VANCOUVER, BC, Canada — For the Fall-Winter 2014 edition of Vancouver Fashion Week, held at at Queen Elizabeth Plaza here Sept. 15-21, Showmax Event Services used lighting gear from Chauvet Professional and affiliated company Chauvet DJ to help draw attention to fashion designs from around the world.
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BOSTON — LD Derek Iorfida of JDI Productions (Johnston, RI) used Chauvet Professional gear including 24 Legend 412 moving heads, 18 Legend 230SR Beams and 30 WELL 2.0 fixtures to transform the look of the 15,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom at the Westin Waterfront Hotel here recently.
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CHICAGO — More than 100 industry professionals attended the Midwest Museum Sustainable Lighting Symposium, held Sept. 12 at the Field Museum here. Lightswitch Architectural co-sponsored the event along with The Field Museum, Xicato and Lighting Services Inc. Pictured here are, from left, LD Kevan Shaw, Lightswitch Architectural’s Thatcher Waller, Xicato’s Rohit Patil, Lighting Services Inc.’s Ken Kane and Scott Rosenfeld, representing the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery.
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QUEBEC CITY – After first putting test units through a serious of tortuous trials, including more than 500 floor-drops from different angles, Show Distribution, based here, has been incorporating Harting’s Han-Yellock 60 connectors into the chain and gear box components purchased from another Germany-based manufacturer, Liftket.
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LAS VEGAS – For the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival, staged in the MGM Grand here Sept. 19-20, LD Tom Kenny specified more than 500 Robe moving lights, provided by VER. The event, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, featured performances by Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Usher, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, Bastille and others.
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MORRISON, CO — Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre here with a lighting rig from Thornton, CO-based Brown Note Productions that included 22 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 LED-based moving lights controlled by a grandMA2 with NPU. The band’s LD, Saxton Waller, is also including the fixtures, sourced via A.C.T Lighting, in STS9’s fall touring rig.
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MANSFIELD, TX – For Walnut Ridge Baptist Church, Gemini Light Sound & Video installed 74 Showline SL PAR 150 ZOOM Luminaires from Philips Entertainment to suit the tastes of congregants looking for traditional and contemporary worship experiences.
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NASHVILLE — For Garth Brooks’ world tour, with a lighting design from LD Dave Butzler, Bandit Lites came up with a new fixture, dubbed the “Gig Lite” — a bright single source RGBA in a small PAR 30 form factor promising a smooth dimming curve that looked good on camera.
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EL DORADO, AR – South Arkansas Community College purchased a variety of LED lighting fixtures from Elation Professional. The new fixtures — EPAR QA Par lights, ELED Fresnel 150s, and Cuepix Strip Tri lights – will be used for instruction along with staged productions.
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