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Pete’s Big TVs Helps ‘Black Girls Rock!’

Black Girls Rock!

Pete’s Big TVs Helps ‘Black Girls Rock!’

NEW CASTLE, DE –  Once again, Pete’s Big TVs has helped “Black Girls Rock!” The philanthropic organization’s awards show  – which celebrates those who have culturally contributed to the Black Experience – airs on the BET network Nov. 6. The show was taped at the Bronx’s Paradise Theatre in New York City – an old, ornate former movie house not meant for the big production it would successfully pull off.

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U2 360 in Montreal

Trizart Alliance Provides a Look Back at the Complexities of Staging U2’s 360 Tour

MONTREAL — They was just a couple of shows, July 8-9 2011, in Montreal. But U2’s 360 tour was not just another band outing, and the epic scale of the production is still being discussed now, after the biggest concert tour of all time finally reached the end of its multi-year road. Trizart Alliance, a theatre and arena design and consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and Canada, recently provided a chronology of what that single tour stop entailed. (Hint: It may not have required moving mountains, but it did require the relocation of 16 mature trees.)

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Moby at Moogfest

Bandit Lights Moogfest, a Tribute to Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog

KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites provided main stage illumination service for the second annual Moogfest, held Oct. 28-30 at the Asheville (NC) Civic Center. The event, featuring performances and appearances by Moby, The Flaming Lips, Tangerine Dream, Adrian Belew, Umphrey’s McGee and Brian Eno, was a tribute to the late Robert “Bob” Moog (1934-2005), inventor and namesake for the Moog Synthesizer.

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Tokyo Girls

Tokyo Catwalk Gains Style, Saves Power with Robe

TOKYO – Japan’s autumn/winter Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC) fashion show was lit in high style at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo using 90 Robe moving lights supplied by M Tech Style. Tokyo has required a 15 percent reduced power consumption throughout the summer after the recent natural disasters. However, they did not have to compromise on their strut down the catwalk because of all the options offered with Robe moving lights.

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Sew What?’s Megan Duckett Discusses Business Development on LA Panel

LOS ANGELES – With a focus on the economic challenges of small businesses, Sew What? Inc. founder/president Megan Duckett joins a panel of Inc. 5000 small business owners Nov. 3 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.  During the seminar, entitled “Recession Confessions: Stories of Growth & Survival,” Duckett will discuss the power of innovation, the significance of the web in small business development, and the business owner’s need to take a leap of faith.

 

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Puy du Fou

Martin Fixtures Add to French Theme Park Show

PUY DU FOU, France – French theme park Puy du Fou’s Cinescenie, in the heart of the Vendée region in Western France, decided to use Martin Professional lighting products to light up the Cinéscénie show and installed six MAC III Performance fixtures (complete with framing module) at the edge of the set. The fixtures were supplied by lighting services provider MES, based in Vertou.

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