MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems named Michelle Grabel-Komar vice president of sales. Grabel-Komar will oversee the company’s vertical sales channels, taking advantage of her years of knowledge both within Full Compass and in her industry experience by heading up the Sales Department along with our new Sales Management team.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites’ family continues to grow with the recent hire of Brad Hylton as Warehouse Manager and the promotion of longtime Bandit employee Giff Swart to General Manager.
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BRUSSELS – When Martin Schulz was re-elected President of the European Parliament and Jean-Claude Junker for the EP commission, DB Video was tasked with illuminating the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium), indoor for the Hemicycle, Passerelle, Agora set and Forum set as well as outdoor for the main entrance & Protocol entrance at rue Wiertz.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – In the city of Antwerp, in Belgium, lies the luxurious shopping street Meir, connecting the town hall with the central station. Bringing in the highest rents of any street in Belgium and known to be the most expensive shopping street in the Benelux, Meir embraces the monumental department store, the Inno building consisting of two units dating back to 1901 and 1903.
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UK – Award winning theatre designer Lucy Osborne and internationally acclaimed lighting designer Emma Chapman of Studio Three Sixty, will join James Grieve, joint artistic director of Paines Plough, and Gavin Green of Charcoalblue theatre consultancy at the UK Theatre’s Touring Symposium 2015 to discuss Paines Plough’s award winning, pop-up Roundabout Theatre.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – It’s been called Montreal’s Ultimate Outdoor Winter Rave. Igloofest recently returned to town for the ninth edition of the popular electronic music festival, a cool way to hear the hottest tracks on four three-day weekends from January 16 to February 8.
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LOS ANGELES – Cliff Garten’s “Los Angeles Opens Its Heart of Compassion” transforms a Koreatown parking structure into a large-format blend of color, form and transparency designed to resonate with the neighborhood’s heritage. Garten got an assist with the project from Lightswitch Architectural.
Read More »Eurotruss’ HD22 ladder beam truss promises strength, durability and ease of use. The product uses standard FD/HD truss connection types and is sized at 200mm x 50mm. The main tube is 48.4mm x 4.47mm and the bracing is 20mm x 2mm. The ladder truss weighs 4.3 kg/meter. Eurotruss notes that the 200mm that the diagonal bracing pattern ensures maximum stability. The truss is available with 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-way corner blocks (1 to 4 way horizontally). The bracing pattern is symmetrical, using 20 x 2mm diagonals and straight end braces.
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AUSTIN, TX — Martin Professional announced the appointment of Brad Schiller as business development manager of rental & touring for the U.S. Schiller will be based in Austin, Texas and will report to Grif Palmer, senior manager of rental & touring/lighting.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Harman’s Martin Professional will be exhibiting in Hall 9, stand A93 at Prolight+Sound 2015, taking place April 15-18 at Messe, Frankfurt.
Read More »CINCINNATI, OH – Studio Gear, a Platinum High End Systems partner based in Milwaukee, Wis, will be exhibiting at the USITT Conference & Stage Expo in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 18th-21st. Products on display from High End Systems will include the Shapeshifter, Solaspot Pro 1500, Solawash 19, Axon HD Pro, and the entire Hog4 product lineup.
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PHOENIX – When you’re a lighting professional you don’t go to the opera only to enjoy the soaring music and beautiful set designs, you also can’t help but cast an analytical eye on the lighting rig. Peter Nolle, technical director of the Arizona Opera, knows this very well. Visiting an out-of-town opera, Nolle was awed by a star, not on stage, but over the stage, in the form of overhead COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour, par-style RGBW LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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