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Clay Paky Sharpys Light Up Hollydazzle

Hollydazzle 2011

Clay Paky Sharpys Light Up Hollydazzle

NEWPORT NEWS, VA — The 2011 edition of Hollydazzle, an annual lighting and fireworks show staged at Newport News’ City Center at Oyster Point, featured a 45-foot-high LED Christmas tree, a fireworks display and light effects from 20 of Clay Paky’s Sharpy light fixtures supplied by Main Light Industries, Wilmington, DE. The Sharpys swept across the five-acre fountain where the fireworks originated and shot their beams into the sky to the accompaniment of holiday music and the pyrotechnics.

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Bowmer Theatre

Robert Juliat Lucy Followspots Light Up Oregon Shakespeare Festival

WALLINGFORD, CT – The Angus Bowmer Theatre at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland has taken delivery of three Robert Juliat Lucy 1200W HMI followspots from Musson Theatrical, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA.  The fixtures were chosen for their compact size and ability to fit into the theatre, which typically doesn’t accommodate followspots. They’ll debut in the February performance of “Animal Crackers.”

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SAS

Christie MicroTiles Visually Enhance SAS Headquarters

CYPRESS, CA – Five digital displays comprised of Christie MicroTiles help create a visually dynamic corporate headquarters at SAS, an independent vendor of business intelligence in Cary, NC. SAS needed a green solution – functional and artistic – to enliven its hallways, briefing center and other areas  throughout the building. A 40-foot Welcome Wall is the highlight of the installation, greeting visitors in the registration area.

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Slovakian Legends of Pop

Robe MMXs Join Slovakian Legends of Pop

CZECH REPUBLIC – Slovakian rental company Q-99 supplied 50 Robe moving lights including Robe MMX Spots to LD Martin Kubanka for “Slovakian Legends of Pop.” The TV music series airs during a nine-week run on prime time national TV channel STV1. Taking the LED-oriented set design by Michael Brna as a starting point, Kubanka needed some seriously powerful light sources on the rig to hold their own amidst all the LEDs.

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Breakin' Convention

Hawthorns is Breakin’ Convention with Clay Paky Alpha 1200s

LONDON – UK theatrical suppliers Hawthorns recently supported LD Jonathan Samuels’ design of the Breakin’ Convention International Festival of Hip Hop Dance with a charitable loan of nine Clay Paky 1200 Profiles. The event at Sadler’s Wells Theatre featured an international line-up of dancers, whose performances required lighting to accommodate with shuttering and gobos.

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Adrian Gilby

Green Hippo Hires New Software Developers

LONDON – Green Hippo introduces Adrian Gilby and Philippe Levieux as new members of the software development team. Levieux joins the programming team as Researcher and Software Developer in the production of new features for Hippotizer software. As a programmer and Software Developer, Gilby will work on specifying, designing and implementing new features for Green Hippo’s existing and future range of products.

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RSN Helps Make Wishes Come True

PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ – The Rental and Staging Network (RSN), a network of geographically-diverse rental and staging companies with complete event capabilities, showed their commitment to charitable giving through in-kind and monetary donations totaling $646,413 in 2011. Make-A-Wish Foundation was the biggest benefactor.

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Brighton

Colour Sound Brightens Brighton Clubs

LONDON, UK – During the last 18 months, lighting rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) has designed and supplied contract rental lighting systems to four clubs in popular seaside destination Brighton. Life, Coalition, The Tube and Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar are the clubs under the Inn Brighton Ltd. company which all required a specific lighting design to suit their differing needs.

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Groupe Berger

Groupe Berger/Mega-Stage Designing Stages with Increased Wind Resistance

SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Quebec — Following a tempestuous season of outdoor festivals worldwide, the Berger Group, makers of Mega-Stage products, have introduced outdoor stages designed for higher resistance to powerful winds. The company said that its MK4 stage, among the world’s largest, is designed to withstand winds of up to 120 km/h (80 mph) with the wind walls in place and 160 km/h (100 mph) without wind walls.

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