What are our goals?
Where do our members come from?
What can the association offer to our members?
What will the publications & web site offer?
Who are the Office Bearers of ALIA?
Where does the material on our web site come from?
View/download the ALIA Rules (PDF file) as filed with the NSW Department of Fair Trading
Contacting ALIA
Who are we?
We are people who share an interest in the art, science and technology of light.
We light for people in places, buildings, events and productions. We design, install, study, market, manufacture, rig, maintain, and operate lighting in all its wide range of uses.What are our goals?
To Investigate and disseminate
information about areas of common concern to all lighting people
To promote an understanding of our work to:
others within our own industries
potential participants in the pursuit of lighting
government, regulatory, training and standards bodies
the media
the general public.
To open and maintain a vigorous dialogue on issues of common interest between
our members.
To promote and facilitate appropriate professional education and training.
To represent our membership in allied fields through our participation in
other professional organisations.
To establish standards and assist in formulating specifications for equipment,
supplies and services used across our industries.
Where do our members come from?
Architectural
Design
Building Owners
and Managers
Community Theatre
Concert Production
Consulting
Display
Education
Institutions
Electrical Contracting
Electrical Engineering
Equipment and Consumable
Distribution
Equipment and Consumable
Sales
Equipment Manufacturing
Event Production
Film
Illumination Engineering
Installation
Lamp Manufacturing
Lighting Design
Maintenance and
Support
Optical engineering
Professional Theatre
Television
Themed Environments
What
can the association offer to our members?
This is just a shopping
list of some possibilities:
A forum for live and electronic discussions
Business Reporting/Risk Evaluation Service
Business Support Services
Discounts
Electronic Commerce links
Free directory listings
Group Insurance Scheme
Human Resources Advice
Industry Directory
Industry Training &
Certification
Legal Advice Service
Product demonstrations
Professional Development
Regular Newsletters
Representation to
Industry, trade, Government and Regulatory Authorities
Technical Standards
Trade Development
Trade Publications
through an editorial board ( possibly in conjunction with existing titles)
Training Standards
/ Guidelines
What
will the publications & web site offer?
News about: (Many elements
of news are most suited to a web site)
Employment
People
Productions
Products
Projects
Regulations
Standards
Training
Reference sources
Lighting Links
Product reviews of:
Design practices and methods
Equipment
Installation methods
Software
Introductory articles on:
Design principles
Materials
Technical principles
Techniques
Interviews with:
Academics
Collaborators
Equipment designers
Lighting designers / directors / DOPs
Manufacturers
Operators
Technicians
Feature articles on:
Events
Industry members
Installations
Productions
Projects
Technologies
Profiles of industry segments (concert, architecture, events, civil, film
and TV, theatre, musical theatre, themed, etc)
Web site specific elements
Discussion groups
Equipment - Hirer cross-matching
Industry directory
Links to Industry sites (an expanded version of the Lighting Links page)
Lost and Stolen Equipment
listing
Moderated and Mentored
help line.Wanted
to Buy
Wanted to Sell
Who
are the Office Bearers of ALIA?
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President
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Andy Ciddor | Biog and Photo |
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Vice President
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Cat Strom | |
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Treasurer
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Chris Childs | Biog and Photo |
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Secretary
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Joseph Mercurio | Biog and Photo |
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Committee Member
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Scott Allan | Biog and Photo |
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Committee Member
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Braham Ciddor | |
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Committee Member
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Craig Gamble | Biog and Photo |
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Committee Member
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Peter McKenzie | |
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Committee Member
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Zac Shenker |
Where
does the material on our web site come from?
In common with the majority of industry news web sites, and even most magazines and newspapers, we depend pretty heavily on news releases from the manufacturers and distributors of lighting products for information on product releases, updates and interesting applications.
Many of our production and project items come directly from local production companies and equipment distributors, but our overseas reach is limited by our current resources. As a new association, just getting on our feet, we have been offered assistance from the UK's long established Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA). PLASA's support includes permission to use material from the news pages of their website to supplement our local news with their European and American sources.
What we do on the ALIA web site is assemble all of the publicly available news material that is relevant to the Australasian industry, and publish it on our news page, thus saving you the trouble of searching out the news from each of the dozens of equipment manufacturers, production companies, consultants and producers.
Where we find an article on another web site that may be of interest to our readers, we put up link on our website identifying the source, and directing you to the original article.
If you have news about your projects, products, gear for sale, job vacancies or clever solutions to age-old problems, please share it with the rest of the lighting community. Send us an email.