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LONDON – Entertainment lighting specialist White Light has spent the winter helping lighting designer Phil Supple bring light to the dark winter nights at forests around the UK as part of Culture Creative’s Electric Forest project. This saw lighting transform the Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest in Kent during October, High Lodge at Thetford Forest in Suffolk during December and the Moors Valley Country Park & Forest in Dorset this February.

FRANKFURT, Germany — The live entertainment industry spotlight turned to Frankfurt from March 21-24 for this year’s Prolight + Sound and Musikmesse trade events. Along with the latest technology, the industry’s proclivity to mix business with pleasure at industry confabs was on full display. Here are a few highlights.

LONDON – When Colour Sound Experiment found itself bursting at the seams with equipment in its inventory, something had to give: the walls. The company expanded its current warehouse facility by acquiring the building next door and knocking down the walls. The expansion nearly doubles the previous available space. Another part of the new space is a dedicated storage and workshop area.

LONDON – Danish LD Benjamin la Cour has been using his own Jands Vista T2 lighting console, running the next generation Vista v2 software, on a busy schedule which includes a Danish production of  “Les Miserables.” The designer tried out three different consoles for a month each, deciding on the Jands Vista in the end because of its theatre-friendly features.

LONDON  – ‘Man in the Middle” is a fast-paced play through the key events of Julian Assange’s life. UK lighting designer Johanna Town used Philips Selecon PL1 LED luminaires on the Wiki play, staged at Theatre 503 in London.

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