LDI is continues to bring high-quality professional training to the Latin American market with a special LDI-branded program called Entrenamiento LDI, with three days of sessions in lighting, projection, and rigging, and a networking cocktail reception with industry professionals. This program will be co-located with sound:check Xpo in Mexico City on April 23, 24, & 25, 2017.
"We are very excited about this ongoing partnership with ¡sound:check Xpo! and the opportunity for LDI to present sessions for a second year, with such brilliant speakers,” says Douglas Lugo, show manager for the Live Design/LDI franchise. “With our Spanish sessions at LDI in Las Vegas for the past two years, and these sessions at sound:check Xpo, we are engaged in providing professional training to the Latin American market.”
Jorge Urbano, director of sound:check Xpo, adds: “Entrenamiento LDI is an important addition to sound:check Xpo; thanks to LDI we will have the best education possible in lighting, projection, and technology for the show business industry.”
Entrenamiento LDI has a stellar line-up of speakers, which includes Cocolab, a collective of artists who created the night experience at the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, the nightly projection of the archaeological site of Chichen-Itza; Seth Jackson who has designed lighting and scenery for Don Henley, Jason Mraz, Hilary Duff, and American Idols Live; concert lighting and production designer Cory FitzGerald, who discusses some of his major projects for artists such as Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, Bruno Mars, Janet Jackson, and Skrillex at Coachella; and Pablo N. Molina, designer of music concerts, theatrical, and architectural experiences.
Training sessions include Safe Operation of CM Lodestar ET Chain Motors, presented by Edgar Castro Bermúdez, CMCO Trainer for Latin America and MA Lighting dot2 and grandMA Console Training a full day of MA Lighting console training with both the grandMA and dot2 consoles.
The cost for all five sessions and the cocktail reception is 2,000MEX (online in advance); 2,300MEX (on site), if you want to add in the full-day MA Lighting console training day, the cost is 3,000MEX. For additional information, visit www.soundcheckexpo.com.mx.
Since 1988, LDI has been the leading tradeshow and conference for live design professionals, committed to providing the best education and networking for entertainment technology professionals working in theatre, concerts, clubs, theme parks, and houses of worship and a wide range of international live and broadcast venues. 13,000+ people from more than 80 countries, attend LDI to see the latest gear in action, refresh their knowledge, and replenish their creativity. Find out more by visiting www.ldishow.com.