few months ago, when my van was having trouble starting and since I bought it, it has not seen any use. That is until today when I went to start our lawnmower.
As soon as it was connected, to the little mower it started on the first attempt, success!!
Later that day, this jump start pack was put in to use again this time on a friend’s car, that had it’s lights left on. This time the pack was left on a little longer and the car came to life after the second attempt. So in short I recommend this jump start pack, you never know when it will be needed.
I bought mine from Amazon when it was on offer. And today it is on offer again at the price of £56.99 which is 43% off the regular price. Link here
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Honey fair 2024 was held on a Saturday 28th of September, The Honey fair which is usually held on the first Wednesday of October was changed in 2023 to the last Saturday in September. This change was proved popular in 2023, which allowed many more people to attend. This years event has again been very busy with visitors attending from far and wide.
Photo Gallery
Youth Theatre performance at Callington Town Hall
Videos
Time-lapse of Honey fair 2024
This Time-lapse video was taken from the Town Hall roof , with views over new road.
Lions Bingo
HD Sound & Lighting had a busy day based manly at the Town Hall helping with the entertainment on the stage, and also helping at the Prim-Raf theatre, which is home to CADS (Callington Amateur drama society) showing people around this venue, Manly who have never been inside despite living in the town for a long time. Hopefully some of these people will visit again for one of our upcoming shows (see here for upcoming shows)
Lions Club of Callington
You might not be aware that the Honey Fair is organised by Callington Lions Club, Who are all volunteers. Not only do they organise Honey Fair but they are involved with a whole lot more including, Loaning out wheelchairs, Hospital transport on a Sunday, projects identified within the community, Fundraising including bingo, quizzes.
To learn more about the lions club see their website or Facebook
Callington Honey fair will be returning again, back on a Saturday as it was last year for the first time. This year we are proudly supporting the Callington Lion’s both with providing sponsorship, and donating our time time. We will be based in the Town Hall assisting with the entertainment on the stage.
BEE-sure to visit CADS in the Prim-Raf theatre in Biscombe lane, who will be opening the doors and more importantly the bar for refreshments. You will also find The CADS Youth theatre in attendance, who I’m sure will have something Un-bee-lievably entertaining for you to watch.
I’m sure it will BEE-amazing, Fingers crossed for good weather
The last couple of weeks, I’ve been busy preparing for three upcoming shows at Callington’s Prim-Raf Theatre. The first is the Silver Ball, and the second is the Autumn production, featuring two one-act plays (‘The Actor’s Nightmare’ by Christopher Durang & ‘Easy Stages’ by N. J. Warburton). I have been focused on handling the technical aspects for both productions.
The Silver Ball production coincides with Gorsedh Kernow week, promising to be an exciting time in Callington with numerous activities throughout the town. Additionally, during Gorsedh week at the Prim-Raf, there will be a puppet show titled “The Piskey Path.” The Gorsedh program can be found (Here)
And the third upcoming show is the Youth Theatre’s upcoming performance, (a script in time). This show will be part of the Prim-Raf’s 75th Anniversary celebrations.
September is shaping up to be a very busy month for both me and the Prim-Raf Theatre. We hope to see you at the Prim-Raf too!
The Prim-Raf Theatre is always looking for volunteers, both on stage and behind the scenes. If you’re interested, please check out their website for more information. (here)
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