Lighting

PR Lighting busy in Bangladesh

Details: 14 March 2016

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 developed optical path. By the following year he was ready to purchase 18 of each fixture for use in the company's inventory.

These were soon appearing on a number of high profile events including the G

There was a massive presence of Clay Paky lights

Clay Paky lights the stage at Vasco Live Kom

Details: 14 March 2016

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,

GDS in Wembley Arena refurbishment

Details: 14 March 2016

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

Barnum plays the Chichester Festival Theatre (photo: Michael Le Poer Trench)

White Light on course for busy autumn season

Details: 14 March 2016

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

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II opens the Viking exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark, lit with ETC Source Four LED

ETC Source Fours light longest Viking ship

Details: 14 March 2016

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

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