Display Fireworks and Pyrotechnics Safety and Legal Awareness Courses in Winnipeg

Have you ever dreamed of working behind the scenes at your towns Canada Day celebrations? how about working with a theater production or concert tour as a pyrotechnician?

Here is your chance!

Archangel Fireworks is holding the following two (2) courses:

Display Fireworks Safety and Legal Awareness Course
Date: Sunday October 5, 2014 10am
Location: 104 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg MB
Cost: $85


Pyrotechnic Special Effects Safety and Legal Awareness Course
Date: Tuesday October 7, 2014 6:15pm
Location: 104 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg MB
Cost: $85

There is a difference between Display Fireworks and Special Effect Pyrotechnics. Before attending a safety and legal awareness course and applying for a fireworks operator certificate, please ensure that you are attending the correct course and applying for the certificate for the articles you want to acquire, store and use.

Special Effect Pyrotechnics are high-hazard pyrotechnics articles designed for use by professionals. These articles include items such as gerbs, mines, comets and crossettes. These articles would be used in theatre productions, concerts and on film sets. Certification for pyrotechnics also includes special purpose pyrotechnics manufactured for the film and television industry.

Display Fireworks are high-hazard firework articles designed for use by professionals. These articles include items such as aerial shells, cakes, roman candles, waterfalls, lances and wheels. This type of firework would be used for large fireworks displays that take place on Canada Day.
Please contact Archangel directly for more details and information regarding registration:

Archangel Fireworks Inc
Contact/personne-ressource: Ross MacKeen
Email/adresse électronique: ross@archangelfireworks.com

Pyrotechnically Speaking - Quick-fire Edition!

Outdoor Pyro

Here is our final question of the Quick-fire Edition of our ongoing blog series.  Next week we will be back at our regularly scheduled questions.  Remember, if there is something you want to know about, just email us at info@archangelfireworks.com.  If we answer your question you could win your very own super cool Archangel Fireworks T-shirt and you can look awesome, just like Toby here:

Quick-fire Edition #3: Display or Pyro?

What does it mean?

Display fireworks are what you see at the large outdoor shows, think Canada Day or New Years Eve.  They can be hand fired or electrically fired, traditional or pyromusical and most commonly in Canada they range in size from 2" - 12"  in diameter. 

Pyrotechnics are generally used to enhance an event such as a rock concert or in the special effects world to create things like simulated bullet hits.  Most are designed to be used indoors and in close proximity to performers but there are also larger effects that are used outdoors.

James:  Display!Display!Display!  Pyro is much more calm and methodical - it's like an exclamation point on an event.  Display is an event in itself...you race all day to set up in time, shoot for about 15-20 minutes, then tear down and clean till the wee hours of the morning.

Leiah:  Display, you just don’t get that oomph, that feeling in your chest from pyro.  Cleanup after a pyro gig is amazing though!

Ross:  Display fireworks. Maybe it’s an ego thing, but Pyro is a part of the show, Display Fireworks… you are the show.

Adam:  Display.

Candice:  Display.   Pyro by nature is used as a punctuation point in an event, whereas fireworks can stand alone as an event. If you could combine the cleanup of pyro with the awesome of fireworks, it would be a pyrotechnicians’ dream!

Kelly:  Display (but often we use pyro for intricacies)


Do you have a question for the crew?  Is there something that you would like to know about what it's like to be a pyrotechnician?  If we use your question you could win your very own Archangel Fireworks T-shirt!  Send your questions to info@archangelfireworks.com