The Theatrical Events Company (TTEC)

A house of three different families hold a trivia night for the benefit of poor and disadvantaged Mongolian Children. 

 

On Sunday the 12 of January the “Ambrose Music Trivia Night” was held for the benefit of the “Lotus Children’s Fund”, in Anglesea on the Surf Coast of Victoria. This yearly event is produced by a household of 3 different families, The Lamborns, The Evans, and The Barkers. The event is now in its third year of operation, and TTEC was there to share the experience.

 

The event was conceived just over three years ago by Bernadette O’Connor, A Speech Pathologist from Moonee Ponds in Melbourne. Her cousin Didi Kalika (Gabriel), an Australian kindergarten teacher, living in Ulaanbaatar established the Lotus Centre alongside some friends in 1995. She describes it as “a place for children who come from the most terrorible backgrounds… a chance to change their lives for the better.” The centre gives children in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia a chance to make a positive future through quality education, meaningful education and by creating family groups, consisting of 10 children to one housemother. The centre also helps many ultra poor families with income projects and food assistance, so that poverty does not tear their family apart. The centre is not a large organization and as such almost all the workers are volunteers, the facilities are funded by donations, and as such the organisation and staff pride themselves on being “100% committed to the welfare of our kids.

 

The fund raising event was held in Anglesea, one and a half hours drive out of Melbourne, at a house name “Ambrose”, owned and shared by three families (The Barkers, The Evans, and The Lamborns). The guests, numbering over 60, were local residents, members of the local surf club, friends of the family, and relatives. The night consisted of 5 rounds of 10 music based questions, the 60’s, the 70’s, the 80’s, the 90’s/00’s and Musicals. As well as guessing the name of the song and the artist who sang it, teams were required to answer a bonus question relating to various facts about that group, or the era the song was released. All questions were original questions and composed by Bernadette.

 

The Theatrical Events Company provided services on the night free of charge, to show its support for the ongoing work of the Lotus Children’s Fund in Mongolia. The services provided by TTEC were expansive, ranging from outdoor garden lighting, to the showing of a documentary on the centre. For more information on the Lotus Childrens Fund and to make a donation please visit www.lotuschild.org For information on how TTEC can assist you with your next fundraising event or trivia night, please email us at info@ttec.net.au OR Contact Us

 

Technical Information

Lighting

Outdoor lighting included rope lighting in blue, highlighting the balcony area and drawing the guest on the balcony into the rest of the house; LED fairy lighting on the main scrub area of the garden, creating a beautiful centre piece of the garden and balcony view; blue fluorescent tubes washing the exterial walls of the house in blue alongside contrasting warm coloured Par 38 fittings highlighting various features of the house and garden, including the “Ambrose Surfboard” and the large gum tree in the front yard.

Ambient Lighting included uplighting in two of the main rooms using Par 16 “Birdie” fittings, in open white; the change over of existing down lights to red colored globes, and the general dimming of these fittings.

Dance Floor lighting included the very popular Hallucination Disco Effect which produces coloured beams of oil filtered moving light. A moving colour and shape changing fixture called the Dynatwin, two led pin spots that changed colour with the beat of the music, and a kaleidoscope Disco Effect, on the wall behind the DJ.

Sound

The sound system included Mackie SA1521z 500W Active Two Way Speakers in the main room, with RCF Art 310, 200W Active Two Way Speakers in each of the far rooms, a direct input into the existing Yamaha Surround Sound Stereo System. The music was played off two CDJ1000 CD Players, a Macbook Computer and mixed by a Yamaha MG 16/6 16 Channel Mixing Console. The MC used a Sennheiser Ew300 G2 Wireless Microphone Kit, and Konig and Mayer Mic Stands.

Vision

The vision included playback from a Pioneer V8000 Professional DVD Player, mixed with a Panasonic Digital Mixing Desk and projected using a Sony PX32 Projector onto a Fast Fold Screen.Tallent The MC for the evening was Bernadette O’Connor, the Sound and Lighting Designer/Operator and DJ was Geordie Barker, with thanks to Katherine Attwood.