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Herrick Goldman Scores with 50-Yard Line Event

Emirates Airline event

Herrick Goldman Scores with 50-Yard Line Event

DALLAS – LD Herrick Goldman recently scored big at Dallas Cowboys Stadium helping transform the football field into the site of an event which straddled the 50 yard line for the launch of Emirates Airline’s Dubai to Dallas route.  With support from GDS LiteWare fixtures and grandMA lighting control, he gave a “larger than life” look to the celebratory dinner and presentation for 950 guests with entertainment by musical group Splash and a performance by cast members of “Dancing With The Stars.”

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David Whitehead and Dan Large

Stage Electrics Appoints Dan Aldridge as MD

BRISTOL, UK – Dan Aldridge has taken on the post of Managing Director at Stage Electrics.  Aldridge has been involved in the company for more than six years, both as Operations Director and most recently as a Non-Executive Director. Founder and majority shareholder of Stage Electrics, David Whitehead, will continue in the role of Chairman.

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Variant Spectrum

Wholehog Consoles Control A Variant Spectrum

HELSINKI, Finland – During the darkest days of winter, Helsinki brightens the nights in an event called Lux Helsinki. High End Systems lighting consoles commanded one of Helsinki’s most visible landmarks – the Olympic Stadium Tower – which was transformed into a light installation called the Variant Spectrum. LD Jukka Huitila designed the architectural project.

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Munk School of Global Affairs

Christie MicroTiles Installed at Toronto’s Munk School

KITCHENER, Ontario – Thirty-six Christie MicroTiles were installed at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Positioned in the front wall of the Vivian and David Campbell conference facility, the 6 units wide by 6 units high Christie MicroTiles array displays Blu-ray videos, still images and PowerPoint presentations for foreign and domestic officials who present their research findings at the facility.

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Arena Lift

Stageco Arena Lift

Stageco has developed Arena Lift, a hydraulic lifting system that raises larger ground supports with grids into venues to increase rigging capacities. Arena Lift is based around four hydraulic lifting units that form the anchors at the corners of the ground support towers. It’s designed for touring, and is compact for efficient packing to give cost-effective transport and make loading in through small venue entrances possible.

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RSN Lists Top Live Event Staging Trends

PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ –—Members of the Rental and Staging Network (RSN), a network of 22 geographically-diverse live event and staging companies, have offered their expertise on future trends in the industry. Among the trends are: digital signage for meetings, the migration to digital signal flow, and 4K resolution video becoming standard.

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Sapsis Provides Fall Arrest Training to War Horse Tour

PHILADELPHIA – The national touring company of the Broadway play War Horse selected Bill Sapsis, president of Sapsis Rigging, Inc., to provide fall arrest equipment and  training to the company’s crew. Most recently, Sapsis worked with the crews of the Broadway productions of Bonnie and Clyde and Evita, and with the national touring production of Dirty Dancing.

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Museum of Natural Sciences

Smart Monkeys Provide Show Control for Natural Sciences Museum

MIAMI BEACH, FL  – The new Nature Research Center (NRC) wing of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences held its grand opening recently, with the SECU Daily Planet dazzling visitors with its immersive, three-story multimedia space.  Batwin + Robin Productions hired Smart Monkeys, Inc. to provide system design, consulting and programming for extensive amounts of content it created for the Daily Planet and throughout the NRC wing.

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