National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $25 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $25,000 to USITT for the 2019 United States Exhibition of the Prague Quadrennial.
Read More »A football field-size LED display made a colossal impression on attendees and vendors at Amazon Web Services’ re:INVENT 2017 cloud user conference. Feeding content to the mammoth wall and additional projection surfaces required some well thought out engineering provided by WorldStage
Read More »LAS VEGAS — The 17th annual Parnelli Awards gala, held Friday, Jan. 26 at the Anaheim Hilton during NAMM 2018, brought together more than 600 of the live event production industry’s top achievers to honor Bobby “Boomer” Thrasher, Jonathan Smeeton and John Stadius with the Lifetime Achievement Award, Visionary Award and Audio Innovator Award, respectively. During the event, there were several photographers on hand, and these photos are now available for download at ParnelliAwards.com.
Read More »MINNEAPOLIS — Between the time Justin Timberlake kicked off the Super Bowl LII halftime show on Feb. 4, 2018 to his final wave goodbye less than 14 minutes later, the singer and his energetic entourage performed a medley of 10 hits from Timberlake’s own 26-year career along with a tribute to local legend Prince that included an aerial shot as a vast swath of Minneapolis was washed in purple lighting. The production team supporting the show, seen by millions on NBC, included PRG (Lighting), VER (Video), Strictly FX (Pyro), All Access Staging and Production (Staging) and ATK Audiotek.
Read More »NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites kicked off its 50th year with its Annual General Meeting, a gathering of all Bandits from around the country to commemorate the previous year’s successes, laud those with significant anniversaries and outstanding service and to devise the groundwork for the upcoming year’s projects. Pictured here are Bandit Lites chairman Michael T. Strickland with Don Lockridge, who has been serving the company for more than 30 of its 50 years.
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When Matthew Beauchamp and his team at Mobile Productions were brought in to provide the audio, video and lighting for the InspirEve Gala, they were given simple instructions: “Provide guests with a new, more elegant experience.”
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From 6-9 of February ADJ Lighting will be on stand #7-P208 at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show at the RAI Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This year, the ADJ Europe team will demonstrate products across its lighting and video ranges that will help Audio, Video & Lighting professional “Do More!”
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LOS ANGELES – This past holiday season marked the second year Lightswitch designed “Enchanted Forest of Light” at Descanso Gardens and the fifth year of “Illumination” at Morton Arboretum, creating visually stunning and memorable experiences using a bevy of fixtures including Elation’s IP65 -rated Proteus arc-source moving heads. The Elation fixtures were among more than 400 fixtures that 4Wall provided for the Descanso Gardens attraction, which was open from Nov. 19, 2017 to Jan. 7, 2018.
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Leading Canadian and North American based rental and technical production specialist Solotech has recently purchased over 100 x Robe BMFLs and 26 x MegaPointes in its latest investment in the Czech moving light brand, adding to an already extensive stock of Robe Spikies and Pointes.
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The celebrated home of the champion Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks now features a 190,000 square-foot addition with power distribution and trussing installed by Upstaging. Opened to the public last fall, the new atrium features the stadium’s box office as well as an expansive team store, dining options, business offices, and the eternally popular Michael Jordan statue, now indoors and artfully lit.
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Famous lives are often the focus of exhibits at The National Museum of African American History and Culture and its neighbor, The National Museum of American History. But rarely do these two prestigious institutions, which are part of the Smithsonian complex, roll out the red carpet for heroes quite like those who were honored this January at “DC in DC.”
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We’re happy to report that our first NAMM show was a major success that far exceeded our wildest expectations! We would like to thank all of our long time clients who came to say hello, as well as the many new visitors we were very happy to meet.
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