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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

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The Week in Lighting & Sound

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Fundraising Fellowship - The Arts Council is to fund a new fellowship programme to train arts fundraisers of the future. The Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Fellowship will offer 11 places for entrepreneurial graduates at organisations including Opera North and Tate Liverpool. The ...

PLASA outlines Strategic Plan at AGM

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

UK - Members of PLASA attending the 2013 European AGM at BAFTA in central London recently were presented with the Association's Strategic Plan for the next five years by Matthew Griffiths, PLASA's CEO, and Ed Pagett, Managing Director of Panalux Broadcast & Event and current Chairman of ...

Nitin invests in Robe

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

India - Leading south Indian rental company Nitin Speakers & Electrical has invested in Robe moving lights to upgrade their lighting inventory.

Run by Sachin Naik - who has connected with many politicians, dignitaries, VIPs and celebrities in the course of his work - the Pune based ...

ETC Source Four lights Hiroshima's flash bang

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

France - The nuclear blast at Hiroshima in 1945 is often described in Japanese as a flash (pika) followed by a bang (don). Last year, a performance lit with ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ fixtures aimed to represent the unexpected terror of the pika don through the medium of dance. Un ...

White Light appoints venue relationship manager

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
UK - White Light has announced the appointment of Rebecca Fellows as venue relationship manager, providing a key contact for events venues in London and across the UK. Fellows, previously events administrator at White Light, joined the company in 2011. She sees her new role as an opportunity ...

Rock Our World nominations deadline: 21 June

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
USA - The submission deadline for the fifth annual Rock Our World Awards is one week away; all nominations need to be in by 21June 2013. The awards, which recognize extraordinary achievement of products, projects or product application by PLASA members, were designed to acknowledge the ...

Venuetech and Barco sign distributor partnership

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
UAE - Barco LiveDots, a Barco company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai-based audiovisual expert Venuetech.
Venuetech will be the exclusive distributor of LiveDots' full LED portfolio in Saudi Arabia and a non-exclusive reseller for the GCC (Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, ...

Chaos Muses over Europe

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Europe - "Basically what we've got here is a massive TV screen," says Andy Tonks, video crew chief from Chaos Visual Productions on the current Muse production doing the rounds of European stadiums this summer. Made up of WinVision 12mm, there is a total of 1092 active tiles, each one ...

Community Entasys solutions for Sint-Leonardus

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Belgium - Hifi-Center Melis and Jan Geerts have completed the installation of a new Community Entasys sound system for Sint-Leonardus Church, located in Aartselaar on the southern outskirts of Antwerp.
With its oldest parts dating back to 1792, and additions in 1861, Sint-Leonardus Church ...

TiMax SoundHub tutorials on YouTube

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
UK - Out Board have posted five TiMax SoundHub Tutorial videos at their new YouTube TiMax Media channel.
Each short video runs about 4-6 mins and the set provides a fast-track training course for the versatile PC/Mac software used to program and control the powerful TiMax SoundHub audio ...

Philips Selecon PL1 solution for Questacon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Australia - Canberra's National Science and Technology Centre Questacon has become the first Australian institution to invest in Philips Selecon's fully tuneable high output LED PL1 luminaires.
The centre - which attracts more than 420,000 visitors each year - has purchased 20 of the PL1s, ...

Christie HD18K helps bring ruined castle to life

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Hungary - Christie projection is at the centre of what is believed to be the first permanent outdoor pixel mapping project ever staged in Europe.
The initiative of saving the small early 19th century Breda Castle, situated close to the eastern border of Hungary, by developing it into a new ...

Jands blows into a hurricane

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Australia - The recently opened, and largest flagship restaurant for the Hurricanes group, Hurricanes Grill Brighton Le Sands is an expansive venue which overlooks the beach.
When deciding upon a suitable audio solution for the venue, Steve Sidd (general manager) wanted great sound but was ...