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AC-ET hosts broadcast open day

The day included a series of comprehensive product demonstrations from leading TV & Broadcast lighting brands

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) recently held an exclusive TV & Broadcast Lighting Open Day for STLD members at their demo facilities in High Wycombe.

The STLD (The Society of Television Lighting and Design) provides a forum that stimulates the free exchange of ideas in all aspects of the television profession, offering members a range of benefits including regular Society gatherings and visits to manufacturers, suppliers and production facility centres.

Staged at AC-ET's High Wycombe HQ, the open day was presented by AC-ET's Northern lighting sales manager, Kevin Fitz-Simons and TV & film sales executive, Gordon Smith in conjunction with STLD's sponsor liaison, Bernie Davis.

Greeted with a warm welcome, the STLD guests enjoyed refreshments before receiving a full

Avitas hosts temporary power system seminars

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Following on from previous successful courses, Avitas is hosting another seminar on temporary power systems for events in November in London and again in December in Blackburn.

The one-day course focuses on how - and why - the IET Wiring regulations and BS 7909 apply to power distribution at temporary events and delves a little into why they are relevant and more importantly how compliance is not necessarily difficult. As well as looking at how to implement them correctly it also examples where current practice is not always best practice, showing where potential dangers exist in

Humza Yousaf, Minister for External Affairs and International Development; Phil Haldane, Black Light; David Whyte, Tangent Graphic; Kat Kennedy, Edinburgh International Book Festival; Andrew Stevenson, Tangent Graphic; Sadie McKinlay, Edinburgh Internatio

Black Light sponsors Small Business Award

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Black Light was the sponsor of this year's Arts & Business Scotland Small Business Award. Tangent Graphic and the Edinburgh International Book Festival jointly won the Award, which was announced at a prestigious ceremony at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh on 24 October.

"We were delighted to get behind this very important award which is all about something that Black Light passionately believes in - the mutually beneficial link between arts and the corporate world," says Black Light's head of company development, Phil Haldane.

The Small Business Award was given for an

The pit of the refurbished Opéra de Lausanne

Lausanne Opera re-opens with Adamson

Details: 14 March 2016

Switzerland - The Opéra de Lausanne reopened October 5, 2012, with a new production of The Elixir of Love by Donizetti. More than 700 guests from the political, economic, cultural and media realm celebrated the re-opening in Lausanne. It will be one of the most anticipated seasons now that the historic building which has been closed for five years for renovations and expansion work, is finally welcoming its residents back from a nomadic life on the road.

The Lausanne opera house was built in 1871, and was then drastically modernized in 1930. The latest upgrades were made

Clay Paky Sharpys join Brothers of the Sun

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures showed they are country strong with appearances in the lighting rigs for superstar Kenny Chesney's Brothers of the Sun Tour with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw and the fan-favourite CMA Music Festival with concerts at Nashville's LP Field.

Lighting designer Mike Swinford used 16 Sharpys in the Brothers of the Sun rig; he integrated 55 in the rig for the CMA Music Festival, which was videotaped over four nights to create a music special to air this summer on ABC.

"I first saw the Sharpys online when they were being introduced to the U.

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