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The annual winter event put on by Kirklees Council was this year expanded to fill the weekend across 2-5 December. As well as the usual street theatre spectacular which traditionally packs out the town's St George's Square, the council prepared other events, all project managed by TG Events' Tim Garbutt.

The major new addition to this year's festival was the illumination of The Media Centre. James Bawn - normally of A.C. Entertainment Technologies - designed a temporary lighting installation for the exterior of the prominent building. Bawn has worked with TG Events on many architectural designs in the past.

Eighty-four PixelLine 1044 batons were each situated on the building gantries within th

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Close to White Light's base in Wimbledon, south-west London, the company supplied new internally wired lighting bars and a new LSC EKO twelve-way dimmer system for the Drama Room at Merton's Rutlish School; White Light have also carried out PAT testing on the equipment in the school's main hall.

Elsewhere in London, White Light undertook projects for St Andrews Primary School in Enfield (supplying a mixing desk and radio microphones for the school hall), Roe Green Junior School in Harrow (supplying gobo projection for the school's new Eco Building), Langley Park School for Girls in Beckenham (load testing and rigging remedial work), and Esher High School in Esher (s

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All three are high-power LED wash lights are flicker free - making them a video-friendly choice - and housed in rugged cases. The fixtures fill a small footprint - just over 279.4mm high, under 254mm wide and only 88.89mm deep - and have hanging brackets which double as a floor stands. The cast alluminium housing protects them from the rigours of the road and helps dissipate heat. The cost-effective line also features locking IEC connectors for power, LED control displays for easy addressing and access to functions, and multiple dimming curves for smoother dimming no matter what controller is used, says the company.

The LED-fitted wash lights emit very little heat and h

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Building on the success of the 2010 inaugural event in London, the conference is delighted to host John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, who will address delegates on the importance of improving and consolidating partnership links between the creative and cultural industry and the education sector.

Attendees will have the opportunity to network with key industry figures, attend lively and practical seminars and celebrate achievements the S

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"The world's brightest minds and most innovative music companies came together in Anaheim for four amazing days of commerce, networking and learning," said NAMM president and CEO Joe Lamond. "After meeting with NAMM members from around the world, I am continually impressed and amazed at the resolve and optimism our indust

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Once Gaga had been designed, constructed and styled to perfection, it was imperative that the lighting selected for the wax figure, and the Music Zone set in which it resides, was superior. After assessing the functionality required to light the figure, Architainment supplied Philips Selecon PL1RHC03 Black PL1 Spot to Madame Tussauds, marking the first ever UK sale of this flagship fitting from the Philips entertainment group of products.

Working in collaboration with Madame Tussauds' show services manager, Simon Morris,

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A popular, well-connected, and highly involved member of the industry, Taylor was born in London. He studied theatre aesthetics at the University of London, followed by attendance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and graduate studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Taylor spent 21 years at Theatre Projects Consultants where he was involved in a number of acclaimed and high-profile projects, including the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, New Amsterdam Theatre in New York, Hyper

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"Jim Brown will be responsible for dealing with the requirements of Pearce's increasing dry hire customer base, delivering them to the highest standards," says managing director Shaun Pearce.

"The company has invested in a significant range of lighting, power distribution and audio equipment and Jim will manage our continually expanding inventory, ensuring optimum service levels through efficient stock control and ongoing maintenance and testing at the company's Peterborough HQ."

After years of touring as an audio freelancer, Brown began working with Pearce Hire in 2010.

Other advances shaping Pearce Hire's start to 2011 see Dan Shelton promoted to become head of operations, while Daniel Stratton has been promoted to company elect

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Undertaking the lighting design for a rarely offered second year, lighting designer Steve Nolan and associate Tim Routledge took the opportunity to use the newly launched PixelSmart from PixelRange.

"When you have so many different acts to manage, you need as many tricks up your sleeve as possible - and the PixelSmart certainly helped with that. It can do so many different things. It can be a wash light, it can be an effect, anything, but we used it mainly as 'sparkle'"

The PixelSmart luminaires, 24 in number, were positioned facing straight out towards the audience -distributed across four lighting towers at the back of the stage. Controlled via a grandMA lighting console. "Instead of talking to the PixelSmart a

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The centre is the new reference point for the civil life of the country, and acts both as a social and cultural meeting place. It is possible to watch and take part in a whole range of activities inside, in an air conditioned environment that ensures comfortable surroundings all year round. It houses shops, cafés, restaurants, cinemas and multipurpose areas, which may be adapted to a rich schedule of events and shows.

The lights include new Alpha Beam 1500s, which are used especially to attract the public and during live events, and Alpha Spot HPE 300s for the interior design. The lighting system was installed by SF Dis Ticaret

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This is the first time that Pixled's new F-6 indoor LED display product will be offered together with both processing options at a European exhibition.

F-6 screen is designed for professional high-end rental and staging applications and installers looking for the best quality, and most flexible, creative LED solutions, says the company.

The Mitsubishi Electric options - which are exclusively designed for rental & staging customers - include multi standard HD and DVI with super-resolution technology, MPEG noise reduction and enhanced grey scale processing.

The latest Pixled exhibition booth has a clean, contemporary, eye-catching design. Two column

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On display will be the EC-20 LED display panel, Martin's indoor/outdoor LED display, the P3-100 System Controller with V2 software, plus the latest software update for the user-friendly Maxedia media server and other visual solutions products.

The EC-20 combines the image quality and precision of conventional high resolution screens (20 mm pixel pitch) with the creativity and low weight of mesh type screens, says the company. Semi-transparent with integrated curving, the EC-20's cable-free design makes for rapid setup and teardown in combination with maximum flexibility, easy serviceability and full lighting control integration.

P3-100 System Controller V2 Software: Version 2 software of Martin's processor for LED screens includ

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The brief was to provide the theatre with a console that enabled them to integrate their control surfaces and that would give the theatre more functionality and control than they would get from a traditional stage managers desk. The client wanted to control much more than the usual stage managers functionality, requiring a product that enabled third party integration.

Théâtre du Châtelet is situated along the quays of the Seine in Paris. Constructed by Gabriel Davoud in 1862, in its time it was the largest performance hall in Paris and hosted some of the principal tours in Parisian history. The Theatre is a multi-discipline venue hosting a schedule of performances from opera to dance and progressive theatre productions.

GDS deployed

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LumenRadio's CRMX with its Automated Cognitive Coexistence was identified as the only wireless system that could provide the level of performance and reliability required and at the same time co-exist with all the other wireless systems present in the facility.

"The entire event went off without a hitch and proved that Lume

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DWR already distributes several premium brands including Vari*Lite, and the beginnings of this latest agreement stem back to DWR's confirmation as South Africa's Vari*Lite distributor at the end of 2008.

DWR's MD Duncan Riley reportss that the specification, supply and installation of lighting into theatres is an expanding sector for the company. "With Philips Selecon and Strand onboard, I have product ranges ideally suited to the calibre of projects we're working on - whether large or small - as the demand for either criteria is always for top quality equipment that will be reliable and long lasting."

Philips Strand/Selecon also slots into DWR's existing product portfolio, which includes Robe lighting, M

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Owner of HA-Rental, Hans Alders was responsible for initiating the sustainability project of the VPT (Dutch association of stage technology). To ensure his company is "green, safe and clean", Alders has developed a comprehensive hire stock of reliable, effective, energy efficient lighting equipment.

As part of that initiative, HA-Rental has purchased a number of Philips Selecon fixtures including the PL3 LED luminaire from local Philips Entertainment Lighting dealer, Rolight theatertechniek BV. "The PL3 is a welcome addition to our rental stock and to the lighting professionals fixture palette," says Alders. "Not only do they meet the everyday challenges of illuminating stages and studi

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Two panels for the permanent installation market are the Impact 12 and Impact 16 - respectively 12mm and 16mm pixel pitch. The new panels boast 6000 nits of brightness, making them suitable for any situation with high intensity ambient light, says the company.

Both panels feature larger panel size for quick installation - a benefit for applications such as roadside advertising where installation time is limited and the sports market - are IP65 rated and offer both front and rear access and an easy release IM structure for ease of maintenance - intelligent IM design allows superior flatness - the use of the first outdoor SMD LED chip.

In addition, Impact 12 and Impact 16 are M5 ready to allow remote diagnostics with the added be

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CCG provided more than 1300 mixed fixtures from its extensive inventory of CCG, for the Four Seasons Hotel screening venue and the opening night after-party held at the Pearl Qatar. At the fore of this massive lighting effort, once again designed and specified by Adam Bassett Design Limited, were 88 Clay Paky Alpha units at Four Seasons and another 105 Clay Paky Alpha units at the Pearl.

CCG's head of lighting Michel Khairallah noted, "The bulk of the moving heads this year were the larger units from the 1200W series of the Alpha line, with the notable addition of the Alpha Beam 1500 and Alpha Wash 1500 moving heads, and some Alp

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Miles, who first previewed the EC-20 video panels at the PLASA exhibition in September, was looking for "a lightweight, fairly high resolution, modular LED system that I could use on Leftfield and on some other shows. David Stewart at Martin gave me a demo and I really liked how it looked. I was also very impressed by the P3-100 video processor."

Following a series of successful summer festival performances, Leftfield played a number of dates in the UK and Ireland in November and December. Miles was brought in by lighting designer Jamie Thompson, primarily to oversee the video playback system and content. After figuring his video needs, he con

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In an Urdu production, Pakistani TV star Nadia Jamil will star as Katherine in Taming of the Shrew and international directors Eimuntas Nekrosius and Tang Shu Wing will mount shows in Lithuanian and Cantonese respectively. Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole said tha

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The lighting package uses almost 200 ways of ETC Sensor dimming, controlled by an ETC Congo Junior desk. Amongst the 100-plus lanterns supplied were 12 Robe 575s, 24 JB LED A7s plus Selecon, ETC & Thomas units.

The d&B audio system is controlled by a Yamaha LS9 32 & DME64. This makes it possible to switch easily between FOH and Cinema mode at the touch of a button on the Crestron control system, which also provides complete AV & lighting control. The transformation to a digital cinema was enabled by the installation of a Christie Digital Roadstar HD1

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"This was our most exciting Edinburgh's Hogmanay ever," says Stephen Reid, Black Light's head of events. "We used some really exciting new equipment to produce jaw-dropping effects that did full justice to the global importance of the event."

To kick-start the proceedings, the company lit the Son et Lumiére finale to the annual torch-light procession on the night of 30 December. This culminated with a dynamic lighting display that brought the architecture of the capital's Calton Hill to life. This display, which was designed in conjunction with Unique Events and programmed by Black Light's technicians, used over 50 intelligent fixtures, incl

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The exact location of this gravel pit is called Mollard Mouton, and many political and economic celebrities visited the Region iséroise for the occasion. The lighting system featured six PR Lighting XLED 590 LED moving head washlights, which had to perform in the difficult conditions. These were accompanied by effects from StarWay - all working in harmony to create a spectacular show under the open skies.

According to Alexandre Jeannerod, manager of Euro Sono, while conditions were hazardous, this could not prevent the lighting from functioning perfectly. He said that the pow

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Martin also announces a LightJockey hardware replacement programme. Through the programme, old LightJockey hardware from an ISA PC card to a Universal USB device can be returned for exchange.

The replacement kit includes the Martin One-Key, either one or two Martin USB DUO DMXs, and an MSD5 MC Edition 3D Visualizer.

(Jim Evans)