International News

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LONDON – PLASA 2017 at Olympia in West London will give lighting professionals the opportunity to see for themselves what the latest buzz around some of Elation Professional’s newest luminaires is all about. From September 17-19, Elation will be showcasing at Stand H40 its new breed of hybrid luminaire, the full-color IP65-rated Paladin™ strobe/wash/blinder effect, along with the award-winning Proteus™ line of IP65-rated arc-source moving heads (Proteus Beam™ and Proteus Hybrid™).

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ANTWERP, BELGIUM – Spread across four stories and six zoned entertainment areas, the new 6000 square meter Comics Station Antwerp indoor theme park is a colorful celebration of creativity. Located in the city’s central station complex, it offers children and adults alike the opportunity to interact with Belgium’s best loved comic heroes such as Suske en Wiske (Spike and Suzy), Jommeke and the Smurfs.

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UK – The latest lighting console from British lighting and video control manufacturer Avolites is currently being used to control the versatile lighting rig on the National Theatre’s River Stage Festival on London’s South Bank. A free outdoor event, the River Stage Festival runs each weekend throughout the month of August. Audiences are invited to see a wide range performances from award-winning dance and cinema to family workshops, live music and theatre. “To meet demand we needed a lighting console that could deliver an extensive range of lighting control options.” says LD Huw Llewellyn.

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MARSEILLE, FRANCE – Robe moving lights were top of the spec list compiled by Frederic “Aldo” Fayard from Paris based visual design practice Concept K, who produced an elaborate lighting design for the 2017 Summer Stadium Festival staged at the Orange Velodrome in Marseille. The Velodrome is France’s largest football ground with a capacity of over 67,000 and the country’s second largest stadium after the Stade de France. This was the second edition of the one day ‘Summer Stadium’ dance spectacular – following the first in 2015 – featuring an impressive line-up of electronic and EDM stars. It is organized by the venue itself.

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KASTELLAUN, Germany – For the 2017 edition of the Nature One electronic music festival, which drew some 65,000 revelers to Pydna Missle Base in Kastellaun, Germany Aug. 4-6, artists performed on a total of more than 20 stages. For the event’s main stage, LD Thomas Gerdon relied on fixtures from GLP to add intense visuals to the electronic pulse of the event. PRG provided 120 GLP GT-1’s, 108 impression X4 L’s and 48 GLP JDC-1 strobes.

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AMHERST, NEW YORK — Fresh from its acquisition of Just Lamps, Stampede, the world’s leading value-added distributor of ProAV products and system solutions, is coming to Integrate 2017 with a complete range of products and solutions, as well as a host of new sales and business development programs designed to help manufacturers and resellers better serve the needs of their customers throughout Australia and the APAC region.

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UK – 360° Theatre was the immersive cinema event by fulldome mapping specialist, GaiaNova, held at London’s Cody Dock. The event used exclusively Avolites Ai R8 Media servers to video map the interior of one of GaiaNova’s 18m projection domes with a diverse range of speciality designed 360° video over the course of two days. Content was created for the showcase by a host of visiting artists, including new media artists Bertie Sampson and Michaela French and creatives from The Royal College of Art’s Fulldome Research Group (FDRG). The National Space Centre’s (NSC) planetarium film, ‘We are Stars’ was also screened regularly throughout the event.

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Lexair Entertainment is pleased to announce that they are the new Australian and New Zealand exclusive distributor for LDDE. LDDE specialize in the Theatre and Studio lighting markets, and have held an exceptional reputation since its foundation nearly 30 years ago. Their products are all manufactured in the company’s home of Austria, and enjoy excellent quality and performance.

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SLOVENIA – Event Lighting is Slovenia’s largest and busiest lighting rental specialist, based in the capital, Ljubljana. The operation is owned and run by Jernej Gustin, who likes to be setting the trends rather than following them! So it wasn’t a massive surprise that they were the first company in the country to purchase Robe’s new Spiider LED wash beams following a trailblazing purchase of BMFL Blades last year which also started the ball rolling in a country with a small but highly competitive and action packed market!.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Indian Independence Day holds a special meaning for the people of Lenasia Township. It was here in the early 20th century that a young Mahatma Gandhi staged a famous protest at the local railway station to advance the cause of civil rights for South Africa’s Indian population. Later, when he returned to India, Gandhi would employ the idea of non-violent civil disobedience that he had honed in South Africa to win independence for his native country, and in the process, change the world.

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GLASGOW, Scotland – Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes shot to fame via a clip he posted to Vine in 2014 and has quickly garnered pop royalty status with a social media fan following of millions. At the pinnacle of his career playing sold out arenas around the world, Shawn is currently embarking on his ‘Illuminate’ world tour – and leading French manufacturer and provider of lighting balloons for the event industry, Airstar, is helping to set the unique stage for the hottest ticket of 2017 with its Pendulair LED product.

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LONDON – Lighting and visuals designer Andy Hurst wanted to make a big impact for Chase & Status acclaimed Saturday night headliner set at the 2017 Lovebox festival in London’s Victoria Park, so he designed an impressive specials package which was supplied by HSL, together with crew, which was installed under the event’s production ‘top rig’. The ‘extras’ included 194 x SGM Q-7 LED flood / strobes, used highly effectively for the strobe-tastic onslaught that you expect  at a Chase & Status gig as well as super-bright floods  and audience blinders. 

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