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CAMROSE, Alberta, Canada – The Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre (PAC) is a 44,200-square-foot, multi-venue building. The venue earned a level-four Green Globe distinction for its energy-efficient building design and commitment to green technology before its doors even opened in October 2014. Christie Lites provided the venue with an LED lighting rig, including nearly 100 ETC Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr luminaires. As the largest Source Four LED Series 2 Lustr installation in the world, the venue is able to save between $30,000 and $35,000 each year in energy costs from the lighting system alone. The venue is also using ETC’s Gio console for control.

QUEBEC  – Elation Professional’s new SixPar LED multi-chip PAR color changers were chosen to color several areas of Foresta Lumina, an illuminated night trail through the forest in Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook, a tourist attraction near Quebec, Canada.

LISLE, IL – The lighting setup for the annual display, Illumination: The Lights at The Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago, included a new fixture this year: the recently-introduced Mythos from Clay Paky. The fixtures are mounted in Igloo domes and illuminate custom water features in the arboretum’s Meadow Lake.  “They have more punch and more functionality for the show, including the ability to zoom in and out and go even bigger with the prism effect,” noted Matt Pearlman, senior account executive with Intelligent Lighting Creations (ILC).

NEW YORK – Tasked with lighting two events over two nights on a limited budget, LD Rob Strohmeier turned to 4Wall New York for the equipment needed for the 2014 CLIO Genius Visionary Awards (pictured here) and the CLIO Awards after party the following night.  4Wall provided ETC Source Four Ellipsoidals, Chroma-Q Color Force 12 units, TMB’s Solaris Flare, Martin MAC Auras and Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures.

NEW YORK – Two Broadway designers who are also Yale School of Drama colleagues, Jane Greenwood and Wendall Harrington, will receive USITT Distinguished Achievement Awards in 2015. Greenwood (pictured here), whose career as a costume designer spans six decades, will receive USITT’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Costume Design at USITT’s 2015 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Cincinnati March 18-21.

ASHEVILLE, NC – Pulse Lighting and Bandit Lites joined forces to light the 26^th Christmas Jam hosted by Warren Haynes at U.S. Cellular Center on Dec. 13, 2014. With access to Bandit’s entire inventory, LD Preston Hoffman used 56 GLP X4s, 14 Martin MAC Vipers, six Robe BMFLs, 12 Clay Paky Sharpys, 30 Elation CuePix Panels, 17 2-cell LED blinders, 12 GRN Pars and two grandMA2 consoles for control.

SUN VALLEY, CA – Pacific Coast Entertainment (PCE) provided lighting designer Jean-Yves Tessier with 12 of their GLP impression X4 LED fixtures to light 3-D Theatricals’ stage production of E.L. Doctorow’s classic book, Ragtime, at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA. It marked the latest stage in a long partnership between PCE and GLP, both of which have taken root in the Los Angeles area.