LITITZ, PA – Event Safety Alliance (ESA) note that its annual Event Safety Summit will take place from Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2016. Those registering early (before June 30) get the best discount.
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TAMPA, FL – Sunset Music Festival took over the grounds of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stadium for the fifth time May 28-29, 2016 and continues to break records. Since the festival’s inception in 2011, attendance has increased with ticket sales surpassing 30,000 for 2016. Sunset Music Festival has become the destination electronic dance music festival for central Florida, featuring more than 60 artists across three stages during the Memorial Day weekend event. This year’s event marks the second year that AG Production Services has been relied upon to provide production support for the festival.
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CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania – Romania’s leading live electronic music festival, Electric Castle, will provide 100,000 festival-goers with high tech RFID wristbands for fast and secure entry through the event gates and camping sites. The RFID wristbands will also be used as “digital wallets” for guests to make speedy purchases for all food, drink and merchandise on-site.
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Ayrton’s MagicDot-XT was developed for live music, television and entertainment applications requiring a more powerful version of the company’s popular MagicDot-R fixture. The MagicDot-XT is equipped with Ayrton’s new 126 mm diameter collimator that distinguishes the ‘XT’ product line. Along with the MagicDot-XT’s more powerful RGBW emitter, it gives the fixture a more powerful punch, well suited for larger venues.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – Grafisch Lyceum, an independent vocational college with a three year Technical Theatre Course among its offerings, added 20 Robe DL4X Spots and 20 LEDWash 300s. They are being utilized for teaching on all the course’s Lighting modules.
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LAS VEGAS – Trade Show Internet (TSI) has launched its proprietary 4G Mega Internet Kit, the world’s first multi-carrier 4G-to-WiFi hotspot, giving event organizers and technical producers the ability to connect 100 WiFi users in a hotel ballroom without having to purchase any corresponding services from the hotel. TSI will debut its Mega Kit in the Innovations Showcase at the InfoComm trade show June 8-10, 2016, demoing it for event industry pros looking for a more stable and affordable solution for their clients.
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Mega-Lite’s Lumen8 Surface is an all-in-one lighting console with a built-in quad core processor that is both powerful and intuitive. This lighting console features 2 built-in universes, 8 additional Art-Net out, and an expand port for up to 10 Lumen8 Stations in series. The Lumen8 Surface offers a professional interface with a more visual approach to lighting control.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The 61st Eurovision Song Contest has come and gone, but not without setting a whole host of firsts, one of which was the biggest international audience to date to witness the TourPro LightSky Aquabeam. Supplied by Litecom, 67 AquaBeam fixtures were used to illuminate the high-tech stage and interior of the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, where Eurovision 2016 took place.
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INDIANAPOLIS – The “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” celebrated its 100th anniversary in dramatic fashion as rookie driver Alexander Rossi coasted to a victory after his car ran out of gas near the end of the race. Rossi may have been running on empty when he crossed the finish line, but there was plenty of fuel left in the tanks of the high octane lightshows that Collyns Stenzel created for the three concerts that took place in conjunction with the race.
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MOSCOW––As part of the Moscow Anniversary Day celebrations, the Luzhniki Arena turned up the excitement for the Vivat Russia! champions’ figure skating event with a creative and memorable lighting experience, using 80 Martin MAC 101 LED moving wash fixtures. Lighting designer Alexey Zhuravlev used Martin MAC 101 fixtures for the event. The project became a creative collaboration between Zhuravlev and Roman Vakulyuk. Together, they created a large set of lighting presets and scripts for every moment of the show, including the individual ice performances as well as the vocal and acrobatic events.
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LAS VEGAS – Dataton will display Watchout 6 and other products at InfoComm 16, booth N547. The booth will feature a projection-mapped WATCHOUT show on a landscape of sculpted mountains and LED panels. That’s fifty-five LED panels, six large venue projectors, and audio – all running under WATCHOUT 6. External control from WATCHNET.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden – LumenRadio announced an agreement with LiteGear where LiteGear’s new LiteDimmer Wireless DMX system will incorporate LumenRadio’s CRMXTM wireless DMX technology.
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