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Tribute Concert at Renovated Communist-era Circus Building Features Elation Lighting

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MOLDOVA – Elation dealer Eventika Grup SRL of Moldova recently finished an interesting project that the company worked long and hard to complete. After the USSR collapsed, the circus in the town of Chisinau, Moldova, disintegrated along with it, leaving behind a large circus building that had the potential to be an excellent performance space. After years of laying idol, Eventika was able to partially restore the building on their own, without foreign investment, and held a 20th anniversary tribute concert at the venue for the Moldavian rock band Gindul Mitei (Cat’s Thoughts). 

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Analog Way Products In Use at Toyota Astra Motor Event in Jakarta

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JAKARTA – Earlier this year Toyota Astra Motor (TAM) held its annual dealers and distributors appreciation event in Jakarta, Indonesia.  Creative Tech Jakarta selected an Analog Way Ascender 32-4K powerful seamless switcher, Vertige VRC300 premium remote controller and Pulse2 high-resolution mixer to facilitate dazzling multi-screen presentations for the two-day gathering. The event, which served as thank-you for business partners and a platform for 2017 marketing strategies, was held in the Bali Nusadua Convention Center.

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Green Hippo Puts on the Red Lights at 2017 Polar Music Prize Ceremony

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STOCKHOLM – Swedish lighting designer Per Sundin relies on Hippotizer Media Servers to impress at prestigious annual music prize event held in the Stockholm Concert Hall. The Polar Music Prize is recognized as one of music’s most prestigious international honors and this year’s ceremony saw Hippotizer Media Servers playing a key part in Sundin Designers Sweden’s lighting and image display for the show.

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Lighting The Starboy

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EUROPE – Canadian singer / songwriter The Weeknd is currently rocking plenty of style and enjoying success, critical acclaim, multiple awards and several hits from his chart-topping third studio album ‘Starboy’ …. propelling him a long way from his underground roots and early anonymous mixtapes uploaded to You Tube in 2010. Lighting for 2017’s ‘Starboy Legend of the Fall’ tour has been designed by Sooner Routhier who picked Robe Spikie moving lights together with BMFL Spots and WashBeams to be at the heart of the rig.

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MDG ATMe Generates Drama for RADA

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MANCHESTER, UK – MDG was happy to see the students of London’s premier drama school, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), taking full advantage of the capabilities of one of its ATMe haze generators during their recent production of Rona Munro’s Scuttlers.

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Ai Media Servers Are A ‘Dream’ For Coldplay At Global Citizen 2017 Event

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HAMBURG, GERMANY: Knight of illumination award-winning video designer Ben Miles has praised the Avolites Ai R6 media servers in their performance for festival opener Coldplay at the star-studded Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany, ahead of the annual G20 Summit. This year was the first time the event had been held in Europe – and featured performances by world-renowned superstars including Pharrell Williams, Shakira, Ellie Goulding, German superstars Herbert Gronemeyer and Andrea Bourani – all opened by multi-million selling British band Coldplay.

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Unite with Tomorrowland events took place this year in Dubai, Germany, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan.

Fire, Typhoon Cancel Tomorrowland’s Satellite EDM Events in Barcelona and Taiwan

BOOM, Belgium – Although the main Tomorrowland EDM event in Boom, Belgium once again drew crowds with top EDM artists performing over two weekends in July, the biggest spectacle generating international headlines in 2017 was the fire that engulfed the stage of a “mirror” event in Barcelona, Spain on July 29, forcing the evacuation of 22,000 attendees. A typhoon also forced the cancellation of a similar event in Taiwan.

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Divadlo Mir Theatre Receives CHAUVET Professional Ovation Overhaul

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OSTRAVA, CZECHIA – Once the steel and coal powerhouse of Czechoslovakia, the city of Ostrava in the East of the Czech Republic has transformed itself since the fall of communism in 1989 into one of central Europe’s most vibrant cultural centers. In addition to hosting one of the most famous music festivals in Europe in a disused mining complex turned UNESCO World Heritage site (Colors of Ostrava), Ostrava is home to one of the most progressive theatres in the country, Divadlo Mir.

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Robe for WinDays 17 Conference

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CROATIA – Lighting designer Miro Hrg from top Croatian rental company Promo Logistika chose Robe BMFL Spots, CycFX8s, LEDWash 600s and MMX WashBeams to light the main conference plenary session for the Microsoft WinDays 2017 conference, staged at the Valamar Rubin Hotel in the beautiful historical city of Poreč in Istria.The four day event comprised a series of lectures, seminars, networking and interactive sessions aimed at Windows developers and administrators and involved two locations – the Rubin Hotel just outside the city center and at the Valamar Isabella Island Resort on the picturesque Island of Saint Nicolas in Poreč Harbor.

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