UK - Milton Keynes' AV and large-scale LED screen hire outfit Vector Lighting is gives clients the chance to have a look behind the scenes as they open doors to show off some of their latest technology.

Vector Lighting provides lighting and audio visual hire solutions for a range of uses including conferences, exhibitions, corporate and special events, and a range of professional services including lighting design, retail installations and exhibition management.

From Thursday 1 August to Friday 9 August, Vector Lighting will open their doors to show some of their latest LED video wa

Russia - Clay Paky's lightweight yet powerful A.leda Wash K20 luminaires and pure beam Sharpys have teamed up to create a 'Las Vegas-style' light show to launch a new floating restaurant in Moscow.

The Moscow-based Arlecchino Group, which supplies lighting to events across the region, provided the robust and lightweight Clay Paky A.Leda Wash K20s and the high output Sharpys for the launch of the restaurant on a boat, named Чaйka, or 'Seagull', which is moored in the centre of the city.

"The idea was to create an atmosphere of Las Vegas, beaming powerful light beams

Netherlands - A large and enthusiastic group of service managers and technicians from several countries visited Elation's Customer Care Centre in July for the company's Pro Service Day. The one day seminar provided attendees with in-depth training and detailed hands-on exercises servicing the company's popular Platinum Wash and Platinum Spot moving head series products.

"We were very pleased with the overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to our Pro Service Day," said Roger Hamers, R&D director for Elation Europe. "As a company, Elation believes that maintaining the highe

USA - It wouldn't be the Fourth of July without the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular and Robert Juliat Cyrano followspots helped light up the annual event, which was televised live from the Charles River Esplanade.

The free outdoor concert marked its fortieth anniversary. The event draws over 500,000 people each year to the Boston and Cambridge sides of the Charles River. Audiences wait with anticipation to hear the Boston Pops' now classic rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with real cannons, church bells and fireworks, The Stars and Stripes Forever with c

Brazil - Singer and composer Luan Santana is one of the most famous and successful artists in his home country. His first live album was a bestseller throughout 2010, shifting over 500,000 copies. It remains among the best-selling albums in Brazil. After additional successful albums, Luan Santana produced a DVD at the Parque Maeda o Vivo in São Paulo.

DVD director Joana Mazzucchelli, and lighting designer / DoP Marcos Olivio, were assisted by an MA system consisting of two grandMA2 light, 1 x MA onPC command wing, one MA onPC fader wing, two MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and four

UK - Essential Supplies UK has designed and created a new 100% dimmable multipurpose LED event light. The combination of LED lamps and versatile multi-purpose housing creates a light fixture with a warm white, halogen-like light with the energy saving and reliability of a LED source, making it perfect for events, says the company.

Simon James, director at Essential Supplies comments, "Uplighters are the backbone for lighting most marquee venues, they need to be low tech, no DMX data cables to go wrong, or flickering colour changes, just a simple plug and go uplighter. At Essentia

UK - Blackout's team designed a custom-built touring truss structure for the first ever series of Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year competition, due on screens this autumn.

The reality TV show visited four locations across the UK - London, Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin - with over 2,000 entrants battling out to win the title. The winner will see their work displayed in the National Portrait Gallery and awarded a £10,000 commission to produce a portrait of award-winning author Hilary Mantel.

After whittling the entrants down based on the portrait they submitted, 21 fin

UK - For three days and three nights 135,000 Glastonbury revellers had the pleasure of seeing their favourite headline acts, lit by some of the best rock and roll lighting designers in the world, play the famous Pyramid Stage.

Taking care of the festival house rig was head of lighting, Andy 'Fraggle' Porter, who chose Clay Paky's extremely bright, effects-rich Alpha Profile 1500s and Alpha Wash 1500s to deliver dynamic beam shaping, vibrant colour and super bright effects to the long-running event.

2013's headlining acts included: The Rolling Stones lit by Patrick Woodroffe, Arctic

UK - Bournemouth-based Complete Production Solutions Group (CPS) has made its first investment in Robe moving lights, including the new Pointe together with other fixtures from Robe's popular Robin range.

The company, headed by Richard Colegate and Chris Caton, has been providing rental and turnkey production solutions since 1996 and specialises in the high end corporate events market - including conferences and awards shows - the company also provides technical support for a lively mix of live performance events including dance shows, rock 'n' roll and outdoor classical concerts.

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Germany - Osram has for the first time achieved maximum image quality for pure laser-based projection with a combination of laser and phosphor materials. The new phaser technology contains modules which do not need to be replaced during the complete service life of the projector. They will be used for the first time in projectors from the end of this year.

Until now only green light was generated via laser with laser-based projectors - LEDs were responsible for the blue and red primary colours. With phaser technology, where 'phaser' stands for phosphor and laser, Osram for the first t

USA - Calling a nightclub 'Light' can be risky business. You're basically telling clubbers they should expect a mind-blowing illumination experience every time they step through its door.

Setting the visual creativity bar this high could be perilous for some, but not for developer/partners Cirque du Soleil and The Light Group, or for John Lyons Systems (Hollywood, CA), which provided the lighting design for this new nightspot at Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Part Cirque show and part dance club with 38,000sq.ft of space and a 35' high ceiling, Light features acrobats spinning overhead and wor

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd, one of the industry's leading suppliers of specialist LED lighting and control solutions, is hosting a one day 'LED for Theatres' UK Workshop on Saturday, 17 August 2013 in the idyllic production environment of The Kings Theatre in Portsmouth.

With huge technical advances being made in LED lighting and control in recent years, more and more theatres are taking advantage of the latest generation of LED solutions when upgrading their lighting systems.

The LED for Theatres workshop has been organised in response to customer interest and

UK - The L'Oreal Professional Colour Trophy held its first event way back in 1956 and by the 1960s there were hairdressers competing from up to 14 regional locations to gain a place in the London Grand Final. Today, it remains the most prominent hairdresser's competition in Britain with the regional finals consisting of a competition section, choreographed catwalk shows from big name designers and a traditional awards show that tours around the country.

Now widely regarded within the industry as the 'Vogue' of hairdressing award ceremonies, lighting designer David Miller needs to prov

USA - Martin's newly released M6 console has found its first permanent home, installed at Harvest Ministries in Riverside, California. When the house's original Martin Maxxyz console began to show its age after a long and prosperous run, in-house lighting designer Christopher Eguizabal began searching for an upgraded console to keep up with the constant stream of ever-changing events, varied lighting rigs and stage designs.

"The week we installed the M6, we had a guest artist playing and I was able to use it in a concert-style environment here at our venue," Eguizabal stated

Germany - Leading European lighting and visuals designer Manfred Ollie Olma of Cologne, Germany based mo2 design tried out 12 of Robe's new Pointe moving lights for a recent episode of Die Ultimative Chart Show, recorded at Nobeo 8 Studio in Hürth, near Cologne. The programme is broadcast weekly on RTL.

Olma has lit the show for the last ten years, all the time keeping it looking fresh, inventive and visually relevant. He also frequently uses Robe for his work, which embraces many disciplines including television, concert touring and music shows, special events and architectur

Spain - Drawing an immense following since its debut in September 2012, reality television singing competition The Voice or La Voz in Spain, has become a social phenomenon. To help accentuate the live performances, live drama and the jury of popular Spanish singers: Rosario Flores, David Bisbal, Malú and Melendi, Madrid-based full-service rental, sales and installation company Citylight installed a complete Martin MAC lighting rig.

Citylight lighting designer Julián Perez's lighting design includes an abundance of Martin products including MAC III Profile, MAC 2000 Pro

UAE - UAE based lighting designer Terry Miranda specified over 120 Robe fixtures to realise an eye-catching design for Watan Al Ahlam (Country of Dreams), a musical performance staged by the UAE Ministry of Education at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

Students from schools across the UAE participated in the event directed by a team of Emirati professionals. This enabled them to showcase their talents in front of an invitation-only audience comprising high ranking government officials and locals.

The Robe lights - along with the complete technical production - were all supplied

Australia - International creative practitioners are invited to submit designs that will transform Sydney's most famous landmarks into a living canvas of light during the Southern Hemisphere's biggest annual celebration of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney, which next takes place from 23 May - 9 June 2014.

Light artists, lighting projection designers, companies and manufacturers, architects, students, graduates, creative industry companies and practitioners from around the world are being called on to put forward their innovative lighting and projection designs and installat

Denmark - Around 1025 AD, a fierce 37m Viking warship of the Danish fleet rode the northern waves. Excavated in 1997 from a Roskilde fjord bed, the ship has now been partly restored. A massive steel skeleton has been built around its wooden remains. Roskilde 6 makes a new 'voyage', in the National Museum of Denmark's exhibition Viking, until the end of November. ETC's Source Four LED fixtures, controlled by an ETC Ion console and Unison Paradigm system, bring the vessel to light.

Says lighting designer Hans Henrik Schmidt, "This is the first such use of LED lighting in a museum i

UK - Even through the peak of the summer, traditionally a quieter period in theatrical production, entertainment lighting specialist White Light is being kept busy by the numerous shows that have chosen the company to supply their lighting equipment.

Down in Sussex, the Chichester Festival Theatre is closed for refurbishment - but the company has created a temporary home for itself in a giant tent pitched in the surrounding parkland. The first performance in the tent is, appropriately, a new production of the circus musical Barnum, presented in association with Cameron Mackinto

UK - As part of the current, continuing development of Wembley Arena, following a major refurbishment back in 2006, contractors Fagan Electrical, in a general technical evaluation, identified the need for significant improvements to the levels of emergency lighting.

The Wembley Arena management asked Fagan to recommend an efficient and sustainable solution. As respected, highly specialised contractors with over 70 years collective experience in the entertainment industry, Fagan recommended GDS' ArcSystem for the job. Entertainment lighting specialists and UK dealer for GDS, White Ligh

Italy - There was a job to finish: the 2011 tour Vasco Rossi, the Italian rock star from Emilia, interrupted owing to health problems. The seven concerts in two large stadiums (four in Turin and three in Bologna) were all sold out.

Vasco was in great shape on a beautiful stage, which led Roberto De Luca, tour producer for Live Nation Italia, to say: "These are perhaps the most exciting concerts I have seen since I have been working with Vasco- for a good 17 years." The stage was designed by Giò Forma. The layout was inspired by the triangular shape of Vasco's historic logo,

Bangladesh - Bangladesh-based Glow Lights & Effects only set up in business in 2011, but by the following year they were starting to service many events out of Dhaka - frequently using the PR5000 Spot and Beam lights from Chinese manufacturers PR Lighting.

Founder, Mukimul Anwar Mukim, and managing partner M H Khokon, along with experienced team members Shamim Ahmed (technical adviser) and chief communication officer, Khundker Hafizur Rahim, first saw the fixtures at the 2011 PALM Expo in Beijing and the team was immediately impressed by the state-of-the-art technology and highly deve

Finland - One of the largest temporary outdoor installations in the Nordic countries, Flow Festival in Helsinki, will for the second year in a row choose LumenRadio's CRMX products to control the lighting.

The popular music and arts festival will be held on 9-11 August 2013 at the historic Suvilahti former power plant area in the city centre of Helsinki. The music presented at Flow is a strong and varied selection of established artists from all around the world. Using control cabling for this project would have been very difficult, due to an extensive area lighting system involving l

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