The Rigging Safety Initiative (RSI) offers free stage rigging inspections and safety training for secondary schools across America. Schools can apply for the service twice a year, in spring and fall.Read More »USITT Rigging Safety Initiative Accepting Applications for Fall 2022 Cycle through Oct. 20, 2022
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society returned to Knoxville to celebrate and pay tribute to the great sacrifices made by Americans around the world in defense of our country. Bandit Lites was honored to donate a lighting system for the gala, where more than 30 Recipients of the Medal of Honor gathered to “reconnect with each other, solemnly commemorate those Recipients who have passed, conduct Society business, and engage the local community.”Read More »Bandit Lites Illuminates Medal of Honor Convention
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2022 Global Stadium Tour has been packing large venues on both sides of the Atlantic this year, with plans to continue to Australia and New Zealand in early 2023. Premier Global Production has been supporting the tour with 250 Chauvet Professional fixtures.
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HARMAN Professional Solutions introduces the Martin MAC Aura XIP, premium moving head wash light raising the bar for optical quality, featuring an even wash field with soft edge, minimal stray light, and high intensity mid-air beams. It has a Radical aura filament effect, with improved light engine control, and an outdoor rating with close to zero compromises in weight, size, and aesthetics.
Here’s an introductory video on the features of the MAC Aura XIP:
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Super Early Bird and Student Tickets are now available for frame:work:london 2022, Nov. 3 & 4. frame:work:london is a conference for conversations about the unique challenges of creating video for physical spaces, live performance, and virtual worlds. Attendees range from expert practitioners in creative video production, partner design disciplines in set, lighting and audio, production leadership, new professionals, and students. If you work in real-time content creation, screens content for live entertainment, or interactive content—this is your home. Let’s build a future for the creative video community.Read More »Tickets on Sale for frame:work:london ‘22; Event Set for Nov. 3-4 at CodeNode
Completion of regulatory clearances marks key step in agreed combination process announced by both companies on May 16
Business combination of The Crosby Group and KITO CORPORATION to create a global provider of comprehensive lifting solutions
The Crosby Group, a leading provider of lifting and rigging solutions, and KITO CORPORATION, a leading manufacturer of material handling equipment with 90 years of experience in the development and production of hoists and cranes, today announced that they have secured all regulatory clearances for their business combination and that The Crosby Group will commence a cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of KITO CORPORATION for JPY 2,725 per share on September 26. The cash tender offer price represents a premium of 64.3% compared to KITO CORPORATION’s undisturbed closing share price on May 13, the last trading day before the transaction was originally announced.Read More »The Crosby Group to Commence Cash Tender Offer for All Outstanding Shares of KITO CORPORATION
ACT Entertainment, a manufacturer-distributor of live performance equipment, has acquired Ultimate Support Systems, a manufacturer of unique support solutions widely used throughout the music industry and in live performance-related fields. The official announcement was made in Windsor, CO at the home office of Ultimate Support Systems on September 15.Read More »ACT Entertainment Acquires Ultimate Support Systems
Jessie J performed shows throughout Europe this summer before heading to Rock in Rio in Brazil. Lighting/Set Designer Morgan Evans, a design associate to LD Tim Routledge, provided the artist with a Neg Earth-supplied floor package that included GLP impression FR10 Bars.
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Will Livingston has joined FOR-A as Sales Engineer, serving the South Central region of the U.S., with a focus primarily on Arizona and Texas. He is also in charge of sales engineering work, including technology demonstrations and training. Livingston reports to Adam Daniul, VP of Sales, FOR-A Americas.
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A Collaboration between production companies Laserframe and Creative Sounds Veranstaltungstechnik recently supplied the lighting system for the second “Raw” stage at the Into The Madness Festival in Germany. The rig comprised almost exclusively ADJ fixtures including moving head beam and wash luminaires, LED blinders and the new multifunctional Jolt Bar FX LED units.
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Robe North American announced the appointment of John Dickson as Central U.S. Sales Manager, effective Oct. 1, 2022. Based in Austin, TX, Dickson has more than 25 years of experience as a lighting designer, programmer, and technician.
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Ideally, change should put new ideas in motion. When it does, good results invariably happen. The production team that created dynamic looks for the Church of the Highland’s aptly named Motion Student Conference demonstrated this in convincing fashion recently.Read More »4Wall and CHAUVET Support LD Griffin McCravy for Motion Student Conference