International News

MELBOURNE, Australia – Clearlight Shows P/L recently supplied the Malthouse theatrical complex with new ETC products for the venue's 520-seat Merlyn Theatre and the 198-seat Beckett Theatre.

BRUSSELS – The Gulden Ontsporing was a highlight of the Flemish Day celebrations held in Belgium's capital recently. Lighting programmer Joris Vandamme used LSC's Clarity lighting and media controller for the show, which was broadcast live across the nation.

DUBLIN – Management at the newly-rebuilt Aviva Stadium, a 50,000-seat venue that hosts rugby, soccer and other events, were a bit apprehensive about using LumenRadio's CRMX RDM wireless system to control eight Syncrolite 7K Xenon fixtures during the sold-out Magners League rugby game. But show manager Rob Jones at Gorilla Design confirmed that "the entire event went off without a hitch."

SINGAPORE – Roy Chooi, head of Highlight Systems, recently placed an order 36 Robe ROBIN 300 Spots for the five-year-old company's rental stock.

KARLSRUHE, Germany – For ASCENT AG's 20th anniversary party, which took place recently at the Schwarzwaldhalle in Karlsruhe, Christian Moran, head of production for event technology provider, Charly's Checkpoint GmbH, specified 12 new Volkslicht Zoom fixtures and 50 other impression LED fixtures including impression 90 and impression 120 RZs.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan – The Khan Shatyr, or Royal Marquee, is a 500-foot-high clear tent supported by cables extending from a central spire. The structure is designed to moderate the temperatures felt by visitors to the 10-football-field area that it encloses, which range from very cold during the winter (-30 degrees F.) to hot in the summer (95 degrees F.)

LONDON – Les Dennis presented a new series of the BBC children's TV show, Fee Fi Fo Yum, where the object of the game is to avoid being eaten by Brian the Giant. Made in BBC Television Centre TC 3, the whimsical dinner table set, animated by computer-generated creatures and lots of slime, was lit with Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300s and Alpha Spot HPE 700s.

LONDON – LD Andy Hurst opted to use GLP 120 RZ impression zooms for Faithless' European arena tour at the end of last year. Hurst also incorporated 100 standard impressions into his rig for 30 Seconds to Mars' shows, led by Jared Leto.

WARSAW, Poland – ARAM supported New Years Eve festivities in Constitution Square with a large domed stage filled with video imagery and lighting effects.

HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, China – coolux GmbH recently noted its first full year of its Chinese operation, coolux China Ltd., led by the subsidiary's CEO, Kim Lee. "We saw the potential opening up," said Lee, who first became acquainted with Pandoras Box media servers in 2004.