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Mexico - Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for its lighting and trussing products in Mexico, Chauvet has opened a new office, warehouse, service centre and showroom in Lerma, just west of the nation's capital.

Located close to major highway and rail transit channels, the spacious new facility will house an extensive inventory of Chauvet Professional, Iluminarc and Chauvet DJ lighting fixtures, as well truss from the company's TRUSST division.

"The new facility in Lerma represents an important step in our global expansion plans," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. "Working closely with our network of dealers and distributors, Chauvet has been fortunate to build up a very loyal following among Mexican customers for our professional, architectural and DJ products. By expanding our capabilities to sell and service our wide range of products, the new facility will a

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UK - LSI Projects has announced the appointment of Richard Bunting to the position of UK business development manager.

With over 25 years lighting industry experience, Richard returns to LSI after taking a career break of a couple of years. Previously he had held the role of operations manager for nine years, looking after the procurement and logistics for the numerous projects that the company installed including Al-Jazeera, BBC's The One Show, Ghana Broadcasting, Saudi TV, and The Prime Minister's Office in Brunei.

Prior to joining LSI in 2005, Richard had worked for AC Lighting, VLPS / PRG, Strand Lighting, AFM Lighting, and Theatre Projects.

Russell Dunsire, LSI's MD commented, "We're very happy that Richard has decided to return to the company, and we expect to take advantage of his knowledge and experience in his new role developing our position as the lea

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The Netherlands - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd.'s dedicated Film & TV lighting sales division are at the IBC 2016 show in Amsterdam this week to showcase leading broadcast lighting solutions from Chroma-Q, Fiilex, Visionsmith and Quasar Science.

Chroma-Q's Space Force is a modern replacement for conventional space lights or soft light sources and benefits from cool running, energy efficiency, lightweight design and minimum maintenance. CCT tuneable between 2,800K and 6,500K, and natively single source, the diffuse nature of its output negates the need for silks or skirts.

The Chroma-Q Studio range of LED lighting solutions also features both single and award-winning remote phosphor LED fixtures which produce a beautifully soft light - available in a choice of mains and battery-powered, PAR and washlight, Daylight, Tungsten and Variable models featuring Green

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UK - RATstands Apollo Light is manufactured to a professional standard, guaranteeing high quality at a reasonable price. The light clips onto any music stand and with a sleek, slim design the Apollo does not obstruct the view of the conductor.

With multiple power options available the Apollo Light can be suited to your preference.

The Apollo Light is an entry level lamp manufactured to a professional standard. This rugged light is constructed entirely of metal and runs off a 24V supply.

A strip of 18 high quality LEDs with a colour temperature of 3000K provide light which is relaxing for the professional musician yet makes for easy reading of yellowed scores, without the tiring effect of the more common cold white LEDs.

The very slim housing does not obstruct the musician's view of the conductor. It provides very sharp cut off ensuring that only the score is illumi

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UK - Wayne Howell, CEO of Artistic Licence and inventor of Art-Net, is launching his book Light Bytes - Inside Art-Net and sACN at the Art-Net 4 Zone (Stand R71) at this year's PLASA London show.

The book - a practical reference on the Art-Net and sACN lighting protocols - is timely, given the increasing use of ethernet as a means for transporting DMX512. The publication also coincides with the release of Art-Net 4 at the PLASA London show.

The book has just been published in preview edition, and a small number will be available for purchase at stand R71. This is a great opportunity to quiz the author, Wayne Howell, first hand on Art-Net or sACN!

The press launch will take place at stand R71 at 5pm on Sunday 18 September.

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USA - Bandit Lites has once again increased its touring inventory with even more gear, this time adding Elation's ACL 360i.

Jake Tickle, Bandit Lites director of technical services, praised the ACL 360i as a great compliment to the entire ACL 360 Series. "The included optional 10 and 45 degree frost are great options expanding the use of the ACL 360i," he said. "This fixture is the definition of power in numbers. I feel we have only touched the surface of how creative we can be with the Elation ACL 360i."

The fixtures were recently out on American rock band Shinedown's Carnival of Madness tour, where lighting designer Sooner Routhier used them for accent and back lighting, placed behind Plexiglas. "You do not know that they are there, and then when they come on, they pop through to give more depth to the stage," explained lighting director Carter Fulghum before adding, "I

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South Africa - In search of a solution that would cater for their AV needs, a server with multiple output points and one which would accommodate both small and large events, Johannesburg based Solid Rock Event Technical has taken ownership of a new ArKaos Studio Server.

The story began at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt earlier this year, when Nick Britz from DWR Distribution introduced Solid Rock's Keith Mac Intyre (founder) and Rolley Maphosa (audio engineer) to the ArKaos team. "From what I understand, within half an hour of Rolley seeing the system for the first time, he was already mapping spheres and cubes with the product" explained Andrew Temblett, business development manager at Solid Rock. "So I think the marriage was made there, and when Keith came back to Johannesburg we started looking at the software available on-line. It seemed a very simple solution that would be

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USA - After 20 years of performing, 16m records sold worldwide, and eight Top 40 albums to their credit, Hanson have branched out into other endeavours.

This includes forming a company to make their own craft beer, MMMhops, a play on their smash hit MMMBop. No word on whether or not the group's suds were served at Brews and BBQ, an annual Labor Day gala at Rockford Speedway, but Hanson showed that even though they may have a few fingers in other ventures, their heart and soul are still planted firmly in music.

The group delivered a nonstop high octane performance at the speedway turned festival site. Keeping pace with Hanson step for upbeat step during Brews and BBQ was a fast moving eye-searing lightshow anchored by 20 Intimidator fixtures from Chauvet DJ.

Lighting designers Jeff Hinton of 815 productions and Jared Borchardt of JBE, Inc. teamed up for this prod

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UK - Cambridge Live has announced at its Annual General Meeting that it is taking over the running of the e-Luminate Cambridge Festival.

e-Luminate joins Cambridge Live's portfolio of events, giving the Festival a stable footing for the future, helping it to thrive and ensuring its growth and development in coming years.

e-Luminate Cambridge Festival was founded in 2012 by Alessandra Caggiano and Hugh Parnell. They wanted to create a festival of light which would bring together the two sides of the city, uniting its technological talent with its cultural and artistic vivacity. Each year, residents and visitors discover the richness and diversity of Cambridge's iconic buildings and public spaces through a range of light installations, family activities, talks and concerts.

Cambridge Live and e-Luminate recognised that they have a shared vision for arts and culture in th

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South Africa - Enchanting audiences year after year, the FNB Starlight Pop Opera was hosted at the Chris Saunders Park, Umhlanga in KwaZulu Natal on 6 and 7 August. Headliner Patrizio Buanne, the Neapolitan-Austrian baritone singer, songwriter and producer, along with local South African artists such as Arno Carstens, were accompanied by the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra.

The event is a gift from First National Bank to their top 1,500 clients where all service providers rise to the occasion to provide an extraordinary evening. For the fifth consecutive year, EPH Production supplied the full technical, while lighting designer Johan Ferreira from BF Production Services created tender moments on a grandMA2 light.

The lighting rig consisted of 10 x Robe Pointe, 18 x Robin 600 LEDWash, 12 x Robin 1000 LEDBeam, 10 x Robin 100 LEDBeam, 24 Clay Paky Sharpy and six MAC 401 Dual LED wa

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Costa Rica - The Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, the country's historically and culturally significant national theatre located right in the heart of capital San Jose has made its first purchase of Robe moving lights, choosing the LED DLS Profile.

This important move was instigated by the theatre's technical director, Claudio Schifanni and the eight DLS Profile units were delivered by Mas Musica also based in San Jose, which is a Robe distributor in Costa Rica.

The theatre is both a producing and a receiving house, and stages at least three shows a week. They wanted a 'best quality' LED moving light product and started looking at Robe's DL range which has been specially developed for theatre and performance applications.

They wanted powerful fixtures with lower power consumption and absolutely no compromises in the quality of light output if it was an LED source. They a

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UK - Ayrton will exhibit at PLASA 2016 in London's Olympia where it will share a stand (L30) with its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions. Ayrton is also proud to sponsor the Knight of Illumination Awards for the third year in succession. The prestigious lighting awards evening will take place at the Eventim Apollo in West London.

Ayrton released a swathe of new products for 2016, many of which will be seen for the first time in London at PLASA 2016, showcased on the Ambersphere Solutions stand. Amongst these are:

MagicPanel-FX is an exciting new multi-function luminaire with a front face comprised of a 5 x 5 array of squared lenses designed to conjure up a multiplicity of 2D and 3D effects. Marking another step in the evolution of the MagicPanel family, with the same dimensions as the DreamPanel family and MagicBurst, MagicPanel-FX multiplies the creative pote

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UK - GoboPlus.com, the one-stop online shop dedicated to the supply of custom and standard metal gobos, glass gobos and all projection images, will exhibit at PLASA 2016 (Stand B2) alongside its sister company, the specialist filter company, CutColourPlus.

GoboPlus.com has added more new designs to its gobo range. These will expand GoboPlus.com's existing collection, which includes Rosco, DHA and GAM gobos along with its own 'Plus' designs, to over 3000 standard gobo patterns.

GoboPlus.com's user-friendly, intuitive website, offers secure payment methods and a fast turnaround, 24-hours a day. Choose from standard gobos, or place a custom gobo order online by September 30 2016 using code PLASA16 for a 15% discount. (Offer opens from day 1 of the show).

Goboplus.com's online shop now features colour filter which is available from stock, by the sheet or roll, for shipping

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UK - Philips Lighting will preview a brand new product from its highly popular effects light range Philips Showline, plus showcase the latest innovation from its Philips Vari-Lite, Philips Selecon and Philips Strand Lighting brands, at the PLASA London expo 2016.

One of the major exhibitions for the international live entertainment technology industry, PLASA London will take place at Olympia London between Sunday 18 and Tuesday 20 September. Philips Lighting will be on stand G60.

The first in a new innovative LED range under the Philips Showline brand, the SL LEDSPOT 300, will be available for exclusive preview on the Philips Lighting stand. The SL LEDSPOT 300 is a compact LED, high output luminaire that will offer designers a gamut of vibrant colours from its CMY colour mixing and fixed colour wheel. Not only that, the product can achieve dynamic effects from its rotating

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UK - Robert Juliat will be sharing stand space with its exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions, as PLASA 2016 relocates to London's Olympia (Stand K32).

Receiving its official launch at the show is Dalis 862 LED Footlight, the next evolution in the Dalis family.

Dalis 862 Footlight is a 150W LED batten with 48 white LED sources arranged in a double row. It shares RJ Dalis 860 Cyclight's exclusive patented optical system of fixed micro optical asymmetric reflectors which deliver an even spread of light and perfect dimming from 100% - 0%. The LED sources deliver a tunable white from 6500K to 2200K giving true non-coloured shadows which makes it ideal for display applications.

Dalis' two rows of reflectors are arranged to deliver long or short throw beam-lengths, with the LED sources controlled independently to offer low-level lighting capabilities, upstage or do

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UK - For its 26th time, LSC Lighting Systems, the Australian lighting control system manufacturer, will exhibit at this year's PLASA show on booth H35.

With the new Mantra Lite console breaking all sales records at LSC, the next version of software has been released and adds further powerful features including a Shape Generator. The Shape Generator allows easy creation of Circles, Fig8, BallyHoos and other FX's on the Pan & Tilt of any moving light.

As a complement to the Mantra Lite, a new Mantra Wing will be launched at the show. Each wing adds an additional 12 fixture faders, another 10 pages of 10 playbacks as well as an extra DMX 512 Universe hardware output. Up to two wings can be plugged into a Mantra console giving the system the ability to control up to 48 fixtures with 10 pages of 30 playbacks over three universes of DMX via XLR, Art-Net or sACN.

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UK - Robe is ready to rock the PLASA 2016 expo at Olympia next week, 18 - 20 September, which is back amidst the lively buzz of west London.

"PLASA is an important show, and we recognise London as an entertainment industry capital of the world which is why we are focusing on three innovative new products," comments Robe's CEO Josef Valchar.

With Spiider, Robe has experienced unprecedented levels of anticipation surrounding this new product which is launched worldwide just three day days ahead of the show.

Josef confirms, "Spiider is really something special which everybody will love! Forty-two Spiiders will be in action on the Robe booth - which is an absolute 'must-see'!"

The Halo, a special bespoke new Robe LED 'pixel technology' device, can be used to transform PAR cans and add other dimensions to stage and TV sets.

The runaway success of the Viva LED moving

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Germany - GLP's mighty X4 Atom, the latest addition to its popular X4 range, enjoyed its German television premier in the best possible way - when Thomas Gerdon selected 116 of the compact fixtures, containing the same high output quad color LED source common to the entire X4 range, for a new prime time series.

They were used to light up the Capitol Theatre in Offenbach in front of an audience of 400 for a Saturday night series on the RTL network called Mein Bestes Jahr - a retrospective in which Germany's top comedians showcase the best and weirdest moments of their own favourite year.

The versatile Gerdon has worked extensively with RTL, and with some of the country's favourite comedians such as Mario Barth, regularly sourcing GLP LED solutions from Felix Sandmann at PRG.

It was Sandmann who accompanied Gerdon on the first site meeting to this old theatre with

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Italy - Preparations for Showlight 2017 are hotting up as the first speakers for this quadrennial event are announced.

With the Papers Committee continuing to sift through a swathe of submissions, details of the first speakers for Showlight 2017 in Florence are coming to light. The programme promises to be as fascinating as ever with the following international lighting specialists the first to sign up:

Aldo Visentin will share some of his experiences over many years of touring with, and lighting for, Maestro Andrea Bocelli.

Lighting designer Colin Ball will show how he uses theatre and film lighting techniques to light many buildings, including the Tower of London and the Palace of Westminster.

Declan Randall will tell of his experience of acting as set and projection designer, in addition to lighting designer, for an original production of Sister Act in Jo

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Fighting Talk - Culture minister Matt Hancock has pledged to improve access to the creative industries and build a stronger relationship between technology and culture, as he sets out his main priorities for the role. Hancock, who succeeded Ed Vaizey in the position in July, also said he would fight to ensure government support for arts and culture in his first keynote speech as minister.

Delivered in front of an audience of creative industry professionals, Hancock used his first speech to set out his three main priorities, which he described as "backing success, access and synthesis". After praising the creative industries as "absolutely central to our post-Brexit future", Hancock said he would "fight to ensure that the creative and digital industries are at the heart of this government's industrial strategy." The minister went on to pledge that creative sector tax reliefs wo

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Germany - This year, Germany's biggest electronic music festival was inspired to attract massive crowds, with more than 65,000 visitors attending Nature One.

For four days, top acts like Robin Schulz, Paul van Dyk, Sven V

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Belgium - Lokerse Feesten is a 10-day city festival that takes place during August in Lokeren, East Flanders. What began as a small festival in 1975 has grown into one of the largest festivals in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of visitors descending upon the small town each year to see an eclectic range of artists, ranging from Snoop Dogg to Simple Minds.

This year, the famed festival's Red Bull Elektropedia Room delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a Ignace D'haese, Jonas Weyn and Tijs Coene (Arf & Yes) designed light show that featured 100 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures supplied by Phlippo.

D'haese and Weyn of Arf & Yes drew on 500 individually controlled moving heads in the collection of Rogues to create a mesmerizing multi-dimensional look on the festival stage. He fixed the fixtures around all four sides of the large industrial-style indoor spa

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UK - As part of the company's ongoing investment in a host of new equipment, Pinewood MBS Lighting has brought in a substantial number of Digital Sputnik fixtures to augment what has become one of the industry's most expansive product ranges.

Having amassed 60 DS6 fixtures and over 240 single heads including a quantity of the latest wirelessly controlled DS1 battery version, Pinewood MBS is home to the largest Digital Sputnik rental stock in the world!

Used extensively by cinematographer Greig Fraser ACS/ASC during filming of the Pinewood MBS supported Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the fixtures have been well received by filmmakers and have become a key part of lighting lists on a variety of film and television productions. Supplied by Pinewood MBS in exclusively cased kits, the modular systems are exceeding the expectations of filmmakers of all genres.

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UK - Birmingham -based production company DMX Productions is increasingly turning to Elation Professional products to add a dynamic flare to a variety of shows and events. One example is an early summer UK tour by Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh that saw the Indian artist play a handful of dates in England including a show at London's Wembley Arena.

Dosanjh is the world's biggest Punjabi superstar, with anthems heard on dancefloors across the globe and a fan base to rival that of Justin Bieber. DMX Productions continued their relationship with Dosanjh and promoter Moxiebox by handling the complete production supply on their second tour with Dosanjh. The show was designed by SJ Grevett, owner of DMX Productions, who created a large 8m x 8m LED video screen as the centrepiece of the design with a surrounding lighting rig that included a large number of Elation moving heads and eff

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