Mini Expo

In a nutshell, a Mini Christmas Expo is a gathering of some of the craziest lighting gurus like you from within your city and state, and even around Australia! It is a great opportunity to see and learn more over a weekend then months looking through various Christmas lighting forum sites.

The format of each individual mini varies from location to location and year to year, but will usually include some or all of the following:

• Meet and greets
• Presentations and software demos
• Demonstrations and explanations of the latest techy prototypes
• Workshops explaining how to add the latest breakthroughs to your own display
• Unstructured time for group Q&A (need clarification? just ask!)
• And plenty more

The humble Mini originates from 110vac land (the USA) but AusChristmasLighting takes it in its stride continue the tradition whilst catering for the Australian display - low voltage DC, RGB, pixels and the like.

Minis rely on volunteers when it comes to organising them and/or presenting topics at each Mini. The upside to this is typically each Mini tends to have its own unique 'flavour'!

Each Mini has its own page for the year and city. Check to the right to find if your nearest city has an event coming up and don't forget to register your interest! Previous year Mini pages are accessible from below. To see all the previous Mini pages click "View All Pages".

The mini you are interested in attending will usually ask you to RSVP in that Mini's discussion topic. If this is the case there will be a green button pinned to the top above the first post, along with essential details. An example of this is shown adjacent. RSVPs help the organiser to organise catering and other things ahead of time to help the day be a great success.

On the second stage of this Mini attendance registration you may reserve more than one place if other people will be coming with you to the Mini. You may also leave a brief comment, such as stating which day(s) you will attend, what you are bringing and/or your first name (if requested by the organiser for a name tag).

Sometimes the Mini organiser will use an external website for RSVPing, such as a Google Form.

Mini RSVPs and discussion occurs in our dedicated forum, and it is highly recommended to enable watch notifications:
https://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/mini-christmas-expos-events.68/

Selected Minis may live stream or record selected topics videos for later publication - often these videos will appear on our AusChristmasLighting YouTube channel.