The event which celebrates the Hindu Festival of Lights is organised by the Mayor of London and the Diwali in London Committee and sees Trafalgar Square lit up with colour to celebrate the occasion.
Contracted by Greenwich + Docklands Festivals to supply technical elements for the event, Stage Electrics supplied lighting across the site, PA system, power distribution and generation requirements.
A broad spectrum of products was utilised for the lighting duties including Martin MAC2000 and MAC700 washes, Studio Due City Colors, Pulsar Chroma Floods and HTI150W architectural wash luminaires. Control was by way of an Avolites Pearl with Avolites Radio EDMX system providing data transfer duties across the square to minimise cable runs.
An EAW KF730 compact line array tiwas used for the main PA for the event with EAW KF695, KF850, SB1000 and SB330 cabinets used for wide fills and delays across the site, L-Acoustics 12XT cabinets performed monitor and control duties were fulfilled by way of Yamaha M7CL desks.
Front-of-house was engineer Ben Milton, who is well versed with the idiosyncrasies of the Square having worked on previous projects with Stage Electrics on the same site. He was able to maximise the impact of the PA across the site whilst remaining within the noise level restrictions present at the adjacent buildings.
Although power was available on site, additional temporary supplies were required to supplement the 'in-house' elements due to the size of the event. Midas were contracted through Stage Electrics to supply two of their 200kVA generators, synchronised to provide the production power.
Stage Electrics production manager John Radford commented: "It is becoming increasingly important for us to minimise the carbon footprint of many of our events, by working alongside Midas and their 100% bio-diesel generators providing a carbon neutral supply for this project and embracing the use of more efficient lighting sources such as LED units we can start to have a positive impact on this and other similar projects."
(Jim Evans)
