SERIATE, Italy — LD Jo Campana, who has worked with Italian singer Mario Biondi for several years, described how the tour lighting design came about for the artist’s recent theater tour.
LAKE ORION, MI – High Resolution Systems unveiled its Video Wall Controller, offering video wall control and layout building as a software upgrade for the HRS Enterprise-10ss control system. Enterprise is the facility management suite from HRS and part of the HRS Integration Platform connecting technology, people and systems.
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HAMPSHIRE, UK – This is the 5th year running that Utopium has been called upon to supply its lighting and rigging for the creatively themed BoomTown Fair, known for its imaginatively themed cityscape. Utopium provided festival lighting and rigging to ten stages, including the expanded Lion’s Den stage, The Town Centre, The Old Mines, The Jolly Dodger, Crazy Calamities Saloon and The Hidden Woods, as well as providing lighting for all the woodland areas.
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WÜRZBURG, Germany — “Festungsflimmern” is an event that combines open air cinema with a historical backdrop, the Marienberg fortress. To ensure that the unique backdrop would not just be looming unnoticed in the dark, Eurolite spots were used to light up the landmark site, home to a cluster of structures built from the 13th to 18th centuries.
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NASHVILLE – American hard-rock band Shinedown recently wrapped their summer tour with lighting provided by Bandit Lites. After celebrating their ninth No. 1 single with “Cut the Cord” off their upcoming studio album Threat to Survival, the band will be back on the road in November with a co-headlining tour with Breaking Benjamin. LD Carter Fulghum used GLP, Robe, Vari-Lite and Clay Paky moving lights.
ATLANTA – Student registration is open now for the second annual LiNK theatre grad school recruiting event to be held Nov. 13-15 in Atlanta. LiNK, presented by USITT and SETC, drew 48 colleges and universities to Atlanta last year to interview and audition potential grad students for advanced degree programs in performing arts design and administration.
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AARHUS, Denmark – The cities of Detroit, Geneva and Frankfurt have something in common. Each plays host to three of the world’s biggest and most prominent auto shows. Manufacturers often leverage the attention garnered by these international events to launch new flagship models that will be the core of their business for the year to come.
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MERSEYSIDE, UK – Lift-Turn-Move (LTM) recently supplied LoadGuard hoists to various Worldwide Rigging companies for outdoor touring purposes in festivals such as Glastonbury and Wacken Open Air (pictured here).
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DERBYSHIRE, U.K. – Andy Whittaker of HSL credited Avolites’ Titan consoles for keeping the lighting and visual effects flowing at the multi-stage Bloodstock Festival, and a number of visiting LDs chimed in with good things to say about the control setup. All stages featured Avolites desks with Titan at the rock and metal festival, which drew more than 15,000 metal heads to Derbyshire this month.
Read More »LONDON – InfoComm’s Live Hands-On training program covering production essentials will be held on Friday, Sept. 4 2015 at Church House Conference Centre in Westminster, London, UK.
Read More »COLUMBIA, MD – Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. announced a Conference Pass Giveaway program with a chance at free conference passes and hotel stays for U.S. students. The prized are awarded to students on the basis of a 300- to 500-word statement about why they want to attend a specific conference and how they believe it will benefit them professionally. Applicants do not have to currently use a Vectorworks software program in order to be eligible, but they are asked to “Like” Vectorworks on Facebook.