USA - This year's North American Theatre, Engineering and Architecture Conference (NATEAC) will take place 21-24 July at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. The goal of the conference is to promote communication between industry professionals who design, build, and renovate theatres. End users are also encouraged to attend!

Over 50 industry leaders will lead sessions, including Josh Dachs, Scott Georgeson, Bill Gorlin, Andy Hayles, Hugh Hardy, Mark Holden, Larry Kirkegaard, Monona Rossol, Adam Shalleck and Sonny Sonnenfeld. AIA Continuing Education Credits are also available this year for many sessions. Some conference topics include: ADA Issues in 2012; Safety by Design; Stage & Orchestra Lift Design; Sustainability in Difficult Economic Times, and Restoration of Pre-Depression Er

Germany - Fohhn Audio has announced the release of its new PT-6 compact, high-performance loudspeaker system with integrated line array technology. The loudspeaker, previewed at this year's Frankfurt Prolight + Sound, has been specially developed to offer both powerful coverage and easy set-up. Designed for stand-mounted, stacked or flown applications, the PT-6 essentially combines three of Fohhn's widely used PT-8 line array modules in a single compact unit weighing just 39kg.

Sporting a twin coaxial speaker construction, the PT-6 contains 6 x 6.5" long excursion neodymium and 3

USA - Martin Professional will show a new breed of moving head and much more will be on stand 103 at PLASA Focus Nashville.

Martin invites lighting professionals to get an up close look at the new MAC Viper Profile along with a host of other innovative products like a new AirFX version in the MAC III family, an all-new VC series of creative LED video solutions, the award-winning MAC Aura and popular MAC 101 moving heads, a new portable lighting controller in the M-Series, and a new compact hazer in Martin's Jem family.

Following an overwhelmingly positive response from both lighting

South Africa - What started off as 100 dancing crews competing across South Africa, came to a finale at the Red Bull Beat Battle, at Bass Line in Johannesburg on 26 May 2012. The live show was recorded for a European television broadcast.

AV Unlimited were commissioned by VWV to cater for the full technical production and used bright, striking effects to compliment the high energy performance. To achieve this they included 12 Clay Paky Sharpies and 24 Robe 100 LED Beams amongst other fixtures.

With no bars in the roof and no rigging points, the fixtures were flown above the stage an

UK - One of the UK's leading lighting, sound and staging suppliers Eclipse Presentations has once again put their trust in Le Mark's PAL Road Case Labels.

Used to visually brand their vast inventory of equipment cases, the PAL Road Case Label offers an invaluable aid to logistical tracking and identification of cases and their contents.

Eclipse's Tom Norris says, "Keeping track of what case is going where and what's inside is essential, especially when you have multiple jobs on one truck. Le Mark's PAL Labels allow us to instantly see all the information we need; the client, th

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