This year’s 2015 BMW Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards was held at Melbourne Cricket Ground and attended by the racing industry’s elite. Encore were engaged to deliver all the audio visual in creating a dynamic event environment to support the award presentations. Whilst ‘Dissident’ was crowned the country’s best, the stunning Event Backdrop branding the stage was certainly one the highlights of the evening.
A fantastic Spy / Casino themed gala dinner delivered by our Adelaide team at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Encore delivered all the AV, lighting, furniture, staging, styling and on-screen multimedia. The theme was carried across the entire event space from the custom Spy themed printed Event Backdrops lining the red carpet entrance, to the Martini cocktail bar and lounge area, as well as casino tables and centrepiece styling.
Another magical evening for the Living Grand event by Hyatt Australia. This year’s theme, Garden of Good and Evil, was created using stunning floral installations, live performances by mystical creatures and choirs, vibrant mood lighting and sound FX. The end result was an enchanting evening for Hyatt Australia’s special guests. Big thank you to Trumpet Events, Active Draping and Style By Nature for helping us create this truly extraordinary event!
It was a star-studded evening for this year’s Starry Starry Night fundraising event. Encore were engaged by Peter Jones Special Events to deliver all the audio vision, production management, lighting and staging for this prestigious gala dinner, which raised a staggering $700,000 towards keeping our children safe from violence. The event attracts more than 1,000 guests alongside 100 celebrities and entertainment stars, who individually host tables and perform a variety of singing and dancing acts. Special performances by (MC) David Campbell, Leo Sayer, Gorgi Coghlan and Waleed Aly from The Project amongst many others! The stunning room look was created using a black gloss, gold mirror and brushed metals, with the ceiling installation a hero for the evening. With so many celebrities and the like in attendance, we used our Event Feed to display all the social buzz live on screen. The activity this generated resulted in the event’s hashtag trending on Australia’s Twitter feed that evening.
Encore was engaged by Auto & General to create a gala dinner event that was a work of art, celebrating and honouring its 1,200 guests. Transporting guests into a fantasy world of crystals and Vanity Fair inspired parties that surprised and delighted them. Utilising the symbol for a 15 year partnership, crystals were selected as the basis of the event creative concept. The grand entrance was created using red carpet flanked by bollards and rope and a custom branded media backdrop for photo opportunities. Once guests entered the main room, they were greeted with a stunning ‘Vanity Fair’ style Event Backdrop covered entirely in lush greenery and featuring white 3D lettering of ’15 years’, – creating another perfect photo op for guests. The hero room feature was the giant mirror ball surrounded by 6m long crystal beaded chandeliers, and when lit cast thousands of moving sparkles around the room. As a special treat for the guests, they were treated to a flash mob performance by several Auto & General employees and finished with Captain Risky. Our unique concept included a lovely 12mL x 6mH beaded ‘crystal’ curtain used as the backdrop for the in house stage. This allowed a grand entrance for the star performer at the end of the night; Guy Sebastian.
Paying homage to the intricate Maori flax weave, the Encore New Zealand events team created a stunning gala dinner for the 2016 New Zealander of the Year Awards. Our role as the audio visual partner was to provide the perfect event environment to support the awards ceremony, live performances and room arrangement for 690 guests. This included all the audio, vision, lighting, stage design and production management. The stage design was constructed using 13 Expo stand panels, re-purposed in zig-zag arrangement to provide a complementary for the content to be projected onto using three 10K projectors. On either side of the centre stage were two 16ft wide screens displaying the videos, awards categories and live camera feed. Being a live broadcast event, it was crucial all audio visual elements ran flawlessly with as much exposure of sponsor logos and branding as possible. It was another successful year, and we’d like to extend our congratulations to all the winners!
Encore delivers all the audio vision, lighting and staging for the 2016 Santos Tour Down Under cycling event in Adelaide.
Encore were proud to be appointed as the official audio visual provider for the LNG18 conference, delivering all audio, vision, set design and staging, lighting and multimedia content for all events over the 4 days. This included the main Opening and Closing Plenary Sessions, the daily plenary sessions in the main theatre and accompanying breakout rooms as well as AV for several ancillary keynote events that ran alongside. . The event saw two firsts for us – a contemporary, geometrical stage set which we projection mapped, as well as the debut of our latest presenter software, Inteli-Touch.
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Encore in Perth were engaged by long time client of 17 years, Australian Hotels Association – WA (AHA WA), to deliver their annual NAB WA Hospitality Suppliers Awards and Toxfree gala Dinner for 350 guests. As with every year, the AHA WA look to design a memorable awards night and opted for “an elegant starry night” theme for this year’s event. To bring this vision to life, Encore used an array of audio visual, staging and styling solutions including a custom stage stage made from our range of Digital Banners with a circular cut-out in between. This unique design created the perfect stage set, which we projection mapped custom designed awards categories and winner announcement videos onto. Whilst clean and simple in design, constructing the stage set in this way created real impact and became a talking point of the night.
“The AHA has worked with Encore (formerly Staging Connections) on countless events over the last 17 years. At every event we are blown away by their professionalism, dedication and creativity. The rooms always look spectacular and work synonymous with the audio visual aspect. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to the team for all of their consistent hard work over the years.” Bradley Woods, CEO of AHA WA.
We partnered with a large health services provider for their annual employee recognition evening. The ‘Arabian Nights’ themed gala dinner was held simultaneously across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne showcasing Encore’s ability to deliver the same event across three states at the same time. All AV, staging, lighting, styling was delivered by Encore.