SARA hosts technical and production conference
Published: MEA
SOUTH AFRICA: The South African Roadies Association (SARA) is hosting Africa’s first-ever Live Event Technical & Production Conference (LETPC 2015). The event runs from 13 to 16 May at the Sunnyside Park Hotel in Parktown, Johannesburg.
The main purpose of the conference is to gather relevant stakeholders, professionals and practitioners in the events, technical, production and education sectors, along with international market leaders, to discuss the need for a critical upgrade of skills development, sector training and skill interventions. SARA is aiming to increase the sector’s skill qualification to at least NQF 5 in order to match international standards.
The conference is supported by South Africa’s Department of Arts and Culture, the event’s anchor sponsor, and minister of Arts and Culture, The Honourable Mr Nathi Mthethwa, will provide the conference’s keynote address. ‘We encourage all other departments and organisations to support this first-of-a-kind conference,’ said a spokesperson from the Ministry of Arts & Culture.
‘It is with great respect and appreciation that SARA acknowledges the vision and ground-breaking support from the Department of Arts and Culture for what is anticipated as an annual conference that will make an indelible and ongoing contribution to the development and transformation of the education, event, technical and production sectors in South Africa,’ added SARA president, Freddie Nyathela.
The conference will feature a range of international and local speakers such as John Botham OBE from Semperior LTD, Adrian Brooks from Backstage Academy, Pauline Tambling CBE from Creative & Cultural Skills, Randell Greenlee from VPLT, the German Event Technology Association, Frank Andrewartha from Quest Engineering and Andy Lenthall from Production Services Association.