Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held on Friday, January 24, 2025, during the NAMM Show. Anyone can go to the ParnelliAwards.com site and nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best for a Parnelli Award. Nominations for Indispensable Technology (IT) Awards are also open.
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Christie® HS Series 1DLP® laser projectors deliver a spectacular immersive experience to visitors of La Selva, an educational geodesic dome designed to foster appreciation and preservation of the Colombian rainforests. Located in the Parque Empresarial El Tesoro shopping mall in Medellín, this project is a collaborative effort between the mall and Lonko Labs.
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PLSN was saddened to hear of the passing on Aug. 2, 2024, of Lighting Designer / Lighting Director Christopher Richard Stuba at age 63 from Stage 4 Small Cell Lung Cancer. Debi Moen who knew and had interviewed Stuba several times, remembers this beloved friend in our lighting community’s life and career through friends of his as well as quotes from Stuba himself from past interviews.
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The Venice Performing Arts Center (VPAC) in Venice, FL, has recently undergone a significant lighting upgrade with the installation of Elation FUZE PAR Z175 luminaires, facilitated by production and integration company Thunder City Pro. The venue now offers an enhanced visual experience using state-of-the-art LED wash luminaires with dynamic color mixing and motorized zoom.
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Princess Cruises has taken a major step toward sustainability and delivering outstanding live performances by upgrading the lighting rig in their 1,000-seat Princess Theatre on the Crown, Emerald, and Ruby Princess ships. Princess Cruises Fleet Lighting Supervisor Matt DeJong and the Princess Entertainment Technical team selected Robe Lighting TE fixtures.
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Ready to level-up safety in your school’s theatre? Receive a free inspection from an ETCP certified rigging inspector, along with free safety training for your staff and students by applying for our Rigging Safety Initiative during its fall cycle — which is happening now.
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The new STRIKE Bolt 1C combines “old school with the new cool,” to come up with a unique IP65 fixture that offers unimaginable and unlimited design possibilities. This intense color-infused strobe has a feature that sets it apart from the pack – an innovative fully -integrated Smart Frost filter. Featuring twin strobe tubes and a single row of 66 RGBA LEDs, the STRIKE Bolt 1C works superbly as a traditional strobe. However, thanks to its integrated smart glass Frost Filter, the fixture is able to create solid clean color block effects, radically expanding design possibilities.
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ESTA is seeking passionate, motivated individuals to join its Board of Directors and help guide the association into a future filled with excitement, possibilities, and growth. A number of Board positions are available for the January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2027 term. The nomination deadline is September 9, 2024.
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Central London-based lighting and event technology and services specialist Halo now has one of the largest and most extensive stocks of Astera products in the UK. Halo’s total count of well over 400 Astera luminaires includes Titan Tubes, Helios Tubes, Hyperion Tubes and many others.
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This summer, some seven decades after Brutalism first shook things up in the design world, highly regarded Lighting and Production Designer Bryan Barancik has channeled its visceral power to create a gripping, deeply moving show for Lenny Kravitz on the four-time Grammy winner’s 27-city European tour, which began June 23 in Hamburg at Sporthalle.
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Robe Lighting France announces that Jean-Marc Farré has joined their team as the regional manager for the vast southern area of France, encompassing Bordeaux in the east to Lyon in the west and everything south of that.
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PROLIGHTS’ Halu Pix illuminated the 24th edition of the Mawazine Festival, the largest festival in Africa and the second largest in the world, organized by the Maroc Cultures association. This event, spread across six different locations between Rabat and Salé, attracts over two and a half million spectators each year with performances by top-tier artists from the Arab, African, Moroccan, and international music scenes.
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