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ETCP To Launch Portable Power Distribution Technician Practice Exam on April 1, 2017

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ETCP To Launch Portable Power Distribution Technician Practice Exam on April 1, 2017

NYC – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) will launch a practice exam for the Portable Power Distribution Technician certification examination on April 1, 2017. The web-based practice exam will consist of fifty questions is available from that date forward for forty dollars at etcp.esta.org/practiceexams. Candidates should go to the “Candidates” link and then follow the menu to ETCP and choose this exam.

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GLP GT-1

GLP GT-1 Now Shipping

SUN VALLEY, CA – Following a number of successful field trials, GLP’s GT-1 hybrid fixture is now ready for official release and has begun shipping. Already proving hugely popular, the GT-1 is a true hybrid fixture, working as a Beam, Spot and Wash fixture with highest levels of performance. Incorporation of a new 440W Osram discharge lamp dramatically improves the output, while its high-quality optical system produces a beam that features an enormous 22:1 ratio zoom range from 3.5° to 57°.

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Viewers tuned in to see stars such as, John Travolta, French actor Gerard Depardieu, singers Anastacia, Tony Hadley and Simon Le Bon discuss the music that’s important to them.

d3 Performs Projection Mapping as ‘Music!’ Makes its Mark on Italian TV

ROME – On the Italian TV special, Music!, a wide array of international celebrities shared the stories of the songs of their lives and gave their own live renditions of the tunes. STS Communication, d3’s new rental partner in Italy, provided technical resources for the show, including using d3 to projection map the large dome that topped the set. Music! aired on Italy’s Mediaset Canale 5 in primetime for three evenings in January with 4.6 million viewers per episode.

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'Shaping Sound After the Curtain' - Photo by Kaitlin Chow

Bandit Brings The Lights to ‘Shaping Sound: After The Curtain’

NASHVILLE – Shaping Sound, a mash up of contemporary dancers, musical genres and dancing styles, has returned to the road with a new production with Shaping Sound: After the Curtain. Bandit Lites is once again providing the lighting package for the spectacle, which is under the artistic direction of Emmy Award winner Travis Wall and co-created with Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson.

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Matt Collier Goes Green On St. Patrick’s Day With Chauvet

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SAN DIEGO – Most of the fans who turned up at The Holding Company to hear a St. Patrick’s Day concert by the popular Irish band The Fooks were appropriately dressed in green. They weren’t alone. The well-known Ocean Beach music venue was also adorned in brilliant emerald, thanks to some imaginative lighting by Matt Collier and a collection of fixtures from CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ.

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Estonian National Museum Equipped with Robe Fixtures

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TARTU, Estonia – The brand new Eesti Rahva Muuseum (Estonian National Museum) in Tartu has recently opened in a fabulous new single story state-of-the-art 350 metre long architectural masterpiece resembling a portion of a runway lifting upwards …  built on the former Raadi Air Base just outside the cultural hub and second city of Tartu, and near to the site of the original Muuseum at Raadi Manor. Around 100 x Robe LED fixtures – a mix of DL4S Profiles, DL4X Spots, LEDBeam 1000s and CycFX 8s have been specified and supplied for the Muuseum’s three main performance, event and conference spaces.

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‘Photonapalooza’ gives lighting students at University of North Carolina’s School of Design and Production an opportunity to create short, themed lighting compositions set to music. ACT-distributed products played a key role.

A.C.T Lighting Supplies Educational Sector with Claypaky and MA Products

LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. continues its support of the educational community by providing students with new equipment used by lighting professionals worldwide.  Most recently A.C.T Lighting supplied Claypaky fixtures and grandMA2 consoles to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas.  A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky fixtures and MA Lighting products in North America.

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LD Justin Townsend Turns to Elation LED for David Byrne’s Joan of Arc: Into the Fire

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NYC – Multi award-winning and Tony-nominated lighting designer Justin Townsend (The Humans, American Psycho, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) finds that he is using Elation Professional lights more and more since his first experience with them in 2013/2014 on the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. Currently, he is using Elation Satura Profile™ and Platinum Seven™ LED-based moving heads on the world premiere of Joan of Arc:  Into the Fire, an exciting new Off-Broadway musical penned by David Byrne.

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Users can their hoist with either 115 Volt single phase power or 230 Volt three phase power.

Pointman Flex-Phase Electric Chain Hoist

Pointman Lifting Products’ new Flex-Phase hoist, initially available in the 1/4T capacity Model S unit, continues the company’s tradition of bringing new features to the world of electric chain hoists. This new-to-market hoist gives users the flexibility of powering their hoist with either 115 Volt single phase power or 230 Volt three phase power. With a lifting capacity of 500 pounds at 16 feet per minute regardless of operating voltage, Flex-Phase is well suited for  companies whose projects run the range from small events projects up to large tradeshow events. The compact chassis and low self weight of the SM series platform combine to make the Flex-Phase hoist easy for crews to handle, and leaves more of the rigging points capacity for the support of the production equipment. A Flex-Phase unit fitted with 60 feet of lift weighs in at less than 50 pounds.

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ESP-KNX MEGABlox and MICROBlox Truss Accessory Connectors

Entertainment Structural Products, Inc. (ESP) announced their new MEGABlox and MICROBlox truss accessory connectors, which are engineered by ESP for permanent installation. Designed for truss chords from 35 mm to 6 inches in two-sided or six-sided configurations, ESP says these new truss accessory connectors can be used to connect lights and speakers without whacky wing nuts or protrusions.

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RHCP on tour

Red Hot Chili Peppers Brighten Venues Worldwide with Solaris Flare

LOS ANGELES – In a bid for the title “The hardest working band in show biz,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers have 52 dates booked for The Getaway tour across the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.  Such a rigorous schedule requires rugged and reliable lighting fixtures, which is one of the reasons why the tour’s lighting rig features the Solaris Flare.

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Theater Akzent Chooses Robe DL Series

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VIENNA – Gerhard Scherer is a happy man since 24 x Robe DL7S Profiles and DL4S Profiles – 12 of each fixture – have been installed at the Theater Akzent Theatre in Vienna … a busy producing and receiving house located in the Wieden district of Austria’s capital city, famous for its culture and charm. Head of lighting Gerhard has been working at Akzent since it was founded in 1989 in the grounds of the former Palais Nathaniel Rothschild. Its postmodern architecture was designed by Rudolf Jarosch and it offers a 455 seat main house, a studio that can accommodate 80 people and a 380 capacity event space.

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