SALT LAKE CITY – Online registration for USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City is officially open! Register & find hotel housing at our link below. USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo runs March 16-19 in Salt Lake City. Very early registration – by Dec. 3 – saves the most money, with the lowest rates.
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WILKES BARRE, PA. – Mountain Productions’ Online Rigging Shop, which offers an extensive inventory of entertainment rigging products, including chain hoists, hardware, cables, chain bags, fall protection, CM replacement parts and much more, is open for business. Among the many products that can be ordered on the site are Kask helmets, pictured here.
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LONDON – Twelve Clay Paky Mythos fixtures projected text and images onto the Tower of London in September as part of a celebrity charity event honoring wounded armed forces veterans. The initiative was launched to raise awareness of the Haig Housing Trust, which offers housing assistance to ex-service people. The week culminated in a fundraising event, ‘For Queen and Country’, to mark the charity’s centenary.
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LAS VEGAS – At LDI 2015, DNJ Pro will present the world with Italian lighting manufacturer, Novalight’s, latest cutting-edge creation, the Nova-Scope. The Novalight Nova-Scope combines a HTI 2000W/D10/60 lamp with a unique reflector setup to provide an extremely high output mid air effects solution.
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WHITE PLAINS, NY – For the the recent Motown Legends Show pairing the Jacksons and the Temptations, LD Jason “Blends” Ayala of ProSho (New York) supported each group with a light show that fit its individual sound using a rig centered on fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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UK – The eighth Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) ceremony was held on Sunday 4th October at London’s glamorous art deco Troxy to sparkling success. Once more it saw representatives from the professional entertainment lighting and video industry come together to celebrate the creative achievements of lighting and video professionals working on shows across the UK.
More details from KOL (www.knight-of-illumination.com):
Read More »NORTHAMPTON, UK – Eurotruss is expanding with the opening of Eurotruss Sales UK Ltd., which includes a new facility in Northampton, U.K. The new UK facility will stock a wide range of products and enable the company to serve U.K.-based customers faster, with a team of dedicated staff members on site.
Read More »BLACKBURN, U.K. – European lighting and visuals rental company HSL announced that it is partnering with GLS Lighting.
LONDON – As PLASA Show 2015 opens its doors at ExCeL London, visitors from 101 different countries, with a combined purchasing power of over £3 billion, have registered to attend.
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SHELTON, CT and ROYAL OAK, MI — Lex Products, a supplier of power distros for 25+ years, and TM3 Systems Inc., a developer of “smart” power applications such as microgrids and hybrid power systems, are merging to form a new company, LexTM3 LLC. Bob Luther, founder of Lex Products, will serve as CEO.
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PHILADELPHIA – All around the Philadelphia area, organizations prepared for the largest and most historic event of the decade, The World Meeting of Families. One person, Pope Francis, took the stage in front of one million people to talk about faith, hope and prayer. Attendees gathered along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and surrounding areas that extended from City Hall to The Philadelphia Art Museum.
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