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Straz Center Gains Time And Saves Power With Philips Lighting

Straz Center Gains Time And Saves Power With Philips Lighting

[caption id="attachment_281052" align="alignnone" width="800"]Philips Showline fixtures are installed to upgrade the lighting rig in the David A. Straz Center's TECO Theater in Tampa, Florida[/caption]

TAMPA, USA – Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that the David A. Straz Center in Tampa is enjoying significant savings in labor and power costs after upgrading its TECO Theater lighting rig with LED products from Philips Entertainment Lighting’s Showline range. The second largest performing arts complex in the south-eastern United States, the Straz Center is home to the Patel Conservatory, one of the country’s leading education facilities for theater, music and dance.

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The Bodyguard in Madrid

[caption id="attachment_281049" align="alignnone" width="800"]Painting with Light Bodyguard Madrid[/caption]

MADRID – After 647 shows and a massively successful run of almost two years at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht – delighting more than 800,000 fans – Stage Entertainment Holland’s blockbuster production of “The Bodyguard” has opened at the Teatro Coliseum in Madrid. Imaginative and eye-catching lighting is again designed by Luc Peumans of the Belgian mixed-media visual design practice, Painting with Light.

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Hyatt Regency Orange County

Going to the Parnelli Awards? Book Your Room Today

ANAHEIM, CA – A special block of rooms has been set aside for all those live event professionals attending the Parnelli Awards gala, to be held Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 during Winter NAMM. Suites and regular rooms at the Hyatt Regency Orange County can be accessed through the ParnelliAwards.com website via the Hotel link on the home page.

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LiteGear’s LiteMat+ Plus Supports Behind the Scenes

[caption id="attachment_281040" align="alignnone" width="500"]LiteGear made their first Pledge-a-Product check presentation to the Behind the Scenes charity at the recent LDI [/caption]

NYC – LiteGear Inc., designers and builders of LED lighting products for professionals in the Cinema, TV, and HD Video industries, made its first Pledge-a-Product donation to Behind the Scenes on the show floor at LDI 2017. Pioneers behind the popularization of flexible LED lighting for use in Cinema and TV lighting applications, LiteGear presented a check for $7750 representing a percentage of the profits from sales of their new flagship fixtures, LiteMat+ Plus, to support the charity.

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Feeling the Energy at the Wärmespeicher

[caption id="attachment_281037" align="alignnone" width="800"]Anolis fixtures in use[/caption]

GERMANY – Eighty Anolis ArcSource 4MC LED fixtures were specified to illuminate a new heat storage tank (Wärmespeicher) installed in the Drispenstedt residential district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. The impressive 17.5 meter high, 4 meter wide structure which resembles a quirky piece of contemporary sculpture was designed by pape+pape Architekten from Kassel. It contains an internal cylindrical water feature which is illuminated by the ArcSources which are programmed to indicate how much of the energy generated from the nearby natural gas-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP) … is currently stored and available for use.

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LeMaitre Celebrates 40 Years With Party at the Wynn During LDI

[caption id="attachment_281034" align="alignnone" width="790"]LeMaitre's 40th Anniversary cake[/caption]

LAS VEGAS – Le Maitre continues to celebrate its 40th anniversary in style. To celebrate the occasion in the states, Rick Wilson and Karen Cornacchia, Joint Managing Directors of Le Maitre cut the cake while holding a party at the Wynn resort on Saturday, November 19th. A large group of friends, industry veterans and long time clients gathered to help celebrate this monumental occasion, which included the staff of PLSN.

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ETC’s ColorSource CYC receives LDI 2017 Best Debuting Lighting Product Award

[caption id="attachment_281031" align="alignnone" width="800"]ETC Color Source Cyc at LDI[/caption]

MIDDLETON, WI – Visitors to the 2017 LDI Show in Las Vegas this November found ETC’s booth awash in color, thanks to the new ColorSource® CYC luminaire. Two 18-foot-tall cyc panels bookended the booth, each lit evenly and brightly in a range of tints and hues by the new LED fixtures. Show-goers were impressed – as were LDI’s judges, who honored the ColorSource CYC with a Best Debuting Lighting Product award at a ceremony on Saturday night.

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Kenny Rogers Bids Farewell With Bandit Lites

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – It was an evening of memories, music and celebration as Kenny Rogers celebrated his retirement from an incredibly illustrious career. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for Blackbird Presents, “All In for the Gambler: Kenny Rogers’ Farewell Concert Celebration,” a one-night only send-off to one of music’s most successful artists of all time.

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CHAUVET Professional Provides Intoxicating Looks For The Toxic Avenger – The Musical

[caption id="attachment_281023" align="alignnone" width="626"]Toxic Avenger lit with Chauvet fixtures[/caption]

LONDON – Based on the 1984 cult film by Lloyd Kaufman in which an aspiring earth scientist transforms into an unlikely superhero after falling into a vat of toxic waste, The Toxic Avenger – The Musical is now earning critical praise in the UK. Driven by an intense rock score by Bon Jovi band member David Bryan and a book by Joe DiPietro, the show is running in London’s West End.

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