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BELLEVILLE, MI – Fantasee Lighting is spending 2016 celebrating 40 years working in the lighting industry. The firm, which was founded by Lighting Designer Stefan Graf in Ypsilanti, MI, in 1976, specializes in lighting for entertainment and corporate events and provides design and project management solutions. The firm moved to new 40,000 square foot facility in Belleville, MI, in 2000.

LAS VEGAS – ESTA has announced that Eddie Raymond will receive its highest honor, the Eva Swan Award, which recognizes exceptional long-term commitment to the association, on Thursday October 20th in Las Vegas. The award will be presented at ESTA’s Annual General Meeting which is taking place from 3:30-5:00 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 3600 Paradise Road, just south of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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ERLANGER, KY – tvONE has teamed with  Almo professional A/V on the E4 AV Tour, which is coming to Boston on September 23 and Dallas on October 18. tvONE will showcase the newest features of its video processor, CORIOmaster including CORIOgrapher V2, CORIOmaster’s creative control software, their new Universal Mounting Solution called ONErack and 1T-MV-8474 4K Multiviewer during this event.

SAN DIEGO — For Guns N’ Roses’ “Not in This Lifetime” world tour, production designer Phil Ealy and lighting programmer/director Rob Koenig have been using a rig supplied by Upstaging that includes Martin Atomic 3000 LED strobes and MAC III AirFX fixtures.

LOS ANGELES – Morro Bay is a town of 10,000 people on a picture-perfect slice of the California coastline near San Luis Obispo. It boasts a rock one-third the size of The Rock of Gibraltar and a two-mile waterfront, which includes a shuttered power plant that’s been a challenge to tear down or repurpose.Three giant smokestacks at a decommissioned power plant in Morro Bay, California came alive with vivid colored lights and patterns in a pair of “guerrilla-style” art projects featuring Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 fixtures.

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NEW YORK —From the first serve to the final championship match, tennis fans were able to enjoy coverage worldwide from the 2016 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, NY.  While the commentators and analysts, as well as interview subjects, were discussing every volley and ace they were lit by the television lighting design firm Ferri Lighting Design & Associates (FLDA), led by Sr. Designer and Founder, Bruce Ferri.

LAS VEGAS — This is it — the last chance to vote for the 2016 Parnelli Awards. Voting from readers of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines will continue until Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 at 12 noon (PST). After that, the votes will be tallied and envelopes and awards prepared for the 2016 gala, to take place on Oct. 22 at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The event, which begins at 8 p.m. after a cocktail reception kicks things off at 7 p.m. is hosted by Adrian Belew and honors Richard Fernandez, Danny O’Bryen and Greg Mackie with this year’s Lifetime Achievement, Visionary and Audio Innovator awards.