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Winterparty ’16 in Dublin Gets Avolites Assist

Conor Biddle specified an Avolites Sapphire Touch console

Winterparty ’16 in Dublin Gets Avolites Assist

DUBLIN, Ireland – Electronic dance music lighting designer Conor Biddle specified an Avolites Sapphire Touch console to power his beat-perfect, immersive design for Winterparty ’16, which returned to Ireland’s 3Arena in October after a 12-year hiatus. Inspired by the lighting at Las Vegas super-clubs, Biddle designed an intense, high-production show to celebrate the mammoth dance event’s welcome return, which saw an epic line-up including Skream, Matador and Sven Vath.

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Elation DW Pendant Variable White Light Downlight

Elation DW Pendant Variable White Light Downlight

Elation Professional’s popular Colour Pendant™ color-changing RGBW LED luminaire is now available in a variable white light version, the DW Pendant™. This new, highly versatile, ETL approved LED luminaire allows for dynamic white light control of stage or house lighting levels in an energy-efficient downlighting fixture. 

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From left, ULA’s Blair Terrace, Auckland Live’s Malcolm Ibel and ULA’s Cuono Biviano

Auckland Live Adds Robe Fixtures to Inventory

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Auckland Live is a busy umbrella organization running all the live performance venues in New Zealand’s largest performing arts and convention center complex … right in the heart of the city.  Their existing stock of Robe moving lights is now boosted with the addition of 44 new LED moving lights –  12 x DL4S Profiles and 32 x LEDWash 800s to help them illuminate all the various events at a multitude of venues.

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Kendall Carter

In Memoriam: Kendall E. Carter, 53

OLD HICKORY, TN — Kendall E. Carter, 53, died Nov. 23, 2016 at his home in Old Hickory, TN, near Nashville. Born in Baker, LA, near Baton Rouge, he hit the road at age 19, heading out to Los Angeles and joining Showlites. He toured with top rock and country acts and helped Rhino launch its Louisiana office before joining VER as a project manager in 2012.

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Jim Lichtscheidl and Mark Rylance

Nice Catch For SLX

LONDON – SLX has provided the lighting equipment for award winning actor, Mark Rylance’s, show “Nice Fish” at The Harold Pinter Theatre for Sonia Friedman Productions. The show which opened to critical acclaim last year on Broadway opened on the 25th November 2016 at The Harold Pinter Theatre, London. Lighting design was provided by USA based Japhy Weideman. Programming was by Andi Davis.

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Outlook and Dimensions

Outlook and Dimensions Dance Music Festival in Croatia Get Visual Assist from Avolites Consoles, Ai Media Servers

CROATIA – Avolites control consoles and Ai media servers powered beat-perfect visuals across Outlook and Dimensions, two of Croatia’s leading dance music festivals, seamlessly merging lighting and video to immerse and enthrall the crowds of revelers. The sister festivals are held every year in Croatia’s medieval town of Pula in the ruins of the town’s 150-year-old Fort, ‘Punto Christo’. Providing the lighting and video aspects for both Outlook and Dimensions was Fineline Lighting, which has been involved in the festivals since 2012.

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Pretty Lights

Pretty Lights for Pretty Lights!

USA – Ever since Atlanta-based LD Greg Ellis discovered Robe’s BMFL moving lights, he has been recommending them to as many people as possible and continues to be “consistently impressed” with Robe’s subsequent product launches. He just finished the latest leg of a Pretty Lights US tour where 36 x Spikies and 14 x BMFL Spots graced his lighting rig and helped create a stylish and invigorating show for the atist he has worked with for the last seven years.

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Linda Hamburger

PTT of Florida Names Linda Hamburger Marketing Communications Manager

DAVIE, FL – PTT of Florida, a leading provider of stagehand labor for live events, named Linda Hamburger marketing communications manager. Hamburger, a well-known publicist and writer, handles PTT’s sponsored on line group, Florida Riggers & Stagehands. She has worked with the company for more than 10 years, initially as a freelancer and now joins the company’s in-house team of professionals.

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IBS Team accepting their 2016 ILEA Award for Spirit of Excellence

IBS Celebrates 20 Years

DUBAI – The IBS (International Building Services) Group celebrates 20 years at the top of the entertainment production industry in Dubai, having gained a solid reputation for building ambitious bespoke sets, providing detailed and elaborate décor as well as specialist draping and soft goods. The company is headed by Alan Scoley and embraces all types of events … from high profile corporate activations to live performances, cultural shows to conferences and exhibitions to lavish weddings.

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