The warehouse adds 20,000 square feet to White Light’s facility. The extra room will be used as pre-rig space for tours and other shows, and to create a demo area that will allow lighting designers to try out equipment in a decent sized space, or to hang rigs for pre-lighting or rehearsal.
The demos were for select products within White Light’s inventory, which includes gear from ArKaos, Coemar, Core Lighting, Galaxia, i-Pix, JB Lighting, Leader Light, LSC, Look Solutions, Prism, Rainbow, Robert Juliat, RSC Lightlock, Tomcat and Wireless Solution, as well as from City Theatrical, Doughty, ETC, GE Lamps, Lee Filters, Le Maitre, Philips Entertainment Lighting, Rosco, Zero88 and other manufacturers.
Lighting for the day, including a giant mirror ball, was supplied by White Light, assisted by Blackout who provided rigging and drapery, and Creative Technology who provided projection and LED screens.
Along with food and drink, guests could listen to White Light ‘s in house band; Fanny & The Electrics. Throughout the day there were speeches from White Light’s John Simpson and Bryan Raven, plus a rendition of happy birthday and birthday cake, supplied by Philips Entertainment, to celebrate White Light’s 40th anniversary.
“People started arriving almost before our ‘opening time’ of 2pm, and just kept coming all afternoon,” said White Light managing director Bryan Raven. “It was great to see so many friends from every area of the industry – designers from the corporate, television and theatre worlds, people working in amateur dramatics, production managers, electricians – even the few competitors who snuck in! The food was great, the band were superb and we think a good time was had by all.”
For more information, please visit www.whitelight.ltd.uk.
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