The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) booked Laser Grafix’ services for a series of important monumental screen projections all over the country. This work has been in celebration of the Race Relations Act passed 25 years ago - and the amended law on race equality, commencing 2 April 2001. To illustrate the year when the Act was launched, Laser Grafix sourced images of a range of seventies icons, including Charlie’s Angels. To create the effects, Laser Grafix used a self-contained 7000W xenon projector mobile unit with generator, to move around the country to each site. In each city, however, one main site was used followed by additional smaller sites, to spread the message. Thus, the first projections, on 27 February, were giant images with a football theme, projected across the Manchester skyline with sites including China Town, the CIS building, the Sunley Tower and the Portland Tower.Following this, on 4 March, York was the chosen city and the Bishop of York agreed to turn off the lights of York Minster to facilitate the projection. On 6 March, the message came to London and in particular, the fire station on Shaftesbury Avenue. The image chosen was that of the earliest bulky mobile phone compared to a modern lightweight variety. Birmingham was the site for 18 March (with the Charlies’ Angels image) and then, finally, Leicester was chosen for the 27 March projections of a seventies girl on a space hopper alongside a boy of today on a scooter.
