Special Partners:
Message from the President
I hope everybody has been enjoying the summer and getting a bit of a respite from the insane tempo many of us faced during the busy spring season. As fellow AV company owners, the CAVPA board have also been extremely busy all running our own businesses, but still managed to carve out time for CAVPA to make sure we are moving the organization forward, and I want to thank the board for all their time and efforts these past few months despite their busy schedules.
In April, CAVPA successfully exhibited at its first trade show, the CITT EXPO-SCÈNE conference in Montreal, where we promoted awareness of job opportunities in our industry and managed to sign on a couple new member companies. Then in June, CAVPA held it’s first members reception at InfoComm in Orlando with over 30 attendees from member and sponsor companies.
In addition to these live events, your board has been hard at work developing a formal strategic plan to guide us through the year ahead, which we will be discussing in more detail at the upcoming Town Hall on August 16 via Zoom. You should have already received a registration link for this via email, but if you did not, please email Sherry and she will forward it to you. We have an exciting agenda planned for the Town Hall, including presentations from our sponsor partners, roll out of the strategic plan, an update on the Competition Bureau/Act, as well as time for Q&A and general discussion. I hope you will all be able to join us!
As mentioned previously, one of our primary objectives for 2023 is to continue growing our membership. We have added several new members so far this year, but we need your help to keep moving forward. The best way to recruit new member companies is via individual conversations between owners and senior management. The more members we have, the stronger CAVPA will be, both financially, but more importantly in terms of our credibility and relevance with government and industry stakeholders. Also please keep in mind that we recently introduced a new category for non-AV company members, known as “Associate Members,” such as individual event planners or event planning companies interested in joining and supporting CAVPA.
I wish you all a great rest of the summer and hope to see you all at the town hall!
Tim Lang, President
2800 - 14th Ave., Suite 310, Markham, ON L3R 0E4 | T: 416-491-2886 | www.cavpa.ca Summer 2023 | Volume 3
Canadian Audio Visual Providers Association | Association Canadienne des fournisseurs de services audiovisuels
PRESIDENT
Tim Lang
Proshow Audiovisual
8105 N Fraser Way
Burnaby, BC V5J 5M8
T: 604-293-1771
E: timlang@proshow.com
VICE–PRESIDENT
Martin Blanchard
Expert’Ease Productions
7836 Rue Jarry E
Montreal, QC H1J 2A1
T: 514-444-7723
E: martin@expertease.ca
TREASURER
Rennie Colelli
bb Blanc Inc.
41 Keyes Court, Unit 2
Vaughan, ON L4H 4V6
T: 416-360-0440
E: rcolelli@bbblanc.com
DIRECTORS
Kyle Brooks
Bespoke Audio Visual
907 Oxford St.
Etobicoke, ON M8Z 5T1
T: 647-797-9911
E: kyle.brooks@bespokeav.ca
Bruce DeMond
Advanced Systems
5678 Stanley Street
Halifax, NS B3K 2G1
T: 902-454-4742
E: bruce@advancedsystems.ca
Garry Hale AVentPro
45 Beghin Ave #6
Winnipeg, MB R2J 4B9
T: 204-226-5565
E: hale@aventpro.com
Cal McCarthy SW Event Technology
1-325 Bay Avenue
Kelowna, BC V1Y7S3
T: 250-868-3333 ext 2233
E: cmccarthy@sw-online.com
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Sherry Denesha
T: 416-491-2897 ext 234
E: sherry@cavpa.ca
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY AND COMMUNICATIONS
(Ottawa Consultants)
Michael Wood
T: 613-265-9967
E: mike@cavpa.ca
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EXPO-SCÈNE - is the largest Canadian event for entertainment industry professionals to see, hear, discover and experiment the newest technologies.
CAVPA participated with a booth at EXPO-SCÉNE 2023 in Montreal, QC on April 13&14th at the Palais des congrés de Montréal.
A big thank you to Expert’Ease for generously donating all the booth equipment, delivery and setup, and to Expert’Ease and Proshow for providing staff members to work the booth and educate students on the career opportunities in the live events industry!
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Passports not required!
CAVPA hosted its inaugural InfoComm reception last month in sunny Orlando, where members from across Canada got to connect face-to-face and discuss the latest in audio-visual technology and trends.
AVentPro
bb Blanc
Bespoke Audio Visual
Black Cab Productions Canada
Duoson
Proshow Audiovisual Stagevision Inc
SW Event Technology
Thanks to CAVPA Special Partners IntelliEvent and SC Media Canada for joining us!
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CAVPA Newsletter | SUMMER 2023 5 Special Partners: Mark Your Calendars for the CAVPA Virtual “Town Hall” Meeting! Join us on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 1:00 - 3:00 pm ET. Register in advance for this meeting: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We look forward to connecting and thank you for your continued support of CAVPA. Agenda items will include: • Update on CAVPA activities so far this year • Upcoming plans for the fall/winter • Update from Special Partners (Sponsors) • Member feedback / Q&A There will also be time at the end for some general networking / conversations. Zoom Registration Alberta Black Cab Productions Oli Kiddell Calgary, AB www.blackcabproductions.ca Ontario Baldwin Audio-Visual Solutions Alex Coon Ottawa, ON www.baldwinav.com Stagevision Inc. Bryce Engelman Mississauga, ON www.stagevision.com Pixel Magic Design Inc. Jason Riordan Etobicoke, ON www.pixelmagic.ca Quebec Contak AV inc Jean Benoit Montreal, QC www.contakav.ca TKNL Tyler Tardiff Boucherville, QC www.tknl.com
Member News
Proshow has expanded its service offerings by making a significant investment in Bosch Dicentis simultaneous interpretation and conference microphone systems. In addition to acquiring over 400 Bosch infra-red 8 language receivers, Proshow has also purchased 64 more Bosch conference microphones and has increased its inventory of ISO4043–2016 compliant interpretation booths to 6.
With this new investment in mission critical technology, Proshow has secured large parliamentary style events with complex language interpretation and delegate microphone requirements such as Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, World Council of Credit Unions, and Global Environment Facility.
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CAVPA MEMBER ROSTER
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A.V. Strategies Ltd.
Fred Horsman
1295 Napier Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 2H7
T – 604-879-3950
Innovation Production Technologies Inc.
Steve Matthews
7818 Express St.
Burnaby, BC V5A 1T4
T – 604-398-2651
SW Event Technology
Cal McCarthy
1-325 Bay Avenue
Lake Country, BC V4V 1N2
T – 250-868-3333 Ext. 2233
ALBERTA
Black Cab Productions
Justin Armstrong
101Oli Kiddell
23 Covecreek Close
Calgary, AB T3K 0J4
T - 587-664-9802
MANITOBA
AVentPro Inc.
Garry Hale
6-45 Beghin Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R2J 4B9
T – 204-226-5565
ONTARIO
Baldwin Audio-Visual Solutions
Alex Coon
9 Capella Court
Ottawa, ON, K2E 8A7
Proshow Audiovisual
Tim Lang
Unit A – 8105 North Fraser Way
Burnaby, BC V5J 5M8
T – 604-612-7129
Riggit Services Inc
Rick Smith
8021 Enterprise Street
Burnaby, BC V5A 1V5
T-604-377-1481
Russell Audio-Visual
Jon Russell
3540 Opie Crescent
Prince George, BC V2N 2P9
T - 250-617-2969
Event Technology Solutions
Brent Taylor
52-9903 209 Street NW
Edmonton, AB T5T 5X9
T – 780-446-9495
invert720 Productions Inc.
Justin Armstrong
101, 17628 103 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5S 1J9
T – 780-999-5792
KDL Audio Ltd.
Kyle Lupul
PO box 3301
Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T2
780-498-6336
bb Blanc Inc.
Rennie Colelli
41 Keyes Court, Unit 2
Vaughan, ON L4H 4V6
T – 416-360-0440
Bespoke Audio Visual
Michael Wilson
907 Oxford St.
Toronto, ON M8Z 5T1
T – 647-797-9911
Byrne Production Services
Matthew Byrne
712 Sauve Street
Milton, ON L9T 8M4
T – 416-557-5542
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Impact AV Solutions
Randy Woolman
86 Guided Court – Unit M
Toronto, ON M9V 4K6
T – 877-462-3174
CAVPA MEMBER ROSTER CONT’D
QUEBEC
Contak AV inc
Jean Benoit Dupre White
4850 Rue St Ambroise, Unit 110
Montreal, QC H4C3N8
T - 514-933-4476
Pixel Magic Design Inc.
Jason Riordan
907 Oxford Street
Etobicoke, ON, M8Z 5T1
Duoson Multimedia
Héléne Drolet
6120 Rue Christophe - Pélissier
Trois Riviéres, QC G9A 5C9
T – 1-819-373-4701
TKNL
Tyler Tardiff
1349 Rue Gay-Lussac
Boucherville, QC J4B7K1
T - 514-777-7335
NOVA SCOTIA
Advanced Systems
Bruce DeMond
Box 31005
Halifax, NS B3K 5T9
T – 902-454-4742
Stagevision Inc.
Bryce Engelman
5915 Coopers Avenue
Mississauga, ON L4Z 1R9
T - 905-890-8200
vLes Productions expert’ease
Martin Blanchard
7836 rue Jarry Est
Montreal, QC H1J 2A1
T – 514-444-7723
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