JOHANNESBURG – For #FillUpTheDome, an Oct. 31 concert featuring South Africa-based artist Cassper Nyovest, Gearhouse provided a Robe-centerd lighting rig that included 60 Pointes, 38 LEDWash 600s, 12 PATT 2013s, 11 CycFX 8s and eight CitySkape Xtremes.
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NORTH CREEK, NY– Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) added SGM’s P2 and Q2 fixtures to its rentals inventory. CSL is a wholesale supplier and distributor of gear for stage and theatrical lighting professionals. SGM’s P-2 LED wash light is pictured here.
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CHICAGO – Chicago Children’s Theatre, the city’s largest professional theater company devoted exclusively to children and young families, officially broke ground Dec. 12 on the company’s first-ever permanent home – an adaptive reuse of the former, 12th District Police Station at 100 S. Racine Avenue in Chicago’s West Loop.
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MAPLE GROVE, MN – To provide video that can stand up to the ambient light levels within Lord of Life Church, Excel AV Group provided the church installed a display made with PVP X3 modular indoor 3.9mm pixel pitch LED panels from Chauvet Professional..
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VIENTANE, Laos – The country of Laos celebrated their 40th National Day with a massive celebration on Dec. 2 at the Laos National Stadium in Vientane, Laos. The lighting system, installed by the rental company ProPacific (Thailand) Co., included 200 Raptor moving heads, 40 XR1200 Wash, and 60 x XR3000 Spot fixtures from DTS.
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WAYNE, NJ – The Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI), an award-winning high school with a 200 course curriculum which includes their School of Performing Arts, upgraded its theatre facility recently with a Philips Strand Lighting retrofit installation that included PLFRESNEL1 and PLPROFILE4 LED luminaires along with a NEO lighting control console, Vision.net Touchscreens, an A21 Dimming System, and CD80SV Retrofit Dimmer Modules.
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MOSCOW – Clay Paky’s lights, including 150 of the company’s Mythos fixtures and more than 100 A.Leda fixtures, were used during the Circle of Light Festival, held in Moscow this year from Sept. 27-Oct. 4.
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LOS ANGELES – d3 Technologies named Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist based on the U.S. West Coast. Cotter has been a lighting director and media programmer for the past 15 years, primarily working in television and on theme park spectaculars. He shared an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series” with his colleagues for “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014.
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DENVER – Lighting designer and programmer Andrew Cass has been a fan of the famously multi genre blues-rock-jam band String Cheese Incident (SCI) from Colorado since his schooldays. In April 2014 he was lucky enough to land himself in the hot-seat of designing their lighting – a long term dream job he absolutely loves.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – At the Frankfurt Motor Show (International Automobile-Ausstellung or IAA), some of the cars were lit with Clay Paky fixtures .
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LOS ANGELES – When STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) began its U.S. fall tour, LD Saxton Waller decided to add Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s to the B-EYE K10 rig he deployed for the band’s 2014 tour, which included their sold-out concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Waller obtained the Clay Paky B-EYES and a full-size grandMA2 console from Brown Note Productions, Inc., in Thornton, CO, which has been working with STS9 for the last 10 years.
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