Claypaky and CAST present WACKIT Contest

Amber Long November 9, 2020

09 November 2020

LONDON – Claypaky and CAST Group of Companies are very excited to present the WACKIT Contest a virtual lighting design competition based on a concept by Lighting Designer Durham Marenghi and his partner Jennie. Whilst planning this event of course we had no idea that England would enter a second lock down and given that colleges are still open giving our students access to lighting systems we feel that this is actually a very appropriate time to launch our WACKIT competition.

WYSIWYG And Claypaky Kept Indoors Try-out

Two side by side competitions for Professional and Student Lighting Designers from UK and Ireland to create a virtual video of their work from a model of the Prestigious Royal Albert Hall. CAST will support WACKIT with Free WYSIWYG Educational Licences for the period of the competition for Professional LDs and in the case of our student friends a 12-month FREE Design Educational Licence.

There are three amazing prizes to be won in both competitions (Professional and Student) and the initial judging will be done on-line on social media to define ten finalists from each group. The finalists will be judged in January 2021 by our VIP LD jury of Paule Constable, David Bishop and Davy Sherwin chaired by Durham Marenghi.

Durham explains further “As the clocks go back and we enter a darker time in our lives we wanted to support our peers, both old and new, by offering something creative and worthwhile to do. We hope that the WACKIT competition will be embraced by an industry hard done to, bring a little light into these difficult times and show case the lighting talent that abounds in the UK and Ireland; a massive thank you to CAST and Claypaky for bringing this vision to life, stay safe, stay sane!”