HONG KONG — The Committee of Compatriots in Hong Kong held an event marking the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on Oct. 1, 1949. Featuring a variety of performances, the event drew about 6,000. Tom Lee Engineering Ltd. provided 24 Martin MAC Viper Profiles and 24 MAC Viper Wash DX fixtures along with a Martin M6 lighting console for control.
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GUANGZHOU — Milos Structural Systems conducted a two-day workshop at its factory here on Oct. 25-26 for a select group of customers from Indonesia, India, Singapore and China. The goal of the meeting was to present Milos Structural Systems, as well as its factory, products, and manufacturing processes. Educational sections of the workshop also served to inform Milos customers about using and working safely with Milos products.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — LD Martin Kuhn and Berlin’s NIYU media project lit a race track used by BMW at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September with nearly 900 Clay Paky fixtures. The setup included 115 Alpha Wash 1500s, 24 Alpha Spot 1500s, 25 Alpha Profile 1500s, 18 Alpha Beam 1500s, 28 Sharpys, 8 Sharpy Washes, 131 QWO 800 STs, 28 Alpha Wash 700s and 504 A.leda Wash K10s. Wuppertal, Germany-based Lleyendecker supplied the gear.
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SYDNEY — The Sydney Opera House is using four Robert Juliat Cyrano 2500W HMI followspots for the Joan Sutherland Theatre (formerly known as the Opera Theatre). It’s the home venue for the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — LD Carlos Gaber used 10 Robe LEDBeam 100s and four Robe CityFlex 48s along with other luminaires for a special event to launch the solo career of actress and singer Lali Espósito, at La Trastienda club here. Espósito, known simply as Lali, had performed as part of the pop group Teen Angels from 2007-2012. She released her first solo album, Lali, earlier this year.
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VERONA, Italy — Massimo Pascucci, lighting director for Mediaset, worked with a big rig for Gianni Morandi’s Oct. 7 and 8 concerts at the Verona Arena here. The rig for the sold-out shows centered on Clay Paky gear, including 200 Sharpys, 70 Sharpy Wash 330s and more than 60 Alpha Profile 1500s.
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TACLOBAN, The Philippines — With the death toll rising past 5,235 in the weeks after super-typhoon Haiyan hit hard here Nov. 9, the storm ranks as the deadliest disaster to ever hit the island nation. Along with widespread death, an estimated 4 million people were rendered homeless — close to the total left homeless by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2009 combined.
Read More »ESPOO, Finland — The original U.K. singing talent competition, Pop Idol, ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003, and while it has been on hiatus in the U.K. since then, the U.S. version, American Idol, secured a larger viewership than any other American TV show for an eight-year span (from the 2003/2004 season to 2010/2011). For the current season of Idols in Finland, LD Mikki Kunttu, the lighting, visuals and set designer, specified 36 Robe Pointe fixtures, supplied by Akuntehdas. The show gets recorded at Barona Arena in Espoo in front of a live audience of 1,500 and broadcast on MTV3.
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