What's New > March 3 Zoom Session - From Concept to Stage: Discover OISTAT's Technical Invention Prize 2025
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When: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 | 10am to 11am EST
Where: On Zoom
Learn more about TIP, and immerse yourself in a world of creativity and innovation!
Technical Invention Prize (TIP) is an international competition organized by the OISTAT Technology Commission and awarded during World Stage Design (WSD).
Since 2011, The TIP Competition has invited all theatre technicians worldwide to bring their talents and ideas to the table, and challenged participants to generate simple and creative ideas for everyday implementation on stage, mostly by inexpensive means and materials.
TIP aims to encourage the exchange and innovation of simple, creative and smart devices/methods that will help theatre technicians.
The TIP Competition is an opportunity to share these inventions and clever devices as a reference for industry professionals and educators through publication of the TIP Catalogue, featuring the entries deemed most useful by an international panel of judges. The apparatus might only be used in one particular theatre, company, travelling show, sometimes just one country. This is an opportunity to share these inventions and clever devices with the international community through publication of the TIP Catalogue, featuring the entries deemed most useful by an international panel of judges.
Applications for TIP 2025 are currently open and will close on June 15. A total of 20 entries will be selected by a panel of 8 international judges to be part of a catalog, and three finalists will be selected to physically exhibit their inventions at World Stage Design 2025 in Sharjah, UAE. View Submission information here.
TIP over the years:
About WSD: World Stage Design (WSD) is the first and only designer-based exhibition to showcase and celebrate performance design from individual designers. Created and produced by OISTAT, WSD is held every four years and has now travelled to many cities including: Toronto, Canada (2005); Seoul, South Korea (2009); Cardiff, Wales, UK (2013); Taipei, Taiwan (2017), Calgary, Alberta (2022) and now Sharjah, UAE (2025).
World Stage Design 2025 is co-produced by Sharjah Performing Arts Academy and OISTAT and will be held in Sharjah, UAE from Saturday 18th to Saturday 25th October 2025.
Registration is required, but FREE and open to all, members and non-members alike.
⇒ Want to learn more about the upcoming World Stage Design 2025 and the Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC)? Join us for our February Zoom Session! Sign up now for free at this link: Exploring World Stage Design 2025 & TAC
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Presenter
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Joaquin Jose Aranda (Jay) Media Production Specialist, Chair of Technical Invention Prize 2025
About the presenter
Joaquin Jose Aranda (Jay)
One of the leading lighting designer, technical director and technical theatre consultants in the Philippines today, Jay has done an extensive range of performances here and abroad, covering theater, opera, dance, musicals, beauty pageants, conventions, corporate events, product launches, fashion shows and music concerts. 2022 was his 35th year in the industry.
He is presently the principal designer of JJZA Media Production Services (Live Performance Asia), a lighting, sound, multi-media systems design and integration consultancy, theater operations management and consultancy, technical theatre management and consultancy firm. Jay is a senior full-time professional faculty member of the DLS-CSB School of the Arts, Culture, and Performance, Theater Arts Program, teaching in the Production Design and Dance programs as well, and is the immediate past Director of the DLS-CSB Center for Theater Operations.
A former member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), he has also served as the Secretary of the Philippine Association of Theatre Designers and Technicians (PATDAT/ OISTAT Centre Philippines) since 1998, as well as a member of its Technology Commission. Jay is a founding member of the Technical Theatre Network Asia (TTNA). He is currently a Vice Chair of the Technology Commission, International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT). He is the immediate past Chair of the Technical Invention Prize 2022 (TIP).
Jay’s lighting work was exhibited at the Gallery Exhibition, Lighting Design Category, and Inaugural Edition of the World Stage Design 2005 in Toronto, Canada and published in the book World Scenography, Volume 2: 1990 – 2005. His work has been nominated for Outstanding Lighting Design in PHILSTAGES’ Gawad Buhay Awards in 2011 (BP’s Sleeping Beauty), 2013 (TP’s San Andres B.), 2016 (Ballet Manila’s Rebel), as well as BROADWAY WORLD Philippines’ Awards in 2012 for Best Lighting Design (Musical/ Play) of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. He is a featured artist in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, 2nd Edition, Theater Volume 9 and its online version.
His latest work pre pandemic was lighting Ballet Philippines’ restaging of Carlo Pacis’ full-length ballet of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. He is currently part of the theater consultants of Rockwell Land’s “Proscenium Theater” and “Black Box at the Proscenium Theater”.