SPOTLIGHT: CAMERON SQUIRES

Fresh faced 21-year-old Cameron Squires, initially part of the Kentse Mpahlwa Academy in 2016, is now a valuable addition to the colourful Splitbeam team, taking up the role of Junior Lighting Technician in 2018. 

SDS TURNS 10

 In a world where people change jobs with the same impunity as they change their clothes… it is rare to find long standing and faithful staff members. Yet, when Gearhouse Group’s set building company Sets Drapes Screens (SDS) turned 10 this year… it was surprisingly easy to find people who have been working at the company since its inception and who were happy to elaborate on what sets the company apart. 

AFROPUNK TAKES JOHANNESBURG BY STORM

Since its inaugural event in New York in 2004, the AFROPUNK Festival has become a global phenomenon, associated not only with alternative punk music but also with its audience’s eclectic ‘African-born’ styling and eye-catching fashion statements in Atlanta, Paris and London. The AFROPUNK movement emerged as a rebellious alternative to mainstream white punk/rock culture, and is promoted as ‘a blank space to freak out in, to construct a new reality, to live your life as you see fit, while making sense of the world around you,’ while celebrating alternative black culture and spirit. 

GEARHOUSE GETS LITTLE FEET DANCING AT RAINBOW CRÈCHE

The Rainbow Crèche, situated in Bezuidenhout Valley, is a humble childcare centre that provides a loving, safe environment for up to 40 children in need of care during the day. The centre was opened some years ago by a concerned pensioner named Selina, and relies almost entirely on the kindness of sponsors to feed, educate and care for the children aged birth to preschool. 

CAT STEVENS PEACE TRAIN PULLS INTO TICKETPRO DOME

The architectural properties of venues may present acoustic challenges for sound engineers, but Gearhouse SA rose to the occasion, satisfying the exceptionally perfectionist artist, Yusuf Cat Stevens.

THE JOYS OF SHARING

Gearhouse involved in South Africa-Russia cultural Exchange

The BRICS Summit held in South Africa in 2013, kicked off a co-operative cultural exchange programme between Russia and South Africa aimed at creating awareness and growth across the areas of heritage, film, music, theatre, exhibitions, festivals, song and dance, cuisine, cultural economy, institutional collaboration and other multidisciplinary activities between the two countries – a partnership which continues to grow from strength to strength.

GEARHOUSE HELPS FILL UP FNB

November 2017 saw the third iteration of the “Fill Up” series of concerts which South Africa Hip Hop artist, Cassper Nyovest, has been using as a vehicle to inspire local youth to recognise their worth and ably demonstrating that anyone can realise their dreams with sufficient perseverance.