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Visual Acuity Names Damian Andrews Lead Consultant

Damian Andrews

Visual Acuity Names Damian Andrews Lead Consultant

BRIGHTON, UK — Visual Acuity named Damian Andrews Lead Consultant, Project Development. Andrews’ experience includes work as stage manager for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, technical manager and senior production manager aboard the Queen Mary 2, work as an event technician and convention-centre operations manager in New Zealand, work on planetarium installations for Sky-Skan, Inc., and for a Melbourne, Australia-based events services company, Staging Connections. He has also served as technical director and chief lighting technician at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. He will now be based at Visual Acuity’s Brighton, U.K. headquarters.

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Stage Technologies is Platinum Sponsor of NATEAC 2012

NEW YORK — The 2012 North American Theatre Engineering and Architecture (NATEAC) Conference, set for New York on July 22-23, announced that Stage Technologies will serve as platinum sponsor. NATEAC was started by Bill Sapsis in 2008 to promote communication between those who design, build and renovate theatres in America, and Stage Technologies served at that event’s main sponsor also.

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Electric

Colour Sound Makes the Rounds at London Clubs

London – Lighting rental company Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) designs and supplies lighting and rigging for a number of UK clubs including the newly opened “Electric” live music venue in Brixton. Other current projects include The Box in Soho, four venues in Brighton and the Ice Bar in London. Each club has its own production needs, which CSE fulfills.

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X Factor

X Factor, VMAs Take to Sharpys, grandMA2

LOS ANGELES – GrandMA2 systems and Clay Paky Sharpy moving fixtures have been in demand for such high-profile programs as Simon Cowell’s new “X Factor” music reality show for FOX and the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).  LD Tom Kenny reports success using the gear for both events.

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GearSource Announces Technology Partnership with Production Exchange

LOS ANGELES — GearSource will include a new technology interface with Production Exchange, an Internet-based exchange for production rentals and used gear sales. The partnership lets Production Exchange subscribers set up their software to auto-post their used gear listings to GearSource or control them individually.  Production Exchange’s cloud-hosted application integrates with www.gearsource.com.

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