As a company signed up to the Mental Health Charter, WL is committed to raising the awareness and discussion around mental health. As a result, the company recently trained several of its staff to become Mental Health First Aiders, ensuring all of its employees have access to the necessary support should they require it. Last week, the MHFA (Mental Health First Aid) visited WL’s Wimbledon premises...
Steve Bartlett from our Customer Service team recently celebrated twenty years at White Light. We sat down with him to talk about his time here, what his role entails and his excitement for the future. Steve is WL’s Corporate Hire Manager which means, in his words: “taking inquiries from lighting designers and production managers and interpreting their requirements in order to turn these into...
Two weeks ago we were creating quite the buzz at IBC 2019 with SmartStage. With so many of you asking how this technology came to be, we thought we’d take you through the story so far… Where did it all start? In 2017, during the build-up to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, we developed the innovative Eurosport Cube concept which went on to win the IBC Innovation Award that year. This mixed reality...
We are delighted to announce that we have won the Merton Best Business Awards’ Apprentice of the Year after nominating Dominic Devereux. The Merton Best Business Awards recognise and promote excellence, innovation and best practice in Merton. They have been running for over seven years and feature categories such as Best Employer (which WL won in 2018), Best New Business, Entrepreneur of the Year...
Every year, High End Systems gathers students, apprentices and other aspiring lighting professionals to put their Hog programming skills to the test and compete in the Hog Factor competition. Supported by WL, High End Systems has announced the latest instalment of the Hog Factor Europe competition is now open. The company invites applications from students, apprentices and other aspiring lighting...
A few of our team attended this year’s PLASA Show at Olympia London. Over the course of three days, it was fantastic to catch up with old friends, make new contacts and see a range of brilliant products launched. For those who couldn’t attend, our Key Account Manager Leo Humphrey has put together a list of products which were on display and which he feels will be making a big impact over the...
The team behind the 6-minute immersive mental health installation Blackout will be running a pioneering industry evaluation alongside their WL-supported exhibition experience at this year’s PLASA Show at London Olympia, from Sunday 15 to Tuesday 17 September 2019. Bringing academic analysis to the exhibition, Research Director in Clinical Psychology at the University of Surrey Dr Paul Hanna has...
As part of its dedicated education programme, Kiln Theatre recently launched its brand-new Production Arts Course – which has been supported by White Light. The Production Arts Course was spearheaded by Kiln Theatre’s Creative Learning Technical Stage Manager Alix Rainsby. She explains: “At Kiln Theatre we wanted to run a course in order to diversify backstage roles. The backstage course would be...
This week, we’re saying goodbye to our long-term colleague and friend Roger Deane who is retiring after forty years in the industry. Having led such a fascinating career, we sat down with Roger to discuss his favourite memories over the past four decades, the people he’s worked with and the lessons he’s learnt along the way. It makes sense for us to start at the beginning and, for Roger, this was...
This weekend marks the final performance of the iconic Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End. The theatre will close temporarily as it undergoes some much-needed restoration work. It will reopen on 18th December as the Sondheim Theatre with a brand-new production of Les Misérables as it embarks on its 35th world record-breaking year. It would be fair to say that Les Misérables...