CHARLOTTE, NC – Neutrik named Bryan Sherrel finance director. Sherrel will direct Neutrik USA’s financial planning and accounting practices with lending institutions, shareholders, and the financial community. He is based at the company’s U.S. headquarters Charlotte and began work Feb. 1.
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NEW YORK – Last month, the American National Standards Institute’s Board of Standards Review approved four ESTA standards: two brand-new, safety-related documents and two control protocol documents that were reaffirmed. These and all of ESTA’s published standards are available for free download to everyone, courtesy of ProSight Specialty Insurance, at tsp.esta.org/freestandards, or they may be purchased from ANSI or IHS.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Twelve young artists from groups underrepresented in live entertainment production have been selected for USITT’s Gateway mentorship program at USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City March 16 to 19. Pictured here is one of the 12, Shelby Choo, Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle), Technical Direction.
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John McKernon and City Theatrical have announced that Lightwright 6, the newest version of software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork, will be released in April 2016. Lightwright 6 will be launched at USITT 2016 on March 17-19th in Salt Lake City. John McKernon will be on hand all three days to demonstrate the new features and to speak with present and future Lightwright users.
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KARLSBAD, Germany – GLP announced that one of its former senior employees. Dejan Hajdukovic, who had been part of the sales team from 2008-2012, is returning as Sales Managerl Hajdukovic will be based at company headquarters in Karlsbad, Germany.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Contour Veranstaltungsservice GmbH (Event Services) expanded its inventory with a new purchase 30 Clay Paky 100 Show Batten AS units last year. The company supported the visual needs at Wirtschaftstag 2015, an annual business forum that takes place at the Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle, a convention center in Frankfurt, providing the newly purchased AS units along with 14 Show Batten 100s for that event.
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OTTAWA, Canada – Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing band The Sleeping Souls since 2010, is using the high advanced beam and spot hybrid for large backlight gobo looks and dynamic aerial work. Nitelites is providing the gear.
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MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For the Pulse event at New World Symphony (NWS) and its New World Center, which featured musicians, a DJ and dancers, Director of Lighting Luke Kritzeck used the facility’s own stock of elektraLite Dazer fixtures to transform the concert hall into a late-night lounge of sorts. Barbizon of Miami provided additional gear for the event.
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ANTWERP, Belgium – Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans energized a creative team to deliver video content for a 3D digital set and lighting design for the Judas TheaterProducties staging of Helene Fourment. The new musical focuses on Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ young muse. It was staged at the Fakkeltheater in Antwerp. Painting with Light’s Michael Al Far created the video content and Jeroen Opsteyn was associate lighting designer and also programmed the lighting with Luc. All worked very closely with set designer Arno Bremers.
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AUKLAND, NZ – The 53rd Halberg Awards, which honor New Zealand’s top sporting achievements, involved a collaboration between the event’s lighting, audio and LED screens supplier, Oceania, broadcast partner OSB and broadcaster SKY TV which runs the show and manages content for the three-hour live telecast. Thirty Robe BMFL Spots and 20 Pointes were included in the lighting rig this year, among other fixtures, all of which were rigged in the Vector Arena, Auckland.
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TORONTO – When the National Hockey League’s Toronto Maple Leafs step onto the Air Canada Centre ice for each home game, they are greeted by a celebration of their rich history with a stunning on-ice projection mapping display. Installed by Solotech, the 12 Christie Roadster WU20K-J projectors are stacked in six sets of two around the arena and help celebrate a team with 13 Stanley Cup titles and its ‘Leaf Nation’ fan base.
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ATLANTA – LD Steve Lieberman updated the look within Atlanta’s Tongue and Groove nightclub, giving the club’s semi-circular DJ booth a sense of energy and movement using ÉPIX panels from Chauvet Professional. In all, there are now 181 12” square ÉPIX Tile 2.0 panels animating the booth.
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