NASHVILLE – The PLASA Focus: Nashville event, which took place here July 11-12, featured more than 50 brands and had a total 668 attendees. Another PLASA Focus event has been announced; it’s set for Nov. 12-13 in Stamford, CT.
Read More »LONDON – Londoners were surprised July 15 with “One Extraordinary Day,” an event featuring aerial performances over various sites around the city. Sapsis Rigging played a role by supplying design consultation and rigging for choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her “Action Hero” troupe at the Millennium Bridge, City Hall, Trafalgar and Paternoster Squares, the National Theatre and the London Eye.
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South Kirkby, UK – Nick Howard has joined stage, set and studio specialist company LS-Live as Head of Sales. Howard will focus on the company’s staging equipment rental operation. Howard was previously Marketing Manager at international sports event management company Byrom Plc.
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LAS VEGAS – Morpheus Lights is supplying Ayrton Wildsun 500C automated LED washlights, plus additional specified gear for Boston’s current summer tour. Longtime Boston LD Greg Maltby says the Wildsun 500Cs replaced the 1KW halogen source moving heads that he had specified for many years. “I really like the Wildsun’s warmer 4000° Kelvin white LED! It gives me tremendous saturated colors and a pastel range that is breathtaking.”
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LAS VEGAS — To date, more than 30 sponsoring companies have stepped up and announced their support for the 12th Annual Parnelli Awards, set for Oct. 20 at the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The event will honor production manager Charlie Hernandez with the Lifetime Achievement Award, rigging company founder Joe Branam with the Visionary Award and Sound Image co-founder Dave Shadoan with the Audio Innovator Award.
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IBIZA – XL Video supplied LED screens, cameras/PPU, mapping and projection for the recent International Music Summit in Ibiza. For the Grand Finale show, XL Video provided crowd-pleasing projections on to the Cathedral above Dalt Vila. Special permissions were required to turn off the architectural lighting on the buildings and a set of custom masks were applied to ensure the projections didn’t spread to adjacent houses.
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WISBECH, UK – European flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has expanded its HQ and manufacturing facility in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire again, this time adding a further 4700 sq. ft. of production units. It is the third expansion in 12 months. The company is launching several new case lines and products, so the units have been designed to accommodate new production facilities.
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HONG KONG – For its season finale, the Hong Kong Ballet opened Turandot, a neo-classical ballet inspired by Puccini’s opera at the Grand Theatre Hong Kong Cultural Centre. LD Mak Kwok-Fai used more than 40 Philips Vari-Lite automated luminaires for the show including the new VL880 Spot luminaire. He was the first designer in the region to use the new fixture.
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SECAUCUS, NJ – Scenic Designer David Court was named the “Rose Brand & Fan Choice Awards” winner for the category of Scenic Design. The awards contest ran on Rose Brand’s social media sites, voted on by fans.
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ATLANTA—The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s new international terminal, the Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal, features an art installation entitled “Light Waves: Atlanta.” The piece features 32 CHAUVET Intimidator Scan LED 300 scanners, 68 horizontal panes of colored glass—stacked in 17 sections with four panes in each section—along a 160-ft. hallway. As the light from the recessed fixtures in the ceiling passes over the glass, it reflects and refracts creating a continuously changing pattern of color on the wall.
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ZURICH – Erwin Engel has joined Riedel Communications – a manufacturer of real-time networks for video, audio and communications – to handle sales and rental markets in western Switzerland. Engel is a video/broadcasting specialist with more than 20 years of industry experience. He most recently was responsible for Sales Engineering Broadcast at John Lay Electronics.
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MANCHESTER, UK – XL Video supplied Elbow with LED screens, PPU / cameras, a Catalyst media server system and crew for a sold out performance at an otherworldly site – the Jodrell Bank Observatory & Centre for Astrophysics. Adding atmosphere to the day were the relentless rains, turning the site into a mudbath for numerous production challenges. But it didn’t dampen the enthusiasm.
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