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GoVision at West's benefit event.

GoVision Provides LED Unit for West, TX Benefit Event

WEST, TX  – Nearly two months after a catastrophic fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people, injured more than 200 and destroyed structures in West, TX, the Dallas Mavericks and FOX Sports Southwest staged a major event in West on June 15 to support the restoration effort. To ensure that residents had a front-row view of the action, the Mavericks asked GoVision to provide one of its mobile LED units for the festivities. The Argyle, TX-based company sent a 9 ft x 16 ft “GoBig” LED screen, comprised of Daktronics PST-16HD tiles, to ensure that all could see the festivities.

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Peoples Church.

Peoples Church Stretches Lighting Budget with ADJ

FRESNO, CA – Peoples Church allocates a small portion of its overall budget each year to upgrading its stage lighting. This year, Chadwell D. Hopper of CDH Productions made use of LED fixtures from ADJ Products to add visual dazzle to services within the church’s 2,000-capacity auditorium while staying comfortably within the church’s lighting budget.

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Un Coup de Don lit with ETC Source Four LED fixtures. Photo: Photo Lot

ETC Source Four LED Helps Light Hiroshima Homage

NORMANDY, France – The nuclear blast at Hiroshima in 1945 is often described in Japanese as a flash (pika) followed by a bang (don). Last year, a performance lit with ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ fixtures aimed to represent the unexpected terror of the pika don through the medium of dance. Un Coup de Don, by dance company Ariadone and led by Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Morobushi (Japan), was part of the Festival Automne in Normandy, France.

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Thomas Walls (FOH tech), Wally Lees (Lighting Director/Programmer), Guillermo Traverso (Robe’s regional sales manager for Latin America) and Roy Bennett (Lighting Designer).

Robe is ‘Out There’ with Paul McCartney in Brazil

BRAZIL – Paul McCartney’s ‘Out There’ world tour kicked off with three shows in Brazil with lighting looks from LD Roy Bennett. Bennett supervised the shows, while Lighting Director Wally Lees operated. Lighting equipment was supplied by leading Brazilian rental company LPL Professional Lighting and included Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash luminaires, together with other moving lights and generics.

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Staging Collapse in Thailand Kills One, High Winds Blamed

PHUKET CITY, Thailand — A stage structure set up for performances accompanying the Phuket Prison Fair at the Saphan Hin public park here killed one person and injured another after collapsing in high winds at about 7:40 pm on June 17. Winds from the same storm were also fierce enough to rip the roofs off more than a dozen homes in the Phang Nga area, according to a report posted by Phuketwan, a local news source.

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Venuetech, Barco LiveDots Partner for Saudi Arabia

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Barco LiveDots, a Barco company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai-based audiovisual expert Venuetech. Venuetech will be the exclusive distributor of LiveDots’ full LED portfolio in Saudi Arabia and a non-exclusive reseller for the GCC (Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates). In a company statement, LiveDots said it is “confident that Venuetech will help to expand its business in the Middle East market.”

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Monty Rains

Monty Rains Named COO for PixelFlex

NASHVILLE — PixelFLEX, an LED solutions company based here, named sales and marketing veteran Monty Rains as its chief operating officer. Rains will be responsible for expanding sales channels, forging strategic partnerships and building structure and strategic processes to assist with the company’s growth.

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EDC 2013

Festival Momentum Continues as Insomniac Gears Up for EDC Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Along with 2013’s double-weekend sellouts for the Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March and Coachella in April, the Electric Daisy Carnival, set for June 21-23, is also due to set a new attendance record, with Insomniac Events reporting the sale of 345,000 tickets — 115,000 per night — up from total ticket sales of 320,000 last year.

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