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Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative Launches Tools to Fight Bullying, Harassment and Intimidation

Discovery Church Lights Sports Store-Turned-House-of-Worship with Prolights Rig

ORLANDO – After 15 years at their original location in Orlando, FL, Discovery Church outgrew their space’s ability to effectively support their ministry. Purchasing a former Sports Authority retail space, the church renovated the building to support their needs for worship services. Headlining the new lighting rig are fixtures from PROLIGHTS distributed by A.C. Lighting Inc.

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NY Radio Station Flips to All Christmas Music with NYC Drone Show by Verge Aero

NEW YORK – iHeartMedia New York’s 106.7 LITE FM marked its “Flip to Christmas” holiday music changeover with an aerial light show from Verge Aero, which flew 200 drones from a safe launch zone on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The pre-recorded streaming show could be viewed on litefm.com on Nov. 13 from 7 to 8 p.m.

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Berlin’s Waldbühne Amphitheater Stages Outdoor Concert Series Lit with Robe Fixtures

BERLIN – Berlin’s Waldbühne amphitheater, which can normally pack in 22,900 people, hosted socially-distanced audiences with up to 5,000 people for the “Back to Live” outdoor concert series in September. TSE supplied a lighting rig that included Robe BMFL WashBeams, MegaPointes and Spiider moving lights.

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Blackmagic Design Announces New Micro Converter 3G Models

Blackmagic Design announced a new family of Micro Converter 3G models that let customers use HDMI equipment with professional SDI systems. These new models incorporate custom hardware developed by Blackmagic Design and include features previously only found on high end converters, such as 3D LUTs and more video formats than the older models they replace.

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Who Wants to Go to China During a Pandemic? – with Mat Stovall and Zach Matusow

with:

Mat Stovall, Lighting Designer

and Zach Matusow, Lighting Designer and Director

On this episode, we discuss traveling to China to do a show in the midst of a global pandemic, League of Legends – Worlds 2020, the rise of eSports games, the quarantine process, the flight over, working in China, the working guidelines and environment, the COVID screening process with documentation, WeChat,

Five weeks of XR environment studio shows, the audience at the show, and how the crew interacted before, during and after the show.

Please visit: http://www.zachmatusow.com/

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In Memoriam: Peter Wright, 54

NEW YORK – IATSE stagehand Peter Wright died Nov. 12 after falling from scaffolding while performing restoration work at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. Police reported that the accident took place around 8:45 a.m. while Wright was performing routine maintenance on the 109-year-old theater. Wright, a resident of Milford, CT, was 54.

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