UK - Following the success of its northern-based event last year, A.C. Entertainment Technologies's (AC-ET) Lighting division will host a session of the Martin Professional Engineered For The Eye UK roadshow on Thursday 23 February at its southern sales office in High Wycombe.

The roadshow, which is targeted at the entertainment as well as the commercial and architectural sectors, will showcase Martin's latest dynamic lighting and visual solutions.

AC-ET's High Wycombe session is open to all lighting professionals and interested parties. The format for the day includes product demonstrations, application and hands-on training, presentations and Q&A sessions by Martin's UK sales team, assisted by members of AC-ET's specialist lighting sales division in a relaxed environment.

Products featured include all the current ranges of Martin moving heads and LED lightsources, video sc

Qatar - Fixtures from across the PR Lighting discharge and LED range of moving heads were deployed by TechnoPro, their distributors in the Gulf regions, for the recent Barzan Gas Project Stone Laying Ceremony at the Doha Sheraton Hotel.

The Barzan Gas Project's goal is to provide sufficient gas to the State of Qatar's domestic market to meet the country's growing need for cleaner natural gas well into the future, and the event was attended by His Highness the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

TechnoPro, a Dubai based technical production company with a branch in Qatar, provided the PR Lighting equipment - along with a Meyer Sound PA system.

Suspended from the truss were six each of the Chinese manufacturer's XL1200 Spot and Wash lights and 12 each of the XL700 spot and wash. These were complemented by 12 of the powerful Beam 300, offering three beam angle option

UK - Artistic Licence Integration will be exhibiting at ARC 2012 in London on Stand M34. The show, to be held at the Business Design Centre, runs from 29 February - 1 March.

Artistic Licence has been designing and manufacturing lighting and lighting control technology for nearly 25 years. However, with the growth of the architectural lighting market, its technical integration services have been in ever-increasing demand. As a result, in 2010, Artistic Licence Integration was created to focus on the projects side of the business.

At ARC 2012, ALI will be showcasing its expertise in a broad range of technical integration services, while also highlighting low carbon approaches to lighting and building management. These include the use of power and data harvesting techniques to ensure efficient building and lighting operation.

ALI's managing director and technical guru, Wayne Ho

USA - High End Systems reports that it will be showcasing a broad spectrum of product offerings at the 2012 PLASA Focus Austin tradeshow held 22-23 February in Austin, Texas. This year's event will serve are the launch pad for several new lighting products designed to enhance live events with creative lighting solutions. In addition, show attendees will have the opportunity to visit the High End Systems factory to see products as they are manufactured.

Continuing the development of digital lighting, High End Systems is launching the new DLV Digital Light. This addition to the largest digital lighting portfolio in the industry represents the next evolution in creative, video-based lighting, says the company. Built on the same industry standard software as the DL.3 Digital Light and Axon Media Server, the DLV brings digital lighting abilities to any stage, club, or application in

UK - Visitors to the ABTT 2012 Theatre Show can now register online for free entrance to the event which is moving to its new home at the Old Truman Brewery, 13 and 14 June.

The Association of British Theatre Technicians' new show website at www.abtttheatreshow.org.uk is now live and the ABTT 2012 Theatre Show is open for business with visitors encouraged to register as soon as possible. A slightly tongue in cheek show director Roger Fox explained, "It's a simple process. When you visit our new web site you just move your mouse to pull the beer pump marked 'visitor registration'. Then click on the empty pint glass, fill in your details and you are registered."

Website graphic designer Mark Harrison took inspiration from the venue's beer legacy as the theme for show's iconic website and advertising design. As he explained, "When I visited the venue, its proximity

USA - LumenRadio will be showing its CRMX product range during PLASA Focus this week in TMB's stand # 700 at the Renaissance Austin Texas hotel.

On display will be LumenRadio's full range of CRMX Nova, Outdoor, and Slim product series. CRMX technology for wireless DMX/RDM extends its functionality to Ethernet networks with native support for protocols such as Streaming ACN, Art-Net, ETC-Net, Strand ShowNet, PathPort, etc.

CRMX Nova was designed to meet the most rigorous requirements found in the professional entertainment lighting and event industry. CRMX Outdoor, intended for permanent outdoor installations, can withstand many years of adverse conditions in all types of climates thanks to its unique combination of an IP67 rated inner enclosure and a vandal proof metal cover and environmental shield.

LumenRadio's OEM Director, Hans Lau, will together with TMB demonstrate the

UK - Experts behind the triumphant restoration of Newcastle's Theatre Royal will disclose the secrets of the project's success at PLASA Focus, Leeds on Tuesday 17 April. The seminar, which kicks off at 1pm in the Bury Theatre, forms part of the new PLASA Focus Professional Development Programme. It will see Jon Woodley of Charcoalblue Theatre Consultants heading up an expert panel comprising: Peter Hall from Sansome Hall Architects, Theatresearch's David Wilmore and Mark Priestley from Unusual Rigging.

Following an extensive £5m restoration project, Newcastle's Theatre Royal reopened its doors to the public on Monday 12 September 2011. The complex renovation drew on all aspects of the Charcoalblue team's theatrical expertise as Woodley explains, "The scope of the restoration for this Grade I listed theatre was particularly ambitious. It included complete internal rede

Germany - MilTec(UK).ltd will exhibit at ProLight&Sound for the first time this year. On display will be a number of new audio and lighting products from its MT audio and LEDHead ranges. These include a new 8 channel amplifier, zoners, mixers and a new digital processor. On the lighting front, new battery powered units and an LED wash and profile in the same unit will be highlighted.

"We are currently looking for worldwide distributors for our audio and lighting products," says the company.

MilTec will be in Hall 9.0 stand number C51.

(Claire Beeson)

UK - The fifth Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) 2012 is open for nominations and industry professionals from all sectors are invited to get involved.

Organised by the STLD, ALD and Clay Paky, KOI is the only industry event that celebrates the outstanding creative achievements of lighting designers working in the sectors of Television, Theatre and Rock. At the same time it forges closer ties between the world of lighting design and the lighting industry as a whole.

Each sector is assessed by its own panel of industry experts and breaks down into a number of categories:

Television - Light Entertainment, Drama, Small Studio and Events

Rock - Stage events, Arena events and Eco Innovation

Theatre - Dance, Opera, Play and Musicals

Already nominations are flowing in from lighting designers, service providers, production managers, technicians, TV fans,

UK - The Executive Hire Show proved to be a great success yet again for inspHire. Interest in the newly launched dashboards was high as they were well received by both inspHire customers and prospects alike and early result for the high quality leads taken on the stand for the inspHire Hire Management solutions are already very encouraging, says the company.

"We had an excellent show," said Mark Taylor, inspHire new business development manager. "We were inundated with independent hirers waiting to see how our software could make improvements and efficiencies in their hire businesses and the new Dashboards had excellent reviews. The Dasboards are designed to give our customers an up to the minute snapshot of how their business is performing, whether it's live hire and analytical information for the hire manager, or items due for preventative maintenance or breakdo

UK - PLASA Events is pleased to announce its second regional event in North America, PLASA Focus: Nashville 2012, to be held July 11-12, 2012 at the Municipal Auditorium, in Nashville, TN.

Nashville is the latest event to be launched under the PLASA Focus banner, and follows the popular PLASA Focus: Austin, to be held February 22-23 in Texas. The show will run prior to the annual Summer NAMM event, bringing together industry professionals from around the world.

Modelled after PLASA Focus: Leeds (UK), which topped 2000 visitors and broke previous attendance records in its third year, the PLASA Focus series of events in North America will bring regional entertainment technology communities together to do business and network in a relaxed and friendly setting.

Each two-day PLASA Focus show is free to registered visitors, and a unique inclusive hard wall booth package - includin

Germany - Laser specialist LOBO will present new innovations which complete its comprehensive product portfolio, including additions to its successful Sparks series, a completely new projector for small- and medium-sized applications and an all-new version of its Modula controllers.

The Bliss-XT Compact projector brings the advantages of the award-winning Sparks series to smaller or medium-sized events. Besides a stylish design, it also bundles all characteristic features of its big brother in a compact housing, and is silent in operation. "Considering that the unit is furnished with one of the best scanning systems money can buy, this product is also a small revolution in terms of price," the company says.

Also new, the 'Sparks Power Deck' is dedicated to permanent installations with extreme brightness demands or the need for individual optical set-ups. "In add

Germany - Christie will be supporting two of its partners - Videlco and Vision Tools - at Prolight+Sound 2012, Frankfurt.

Videlco: (Hall 9, Stand B10) is one of Christie's main partners for the Spyder range of products and has developed a console ideally suited for Christie's range of video processors: Vista Spyder and Christie Spyder. The 42 Controls, Single Point of Control (S.P.O.C.) console which Christie is distributing as a third party product, is a media controller centralizing the control of multiple third party systems including projectors, media servers, matrix switchers and video processors - making it ideal for rental and staging applications, broadcasts and live events.

Visitors to the Videlco stand will get the opportunity to see a wide range of Christie solutions including an edge-blended large format projection using four Christie HD10K-M, Christie MicroTiles a

UK - The R&D department at Artistic Licence Engineering has been working overtime to produce three new 'ranges' of products along with seven OEM solutions. The new products will have their first full showing at PLASA Focus Leeds.

Fresh for the show will be the two-input DMX / RDM splitter, Duo-Split RDM, and the Panel Range of Mica, Diamond, Quartz and Zircon architectural wall panel controllers. New products and modules have been added to the Multichrome Range, all of which will be on display, plus the expanded Rack PC Controller range featuring the new dVnet '10 click' media server.

Previewing at the show will be the Data Harvester range, focusing around the core component, Art-Sense. This range of products will unlock the world of system integration utilising the benefits of RDM and will change the way a system is managed, says the company. To discover more, quiz Simon Hobd

Germany - The Avolites Group takes to the road for 2012's first international trade fair for the events technology sector covering a broad spectrum of products and services with their German partner Trendco in Hall 11, stand D50 and C50 at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt. Avolites Media Ltd. will exhibit its new Ai Media Server in tandem with Avolites Ltd's Sapphire Touch and Titan Mobile lighting control consoles.

Recently, Avolites Media Ltd bought the intellectual property rights to manufacture and distribute the Ai Media Server worldwide. Prolight + Sound offers visitors the chance to view the future of this advanced and fast developing system. As well as demonstrating the currently available Ai Media Server, visitors will be granted the first preview of Sapphire Media. The Sapphire Media Live Video Controller creates a new class of show media controllers unlike anything seen be

Germany - ProLight + Sound 2012 will be the scene of a major celebration for MDG and cast C.Adolph & RST Distribution as the two companies celebrate a long-standing association. The show marks the 20th anniversary of MDG's appointment of cast C.Adolph & RST Distribution GmbH as its distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

"Twenty years in Germany in association with the same people and the same company is a real cause for celebration," says MDG's Martin Michaud. "Cast has been fantastic in support of MDG products and the team, led by Heinz Siller, have worked tirelessly to bring MDG to a wide range of customers. Prolight & Sound is an opportunity to celebrate the journey so far and to look forward to the next twenty years."

MDG will be displaying the latest version of its dual mode Digital Atmospheric Generator, theONE complete with its adaptable t

USA - Roger Keim who heads up the marketing department at d&b audiotechnik Inc. knew exactly why the company wanted to have a presence at the first ever PLASA Focus in Austin Texas.

"The idea of regional trade events is very appealing to d&b audiotechnik because of the more personalised opportunities it affords our clients. We also recognise that the tie-up between ESTA and the PLASA organisation can only strengthen the industry's voice at government level; so we felt it was doubly important to support this inaugural show."

The d&b audiotechnik booth featured two distinctly different loudspeakers this year, both from the Black range. Part of the T-Series is the T10, a multifunctional cabinet that can be used either as a line array or as a high directivity point source loudspeaker. The HF driver is fitted to a unique waveguide horn producing vertical linesource direct

Germany - Italian loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies will unveil a wide selection of new products at this year's ProLight+Sound exhibition, welcoming visitors to its now established 780sqm booth space in Hall 8, G70 shared with cousin brand RCF.

Preferring to keep full information under its collective hat however, the dBTechnologies team reveals just a few choice details prior to the show giving customers a taster of what they have to look forward to later on this month.

Amongst the professional audio offerings, comes the upgraded Opera DX line, billed as the next chapter of the celebrated Opera series' 12-year success story. With a level of reliability that is expected of the well-established range, Opera DX benefits from the latest available technology, and has been augmented with in-house developed digipro G2 power amps and other state-of-the-art features which improve

UK - The PLASA 2012 free registration offer ends in just under 48 hours! Over 9,000 people have taken advantage of the free registration offer for this year's PLASA 2012, taking place at Earls Court in London from 9 - 12 September. Register before midnight on the 29th February and save £20 on the standard ticket price.

All previous PLASA Show visitors have been sent this special offer via email, and free registration for new visitors is live at www.plasashow.com

(Claire Beeson)

UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light is appearing at the Arc Show this week in London's Business Design centre.

Products from White Light's family of lighting manufacturers will be on stand M36 and will feature units from Coemar, Core Lighting, i-Pix, Interactive Technologies, Leader Light, Prism Projection and Wireless Solutions.

White Light is also sponsoring the foyer by supplying LeaderLight's new series of street lights. Lighting designer Durham Marenghi will also be using i-Pix BB4s and Leader Light606's, as well as placing a giant light bulb in the foyer to take things back to basics.

Coemar's Reflection Series will make an appearance in the form of the Reflection LEDko Full Spectrum, an innovative 'Multi-LED' light source producing a uniform beam with no pixels or dots and full spectrum colour mixing and the Reflection LEDko VariWhite.

On display from

Germany - At Prolight+Sound 2012, Gerriets will present new screens including OptiBlack - a nearly black front/rear screen for soft-edge projections, and the transparent matte Frost, "a perfect diffusion film for backlighting".

Also showing will be the new, heavy-duty track system - the Cargo series - suitable for precise maneuvering of LED video walls and large heavy scenery in four profile/load rating sizes S/M/L/XL for 250-1200kg.

Large-screen wall systems Tube and MegaScreen featuring top or bottom rollers operated with virtually silent motors will be also demonstrated. Enlarged dance and event floor spectrum: Vario Ergodance, for user-friendly permanent and portable applications, with optimum shock absorption and Gerriets' inherently flame-retardant stretch fabrics Heavy-, Molton- & Muslin-stretch which offer individual stretching factors for wrinkle-free surfac

UK - London-based distributor Smoke Factory UK will launch it's new range of LED fixtures at PLASA Focus: Leeds (17 -18 April) where the company is exhibiting for the first time this year. Alongside the new Kandolite LED range will be the full range of Smoke Factory haze and fog machines.

On show for the very first time in the UK will be the Kandolite range of LED fixtures. These Chinese-manufactured units have been built to rigorous European specifications and to a high build quality, says the company.

Also on view will be both 36 and 60, LED 3W PAR fixtures. Plus RGBAW 3W Battens and Cyc Lights, outdoor 1W and 3W LED IP67 Wall Wash units. A powerful moving Wash Light completes the range.

"The Smoke Factory range will feature the ever-dependable Tourhazer 2, the original industry standard for Haze machines. Alongside will be the CaptainD, Data2, Scotty2 and the rest of

UK - PLASA Focus: Leeds will see English Braids of Malvern exhibit for the first time. On show will be their range of rope that they have been manufacturing for the Theatre, Film and Entertainment world for over 40 years.

As well as the polyester ropes they will also have on show their new range of Technora ropes produced in 2.5mm through to 24mm. Developed primarily for the entertainment sector, the range is having a lot of success in rigging applications and are "a perfect replacement for steel-wire," says the company.

Steve Hayman, sales manager says: "Technora ropes are ideal for applications where low stretch and high strength are required. The product can be used at temperatures of 200 degrees centigrade for long periods and has a thermal decomposition of 500 degrees". He continues, "We are very pleased with the feedback we have received from rig

UK - Pro Light Concepts Ltd is a rapidly expanding supplier of innovative lighting and sound equipment to the entertainment industry. On display on stand S-D12 at PLASA Focus: Leeds will be product displays from its vast range of brands.

Staff will be on hand to discuss the products available from Pro Light's office and distribution centre in Lancashire for worldwide dispatch. The stand will also feature many new products, including the LED Quad colour Q Color and Color Storm LED Battens along with the Xperior Platinum 5R Spot from iSolution. Many other new items from eLumen8 will be launched at PLASA Focus including fixtures specifically designed for theatre, stage and T.V.

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