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NYC – Lee Filters sponsors Stage Lighting Super Saturday 2018. “Lee Filters has been with us since the first workshop 13 years ago and we thank them for their continued support. Each year attendees leave with the most current gel books and filter information.” Scott Parker says of the company. Lee Filters provides high-quality lighting filters in a vast range of colors that are accurately consistent from batch to batch, long-lasting and dependable.

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LAS VEGAS – You could wait until New Year’s to resolve to book your seat or table for the 17th annual Parnelli Awards. But then again, maybe you shouldn’t wait that long. When it comes to the Parnelli Awards, attendees, it seems, have already resolved to not procrastinate. The ceremony is on Jan. 26, 2018 – exactly one month away from the date of this news posting and newsletter – and most of the available tickets have already been sold.

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[caption id="attachment_281646" align="alignnone" width="800"]MCC Christmas-Events United[/caption]

MANCHESTER, NH – Manchester Christian Church’s Christmas service on Friday, Dec. 22 drew more than 6,000 worshippers. Events United provided an impressive visual design that welcomed the large crowd within the modern Southern New Hampshire University Arena. The lighting setup included more than 90 fixtures from Chauvet Professional, and a 40-by-40-foot video wall made from 92 PVP X6IP LED tiles served as the visual centerpiece for the production.

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[caption id="attachment_281643" align="alignnone" width="800"]Christmas At Faith Family[/caption]

NORTH CANTON, OH –  Christmas came early for worshippers at Faith Family Church. Although they will be attending services on Christmas Eve, more than 8,200 of them began celebrating the holiday and its true meaning nine days earlier on Friday December 15 during the annual “Christmas At Faith Family.” A beautifully orchestrated event that combines music, videos, dramatizations and inspirational messages, Christmas At Faith Family is an uplifting contemporary celebration of the season.

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[caption id="attachment_281634" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ghost the Musical[/caption]

WHITE PLAINS, NY – When Ghost (the movie) premiered in 1990, it was a big hit, so it wasn’t surprising that the romantic drama film was adapted for the stage, playing in the West End, on Broadway and a long running First National Tour. Lighting designer Matt Guminski lit a reworked version of the show recently at the White Plains Performing Arts Center in White Plains, NY, using a rig that included Elation Professional Satura Profile and Platinum Seven LED moving heads. 

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[caption id="attachment_281624" align="alignnone" width="800"]SkyDeck at Lacuna Lofts[/caption]

CHICAGO – In a city known for serving up great sights, few settings offer vistas quiet as memorable as the SkyDeck at Lacuna Lofts. Although it sits only five stories above the ground atop a 120-year-old former macaroni factory in the hip Pilsen Art District, the deck towers over its South Side surroundings, thus providing visitors with a unique vantage point from which to enjoy a clear, unobstructed view of the city’s famed skyline across the Chicago River.

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[caption id="attachment_281606" align="alignnone" width="800"]LITEC MyT Roof system[/caption]

LAS VEGAS – LITEC is proud to announce that its MyT Folding Steroid Roof System received the 2017 “Best New Truss” Gold Star Award from PLSN magazine www.plsn.com (Projection, Lights & Staging News) in the United States! The winning of this award is further confirmation that the MyT Folding Steroid truss design is not only what their customers require, but also what industry professionals appreciate. The award was presented to LITEC on November 16th at the LDI exhibition in Las Vegas.

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[caption id="attachment_281600" align="alignnone" width="800"]Angel Tree Bandits[/caption]

KNOXVILLE, TN – In an effort to make the Christmas holiday season a little brighter for families in need, Bandit Lites and its employees once again reached out to support the Salvation Army and Knoxville’s Angel Tree charities this winter. Knoxville’s Angel Tree program has been working to make sure Santa visits every local child, no matter their circumstances, since 1975 and the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Program delivers gifts to over one million children each year.

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[caption id="attachment_281597" align="alignnone" width="800"]Spider Murphy gets some light from GLP[/caption]

SAN FERNANDO, CA – They were the rock idols of the Munich ‘Schickeria’, and in the 80s and 90s were Bavaria’s hottest rock exports throughout the whole of Europe … we are talking about Barny Murphy, Günther Sigl and the Spider Murphy Gang. Their recent 40th anniversary concert showed they had lost none of their fire, and Marc Lorenz from CUE Design provided the perfect lightshow at the Olympiahalle.

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[caption id="attachment_281594" align="alignnone" width="800"]BIG Something gets some light from Chauvet[/caption]

GREENSBORO, NC – By the time they finish their New Year’s Eve Show at Raleigh’s Lincoln Theater, alt rockers BIG Something will have performed close to 150 shows in 2017. Cameron Grogan, who has lighted all of their performances, can safely say that no two of his lightshows have ever come close to being the same. Much of this inexhaustible supply of fresh looks is due to Grogan’s passion for punting, but some of the credit, he says, should go to the eight CHAUVET Professional Rogue R2 Spot fixtures in his rig.

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[caption id="attachment_281588" align="alignnone" width="800"]Aria™ Profile Series[/caption]

WAUKESHA, WI. – a•ri•a (ärēə) | noun | A new ETL-listed ellipsoidal spot series from Blizzard Lighting. See also: Blizzard’s new ultra-affordable, mega-coveted, high-performing series featuring an RGBW and WW version. See also: The hottest new theatrical fixtures to hit the market that all the cool LDs are using. See also: Your next purchase.

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[caption id="attachment_281583" align="alignnone" width="800"]2017-MTV-TRL show lit with WorldStage[/caption]

NYC – MTV launched “TRL” in a new 8,800 square-foot Times Square studio in October and Lighting Designer Mike Grabowski, of The Lighting Design Group in New York City, assembled a versatile rig for the series featuring several new-to-market fixtures from High End Systems and Chauvet supplied by WorldStage.

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