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Bill Swaringim, the Director of Technical Arts at The Crossing. He will join colleague Clark Wilbanks for a seminar sponsored by Chauvet Professional at WFX in Nashville

Chauvet Professional Sponsoring Seminar Featuring The Crossing and Gateway Church

NASHVILLE – Visitors to the WFX Conference and Expo will have an opportunity to share insights with technical leaders from two leading houses of worship, The Crossing in St. Louis and Gateway Church in Dallas. Chauvet Professional is sponsoring a seminar by Bill Swaringim and Clark Wilbanks from The Crossing on Nov. 18 (10:15-11:15 a.m.) and a session by David Leuschner of Gateway Church Nov. 19 (8-9 a.m.) Both sessions will be held in room 213 at the Music City Center in Nashville.

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White Light Installs New Motor Rigging System at Central Hall Westminster. Pictured here is the domed roof in the Great Hall.

White Light Installs New Motor Rigging System at Central Hall Westminster

LONDON – White Light, production service partner to Central Hall Westminster, a major conference center in central London, is in the process of helping the center upgrade its lighting, AV and rigging systems. As part of this long-term upgrade, which is continuing for several more months, White Light recently added a new motorized rigging system to the Great Hall.

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LD Victor Fable lit MTV's ABDC Season 8 with Elation Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads, Sniper 2R multi-effect lights, Pixel Bar LED strip lights, Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidal spots and Protron 3K LED strobes.

For “America’s Best Dance Crew,” LD Victor Fable Uses Elation Gear

LOS ANGELES – For the new season of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC), which premiered on July 29, LD Victor Fable turning to a lighting rig centering on fixtures from Elation Professional to light the recently revived dance reality show competition. The reality dance show was lit with Elation Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads, Sniper 2R multi-effect lights, Pixel Bar LED strip lights, Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidal spots and Protron 3K LED strobes.

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Chauvet Professional's booth at LDI 2015

LDI 2015 Recap, A to Z

LAS VEGAS — LDI’s annual conference and exhibition returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center Oct. 19-25, drawing close to 10,000 from 88 countries to view the latest in lighting, staging and video technologies. Chauvet Professional (booth pictured here) and more than 350 other companies exhibited, and new features with this year’s show including a full-scale exhibition of rock ‘n’ roll photographer Neal Preston’s artwork.

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The Avo lineup included a Pearl Expert with Touch Wing (Stage A), a Sapphire Touch (Stage B) and a Tiger Touch on a smaller stage featuring mostly rock tribute acts.

The Rock Carnival in NJ Rolls with Pulse-Supplied Avolites Consoles

CLARK, NJ – For the Rock Carnival, staged Sept. 18-20 at Oak Ridge Park in Clark, NJ, Pulse Stage Lighting provided an Avolites console for every stage. The acts included Godsmack, Slash, Stone Temple Pilots, Anthrax, Sevendust and dozens of other hard rock bands; the Avo lineup included a Pearl Expert with Touch Wing (Stage A), a Sapphire Touch (Stage B) and a Tiger Touch on a smaller stage featuring mostly rock tribute acts.

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Lyon Equipment is using the ModTruss rigging structure for theatre, Police and entertainment Work at Height and rescue training courses.

Triple E Supplies ModTruss to Lyon Equipment for ‘Work at Height’ Training

CUMBRIA, U.K. Triple E has supplied a 12″ ModTruss Rigging Structure to Cumbria, U.K.-based Work at Height specialist Lyon Equipment for use as a platform for its Work at Height and rescue training. As well as being the UK and Ireland distributors for Petzl Equipment and many other leading brands, Lyon Equipment’s premises offer a large purpose-built training center from where it provides a wide variety of training courses

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Wassershow Visuals in Wolfsburg Lit with grandMA2-Controlled Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy Fixtures. Photo by Ralph Larmann

Wassershow Visuals in Wolfsburg, Germany Enhanced with grandMA2-Controlled Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpys

WOLFSBURG, Germany – Andreas “Mini” Mertens used grandMA2 consoles to control the visuals once again at this year’s Wassershow at the Autostadt. The French themed show featured a combination of fire, water, video, lights, lasers and music. A total of four grandMA2 light consoles, 3 grandMA2 full-size consoles and 1 grandMA2 fader wing were used to control the lights, pyrotechnics and fountain effects. The moving lights included 50 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330s and 20 Clay Paky Mythos units.

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At The Fellowship Ministries’ Two Rivers Campus, LD C. Andrew Dunning of Landru Design specified a Jands Vista system to provide simple yet powerful control for the worship services within the church campus' 400-seat worship space. Photo by Wayne Terrell

The Fellowship Church Opts for Jands Vista Lighting Control

NASHVILLE – At The Fellowship Ministries’ Two Rivers Campus, LD C. Andrew Dunning of Landru Design specified a Jands Vista system to provide simple yet powerful control for the worship services within the church campus’ 400-seat worship space. Dunning sourced the Jands Vista system via Josh Holowicki of lighting sales and production company E2i Design.

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