USITT Presents: LED Lighting Training with Chauvet, 6/3

Lighting designers and technicians looking to add LEDs to their theatrical palette should attend the next USITT Presents, a daylong training by Chauvet on June 3 in Miami, Florida.

USITT Presents: How to Blend LEDs with Traditional Fixtures is the topic of the workshop offered by Chauvet and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology at the University of Miami. (Sign up here!)

This will be the third in USITT's recently launched USITT Presents, a series of one- and two-day workshops to provide ongoing training for entertainment designers and technicians at low cost, with help from industry leaders like Chauvet, Meyer Sound and Studio Gear.

Chauvet presenter Ford Sellers will lead the June 3 class on how to transition and replace existing stage lighting with energy-saving LEDs. It will cover LED basics, fixture types, and theatre applications with Lekolites, strips, Fresnel lenses, and cycloramas; as well as design concepts and three hours of hands-on practice with Chauvet tools. The cost - including lunch - is just $50 for USITT members and $25 for student/early career members. (Fees are double for non-members.)

The first two USITT Presents earlier this year -- a one-day Meyer sound mixing class in Nashville in and a two-day Studio Gear HOG 4 training in Milwaukee - both sold out, said USITT Stage Expo Manager Ron Procopio. Meyer has already scheduled another mixing class on Aug. 16 in Berkeley, California, and a second Studio Gear HOG 4 training is in the works, Procopio said.

USITT is working with other companies to offer more training opportunities in audio, lighting, video, automation, and rigging, at cut-rate cost to its 4,000 members, Procopio said.

USITT, the national association for performing arts designers and technicians, offers networking, education, and career advancement opportunities to professional and student members of the industry. USITT's 2013 Annual Conference & Stage Expo drew over 5,000 people from the world of live entertainment to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in March.

For more information or to register for the Chauvet training, please visit www.usitt.org/chauvet. For more on USITT Presents, including how your company can become a presenter, please visit http://www.usitt.org/usittpresents.