@The Arts Unit Creative Teachers

Event technical support - Lighting

Teacher resource developed by The Arts Unit

Resource overview and purpose

This site includes resources to support schools and individual teachers in the lighting support often required in a school setting for various events and programs including:

  • school assemblies

  • presentation day

  • guest speaker presentations

  • parent information sessions

  • music, art, dance and drama nights

  • school concert

  • school musical

  • visual art exhibitions

  • HSC music, dance or drama performances

  • external performances for students.

How to use this professional learning resource

Select the area that you need to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills and navigate the information.

There are template documents provided as a resource for you to reproduce and use in your school.

For further assistance or inquiry please contact The Arts Unit.

Australian professional standards for teachers

  • 6.2.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.

Information for logging this into ETAMs towards your professional learning hours.

Activity name – TAU Event technical support

Activity type – Professional reading

PD Type – Teacher identified

Duration -

Standards – 6.2.2

How did this activity address the standard descriptors? – Developing knowledge on how to use technical production equipment effectively for a school assembly or arts event. The Arts Unit developed this resource to upgrade the knowledge and skills of teachers in the specific areas of safety, lighting, audio, staging ad video streaming.

Lighting equipment

Lighting operations guide

Lighting production documentation

Further resources

Additional support resources are available through The Arts Unit to improve the knowledge, understanding and skills of teachers to confidently and effectively manage all technical areas for school events.

Select the following resources to explore them further.

Select to go to - A guide to creating a virtual arts exhibition
Select to go to - How to live stream a school event
Select to go to - Event technical support: Audio
Select to go to - Event technical support: Video and projection
Select to go to - Event technical support: Lighting
select to go to - Event technical support: Staging
Select to go to - Event technical support: Staging

Downloadable document and feedback

Download and print this document with all the instructions for access offline.

@The Arts Unit Creative Teachers - Event technical support: Lighting.docx

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Third-party content attributions

Anna Warr or other TAU photographer

  • Schools Spectacular images 1-4, photographer: Anna Warr.

Art Express, Operation Art etc

[Title of the artwork], © [Name of student], [Year published], reproduced and communicated with permission.

  • The Shark, © Sue Dawson, 2016, reproduced and communicated with permission.

Creative commons or other images that need attribution - use Open Attribution Builder

Our images

  • Visual arts activity 1 images, Photographer: Sue Dawson.

Our Kids

  • Girl in Garden 1-4, © Sue Dawson, 2020, reproduced and communicated with permission. Provided all acknowledgements are retained, these images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia only.

Content from artists already licensed with TAU

[Title of work with source link if possible], © [Copyright owner], [Year published], reproduced and communicated with permission.

section 113P

[Title of work with source link if possible], [Creator], © [Copyright owner], [Year published], copied under s113P, accessed [dd mmm yyyy].

  • Butterfly Effects, © James Powditch, 2007, copied under s113P, accessed 24 May 2020.

  • Over the Rainbow, songwriters: E.Y. Harburg / Harold Arlen, lyrics: © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Conexion Media Group, Inc, copied under s113P, accessed 21 September 2019.