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STLD and ALD members had travelled from London and around the country to the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatre where, as well as a tour of the historic playhouse, the designers took in a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

PixelRange technical director, John Hickinbotham and sales manager, Andy Walters, were on hand to guide the attendees through the new range of products which included PixelRange's PixelSmart, the SmartLine 4, as well as the recently debuted QLite luminaire and PixelLine 1 battens.

Andy Walters explained, "As a UK lighting manufacturer, PixelRa

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ARCUS Lighting staff members have been certified by High End Systems to teach programming and operation of Wholehog consoles including the Wholehog 3, Road Hog Full Boar, Road Hog and Hog 3PC software. Utilising the latest software, students will learn in-depth procedures for setting up and operating shows on Wholehog consoles. Each class utilizes Road Hog Full Boar consoles connected to WYSIWYG for hands-on learning. Students work 2 per console as they partake in lessons designed to replicate real world situations.

"We are pleased that our distribute

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"They have been great," Bennett says, adding that the compact fixture has also been an excellent lighting fixture on Paul McCartney's latest tour, also a Roy Bennett designed show. "I love the 101s because of the size, weight and speed, as well as the light output."

One of the hottest selling artists of all time, Rihanna embarked on the Loud world tour in June to promote her latest album of the same name. The tour kicked off in North America with lighting supplied by Upstaging before legs in South America and Europe. The European leg began on 29 September and extends until the end

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With design by Anthony James Partners, the centre-hung LED video system features Lighthouse's new Impact 16 LED video product. With over 6,500sq.ft of LED video, the centre-hung screens fill the stadium with colourful animations, sponsor messages, Lions' replays, Whitecaps' player introductions, custom video, and live concert and special event coverage.

"Lighthouse is proud to be a part of the new BC Place," says Ed Whitaker, Lighthouse N.A.S.A. director of sales. "Lighthouse develope

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The appointment was confirmed, with immediate effect at this year's PLASA Show in London, by company director Michel Roelofsen, and SGM's managing director Peter Johansen and export area manager Steen Geertsen.

Along with co-founder Theo van Workum, Roelofsen has built up a formidable sales and rental company over the past 15 years, with bases throughout Holland and Germany. Their channels to market take them into television and architectural applications as well as concert and theatre touring.

"We are extremely impressed with the new range of SGM products - and over the years we have also sold a lot of older SGM fixtures," he stated. "It's important that we can do

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The arts council's director of theatre, Barbara Matthews, told The Stage, "We're sort of saying 'thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to this, it might

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The theatre has purchased seven Leader Light Stage Wash RGBAW fixtures, a 60cm long, 12cm wide, 12.5cm deep LED batten that incorporates five LED colours - red, green, blue, amber and white - to give a higher output and more flexible colour options than the more familiar three-colour RGB fixtures. The Stage Wash is easy to control, using standard 5-pin XLR DMX connectors, and has the familiar LED virtue of using less energy - 110W maximum - than equivalent tungsten fixtures.

Barry Hope, technical manager for the Birmingham Hippodrome, describes the Stage Wash as a "great p

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Newing was chosen at random out of 327 entries in the contest, which ran last month on Elation's Facebook page. He will receive round trip airfare to Los Angeles, three nights' hotel accommodations, meals and ground transportation in Los Angeles, plus enrollment in the Master Classes, 3-4 December 2011 at the University of Southern California's new Ronald Tutor Campus Center Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles.

As director of entertainment, media and promotions for Ala Carte Entertainment, Newing is required to stay current with modern lighting trends and equi

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The six day event was staged at the Futurama Office Park in Karlin, one of the liveliest and most vibrant areas of Prague.

Jiri Baros, Anolis & Robe's marketing and communications manager says, "It was really good for us to be represented amongst the top designers from all over Europe. designblok is not just about the products, it's about the design and look of the stand as well as the future of aesthetics and visual communications. Many leading designers from all disciplines visit the show and it's absolutely bang-on in terms of a target group for Anolis."

(Jim Evans)

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For the fifth consecutive year, Phoenix 5 called on the technical expertise of Cape Town based rental company, C&S, for the set, stage, AV, sound, lighting and rigging. The gear was jointly supplied by The Grand Arena and C&S. The day was divided into two 200-minute shows, each playing to a full audience and recorded for the television programme Kyknet on DSTV and for a DVD.

Alan Muller was the lighting designer and consultant for both lighting and rigging. "The p

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Southlake boasts a grandMA2 full-size with a grandMA2 light as a backup while NRH is outfitted with a grandMA2 light - all purchased from Barbizon Lighting.

"I used to be a touring guy whose console of choice was the original grandMA," says director of lighting/stage design Kyle Russelburg. "When I joined the church in 2008, part of overhauling the current lighting system was upgrading their current lighting

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This year, Martin Professional was represented via its Russian office, which opened in Moscow in 2010, and was supported by Martin headquarter personnel including Martin area sales manager Peter Dahlin and Martin product managers Paul Pelletier and Peter Skytte, who conducted product demonstrations and master classes.

"Thanks to their efforts as well as those of our Russian team we had an opportunity to successfully present the new products, especially the MAC Aura™, which received a lot of interest," stated Russian office head Mikhail Kuznetsov.

"After its launch at PLASA on 11 September, and the PLASA award it won, we were happy to have had the opp

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Martin product manager for fixed installations, Jonathan Meineke, headed the training with participation from members of Martin's R&D and design & application departments.

The training included an up-close look at a live lighting installation on the exterior of Martin's headquarter building, along with hands-on training in the Martin demo room. Discussions covered general lighting topics such as the appropriate use of LED, fluorescent and discharge light sources in different applications, and in-depth case stories like the award-winning Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

The training gave lighting designers the opportunity to get hands on with several Martin installation products, including the

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The company was called upon to provide a variety of audio visual systems including repeater screens to the left and right of the main stage, projectors, plasmas and lighting effects.

Phil O'Halloran, head of NL Productions, commented: "It goes without saying that being asked to work on an event as prestigious as the MOBO Awards was a fantastic coup for NL Productions. We've recently rebranded to make our service offering more creative; and an event like this really enabled us to shine. We hope to continue our working relationship with the MOBO Organisation for many years to come."

NL Productions utilised Panasonic 10k projectors and two repeater screens on either side of the stage and pro

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Portable products will feature heavily on the stand with a new high powered battery uplighter on show for the first time. The ULite6000 is bright enough to light trees and architectural features without the need for cabling.

Moving heads are now an affordable option with the EPW dual function wash/spot.

For exterior lighting there will be a range of LED battens and PARcans. These IP65 rated units provide coloured wash lighting in all weather conditions. MilTec will be on stand number 83 in the Exhibition Hall.

(Jim Evans)

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From 1 September 2011, EES has assumed responsibility for sales activity across Spain and Portugal, promoting and supporting the full range of Robert Juliat lighting equipment including tungsten, HMI and LED profiles and wash lights and the world-famous range of followspots.

EES has two bases in Spain from which to service its customers, at Astigarraga and Madrid, whilst the Portuguese market benefits from its own Figura Determinante, Siamanto Ismaily, whose experience and direct presence enables EES to provide a better service and assistance in the region.

Mrs Leire Olascoaga, managing director for EES, says, "The whole EES team is delighted to have started our relationship with Robert Juliat. EES's main aim is to meet all our custom

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This bustling town centre market is incorporated within the new Westfield Derby shopping centre development which opened in 2007.

The nine internally lit cubes are suspended from the steel grid ceiling structure and illuminated with over 3500 nodes of Philips CK i-Color Flex SLX. This was spec'd by Lite and LTP as a flexible dynamic, robust and energy efficient solution, which would allow programming of some interesting abstract coloured dynamic effects - including twists, scrolls and swirling rainbows as well as being able to provide a straightforward colour changing lighting appe

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Robe moving lights - including 24 Robin 600 LEDWashes - were the key fixtures of the design, supplied by Johannesburg based Techrig, who provided lighting equipment and crew to the entire Clover event for the first time.

Set designer Michael Gill produced a large and innovative scenic design for the gala dinner. Grobler initially gave Hutch - as he's widely known - a basic show brief, which included several high profile live performances, plus an idea of the look they wanted to achieve, to which Hutchinson soo

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Multiform's MultiSpot GII HP3 and MultiSpot GII HP5 high powered professional fixtures are housed in a waterproof diecast and extruded aluminium chassis using 5 Pin XLR and Neutrik PowerCon connectors for internal and rental applications. By fitting an optional conversion kit using cable glands and hard wired cables the devices meet the IP65 specification for permanent external use. Fitted with RGB TriLEDs for maximum brightness or RGBAW LEDs for the widest colour range these fixtures offer a comprehensive range of DMX ( RGB and HSL) or Stand Alone control modes.

Also on display will be a number of additions from their established successful range including the MultiSpot LS

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The BlackBox MK2 contains all of the features of the G4 line including the ability to repair corrupted data creating maximum security by running on dual band (2.4GHz and 5.8GHz) as well as creating a backup duplicate of the signal.

New features in the MK2 include: Built in Quick Lock; DIN RAIL prepared, rack and truss mountable; Both 5-Pin and 3-Pin DMX Connectors for both IN and OUT; Built-in RDM Controller supporting RDM by Cable and Wireless together; Updated with Neutrik Ethercon; Updated to Neutrik Powercon ; All F-2 models with embedded Ethernet PCB with support of s/ACN and Art-Net II/III.

Like all products on the G4 product line, the MK2 includes Adaptive Frequency Hopping technology that scans the spectrum automatica

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The Artemis Light is the newest member of Calrec's Artemis family of Bluefin 2 Hydra2 audio consoles, introducing a compact processing rack dedicated to delivering digital signal processing (DSP) and routing capabilities in a 4U enclosure. Cameron-Pace Group chose the Artemis Light to upgrade Mobile Unit 1, a Fusion 3D mobile unit for on-location broadcast and post-production. When the upgrade is complete, Mobile Unit 1 will be capable of producing audio in surround sound via the advanced capabilities of the Artemis Light.

"The Artemis Light is the perfect choice for the complex audio requirements of our newly upgraded Mobile Unit 1, and we are

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"Many lighting designers consider the 750-Watt Source Four as a benchmark when comparing lights," notes Garrett Young, president and founder of Prism Projection, Inc. "During the show, we will give attendees the opportunity to see the Source Four alongside our RevEAL Profile, which we consider to be the future of framing profile spotlights. It has the output of traditional sources at a fraction of the power con

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One of the key new software features is CAD Mapping Background, an ergonomic feature that makes P3 system controllers even easier to use. CAD Mapping Background allows users to import a CAD drawing (stage, building, etc.) and then map LED video panels directly onto the drawing without the need to measure distances or angles.

Another key new feature is a Kinesys K2 Motion Control interface. By linking a P3 system controller to a Kinesys K2 Motion Control System, real-world movement and/or rotation of panels can be tracked in real time by the P3 System Controller. This enables direct panel positi