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The WFX award marks the third new product award bestowed on Wybron's InfoTrace system in the past three months. During the PLASA and LDI trade shows, Wybron also won new product awards for InfoTrace. This is the first time any product has won all three awards in one year.

"We are very pleased that the worship market has recognised Wybron's contribution of innovative value-added lighting solutions," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "We are focused on this marketplace and its need for state-of-the-art lighting technology that enhances congregants' experience."

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Training will be hands on, with no more than two people per console, and space for only ten percourse. This is in addition to courses which run throughout the year, offering technical training in how to set up, operate and repair all ETC's products.

Day one introduces users to Congo and Congo jr, covering all the majorfunctions and allowing them to navigate the console and to program bothfixed and moving lights, including creating dynamic effects. The second dayfocuses on the software, editing and using multiple sequence lists.

The Playhouse at Gypsy Corner, as the demo theatre is known, is the stunningfoyer of ET

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Tom van den Heuvel also used VisualDMX and Matrix Mania! to great effect at the TMF Awards VIP after show party on a 12 x 7 metre LED dance floor. Van den Heuvel felt compelled to use VisualDMX because he believes Matrix Mania! is "powerful and very easy to patch and make into a matrix: doesn't matter if its small or big as you can adapt easily and quickly the size and the patterns of the programmed images too."

At the open-air Mystery Land festival, VisualDMX came into its own with the programming of Allar

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Stardraw's marketing director, Rob Robinson, is delighted that Stardraw Control has qualified as a finalist for the inaugural Technology InAVation Awards which will be held at the forthcoming ISE show in Amsterdam next February. "Stardraw Control has already been recognised at several prestigious industry awards, and the Technology InAVation nomination serves as further testament to the truly innovative nature of the product," noted Robinson. &

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Lighting designer Torkel Skjerven and his assistants Andreas Glad and Stefan Dombeck created a sophisticated show. "The lighting equipment was provided locally by High Lights Egypt while AVAB/CAC provided the grandMA control system," reports Skjerven, "We ran a network of grandMA full-size together with grandMA light as well as multiple grandMA onPC laptops. When dealing with multiple types of fixtures, grandMA gives a great overview of groups, presets as well as colour mixing. Its use of colour coding and different views make

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One of the dominant themes of the December forum will be a discussion of Ofcom's proposals, as part of the planned TV switchover from analogue to digital, to sell-off the radio frequencies currently used by the UK entertainment industry. If the sell-off goes ahead as planned, it will leave the UK live events sector without a licence - a major blow for the industry.

Thanks to a strategy suggested by PLASA and its political lobbyists Ranelagh, BEIRG is now lobbying Government to highlight the damage that the spectrum sell-off will have to a sector t

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"They're a nice, compact dimmer rack with flexible patching on them and LSC is a wellregarded, reliable brand," says Steve Leiter, lighting director at HaycomStaging.

Leiter had a thorough look at all available dimmers on the market but the LSC e24v2package stood out for a variety of reasons. In particular the LCD touch screen on thecontrol panel impressed him. "It allows a quick access to all the functions via simplemenus and also allows you to record internal scenes and looks via the DMXsnapshots," he said. The e24v2 also includes an LSCnet interface as standard, so the

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Al Nabooda, the leading Audi distributor in the Middle East, launched the latest top of the range SUV from Audi: the Q7. The event was attended by over a thousand invited guests, including selected local VIPs.

The set consisted of, among others, eight hydraulic scissor lifts, four of which lifted two cars through the stage, with the other four featuring UK based pyrotechnic performers from Phoenix Productions.

Eight cars were flown in from the roof of the venue, as part of the reveal, under state of the art motor control sys

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The Grand Theatre built in 1878 was a major milestone in Victorian theatre building and is listed Grade II. Once described as "probably the finest theatre of its size in Britain," the Grand's 19th century facilities no longer met present day audience and performance expectations. Working conditions backstage and facilities for artists were increasingly difficult and inefficient.

The £16m first phase works on the theatre have involved new seating, improved sight lines, better ventilation and improved facilities for the disabled. Backstage, the fly tower and flying systems have been upgraded, and two new rehearsal rooms constructed on an adjacent site are connected to the Theatre by a wide bridge, which also acts as a sc

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The event will be hosted by Stage Electrics and for more information contact Sara Alarabi on 0117 937 9503.

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The CD-R has new, more extensive search possibilities; you can search for information via different entries and the CD-R is now application oriented. This new CD-R will support the customers in tracing product information quickly and is based on customer requests.

It will be updated twice a year and will be extended with Medical/Projection lamps in 2007.

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The AILD's mission statement says it aims "to give full recognition to the professional category of the Lighting Designer who operates in a cultural context and to the art of lighting in all its forms of expression: theatre, dance, opera, television, cinema, live events, direction of photography and architectural lighting", and "to protect the right of authorship" of lighting designs.

Giovanni Pinna, president of the AILD, says: "Our belief in this ambitious adventure, in the collaboration of our international colleagues and above all in the other Associations who have worked successfully in this field for some tim

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The building was previously a classic 1950s cinema, which has been completely gutted and rebuilt by Gomel-based Plaza-Invest who also own another successful club in the town. The Plaza has already become one of the hottest club tickets in town, partly due to it's spectacular lightshow.

The club features three bars and a dancefloor which is the heart of the space and a wide ranging music policy. The owners wanted to have one of the best lightshows in town so they approached Minsk based design, hire and sales company, Art Ramos Studio a.l.c. (ARS) to produce a design, and supply the gear. Art Ramos has been at the forefront of Belarus's professional entertainment industry lighting for 1

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The duo chose a gear package built around eight Power Spot 575IEs and 32 Power Wash 575Es moving heads from Elation Professional. Three truss arches were constructed over the stage, with the eight Power Spots being positioned on the centre arch. The Power Washes were placed eight each on four separate strips of trussing encircling the stage, two extending diagonally at the front, and two running along the sides of the stage perpendicular to the arches.

"Candace was looking for something d

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Speaking about the move, David Morgan of Lighting Partners commented: "This long-awaited relocation will increase efficiency throughout our operation from equipment servicing to dispatch. A huge increase in warehouse space plus a larger service area will enable us to meet our rapidly expanding used equipment needs and our increased stock levels of new equipment. For the first time since launching the business three years ago our sales and administration function will be integrated on site further increasing the speed of order fulfillment."

The 5,000sq.ft building, which is just four weeks old, is located off the Purley Way in Croydon with excellent links to Central London and

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The first Minim - which, LSC says, was the direct result of listening to customer requests and in-depth market research - rolled off the production line in 2003. Since its inception there has only ever been one software version of the Minim - testament to its clever design, say LSC. Based on a fader-style theatrical layout, the Minim can be used as a 12-channel twin preset manual control console, or with a tap of a single button, switched to memory recall mode. The Minim can also be used as a 24-channel console in wide mode and includes switchable mains power supply to ensure reliable operation anywhere in the world. The Minim has firmly established itself as a standard in the entertainm

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Bandit Lites UK is supplying full lighting production and crew for Pink's tour, a rig that includes Martin MAC 2000 Washes, MAC 2000 Profiles, Atomic strobes and Jem ZR fog machines.

The production and lighting design was created by Mark Fisher and Barry 'Baz' Halpin. With considerable input from Pink, they've woven lighting, video and scenic elements into a stimulating and provocative visual collage.

"This is not a standard pop show," says Halpin. "It's full of tricks and gimmicks and is highly choreographed. Pink is very versatile and is heavily involved in design and production of the show."

Some 110 MAC 200

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There are six available places per course. The course has been specifically designed to allow attendees sufficient attention time on each console - which will include the WholeHog 3 and Hog iPC.

"It's very much hands-on and practical in approach" says Abraham, who adds that the courses are being run due to popular demand after numerous requests form visiting crews and operators, and also because Adlib is keen to embrace the ongoing convergence between themselves and High End Systems.

The company has recently invested in new lighting consoles including a Hog iPC which is currently in ac

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"The grandMA was the most suitable due to all the different fixtures being used and its ease of programming," explains Leeds, "another important factor for choosing MA Lighting technology

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To achieve the dramatic lighting of Nelson's Column White Light's Simon Jones used a wide selection of equipment from White Light's extensive rental stock, including ETC Source Fours, White Light Exhibition Uplighters, Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200s, StudioDue Citycolour 400s, Martin MAC2000 Profiles and Vari*Lite VL2000 Washes all controlled from an MA Lighting grandMA Lite console. The equipment was installed by a team led by Jones and production electrician Ben Cash.

The most challenging part of the project was lighting

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The company was contracted by Thomas Thomas Films and travelled to a freezing cold Prague for the location shoot. The brief was to project specially filmed video onto buildings surrounding the custom-built set. During the three nights of filming Stage Electrics carried out nine separate moves, projecting images up to 14m wide onto the buildings around Loretta Square.

Following a site visit to the location and subsequent tests at Pinewood Studios Greg Hughes, Video Department Manager from Stage Electrics chose to utilise the features of the Sanyo PLCXF46 12000 for the smaller projection area and a Christie Roadie 250,000 lumen projec

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G-LEC, a pioneer of low-resolution transparent LED graphics displays, has been widely specified by designers in the entertainment industry since the company's formation in Europe. It has been specified for use in projects as diverse as the Jay-Z and Friends tour and at Madison Square Gardens in New York and the NFL opening ceremonies in Foxboro, MA as well as a BMW showroom in Berlin. G-LEC products were also on display during the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

G-LEC managing director Lars

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The proposed conference will broadly examine the current practices of the production industry and look at how companies and organisations can take steps to minimise the carbon footprint of staging shows, supplying and touring equipment, catering for audiences, etc. The event will draw on the expertise of the team at The Eden Project, the popular tourist attraction in the South West of England, whose environmental policies underpin a series of 'green' gigs at the venue.

At this stage, PLASA is gauging the level of interest in such an event, so we want to hear from everyone in the industry who would like to be involved. If you w

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Ray Molony, editor of Lighting magazine commented that the Awards have gained increased global recognition this year. "I am particularly pleased to see the sheer volume of entries from British designers working on global projects," he said, after an initial review of the entries received. "Our lighting designers are really punching above their weight in the international arena."

Similar comments are expected from the judges when they review the entries in preparation for the site visit process. These visits will commence at the end of November and continue throughout the winter months.

Since the awards were launched a dec