Christmas comes to Bucharest
Romania - The official Bucharest Christmas Market is a tradition from 2012 taking place in the University Square from end of November throughout December with more than 60 wooden stalls hosted by merchants of handcraft and seasonal foods. To extend the Christmas atmosphere, the market also includes a 15m Christmas tree illuminated by 20,000 lights, Santa's House, daily carollers, concerts, donation of Christmas gifts for the less fortunate while surrounding buildings are illuminated in seasonal colours.

This market offers the visitors a rediscovering of Romanian arts, traditions and customs. This year also features 19 evenings packed with concerts held by renowned artists, children choirs and orchestras.

Ever since this tradition was created, SGM's partner FIVE'S International has been the technical provider of the event which is planned by Bucharest City Hall, organized with the help of CreArT (Centre for Creation, Art and Tradition).

"Together with FIVE'S International, we have developed a long-term cooperation based on professionalism and high quality service, managing to organize great events for huge audiences. FIVE'S International has lots of experience in the showbiz industry and every time we work together they surprise us by creating an amazing show, with colourful and bright light designs and crystal-clear sound.

"At the end of the day, the artists on stage want to shake hands and to thank FIVE'S International for their high quality technical support they provided. This is our biggest confirmation that FIVE'S International is our best partner in creating unique and complex shows for our audience", points out Cristina Lixandru, public relations consultant CreArT.

Marius Teodosiu, project manager at FIVE'S International, adds, "It's our duty and our tagline to have the 'magic' technically improved. We do our best to have good partnerships for great events organized for large audiences. This is what we do and what we love to do. And having partners as CreArT, sharing the same goals and setting out the same high quality standards, make us proud of our work. Bucharest Christmas Market is one of our favourite events of the year, although it's one of the hardest outdoor event to organize."

FIVE'S International is deploying SGM LED luminaries for both architectural installations and entertainment stage light setups. For the many concerts, a selection of XC-5 colour strobes, SixPack blinders and Q-7 flood blind strobes are adding powerful visual effects.

"The SGM LED luminaries have crisp and clear colours, exceptional optics and a nice contoured design," says Bogdan Ducu, light designer at FIVE'S International.

To illuminate the surrounding beautiful buildings, the Q-7 flood light, P-5 wash light and G-Spot moving head have been incorporated, as they are all extremely bright and IP65 rated for the outdoor winter exposure.

(Jim Evans)


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