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SINGAPORE – This year’s Queen + Adam Lambert Summer Festival tour began in Europe and will wrap up in Asia at the end of September.  Queen’s long history of pushing the envelope, both musically and aesthetically, continues with a design from LD Rob Sinclair and scenic designer Ric Lipson of Stufish Entertainment Architecture. The summer shows were enhanced with Firefly FloppyFlex LED Neon and Solaris SoLED strobes from TMB.

LEEDS, UK – Bridge Street Community Church in Leeds, UK, has opened up a new worship building and outfitted the space with Elation Professional stage and broadcast lighting, designed, supplied and installed by Wigwam Acoustics. The new purpose-built Bridge Community Church is a multipurpose building catering for conferences and live events, as well as weekly church services. The newly completed development provides the church with a comprehensive community center that includes a 1000-capacity auditorium, café and other facilities.

LONDON – Organizers for this year’s Knight of Illumination Awards have announced the “shortlist” for the “TV” lighting category, which follows the “Theatre” and “Concert Touring and Events” shortlists disclosed earlier. The 2016 TV judging panel is made up of Stuart Gain (Chairperson) and STLD committee members John O’Brien, Andrew Dixon and Alan Luxford.

JOHANNESBURG  – “Welcome to Tomorrow” was the catch phrase used to introduce some of Gearhouse Group’s latest technology to 600 of the organization’s top clients and suppliers. The launch was housed in the inaugural build of the Maxi Dome Lite Venue, a custom temporary structure designed and built in South Africa by Gearhouse In2Structures, the Group’s specialist design and manufacturing company.

BLACKBURN, U.K. – ‘Empress of Soul’, legendary singer / songwriter Gladys Knight recently toured the UK and Blackburn based HSL was delighted to be supplying lighting equipment and crew to the production which was co-ordinated on the road for HSL by Lester Cobrin and designed by UK and Nashville based LD, Neil Scrivener.

JERUSALEM  – Israeli lighting designer Martin Adin of Pyromania presented his “Photographia – Painting with Light” installation at the 2016 ‘Light in Jerusalem’ festival of light, which involved projecting onto and lighting a large section of the city’s famous ‘Old City of Jerusalem’ close to Jaffa Gate, one of the main entrances to the old city.

WINCHESTER, UK – For its sixth year supplying the immersive metropolis, BoomTown Fair, Utopium provided lighting and rigging equipment to 12 stages and venues. The event, held Aug. 11-14, drew the biggest crowds to date – more than 60,000. Headliners this year included Madness, Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley and Fat Freddy’s Drop.