International News

BRECON, Wales — Theatr Brycheiniog, which uses solar panels to cover some of its energy requirements, also has a lighting rig with a mix of LED and conventional fixtures. On the LED side are 20 Chauvet COLORado Batten 72 Tour linear wash lights specified by Stage Electrics.

SYDNEY — Turns, a musical production featuring Nancye Hayes and Reg Livermore and a lighting design by Trudy Dalgleish, has been touring to city and regional theatres in Australia, lit with conventional fixtures controlled by an ETC Element console.

LIVERPOOL, UK — Rental company dbn supplied architectural lighting to Culture Liverpool for a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Liver Building and the opening of the new Museum of Liverpool, both located on the city’s Pier Head waterfront.

VICTORIA, Australia — Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)’s new Caulfield Campus features an iconic entranceway that includes Silverscreen, a 20-meter-high sculpture made from galvanized steel by contemporary artist Callum Morton. The design by Bluebottle includes the use of 80 Anolis ArcSource LED fixtures, chosen in part for their energy efficiency as an environmentally-friendly solution.

LONDON — The iTunes festival returned to London’s Roundhouse for the 31 days of July, 2011, with performances by more than 60 artists from around the world including Adele, Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, the Foo Fighters, Linkin’ Park, Moby, My Chemical Romance, Paul Simon, The Script, White Lies and others.

LONDON — Take That’s Progress Live 2011 Tour reunited the band’s five original performers for the first time in over 15 years, and they played to packed stadiums in the band’s biggest tour to date. But if the tour was big, so was the giant figure of “OM”, a 20m high animated man, brought to “life” as a primitive god-like figure during the on-stage action. In reality, OM was designed and engineered by Brilliant Stages with the expert help of mechanical engineer Andy Edwards.

LONDON — White Light provided lighting gear for DJ Kissy Sell Out’s Wild Romance tour, including 16 Martin MAC 101 moving LED fixtures. Know1 Production, which designed the lighting and video visuals used for the tour specified the gear.

ZLIN, Czech Republic — The Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth attracts over 100,000 visitors to see nearly 600 films from more than 50 countries screened over eight days. Along with movie screenings, the festival features concerts, live performances, seminars and lectures, and Robe and Anolis lighting fixtures played a key role in illuminating many of these gatherings.