LONDON – Women in Stage Entertainment (WISE) is hosting a professional seminar for young women considering a career in the entertainment technology industry. WiSE’s seminar entitled “Women Making Their Mark in the Theatre Industry” will be held March 9 at 12:30 pm in the seminar room of The Grand Hall in Olympia, London, in conjunction with the Perform 2012 theatre conference.
Read More »ATLANTA — XL Video, which is reorganizing its U.S. operations, named Greg Gardner chief operations officer of XL Video US. The company said it is now merging the management structure for its operations in Atlanta and Los Angeles. Gardner, who reports to Rene de Keyzer, will work with Cary Tan, chief financial officer of XL Video US, to implement the merged company structure.
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Creative Conners’ new Curtain Call machine is designed specifically for traveler tracks to automate traveler curtains. This latest addition to the Creative Conners stable of electric winches is a smaller, budget-priced solution. It also saves space, as it mounts to the battens, not the floor.
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LONDON – White Light brought extra sunlight to London on a wintery “blue Monday.” On Jan. 23, the artificial sun rose over Trafalgar Square an hour before the real sun rose and then continued to shine three hours after sunset. Public art group Greyworld created the spectacle.
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MELBOUNE, VICTORIA, Australia – Monash University has acquired more than 100 ETC lighting fixtures to help reduce their electricity usage. Local dealer ASL handled the sale and is providing support for the university theatre.
Read More »Vision Communications, Inc., a California-based dealer offering sales and rentals of two-way radios and paging equipment, has used Information Integration Group (IIG)’s Rental Maestro to… Read More »Taming Rental Management Tigers
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Kortrijk, Belgium – COMM-TEC, a Germany-based communications technology distribution specialist, is a new official distributor of Barco projection and image processing products, including Barco’s CLM, RLM- and HDX-W12 DLP projectors for fixed installations in Germany. COMM-Tech is based near Stuttgart.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting has set a North American sales record for Clay Paky fixtures and become the number one Clay Paky distributor in the world. In 2011 Clay Paky nearly doubled its US sales over the company’s past best year, 2007, due to A.C.T Lighting’s sales of their fixtures in many markets.
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REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy — Matteo Armelini, 32, a rigger who was working with other crew members in preparation for Laura Pausini’s concert March 5 at the PalaCalafiore here, died at the scene when staging elements fell on him from above at about 2 a.m. Two others helping secure the lighting rig for the central portion of the three-stage set received minor injuries.
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