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Alberta PAC Installs LED Rig Including ETC Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr Fixtures

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Alberta PAC Installs LED Rig Including ETC Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr Fixtures

CAMROSE, Alberta, Canada – The Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre (PAC) is a 44,200-square-foot, multi-venue building. The venue earned a level-four Green Globe distinction for its energy-efficient building design and commitment to green technology before its doors even opened in October 2014. Christie Lites provided the venue with an LED lighting rig, including nearly 100 ETC Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr luminaires. As the largest Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr installation in the world, the venue is able to save between $30,000 and $35,000 each year in energy costs from the lighting system alone. The venue is also using ETC’s Gio console for control.

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Lightswitch Supporting Solar Alternatives to Kerosene Lighting in Africa

CHICAGO — Lighting design firm Lightswitch will be once again partnering with the Honnold Foundation and SolarAid to try to replace kerosene lighting currently used in sub-Saharan Africa with safer, greener alternatives in 2015, which has been proclaimed the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015) by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.

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Astera Europe Moves to Munich

MUNICH, Germany – Astera LED Technology GmbH is moving from its previous base in Rüdesheim an der Nahe, Germany to Munich. The company noted that its new sales office will be joined by an office devoted to technical and customer support, overseen by Astera’s R&D director, Simon Canins. Astera cited potential improvements in logistics, product demos and brand awareness.

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Clay Paky Lights Up Austin City Limits Music Festival

AUSTIN, TX – The Austin City Limits Music Festival music showcase was also a showcase for Clay Paky lighting. In addition to “massive amounts” of Sharpy fixtures, eight A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures were dedicated to each of two secondary headline stages and positioned in an upstage array across the rear truss. “There were no backdrops on these stages and, given the power situation, the B-EYEs were the perfect choice to fill the whole back picture.  They really blasted through everything else, and the guys who did the overnight programming had time to dig into the features and use the multi-array tricks that come out it,” said LD Seth Jackson.

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Clay Paky Shines on the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

MALTA – Lighting Director Nick Malbon and Creative Director John McCullagh relied heavily on Clay Paky lighting for the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, using more than 200 Clay Paky fixtures. “I really enjoyed working with the assortment of the Clay Paky fixtures. The A.leda is very, very bright but quite flexible, while the Sharpy and Super Sharpy deliver those amazing sharp beams. The whole package worked really well together in terms of colour and set nicely with the rest of the rig,” Malbon said.

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Lyon Light Festival’s Jumbo-Sized “Light Bulbs” Glow with “Filaments” Make from RGBW LEDs

LYON, France — Airstar recently unveiled a temporary installation with giant inflatable LED lightbulbs of various shapes and sizes. The display greeted visitors to the Lyon Light Festival in France. Airstar installed nine giant old-style bulbs in an urban pond on the bank of the Rhône River, including a 10-meter-high “incandescent”-looking light bulb that lit up with 2,000 RGBW LED light sources inside.

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NEP Acquires Faber Audiovisuals

PITTSBURGH and AMSTERDAM — NEP Group Inc. acquired Faber Audiovisuals, extending NEP’s video display capabilities into Europe and the broader international market. Faber is a leading European company providing solutions for complete audiovisual productions. They serve clients in the sport, music and corporate markets supporting productions of all sizes. 

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High End Systems Expands Partnership with AED Distribution

AUSTIN, TX and WILLEBROEK, Belgium — Barco’s High End Systems announced an agreement with AED Distribution to expand their existing distribution partnership. Starting Jan. 1, 2015, AED Distribution will serve as European Master Distributor for HES products in Europe, including the Scandinavian countries, Portugal, Italy, and Greece. The companies also announced that HES’ Constantinos Vonofakidis and Tania Lesage will now serve as AED Distribution’s HES Regional Sales Manager and Brand Manager, respectively. AED Distribution will also be assuming HES distribution responsibilities for all of Africa.

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Illumination - The Lights at The Morton Arboretum photo by Benjamin Roy

Lighting Display at Morton Arboretum Includes Clay Paky Mythos Fixtures

LISLE, IL – The lighting setup for the annual display, Illumination: The Lights at The Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago, included a new fixture this year: the recently-introduced Mythos from Clay Paky. The fixtures are mounted in Igloo domes and illuminate custom water features in the arboretum’s Meadow Lake.  “They have more punch and more functionality for the show, including the ability to zoom in and out and go even bigger with the prism effect,” noted Matt Pearlman, senior account executive with Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC).

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