WASHINGTON, DC – The American Society of Association Executives has announced that David Grindle, Executive Director of USITT, has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation. The CAE is the highest professional credential in the association industry.
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AMHERST, NY – Christie named Stampede exclusive distributor in North America, the U.K. and Ireland for the Christie Access Series LCD panels.
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Metallica kicked off their WorldWired stadium tour in the US with a fitting fanfare of lights and lasers. It’s been at least a decade since the band last went on the road in North America and their entrance certainly didn’t disappoint. With no roof over any of the stadium stages, gargantuan screens stretching high into the sky and a mind-boggling pyro display, Metal’s prodigal sons put their trust in Production Manager Dan Braun to coordinate the creative execution of the tour.
RENDCOMB, U.K. – Theatre lighting designer Andy Webb has specified an Avolites Tiger Touch II as the house-desk at The Griffin Centre, a new £3.3 million state-of the-art performance venue at the Cotswold educational establishment, Rendcomb College. Webb has been involved in the build as technical consultant since 2013, having worked alongside the college for over a decade, supporting the theatrical department and teaching A-Level lighting design.
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ORANJESTAD, Arube – Too often, events that receive a lot of accolades don’t seem to live up to their press clippings. This was definitely not the case at the 2017 Soul Beach Music Festival in Arubal. Routinely included in the Top Ten lists of Caribbean festivals from the likes of USA Today and Jetsetter Magazine, the five day event exceeded the highest expectations this year, serving up a plethora of performances from superstars like Usher, The Roots and Mary J. Blige in a paradisiacal setting. Adding extra sizzle to the proceedings was the seemingly endless variety of intensely colored big looks that Erik van Oorsouw of Elite Productions created with help from over 100 CHAUVET Professional fixtures.
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With robust metal contacts that can be plugged and unplugged at least 10,000 times, the new Han® Pneumatic Module Metal from HARTING presents another significant cost- and space-saving opportunity to use connectors to streamline flexible production processes with high mating cycles. The Han® Pneumatic Module Metal can withstand pressure up to 10 bars, covering the entire low pressure range. This compares with an upper limit of 8 bars for the existing Han® Pneumatic Module with plastic contacts.
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DUNHUANG, China – A range of Claypaky moving head fixtures created the responsive theatrical lighting for immersive Chinese theatre production ‘Encore Dunhuang’, a ‘walk-in’ theatre show that debuted at the first Silk Road Dunhuang International Cultural Expo. The event’s theatrical lighting design was created by lighting designer Mr Wang Yugang, who specified the Claypaky Scenius Profile, Claypaky Alpha Profile 1200s and Claypaky Sharpy Was he 330s to meet the demands and the scale of the production. Mr Wang Yugang singled out the Scenius Profile specifically for its superior color rendering.
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OZARK, AL – Lighting Designer and Vice President at Premier Entertainment Group, Stephen Krietemeyer, designed the lighting for a special Easter church service at Glory to Him Church in Ozark, Alabama, and turned to Elation Professional Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving heads and Fuze Wash Z350™ LED wash light moving heads to fulfill the vision.
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ITASCA, Ill., — ABCOMRENTS, a leading provider of Digital Signage & interactive technology solutions, has partnered with Absen to bring even more of their products to the U.S. rental market. One of the latest offerings is the Absen X5 LED Tile, a high quality, multipurpose, curvable LED wall tile that is unique in the technology rental industry. The partnership will continue to make innovative technology more accessible to the rental & staging industry nationally.
NORTHPORT, NY – For a production of the popular musical Oklahoma! that ran at the John W. Engeman Theater from May 11 to June 25, LD Zach Blane’s mission was to “support the script and convey the clearest story possible.” He used ten Ovation E-910FC fixtures from Chauvet Professional to create the musical’s sunlit and moonlit scenes.
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PARIS – In just a few short years, The Weeknd has become one of the most dominating artists in pop music, winning multiple GRAMMY Awards, topping the Billboard charts and earning millions of fans worldwide. Recently, Lighting Designer Sooner Routhier was hired to design the stage lighting for The Weeknd’s 2017 “Starboy: Legend of the Fall” world tour. The performance features numerous projectors that display video content on custom surfaces, including a large spaceship shaped structure suspended above the stage.
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HILVERSUM, The Netherlands – Philips Entertainment Lighting’s new Philips VL6000 Beams were part of Bas de Vries’ lighting design for The Netherlands’ prime-time talent show, The Voice Kids, featuring contestants aged 6-14.
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