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Goboland UK Provides For Betty Blue Eyes

Betty Blue Eyes

Goboland UK Provides For Betty Blue Eyes

 

Betty Blue Eyes

LONDON, UK – Goboland has made a variety of custom and standard gobos for the wartime-era musical Betty Blue Eyes which opened last week at the Novello Theatre in London’s West End. Based on Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray’s BAFTA-winning 1984 film A Private Function, Betty Blue Eyes is set in the ration-stricken Britain of 1947. It tells the story of a pig, raised illegally to provide the local dignitaries with a feast to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip – a wedding feast out of keeping with the austerity of the times.

 

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Lightware US Leads Sessions at InfoComm 2011

CLARKSTON, MI – Drew Taylor, Sales Engineer of Lightware U.S.A. will lead two technical sessions at InfoComm 2011. The conference will be held June 11-17 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. DVI & HDMI Signal Extension: Problems & Solutions, is scheduled for Wednesday, June 15 from 2.30 – 4 pm in room W221 D and is targeted to staging and live event professionals. It will be followed by Problems & Solutions when Designing Digital Systems: EDID, HDCP, Display Port, Audio on Thursday, June 16 from 2.30 – 4 pm in room W221 B.

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Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design

Evocative Designs to Represent US in Prague

Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design

MISSOULA, MT – The final brick has been placed, and the doors have been closed on the container carrying the USITT/USA exhibits which will be part of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space from June 16 to 26 in Prague, Czech Republic. A team of faculty and students at the University of Montana in Missoula constructed the exhibits which will be part of PQ 2011, along with displays from more than 60 other countries and regions. Curators selected 37 productions for the USITT-USA National Exhibit. They reflect the social and political issues consuming American performance-makers today.

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Roe Green Junior School

Lighting Supports Storytelling At School

Roe Green Junior School

BRENT, UK – The power of entertainment lighting to create atmosphere and influence mood has long been recognized in theatre and live events. Now schools are discovering how lighting can be used in the same way but in a completely different environment – and turning to entertainment lighting specialist White Light to help them achieve this.

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Hannah Eakins

Hannah Eakins Joins i-Pix

 

Hannah Eakins

UK – Hannah Eakins joins UK LED lighting manufacturer i-Pix as Business Development Manager. Her role will be to identify and develop new business opportunities, working alongside both the in-house i-Pix team in Manchester, and Martin Palmer who is responsible for i-Pix sales at leading London based sales and rental company, White Light.

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W-DMX to Hold Seminars During May

UDDEVALLA, SWEDEN – Wireless Solution Sweden AB will be holding several Wireless University seminars during the month of May. If you plan to attend any of the following trade shows, be sure to schedule one of these informational sessions in your calendar. These seminars aim to educate the industry on the technology and benefits of wireless DMX in general and the strengths of the W-DMX Generation 4 product line.

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Al Laith Supplies Seating, Site Infrastructure in Dubai

DUBAI, UAE – Al Laith Event Services built a 9,390 seat temporary arena at JBR (Jumeirah Beach Residences) to host the recent completely sold out first leg of the 2011 Red Bull X-Fighters world tour 2011 in Dubai with an amazing 15,000 spectators. It was the first time the event has come to the UAE. It is one of the largest amounts of seating that the company has ever supplied at a single event.

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CPL Gets ISO 9001:2008 Certification

BRISTOL, UK – Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) has maintained its ISO 9001:2008 certification for the fourth year running – without any non-compliance or non-conformance requests. The standard refers to the quality of the management and other systems in place and the company’s overall commitment and ability to deliver outstanding customer service, products and general support and efficiency to its clients.

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