Mission Bell

Mission Bell tag:missionbell.ca,2010-01-26://1 2010-08-02T20:42:36Z Movable Type 4.34-en Chris Tomlin: HELLO LOVE tour tag:missionbell.ca,2009://1.10 2009-10-10T04:16:23Z 2010-08-02T20:42:36Z

Adam Burwash http://www.missionbell.ca/

Crew Chief, Advance Tech, Head Electrician: Adam Burwash, Mission Bell
Follow Spot: Graham Kingsley, Mission Bell
Lighting Design, Tour Electrics: Jon Weir, Majestic Productions
Production Management: Brian York, Majestic Productions
Tour Crew: Derek Seal, Majestic Productions
Local Crew: CSC tech team, Crossroads tech team
Video Crew: CSC video

What does it take to put on a concert for a leading Christian worship artist? Commitment, dedication, and thousands of planning decisions. Mission Bell was responsible for coordinating the needs of the Majestic Productions touring crew with the assets of the venue, Centre Street Church. It's a job that never gets noticed... except when it's not done.

For the HELLO LOVE tour, work involved preparing items from a touring rider, recruiting and training local crew, coordinating on-site access, and providing support systems including generator power. How did we do? The real judge of that is the show. Since the proper steps were taken to prepare, the tour crew was rested, had time for a good meal and was able to put their best effort into an incredible concert for a packed house of almost 2,300 concertgoers.

A big thanks goes out to Jon Weir, Brain York, Derek Seal and the rest of the crew at Majestic who were magnificent to work with, generous with their time and professional advice, and willing to put in more then necessary even at the end of a long tour schedule. We hope to see you again soon for some more shows!

]]> Willow Park Spirits tag:missionbell.ca,2008://1.8 2008-11-12T15:14:01Z 2010-03-25T15:31:19Z

Adam Burwash http://www.missionbell.ca/

Lighting Design and Programming: Adam Burwash, Mission Bell
Audiovisual Equipment: Nero Productions

An elegant addition to an elegant wine store. Willow Park needed something special to set the mood for the debut a new wine tasting course. I added a moving light package to help set the mood for a classy, intimate affair at their flagship Calgary store.

]]> Plant Big Seeds tag:missionbell.ca,2010://1.9 2007-03-02T21:28:26Z 2010-04-26T20:57:34Z

Adam Burwash http://www.missionbell.ca/

Lighting Design, Scenery, Event Design Consultation: Adam Burwash, Mission Bell

Event Direction, Live Video Production, Technical Support: Centre Street Church Technical Team

Lighting Rentals: Christie Lights

What happens when you get six of country music's biggest names in one room all at the same time? Chaos. And you also get an amazing benefit concert.

The fourth annual Plant Big Seeds raised over $300,000 to send children on mission trips throughout North America and helped to build churches, community resource centers, and schools. It was an honor to help for this cause.

Production challenges for this event were massive. The team was faced with such challenges as driving a truck onstage (with all the artists sitting in the back), navigating six song sets without knowing what they were, and coordinating all of this with a live and silent auction. It had to feel as big and engaging as possible, but with production budgets kept to a minimum to raise the largest amount of cash for the cause.

Any time you add multiple artists onstage simultaneously and a live auction, you run into huge amounts of unscripted and outrageous behaviour. Everything to performers breaking out handicams to running up, down, and around the aisles flaunting auction merchandise, to firing merchandise into (and over) the audience, every rule in the book was broken, and the production team was responsible for thinking on their feet. The event consisted of about three minutes of highly scripted events for the artist's entrance atop a Ford F-350, followed by three hours of improvised and hijacked auction / concert set / general pandemonium.

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