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Lighting Supports Storytelling At School

Roe Green Junior School

BRENT, UK – The power of entertainment lighting to create atmosphere and influence mood has long been recognized in theatre and live events. Now schools are discovering how lighting can be used in the same way but in a completely different environment – and turning to entertainment lighting specialist White Light to help them achieve this.

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W-DMX to Hold Seminars During May

UDDEVALLA, SWEDEN – Wireless Solution Sweden AB will be holding several Wireless University seminars during the month of May. If you plan to attend any of the following trade shows, be sure to schedule one of these informational sessions in your calendar. These seminars aim to educate the industry on the technology and benefits of wireless DMX in general and the strengths of the W-DMX Generation 4 product line.

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Al Laith Supplies Seating, Site Infrastructure in Dubai

DUBAI, UAE – Al Laith Event Services built a 9,390 seat temporary arena at JBR (Jumeirah Beach Residences) to host the recent completely sold out first leg of the 2011 Red Bull X-Fighters world tour 2011 in Dubai with an amazing 15,000 spectators. It was the first time the event has come to the UAE. It is one of the largest amounts of seating that the company has ever supplied at a single event.

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CPL Gets ISO 9001:2008 Certification

BRISTOL, UK – Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) has maintained its ISO 9001:2008 certification for the fourth year running – without any non-compliance or non-conformance requests. The standard refers to the quality of the management and other systems in place and the company’s overall commitment and ability to deliver outstanding customer service, products and general support and efficiency to its clients.

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Entec Lights Historic Royal Wedding Dresses

Entec Lights Historic Royal Wedding Dresses

Entec Lights Historic Royal Wedding Dresses

WEST LONDON, UK – Entec Sound & Light was approached by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) to supply a lighting design and equipment for a very special one off collection of Royal Wedding dresses dating back to 1816, including that of Queen Victoria, Princess Margaret and Princess Charlotte, which was put on display in the drawing rooms of the late Princess Margaret’s apartments in Kensington Palace.

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Zero 88 in Cannes for MIPCOM

Zero 88 in Cannes for MIPCOM

 

Zero 88 in Cannes for MIPCOM

CWMBRAN, UK – The Zero 88 ORB Lighting console from Cooper Controls was chosen by Lighting Designer Chris Withers for the Warner Brothers hospitality events at MIPCOM 2010. Held every October at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes and its surrounding areas. MIPCOM is the world event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content. It provides the people involved in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry a market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

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Training at Phoenix Artists Club

ORB Training at the Phoenix Artists Club

Training at Phoenix Artists Club

CWMBRAN, UK – Since partnering with the Phoenix Artists Club in February this year, Cooper Controls has been running regular and bespoke courses on its ORB Series theatrical lighting consoles at their central London training venue. Located in the heart of the West End, the Phoenix Artists Club is conveniently placed for lighting designers, lighting programmers and theatre technicians to get hands on with Zero 88’s lighting control range. ORB Specialist Richard Lambert explains “We’re very lucky to have such a brilliant training venue that’s right in the heart of Central London and to be able to show the ORB on this newly installed theatrical moving light rig”.

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XL Events Supplies Screens for Royal Wedding

LONDON – XL Events installed two large LED screens in London’s Trafalgar Square, one of the main public viewing areas for the live TV broadcast for the wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton. XL Events worked with event producers Jack Morton Worldwide, which also arranged for four similar format/concept sites across London for the wedding. An estimated 1 million people lined the streets, and the broadcast was seen by close to 2 billion people.

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Enrique Iglesias Tour Features MAC 101s

Photos: Robert Hollingworth; The O2, London, March 25, 2011

LONDON, UK – Lighting designer Travis Shirley, who has been with Enrique Iglesias for six years, is using an all Martin rig on the current "Euphoria" world tour, a rig that includes over 200 of the remarkably small and super light MAC 101 washes.

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