Fresh for 2025, Showlight is introducing a new attraction – a programme of interactive workshops. These will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 21 May 2025 and will be open to all delegates on a first-come, first-served basis, with a strong emphasis on student attendance. Showlight will be held on 19-22 May 2025 at Le Parc des Expositions et Congrès de Dijon, in Dijon, France.
The workshops will be conducted by experts in their field, offering insights into subjects ranging from the latest technology to personal development. Numbers are limited so delegates will be encouraged to sign up for their choice of workshop via the Whova App when it goes live closer to the date.
Workshop One is called ‘Colour and Light in the age of LED luminaires’ and will be led by Clifton Taylor, lighting designer, author and co-founder of Studio School of Design. The workshop will be a practical demonstration exploring the design storytelling afforded by today’s high-powered, multi-emitter LED luminaires. Topics will include agreeing on a language of colour, and the limitations and possibilities of working in LED-based rigs.
Workshop Two, ‘Lighting Loopholes’ will be led by award-winning lighting designer, Sherry Coenen, who has extensive experience working on puppetry and new writing. She will bring this knowledge to her examination of how to use non-theatrical lights in theatrical settings, theatrical lights in ways they weren’t designed for, and other lighting loopholes designed to show how giant dreams can be realised on tiny budgets and other restrictions.
Workshop Three, ‘Redefining Success!’ will be led by Traci Klainer. Founder of an award-winning, women-owned lighting firm, Klainer has over 30 years of experience and more than 100 lighting designs to her name. This workshop will explore what success in lighting and beyond really looks like – and what happens when you start your career wanting to be a Tony-award-winning lighting designer and end up as an executive producer.
Workshop Four ‘Developing your own ‘Health & Wellbeing’ workplace strategy’ is an interactive wellness workshop led by the collective skills of Mig Walsh, Brant Thomas Murray, Dr Keili Camille Murray and Grace Halton. Participants will be encouraged to think about their own personal health and wellbeing workplace strategy; learn about emotional intelligence, burnout, and the law and policies that can be adopted in the workplace linked to health and wellbeing; and come away with their own action plan to take back into working practice.
Finally, Workshop Five is called ‘Understand and Quantify the Visual Appearance and Aesthetic Rendering of Scenic “Objects” under LED Lighting’. This workshop will introduce the SceALED project, a university project (granted by the French National Research Agency) aimed at understanding and quantifying the visual appearance of scenic objects under LED lighting, with the intention of creating standards and practical tools for performing arts professionals. It explores how light spectra affects aesthetic perception, develops measurement tools and applies an interdisciplinary methodology combining artists, engineers and researchers, and offers the audience the opportunity to participate in a psycho-visual experiment. This workshop will be led by Véronique Perruchon, Noël Richard and Ludwig Lepage.
The new Showlight 2025 Workshops are sponsored by platinum sponsor, Claypaky
Showlight 2025 tickets can be purchased now from the Showlight website at www.showlight.org.
