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High School and Middle School students offering worship and fellowshipping at the Youth Evangelism Conference.

Bandit Lights Up Youth Evangelism Conference of Tennessee

NASHVILLE – The Nashville Municipal Auditorium was aglow March 10 and 11th with more than 8,000 high school and middle school students offering worship and fellowshipping at the Youth Evangelism Conference. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event for Orchestrate Experience with Lighting Designer Trey Meares and Orchestrate Production Director Alex Fleming. Featured guests included Dave Edwards, The Skit Guys, Luke MacDonald and the YEC Worship Band.

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Chauvet Holds Grand Opening Event for New Facility In Mexico

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LERMA, Mexico – Chauvet held a grand opening event for its new office, warehouse, service center and showroom facility in Mexico recently. Close to 100 attended the event, which featured a buffet dinner, speeches and DJ entertainment. Pictured here, from left, are Carlos Zamora de Martino General Manager of Chauvet Mexico, Daniel Pérez Carrillo and Alma Delia Reyes Villegas of Kassthelm, Albert Chauvet and Berenice Chauvet

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DTS Lighting Takes Stratosphere Theater To New Heights

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LAS VEGAS — The Stratosphere Theater, within the Stratosphere hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is a busy place, with up to three different productions a day, all of which feature unique lighting requirements. Director of entertainment Chris Townsend credited DTS for the performance of 28 new Max L moving lights that have been installed in the venue since January.

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Chauvet Acquires ChamSys

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SUNRISE, FL — Chauvet & Sons LLC has acquired ChamSys Ltd., the U.K.-based designer and manufacturer of lighting controllers. ChamSys provides Chauvet with a strong presence in the controller market, complementing Chauvet’s lighting fixtures and LED video panels. ChamSys will continue to operate from its facility in Southampton, U.K., led by ChamSys founders Chris Kennedy and George McDuff, who will serve as managing directors, and sales director Tony Cameron.

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ETCP To Launch Portable Power Distribution Technician Practice Exam on April 1, 2017

NYC – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) will launch a practice exam for the Portable Power Distribution Technician certification examination on April 1, 2017. The web-based practice exam will consist of fifty questions is available from that date forward for forty dollars at etcp.esta.org/practiceexams. Candidates should go to the “Candidates” link and then follow the menu to ETCP and choose this exam.

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'Shaping Sound After the Curtain' - Photo by Kaitlin Chow

Bandit Brings The Lights to ‘Shaping Sound: After The Curtain’

NASHVILLE – Shaping Sound, a mash up of contemporary dancers, musical genres and dancing styles, has returned to the road with a new production with Shaping Sound: After the Curtain. Bandit Lites is once again providing the lighting package for the spectacle, which is under the artistic direction of Emmy Award winner Travis Wall and co-created with Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson.

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Matt Collier Goes Green On St. Patrick’s Day With Chauvet

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SAN DIEGO – Most of the fans who turned up at The Holding Company to hear a St. Patrick’s Day concert by the popular Irish band The Fooks were appropriately dressed in green. They weren’t alone. The well-known Ocean Beach music venue was also adorned in brilliant emerald, thanks to some imaginative lighting by Matt Collier and a collection of fixtures from CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ.

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‘Photonapalooza’ gives lighting students at University of North Carolina’s School of Design and Production an opportunity to create short, themed lighting compositions set to music. ACT-distributed products played a key role.

A.C.T Lighting Supplies Educational Sector with Claypaky and MA Products

LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. continues its support of the educational community by providing students with new equipment used by lighting professionals worldwide.  Most recently A.C.T Lighting supplied Claypaky fixtures and grandMA2 consoles to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas.  A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky fixtures and MA Lighting products in North America.

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