MIDLAND, TX – More than 60 students from across North America attended Tomcat's 18th Annual Truss, Hoist & Rigging workshops from Feb. 16-19. Tomcat and partner companies offered classroom and hands-on training on truss, chain hoists, rigging, fall protection and automation. The event also featured a guided tour of Tomcat's factory plus some West Texas hospitality.
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YONKERS, NY – Altman Rentals added Jason Perry as a rental sales agent to its staff. Prior to joining Altman Rentals, Perry handled technical support and customer service for Rosco Laboratories in Stamford, spent 10 years with High Output in Boston and has worked as a freelance production electrician.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites has added the semi-transparent Clay Paky Mirage LED Curtain to its inventory. Designed for indoor or outdoor use, the product is made from thin horizontal bars with 50 percent transparency to allow light beams to pass through in both directions.
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KARLSTAD, Sweden – The Karlstad Theatre in Sweden is nearly 120 years old and home to the Värmland Opera, founded in 1975. The company produces operatic, musical and orchestral performances, along with school productions. The company tours extensively, within Sweden and beyond.
Read More »BROOKINGS, SD – Daktronics' Board of Directors elected Bruce W. Tobin as an independent director of the company. Tobin replaces Dr. Duane E. Sander, who has resigned from the board. This brings the number of directors back to nine, including six independent directors. Tobin will serve as a member of the audit committee.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – HSL (Blackburn, U.K.) provided lighting gear for Don't Scare The Hare, the first BBC TV show to be produced at the new Media City complex & studios in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester. The show, produced by Endemol, airs in April on BBC1. The LD for the project is Tom Kinane. HSL's Sean McGlone served as project manager.
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SINGAPORE – The Youth Olympic Games brought 3,500 Olympic hopefuls aged 14 to 18 from 204 countries to Singapore last year to compete in 26 events. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies, seen by 27,000 live and 2 billion via television, were lit with more than 1,900 fixtures provided by PRG. The more than 600 moving lights used for the events included Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500s and Alpha Spot HPE 1500s.
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NEW YORK – For the Big Apple Circus's recent Dance On! show under the Big Top, Scharff Weisberg provided lighting, audio and video equipment for a new entrance tent in Lincoln Center Plaza's Damrosch Park. The entrance tent, designed by David Rockwell of Rockwell and Associates, "exponentially increased our front of house space," said Scott O'Donnell, vice president and general manager of the Big Apple Circus.
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LISBON, Portugal – Lighting designer Mário Bastos used a moving light rig including 50 Robe ROBIN 600 moving lights for the latest 10-week series of Idolos (Pop Idol), broadcast live on SIC on Sunday nights in Portugal.
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KRAMFORS, Sweden – Erik Nordlander of Nordlander Produktion used 18 Martin Professional Tripix 300 LED (RGB) striplights to illuminate a rebuilt pedestrian bridge in warm shades of white light and occasionally in dynamic color.
Read More »GLENDALE, CA – Kinetic Lighting Inc. announced the relocation of its headquarters from North Hollywood to Glendale, CA. The new facility is nearly 40 percent larger than the previous building, with improved loading facilities and easy freeway access to serve clients' special events, rentals, sales, and repairs needs.
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DAMASCUS, Syria – Hamsho Group International, owners of the new Yafour Hotel & Resort, contracted with Ammar Jano of Jano for Lighting, who used the white marble façade of the six-story hotel as a projection surface lit by SGM's IP55-rated Palco 5 architectural LED fixture.
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