The Canadian Fireworks Association convention will be held in Hamilton, Ontario
April 22-25

website.

www.cfa2010.ca

Thanks sparky. I look forward to attending.

Sean

Schedule of events and presentations:

Friday 23rd
9:00 - 10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:00 Fireworks Supervisor Course - Jim Cammaert
11:00-1:00 Trade show and Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Pyro 101 Mark Fine (outdoors at the shoot site)
2:30 - 6:00 Setup observation (outdoors at the shoot site)
2:30 - 4:00 Videos (Convention centre)
4:00 - 5:00 Social Networking & Media for The Fireworks Business - George Tasick
5:00 - 6:00 Audacity for Pyromusical Soundtracks - Paul Marriott
6:00 - 7:30 Dinner
7:30 - 8:30 Cannons and battles (outdoors at the shoot site)
8:45 - 11:00 Fireworks demos and Displays

Saturday 24th
9:00-10:30 Members Meeting
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Family Fireworks Program end enforcement - Vaughn Fire Dept
12:00-1:00 Lunch and Trade Show
1:00-2:00 Visual Simulation and Choreography - Will Harvey: Finale Fireworks and David Whysall: David Whysall Fireworks
2:00-3:30 ERD Presentation - Rachel Robbins
3:30-4:00 Break (with videos)
4:00-5:00 Solar Flare Igniters - Fred Wade
5:00-6:00 Vancouver Fireworks Competition - Raymond Greenwood
6:00-8:00 Dinner (and more videos?!)

Hope to see many of you in Hamilton.

http://www.cfa2010.ca

Enjoy yourself Paul - wish I could make it for Friday night. Let us know how it was.

Here's the schedule for the Friday night fireworks demos and displays:

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Re-enactors for local historic Forts in Ontario will be discharging replica cannons from the 1800’s and providing a commentary of old battles.



8:45pm
Grand opening with High Level (Professional) Product.

8:50pm
http://www.vulcanfireworks.com Fireworks will demonstrate consumer product.

9:10pm
http://www.mysticaldistributing.com will demonstrate consumer product.


9:30pm – 9:50pm

Consumer Fireworks Competition – East vs. West

Two competitors battle it out to see who can design the best fireworks display using consumer fireworks. Both competitors, one from Alberta, the other from Ontario, have been given $3,000 to spend on fireworks and produce a 5-7 minute display.

9:30pm

Consumer fireworks competitor from Alberta (Jared Deschner) will shoot his choreographed consumer display.

9:40pm

Consumer fireworks competitor from Ontario (Chris Kerr) will shoot his choreographed consumer display.


9:50pm
http://www.bem.ca will demonstrate a selection of consumer and professional high level products.

10:15pm
The announcement of the winner of the Consumer Fireworks Competition followed by the trophy presentation.


10:20pm
The Canadian Fireworks Association-ACP will present a High Level fireworks display.

10:30pm
http://www.fireworksfactory.ca will demonstrate a selection of professional high level cakes.

10:45pm
http://www.royalpyrotechnie.com will present a high level pyro-musical fireworks display.

oooh will you be filming the shows in the convention?

There's going to be videos up on The Art of Fire facebook fan page: The Art Of Fire

Paul

Hi Paul,

Any news as to when the member videos will return? Just curious.

Anyone planning on staying in Hamilton until tomorrow should equipt an umbrella and jacket as the system generating violent weather in the U.S today and the last couple of days will be bringing with it periods of steady rains both tonight and through most of tomorrow in Southern and especially Southwestern Ontario. Winds will be gusty as well from the Northeast into the early afternoon tomorrow (perhaps in upwards of 30 km/h). Seeing that today's events conclude by 8:00 p.m, the weather shouldn't cause any problems, although a little more in the way of sunshine would be appreciated.

Trav.

Is that very bad, i missed a unbeliveable event, next time i will be there!

There are some videos of the displays here: http://www.youtube.com/user/donlindacleo#p/u

Take a look at the two consumer fireworks competition displays - each team had the same budget and used only consumer fireworks that are available in Canada. The results are pretty amazing. We had two teams - one from the West and one for the East - the judges (selected from the audience) picked the team from the East as the winner - but kudos to both as the displays were awesome.

Paul.