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SPOKANE, WA — The 12K charity Lilac Bloomsday Run draws more than 40,000 to get a workout while seeing the sights in Spokane, WA and raise funds for charities. The course starts and finishes near the landmark Great Northern Clock Tower. AMP’D Entertainment provided Chauvet Professional COLORado 4 IP fixtures to bathe the structure in rich colored light.

LAS VEGAS  – Videssence will bring its more than 25 years of experience in energy-efficient lighting to the 2016 NAB Show (April 18-21, Las Vegas Convention Center), where its LED lighting technology will illuminate the camera technology of Hitachi Kokusai, exhibiting at booth C4309. Pictured here is Videssence’s Vidnel studio style light fixture.

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Since 2014, the Chauvet Professional Student Lighting Showcase has had teams of two to three students from college theater programs in the LA area work under the guidance of educators to create lighting designs for different pieces of music. Their work is then critiqued by professional designers. The program is moving from Chauvet’s Burbank showroom to the Montalbán Theatre, and this year, the students will be asked to light songs from the movies using PVP X3 LED video panels, Next NXT-1 moving LED panels, Nexus 4×4 panels and other Chauvet components. The showcase is set for Saturday, April 16.

GLENDALE CA. – Kinetic Lighting, Inc. recently added Elation’s Platinum FLX hybrid luminaire to its rental inventory. Kinetic, which has served the greater Los Angeles market’s lighting needs since 1996, also added Colour Chorus LED battens to its inventory. Pictured here are Kinetic Lighting’s James Schipper and David Rosen.

AMSTERDAM – Belgian lighting designer Carlo Zaenan of QBE crafted a rig that included 256 Robe moving lights for the 2016 leg of the recent ‘Symphonica in Rosso’ concert series. The six performances were presented by Dutch singer Marco Borsato at Amsterdam’s 17,000 capacity Ziggo Dome.

LOS ANGELES — Rapper Pitbull performed his latest single, “Bad Man,” on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Feb. 16, the night following the Grammys, where Pitbull also performed (and won an award). Fallon’s show, normally based in New York, was filming in Los Angeles Feb. 15-19, and Pitbull was joined by Robin Thicke, Joe Perry and Travis Barker along with a cadre of dancers and some hyperkinetic lighting looks achieved with  the help of Elation Professional’s new ACL 360 Roller effect lights.

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – Disciple Now Weekend draws high school and middle school students in the Grand Prairie, Texas area together. Held at First Baptist Church, the youth retreat is a three-day long gathering that includes praise and worship, bible studies, concerts and speakers. The youth pastors that organized the event turned to Ditech A.V. of El Campo, TX for their production needs, providing the church with gear from Mega Systems, Inc.

LOS ANGELES  – For Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “The River Tour 2016,” LD Jeff Ravitz sought visuals that would evoke concerts circa 1980, when Springsteen’s fifth album, The River, was released, while also leveraging the technological advantages of today’s LED fixtures. He was able to do both with a rig that updated the old-school PAR cans of yesterday with newer fixtures, including COLORado 1-Tri IP LED pars from Chauvet Professional.

SALT LAKE CITY – At USITT 2016, Fred Foster, CEO of ETC, presented a check for $19,259.35 to Behind the Scenes, which reflected ongoing proceeds from sales of ETC’s iRFR and aRFR (Radio Focus Remote) applications for iOS and Android devices. This amount brought the total donated from the apps to just over a quarter of a million dollars, a number that overwhelms everyone involved. When first launched, it was unimaginable that these apps, developed by ETC software engineers Chris Mizerak and Anders Ekvall, would bring so much help and hope to our colleagues in need. Pictured are Rick Rudolph, Chair of the Behind the Scenes Foundation, and Fred Foster.

NASHVILLE – Rascal Flatts may have only just wrapped their hit Las Vegas residency earlier this month, but the ACM “Vocal Group of the Year” nominees are already back on the road carrying a lighting package provided by long time vendor Bandit Lites. By using more than 180 GRNLite LED Pars, Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots, VL3500 Washes, Martin Atomic Strobes and Moles, LD Andy Knighton and production manager Jay Schwartz focused on keeping the rig for the spring run of one-offs modest and affordable, while still infusing the entire space with light.