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The Shubert Foundation Gives Record $37.6 Million to 609 Arts Organizations Nationwide

The Shubert Foundation Gives Record $37.6 Million to 609 Arts Organizations Nationwide

The Shubert Foundation announced a record $37.6 million in unrestricted grants to not-for-profit theaters, dance companies, academic theater training programs, and related service agencies. As a leader in funding for the arts the Foundation has also made two $1 million gifts to create endowed scholarships for theater students at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Spelman College and Morehouse College.Read More »The Shubert Foundation Gives Record $37.6 Million to 609 Arts Organizations Nationwide

NKOTB’s MixTape Tour Blends Yesterday’s Hits with LED Looks

New Kids On The Block’s MixTape Tour 2022 is offering a blend of the old and the new, with NKOTB’s hits along with performances by special guests Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley and En Vogue. The lighting design by LD Cat West, of Flash and Trash Works, Inc., featured 108 Ayrton IntelliPix-R Creative Solutions. The lighting was a central part of the high-energy, party look of the show.

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ADJ Hydro Series Moving Heads Chosen for Outdoor Stage at Dutch Rebirth Festival

With the tagline of Reunite Again, the 2022 Rebirth Festival was one of the first large-scale outdoor dance events to take place in the Netherlands following two years of pandemic-induced restrictions. It also represented a reunion between the organizers and production company Spectrum AV, which worked on the festival in its early years. However, the event grew extremely quickly and required a scale of production beyond what Spectrum was capable of at the time. A large production company took care of all of the stages at the festival in the intervening years, but following the pandemic decided to refocus their business on only larger stages. Therefore, for this year’s event, they recommended that the organizers brought back Spectrum to handle the midsize stages. This was partially because of their positive experience of working with them elsewhere and partially because Spectrum AV’s business model focusses exclusively on these medium-sized stages.

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Andreas Bünemann Relies on ONYX Lighting Control Platform for Reggae Artist Gentleman

Lighting designer and operator Andreas Bünemann is using the ONYX lighting control platform from Obsidian Control Systems to run a large lighting rig for German reggae artist Gentleman and says he wouldn’t turn to any other system. “Our choice is the Obsidian ONYX system and it will be going forward,” stated Bünemann, owner of full-service rental company Bam Bam FX of Germany. “For us, it is the future and the direction we want to go. It’s a powerful and reliable system and we will be recommending it to clients interested in user-friendly lighting control.”Read More »Andreas Bünemann Relies on ONYX Lighting Control Platform for Reggae Artist Gentleman

ETC Names New Midwest Regional Sales Managers for Entertainment and Architectural Markets

Bryan Yeager and Katie O’Connell

ETC announces two new Regional Sales Managers taking lead in the Midwest. Bryan Yeager has been named the Midwest Entertainment Regional Manager and Katie O’Connell has been named the Midwest Architectural Regional Manager.Read More »ETC Names New Midwest Regional Sales Managers for Entertainment and Architectural Markets

Pixelhue X400 Media Server

Pixelhue is a company born of the desire to innovate, creating new technology and video processing solutions for the Pro AV industry, while never sacrificing the stability and ease of use. In Pixelhue, the rental solution world now has a new major player. Its mission begins with the user experience and has the ultimate goal of providing users with the astoundingly real visual experience. Pixelhue was started in 2017, mainly for the mid-to-high-end rental market, focusing on the field of video processing. The brand and products have grown from nothing and have gradually become well known to the market and customers.

In 2019, Pixelhue launched the first-generation F-series video switchers and U3 console which were applied in hundreds of large-scale projects and events in mainland China, such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala and Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, as well as new product launches for well-known companies. They are committed to continuously polishing and optimizing products, collecting positive feedback and valuable suggestions from the market and clients, and achieving continuous improvement and qualitative leaps in product performance and stability.

Now the company is releasing its very first media server – the X400.Read More »Pixelhue X400 Media Server

PRG Sends GLP into Battle for the “Great Fight Night” at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena

Two of the most successful German Twitch streamers, Trymacs and MckyTV, met recently—not for an Esports event, but for a real boxing match. Believing in the motto ‘the more, the merrier’, the two brought in four more Twitch colleagues, who also tested their strength in two preliminary fights. For the Great Fight Night, moderator Steven Gätjen hosted the evening, while the spectacle was rounded off with a live music performance.Read More »PRG Sends GLP into Battle for the “Great Fight Night” at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena