The Arts | Performance / Visual Applications
■ Stronglite Staging Stronglite Staging is a specialist in the design, manufacture and hire of premium staging equipment that is ideal for schools, universities, theatres, community centres and multi-use sports venues. The Stronglite range is ideal for school halls, auditoriums, drama suites, gymnasiums, sports fields and swimming pools. All products are manufactured to exacting standards. Strength: Stronglite Stage and Seating products are designed and manufactured to be strong and durable and are tested to make sure they meet our high standards of performance under live and static load conditions. Lightness: Innovative design and use of material creates equipment that is light and easy to handle, saving time and possible injury. Safety: Engineer’s design certification, documented test results, qualified trades-people, monitoring of
■ Stage Sections These are portable, safe and easy to handle and store. They’re ideal for stages, catwalks, tiered audience seating, seated choir/orchestra risers, display/ work tables, ramps and more. No tools are required as there are no folding or moving parts to trap fingers etc. Sections can be stacked on castor wheels for storage and moved as a stack.
product in the workplace, established safe working loads, and products conform to or exceed industry regulations and guidelines. You can be sure the premium quality products meet exacting safety standards. Simplicity: Superior design ensures our products are quick, simple and easy to transport and assemble, saving you time and effort. Versatility: Particular attention has been paid to designing stage/ seating systems that are multi-use wherever possible, including indoor and outdoor use. Sections can form stage platforms, catwalks or be tiered for audience seating or seated choir/ orchestra use, stage extensions and pit infills. Portability: Designed for easy handling, transporting and storage. Choir risers fold up and wheel away, grandstands disassemble for transport and storage. Wheels and trolleys also available for increased manoeuvrability. Stronglite Staging Ltd is committed to finding a solution that works for the individual client and guarantees its products. It can also provide a comprehensive range of equipment for hire to support occasions where a larger or more complex staging/seating set up is required. Full sound and lighting services are available for hire to support and enhance any event. Just call and a member of the team will be happy to discuss your specific requirements (sales and/or hires) and can provide references from many satisfied customers.
the hang o f sc hoo l ar t Ge t ting
Artistic endeavour has always been recognised as a direct pathway to unlocking creativity. Sometimes natural talent reveals itself without the need for any prompting whatsoever — sometimes it needs to be pointed in the right direction.
The stage extension over the orchestra pit with removeable solid infill safety barriers.
■ Grandstands
■ Choir Risers Two, three and four-level, folding choir risers with safety rails and carpeted decks are quiet, stable, easy to handle, transport and store. Stronglite Staging Limited
These all aluminium grandstands can be demountable or fixed. Wheels can be fitted for manoeuvrability making them ideal for the gym, around pools and the sports field.
196 Finlayson Rd
RD10, Hamilton
■ Pit Infills & Stage Extensions These can be custom designed and are ideal for either new venues or refits.
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We value creativity! Stage Rostra, Choir Risers, Grandstands, Audience Seating, Drama Suite Modules, Steps, Lecterns, Trolleys, Ramps etc.
Tolka Frames are great for Artworks, Certificates & Photos
Top quality, NZ made products, designed to be easy to handle and store. Guaranteed to perform. Currently installed in many schools, universities & performance venues.
Children feel ‘valued’ when they see their WORKS OF ART proudly displayed in a frame!
Choir.Chorus Risers
Stage, Steps & Lectern
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But the combination of learning specific skills, such as painting techniques, design, drawing or photography, and infusing this with healthy dollops of intuition creates a powerful process. It’s a process where results deserve to be displayed. Like all endeavour and achievement, artistic paths need to be encouraged and nurtured and a big part of this, particularly regarding the visual arts, is the simple task of hanging it up. And art exhibitions are the ideal spot. During the years Tolka Frames has been used for many school art exhibitions. Sometimes a class set has been ordered and other times an entire school can have its artwork framed — this being the case with Discovery School in Whitby. The school runs an art exhibition which involves each class having a specific theme and each child creating a piece of art for display. The event is sponsored by the Home and School as a fundraiser and it is a whole team effort by parents, pupils and teachers. Tickets are sold to parents to attend the evening, view children’s artwork and purchase their own masterpiece. The events have been running for a few years now and one parent spoken to at the last exhibition said they have a collection of their children’s artwork. Of course there’s plenty of variety on offer and one favourite is coloured frames. These can really enhance the artwork and if someone wishes to frame them in a more permanent manner, then the picture can have a frame made to go around it as the mat-board is already present. Frames are usually ordered one to two months in advance and as the majority of the frames are large, A3 size, Tolka Frames can supply some straight away. However, a certain number will usually have to be manufactured to order. The frames are a pre-cut mat-board and come in various sizes; A3 being the largest size with A3, A4 and a photo frame the most popular — but there are a variety of other sizes available. The frames are a great way of presenting children’s artwork for display in school foyers and they can be reused many times over.
Tolka Frames 92 Owen Street Belmont Domain Lower Hutt T (04) 565 3534 F (04) 565 3533 E info@tolkaframes.co.nz