GRONINGEN, The Netherlands – Dutch cultural center De Oosterpoort in Groningen has purchased a range of Claypaky moving head fixtures as part of a major technical upgrade to the center’s lighting and audio departments.
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SURREY, UK – Robe co-hosted a ground breaking LED Theatrical event staged by staff and students on the Theatre Production course at Guildford School of Acting (GSA), part of the University of Surrey in the UK. The Czech Republic based manufacturer supplied around 50 LED luminaires to the event and to GSA’s 2017 gala musical production staged at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in central Guildford, Surrey, including its groundbreaking DL7 theatrical range – plus the new Spiider LED wash beam, CycFX 8s, Spikies and VIVAs – plus technical support.
MUNICH, GERMANY – The new Claypaky SharBar and other Claypaky products were used by a trio of young artists at the annual artistic lighting awards “LiO (Light is OSRAM) Awards 2017” in their winning installation ‘The 5th Dimension’, hosted at Munich’s historic event space, the Praterinsel, by German lighting manufacturer OSRAM.
WALES – Accounting specialists, Tax Assist asked CPL to provide full technical design and production – sound, lighting, video, staging and rigging – plus crew for their 2017 annual conference staged in the Caernarfon Suite at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales. CPL has serviced the event for the last few years. It’s grown steadily in size over that time, and with that has come a commitment by the client to keep increasing the production values.
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LONDON, UK,– Freevox, a leading distributor and manufacturer of professional lighting products, held its 2017 customer conference in Portugal, and Green Hippo was delighted to attend, helping the French firm present Green Hippo’s line of video products. The conference, which ran over four days, was held at the Algarve’s gorgeous Club Med de Balaia resort, and was attended by more than 100 leading French companies, including installers and resellers from the image, lighting and sound sectors.
BERLIN – The 68th BAMBI awards took place in Berlin in November 2016, and Green Hippo technology helped Germany’s foremost media ceremony run smoothly. The awards, first presented at a public event in 1953, is Germany’s most glamorous society happening of the year, attracting a domestic television audience of over six million viewers, with worldwide attention covering all six continents.
LEEDS, UK: British lighting and video control systems manufacturer, Avolites, is gearing up for the UK debut of its latest lighting control software update, Titan v10.1, at the PLASA Focus expo in Leeds, following the software’s hugely successful international showcase at Prolight + Sound 2017 in Frankfurt.
DENMARK – One of the largest technological spectacles of recent years awaits the summer of 2017 in Aarhus Denmark. Climate Planet is a beautiful, magnificent and mesmerizing experience and a timely eye-opener for the reality of our planet if we don’t change our current course. Like a meteor from the sky, an enormous sphere construction of 24 meters high descended in the Aarhus harbor area.
WORLDWIDE – British manufacturer Avolites is pleased to announce the appointment of Canada’s AVL Media Group and Malaysia’s Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) as its new distribution partners for Canada and South-East Asia respectively. The two new partnerships will see Avolites’ products available across Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. The impressive move comes at a time when the Avolites’ brand enjoys its largest order book in company history and a rapidly growing international client base.
PERTH, Australia – The American musical duo Twenty One Pilots (TOP) have been around the globe with the Emotional Roadshow World Tour, which commenced almost a year ago and wraps up this summer. d3 accompanied the Grammy-winning TOP on their arena tour, which visited Europe, North America and Oceania, feeding video content to an extensive array of LED walls.
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BELGIUM – Belgian visual design practice Painting with Light’s Paco Mispelters has added imagination and style to the current Studio 100 tour of new youth musical “Unidamu”. The tour visits four Belgian theatres and is a co-production with TV channel Ketnet. The Unidamu (Universe of Dance & Music) journey started with “Ketnet Musical”, a talent scouting competition TV show with a mission to source new singing, dancing and acting talent, resulting in 24 fresh and enthusiastic faces picked from 12,000 hopefuls to make up the cast.
UK – Robe’s new Spiider LED wash beam is a versatile fixture that is making an impact in many environments … and even a few Spiiders will go a long way as lighting designer Gareth Weaver recently demonstrated when lighting a UK tour of intense dance piece “The Suffocating Truth”, created by Lukas McFarlane of The Untitled Dance Company. The show visited five cities and played totally different spaces in each.
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