A Conversation with Bill Clinton & Canada Day

It was a busy Canada Day weekend in Vancouver for AV Strategies.  On Friday our client, GB Sound hired us to provide the audiovisual support including multi-camera IMAG, video projection, our D&B Audiotechnik V-series line array, and lighting for the President Bill Clinton along with James Patterson, who spoke about their new book, “The President in Missing” a novel that provides a front-row seat to the inner workings of the US political system and the Presidency. This highly attended event held in the West Ballrooms at the Vancouver Convention Centre required our team of audiovisual technicians to be extensively vetted by the US Secret Service.

A day later, we provided our Stageline SL260 portable stage to help Vancouver celebrate the 151st birthday of Canada at Canada Place.  This award-winning event, presented by the Port of Vancouver, is the largest Canada Day celebration outside the nation’s capital.

Our client, BRANDLIVE, deemed the SL260 to be the perfect stage to handle the variety of acts performing and to accommodate the City of Vancouver’s stringent time requirements for load-in and load-out.  We set-up the stage and lighting, on the evening prior to the event and were ready for performances that took place throughout the day on July 1st.  The performances concluded at 6:00pm and we had the stage packed up and cleared by 8:30pm, well before crowds moved in to enjoy the fireworks.  While the weather cooperated for the most part, it was nice to have the covered wing for the monitor mix position.