International News

PAIDE, Estonia – The multifunctional Paide Kultuurikeskus, located in the middle of Estonia, opened to the public in December 1987. In recent years, this cultural center has undergone significant improvements to its facilities to maintain its status as a national landmark, all while retaining its original and distinctive 1980s design features. The latest development phase incorporated the installation of a series of ETC ColorSource PAR luminaires.

MOSCOW––Showcasing the talents of lighting designers Alexey Zhuravlev and Roman Vakulyuk, several Martin by Harman lighting fixtures were featured at Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia. There were several special events for the show’s attendees, including a unique project implemented by Euroshow Moscow. Demonstrations like this have become highlight attractions at many large professional audio/video tradeshows. The concept for the show was created by Alyona Morozova, and Zhuravlev and Vakulyuk joined the team during the programming.

HAMBURG, Germany – LD Björn Hermann used Clay Paky Mythos and Scenius fixtures for the large-scale light show during the christening ceremony of AIDA Cruises’ new luxury flagship AIDAprima. Built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in Japan, the luxury liner holds up to 3,300 passengers. The christening ceremony took place in Hamburg during the port’s 827th anniversary celebrations in May. AIDA Cruises is Germany’s largest cruise ship company, with AIDAprima the eleventh addition to the fleet. The British/American owned company was established in 1960.

CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania – Romania’s leading live electronic music festival, Electric Castle, will provide 100,000 festival-goers with high tech RFID wristbands for fast and secure entry through the event gates and camping sites. The RFID wristbands will also be used as “digital wallets” for guests to make speedy purchases for all food, drink and merchandise on-site.

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – Grafisch Lyceum, an independent vocational college with a three year Technical Theatre Course among its offerings, added 20 Robe DL4X Spots and 20 LEDWash 300s. They are being utilized for teaching on all the course’s Lighting modules.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The 61st Eurovision Song Contest has come and gone, but not without setting a whole host of firsts, one of which was the biggest international audience to date to witness the TourPro LightSky Aquabeam. Supplied by Litecom, 67 AquaBeam fixtures were used to illuminate the high-tech stage and interior of the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, where Eurovision 2016 took place.

MOSCOW––As part of the Moscow Anniversary Day celebrations, the Luzhniki Arena turned up the excitement for the Vivat Russia! champions’ figure skating event with a creative and memorable lighting experience, using 80 Martin MAC 101 LED moving wash fixtures. Lighting designer Alexey Zhuravlev used Martin MAC 101 fixtures for the event. The project became a creative collaboration between Zhuravlev and Roman Vakulyuk. Together, they created a large set of lighting presets and scripts for every moment of the show, including the individual ice performances as well as the vocal and acrobatic events.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – LumenRadio announced an agreement with LiteGear where LiteGear’s new LiteDimmer Wireless DMX system will incorporate LumenRadio’s CRMXTM wireless DMX technology.

BIRMINGHAM, U.K. – Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), who blended the sounds, rhythms and riffs of contemporary rock and pop with classical arrangements to produce a unique sound that was massively popular in the 1970s and 80s, recently hit the road again for the first time in 27 years. Led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Lynne, one of the original founding members, the tour rig supplied by Neg Earth included 82 Robe BMFL Spots and 10 BMFL Blades. LD Tim Routledge designed the show.

LONDON – The Knight of Illumination Awards 2016 (KOI), which honors LDs and digital content designers working in the UK, announces it has added new members to the judging panels of two of the awards categories. Coral Cooper is now chairperson of its Concert Touring and Events category, with three new judges joining the panel – Miguel Ribeiro, Claire Beeson and Jonny Milmer.

LEEDS, UK – GLP’s recently-established UK operation wasted little time in working to expand the use of its gear in the U.K. market as newly-appointed head of operations at GLP UK, Noel ‘Roly’ Smith (pictured here, left, with GLP’s Mark Ravenhill), made the rounds at a recent trade exhibition in Leeds. The company featured its hybrid GT-1 spot and beam fixture at the show along with the latest accessories in the X4 atom RGBW line up. The company’s next big U.K. push will be at the ABTT Show (June 22-23, Alexandra Palace, London).

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Philips Lighting noted that Eurovision 2016 lighting designer Fredrik Jönsson used 40 Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash luminaires to light the audience  for the big Euro music competition’s finals. The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was held at Stockholm’s Globe Arena and saw a live audience of 15,000 international fans, journalists and celebrities. Also, Eurovision announced official global viewing figures for the grand final reached 204 million.