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Germany - The National Theatre Mannheim is a theatre and opera company with a celebrated history that stretches back centuries. Housing a variety of performance spaces for opera, ballet and theatre, it is also notable for being the oldest local theatre in Germany.

Head of lighting at Mannheim National Theatre is Nicole Berry who has recently overseen the installation of new Martin MAC III Performance moving head fixtures, an innovative high-output luminaire with interleaved framing system.

Used as downlights and front lights in both the 1200-seat opera house and 640-seat theatre, Berry lists a number of features of the MAC luminaire as outstanding, not least the fixture's framing system and sharp projection quality over all four framing blades.

The MAC III Performances were purchased for the National Theatre Mannheim via Werning Theatertechnik of Recklinghausen with service

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UK - All Star Family Fortunes is now filming its sixth series, presented by Vernon Kay. The ITV show is designed by Dave Davey and supported by Richard Martin Lighting (RML).

The lighting rig includes Stage Colour 300, Mac 500 and Mac 600.

The industry standard MAC 600 is a powerful wash light with a CMY colour mixing system, 440° of pan and 306° of tilt and a fast and smooth movement.

Each show, two teams of five family members (headed up by a celebrity captain) go head to head trying to guess the top answers in a series of open ended survey questions given to 100 members of the general public.

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UK - Chauvet will launch the release of Q-Wash 260-LED to the European market at PLASA 2011, stand F-53. Additionally, Chauvet will be participating in this year's STLD LED Shoot Out presented by Society of Television Lighting and Design.

Chauvet's Q-Wash 260-LED joins the Q-Series of moving heads which have always stood for quality, value and groundbreaking LED technology. Chauvet's Q-Wash 260-LED is no different. It is an incredibly punchy, fast and compact moving head wash light with RGB colour mixing. This lightweight, easy-to-install unit has 37 three-watt, RGB LEDs, a six-degree beam angle, and nine or 12 channels of DMX control. Q-Wash 260-LED is an economical fixture which can be used in larger dynamic arrays or groups, and has an effect similar to a colour-changing ACL fixture.

Chauvet joins other leading manufacturers in a shoot-out of LED lighting fixtures, led by L

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PLASA 2011 will see Capture Sweden launch the latest version - 2.6 - of its lighting visualisation software, Capture Polar.

The company says that Capture Polar version 2.6 features significant improvements in the aesthetic qualities of the visualisation, with "new and stunning" smoke and intensity effects. Further steps have been taken, it adds, to ensure that Capture utilizes the power of the designer's computer better, creating "the smoothest design experience ever".

Capture will also be demonstrating the powerful video and material mapping features of Capture Polar version 2.5, which made it possible to integrate the visualisation of virtually any video surfaces or projections with a lighting design.

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Germany - A Jands Vista I3 console, running the next generation Vista v2 software, was specified by installation artist and lighting designer Fred Pommerehn to control the lighting for a specially commissioned work on display as part of the World Wildlife Fund's Deutschland wird Wald Meister 2011 (Year of the Forest) campaign in Berlin, Germany.

The Year of the Forest initiative is supported by prominent German celebrities, and the launch featured a media conference the day after the installation went live. The lit work became a local and international talking point, as well as a popular attraction enjoyed by press, public and passers by.

The temporary installation - which was in place on the steps of the Konzerthaus in Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt square - featured 26 tree sculptures measuring up to six metres in height, each carefully crafted by Pommerehn usi

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USA - The collapse in high winds of a temporary concert stage at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday claimed five lives and left almost 50 injured, according to US news reports. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse began on Sunday, and its findings will be watched with great interest by the event production industry.

In addition to issues surrounding the build and stability of the structure itself, the question of why the event was not stopped and the audience evacuated far sooner will surely form a major part of the investigation.

It is reported that organisers had urged audience members to seek shelter just minutes before the sudden winds hit the stage structure - far too late, as it turned out, for an effective evacuation. With news reports claiming that forecasters at the National Weather Service had predicted the strong winds of 60-70mph up to t

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USA - GDS (Global Design Solutions) has announced that, by mutual consent, Scott Vontobel is to step down as director of USA operations.

Vontobel has been with GDS since February 2009 and has been instrumental in setting-up GDS's USA office and sales network. He feels that he is "unable to give all that is required to the position at this time and has decided to move on".

"I have decided that now is the right time for me to spend more time with my young family and I am planning to find my next opportunity closer to home," he says. "I felt it would be best for the company to find someone who can devote more time to developing the USA operations and moving the company forward. Global Design Solutions is a great company with innovative products, I wish Matt and Richard every success for the future, they are a fantastic bunch guys with great products and v

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Finland - Philips Entertainment Lighting has delivered a symphony of lighting solutions to concert lighting in the €180m Helsinki Music Centre.

Supplied and installed by Philips Entertainment's Finnish Distributor Hedcom, the key challenge in this modern concert hall was to ensure that all lighting fixtures operated silently and efficiently with minimum heat output so as not to interfere with the listening experience of the audience.

Pekka Rytilahti, product manager for Hedcom reports: "We installed over 150 Philips Entertainment luminaires into the 1700-seat main auditorium and five additional, smaller spaces. The specification included Philips Selecon SPX, Arena, Rama and Pacific fixtures alongside a number of Vari-Lite VL1100AS.

Rytilahti worked closely with the client project manager Antti Rehtijärvi from ISS Proko, theatre consultant Tapio Ilomäki from Akukon Co

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UK - As a sponsor of PLASA 2011, Martin Professional looks forward to welcoming one and all to Martin stand 1-F44 for a chat, a drink and an up-close look at Martin's range of professional luminaries, creative LED panels, atmospheric effects and sophisticated control systems. Martin will also be participating in the STLD LED Shoot Out throughout the show, highlighting its LED range in a number of working areas.

The EC-10 is a high performance, true 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel that teams with Martin's EC-20 to form a fully compatible EC family of LED displays that can be mixed and matched for ultimate design creativity.

Featuring the same award-winning, lightweight and cable-free design for rapid deployment, the EC-10 is 100% compatible with the EC-20 in terms of colour, setup, curving, and control and processing, even accessories, allowing for seamless, mixed resolutio

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UK - Robe launches two important and unique new LED products at PLASA 2011 - the ROBIN 1200 LEDWash, and the ROBIN DLX Spot, and previews the upcoming ROBIN 'Sniper' - a mega-bright fixture with a super-tight parallel 230mm fat beam.

All are in keeping with the company's ongoing "Think of the Future - Consider Nature" commitment to producing genuinely more sustainable technology.

The mega-bright ROBIN 1200 LEDWash utilises the same multichip LEDs as the Award-winning ROBIN 600 LEDWash and smaller ROBIN 300 LEDWash, in an intensely bright package featuring 61 x LEDs in total, in four concentric rings. It has all advantages of fabulously smooth mixing, the true whites and the homogenised light engines of the LEDWash 300 and 600, along with light weight, full functionality and low power consumption.

The ROBIN DLX Spot is the world's first LED based spot moving head wi

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UK - Manchester- based dbn Lighting has been asked to work on some challenging and quirky projects in its time, but Eclipse, a special performance by Malian musical superstars Amadou and Mariam for the Manchester International Festival was their first concert where the requirement was to 'light' it entirely to be dark.

The three sold out performances were staged at the 500 capacity New Century Hall in central Manchester. Eclipse told the story of the duo's work and life together, featuring a collection of songs - a fusion of pop, blues and Malian music - spanning their career which started over 25 years ago when they met at the Mali Institute for the Young Blind.

Amadou and Mariam specifically wanted the audience to experience the show in total darkness, so they could appreciate the psychological and sensory shifts involved in perception and experience that take

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UK - The Board of Directors for Neo Neon Holdings and Neo Neon UK PLC invite you to visit the company's new showroom facility in Milton Keynes. Neo Neon have invested substantial capital to provide the UK and European market with a new base to better service the requirement of its customers.

"Neo-Neon lighting can be seen enhancing the visual lives of millions of people around the world for the past 33 years," says the company. "Neo-Neon UK PLC is a subsidiary of Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd, and was the first to market with a complete range of SSL White LED based General and Commercial and Consumer Retail DIY products. For many years Neo-Neon has been at the forefront of LED Technology to cover all market sectors from Architectural to General task Lighting and extensively caters for the Entertainment lighting market also, with thousands of products to cater for all requ

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Sweden - LumenRadio has announced support for the recently published Art-Net 3 specification. Support for Art-Net 3 will be released at PLASA 2011 in London and will be available immediately for the entire line of CRMX Ethernet products.

Since the CRMX line of products was launched back in 2009 LumenRadio has supported a wide variety of Ethernet protocols including industry standard protocols like Streaming ACN (ANSI E1.31), manufacturer proprietary protocols such as ETCNet 2 & 3 and ShowNet, and protocols available in the public domain like Art-Net 1, 2, & 3.

"By being the first company to officially announce Art-Net 3 support we continue to be one of the most network and user friendly, as well as proactive, companies in the industry," says LumenRadio's CTO Niclas Norlén.

Michael Karlsson, senior R&D Engineer at LumenRadio, adds, "The engineering team

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UK - TMB will introduce a host of new products at next month's PLASA Show (Earls Court, London, 11 - 14 September).

Products premiering at PLASA include the Cygnus Incite 375W Profile, the latest addition to the Cygnus range of LED fixtures by Wybron - exclusively distributed in the UK by TMB. Incite offers unprecedented lumens-per-Watt efficiency, with a CRI up to 92 (5x the brightness of competing fixtures). The quiet, advanced thermal management system ensures optimal output and consistent colour for many years. Proprietary in-lens colour-mixing technology provides smooth, virtually rainbow-free shadows. Advanced electronics provide step-free dimming over the longest fades, and Incite is fully RDM capable. The Cygnus family also includes the super-bright LED Wash and Studio Series.

Exclusively distributed worldwide, new products in the ProPlex DDD - Data Distr

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UK - Rosco is offering 'swag' to customers. "It works like this," states Rosco. "You submit a photo of a production in which you used an E-Colour, Roscolux or Supergel colour to achieve a specific purpose or goal. You'll need to tell us, in a couple of sentences, why you chose the Rosco colour you used and what you or the director or the design team wanted to convey with the colour choice. If you need more than one picture to tell the story, you can send up to five! You'll also have to fill out an online form giving us permission to share your work along with providing some of the detail of the production as well as all the credits.

"In return, Rosco will send you one of the most interesting pieces of swag we've ever created. It's a coffee mug, artfully coloured in a Roscolux colour, complete with the SED curve. (You'll receive one of the 10 different Roscolu

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UK - The first six pre-production prototype Components Co SMART:e fixtures have not sat still for long, no sooner had they been assembled and bench tested they were straight out of the door and on their way to London to be used at Ghost the Musical's press night party at the Corinthia Hotel.

Ghost associate LD, Tim Lutkin, got his first glimpse of the SMART:e whilst chatting to one of the product's designers recently and offered to give them their first real test.

"They're a fantastic bit of kit," says Lutkin. "I just can't get over how small and light they are, the battery life is great, the colour mix is brilliant, especially all the pastel shades you can get by adding the white in. But the best bit for me is their look, they are just so smart, they don't look like a marquee up-lighter and for me that is the deal clincher."

The SMART:e is the fir

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Michael Forever - Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Motown veteran Smokey Robinson are set to perform at a tribute concert in honour of Michael Jackson. More acts will be added to the bill nearer the time. The event coincides with the trial of the Dr Conrad Murray, charged over the singer's death. The gig takes place at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on 8 October.

While the concert has raised the doubts of Randy and Jermaine Jackson, it has the full support of the star's mother and other siblings. British acts Leona Lewis, Craig David and JLS have also been lined up to perform at the gig. Several of Jackson's brothers will also perform, along with 3T, which consists of Tito Jackson's three sons. "We're delighted that such exciting and globally recognised acts have joined the line-up to pay tribute to a music legend," said Chris Hunt, president of concert promoter Glob

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PLASA 2011 sees a new industry presence in the form of Ten Thousand Things, a Hong Kong based distribution company for lighting accessories and technology. The company forms the sales arm of the newly created Alderamin Group (Stand1-E32), provider of comprehensive project solutions.

Borrowing a phrase found in Chinese literature referring to material reality, Ten Thousand Things offers sales and support for a wide range of lighting products.

"We offer our own growing range of consumable items - lamps, power and data cables, gaffer tape, gels, connecters - basically all the everyday lighting industry essentials," says Alderamin Group co-owner, Simon Fraser."Our Ten Thousand Things branded range is complemented by three internationally respected franchises. We are the distributor for City Theatrical and Green Hippo in Hong Kong and Macau, and we also sell Artistic Licenc

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Artistic Licence Engineering has announced Multi-Play, a lighting show record-playback unit with "outstanding memory capacity and Ethernet protocol versatility".

The time-saving offered by such a device is in great demand, as demonstrated by the popularity of the company's sister product, Two-Play - a dedicated Art-Net controller capable of recording up to two universes.

Now, Multi-Play takes the concept to a much bigger and broader arena. The disk-based product allows the user to record up to 12 universes from any lighting console running Art-Net. For flexibility, playback is supported through multiple protocols, including Art-Net, ShowNet, KiNet and ACN Lite (E1.31).

"The ability to record from an Art-Net device but then playback to pretty much anything is a unique feature," enthuses Artistic Licence Engineering MD, Simon Hobday."We anticipate that Multi-

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SES Entertainment Services on Stand number 1-J11, are running a competition at this year's PLASA show, with one lucky winner walking away with a holiday in Sunny Florida.

For every order placed on the stand this year, an entry will be placed into the competition to win a two week stay in a five-bed luxury villa in Kissimmee, Florida in 2012.

Just 10 minutes drive from the Gates of the Walt Disney resort in Orlando, Florida, the home sleeps up to 10 people and has a very large pool. Just off the highway 192, you will be in the heart of all the major attractions within a few minutes drive. The home benefits from four bathrooms, full air conditioning and a games room. Dates for the stay are subject to availability (Summer dates are still available) and the prize does not include flights or car hire. The value for entry is subject to a minimum spend of £250.00, but multiple entries

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Batmink Distribution, one of the largest UK distributors of professional audio, lighting and effects equipment, will introduce a number of new products at PLASA 2011. New brands on show include Visage Lighting, Vector Audio, Pro-Flite Flightcases, Pro-Stage Portable Staging and Lumaform LED Illuminated Furniture.

Of particular interest is the Visage LED Multipar RGBAW - a new PAR unit that delivers a truly impressive light output from 18 x 8w LEDs. 12 x RGBW and 6 x RGBA 4 in 1 LEDs produce full spectrum colour mixing and control is achieved through DMX, auto programs, sound to light or master slave functions. The black multipar housing is more robust than conventional PARcan bodies and completes this tough, powerful unit.

Another brand making its PLASA debut is Lumaform. Offering a range of LED illuminated furniture in a variety of styles; Lumaform is at the cutting edge of this exc

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SGM's CC-4 is a four-bank high-powered multiple LED washlight with an enviable power output. With its IP65 rating it is designed for architectural use.

Each of the four chassis contains 44 of the LZ4 RGB Cool White Emitter LED's and thanks to its new light engine it can deliver 21,000 lumens - providing more than three and a half times that of SGM's original Palco 5 LED, which was designed for the same purpose.

The CC-4 offers CTC and white balance control. Power consumption is just 4 x 400W and the lamp life is rated at 50,000 hours.

Housed in a black slim aluminium chassis lenses are interchangeable (via the Narrow, Medium and Wide lens kit) and the fixture boasts eight or 17 DMX channels. Set up is via an OLED graphic five-button display.

Other features include: Simple menu structure; upgradeable software (via DMX); IP65 rated; standard Neutrik powerCON connectors and standard

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Martin Professional's ultra-compact MAC 101 LED moving head wash is available in three white light versions that expand its use to applications where high quality, pure white light is needed.

The new variants incorporate cold and/or warm LEDs instead of RGB for a better white light quality and greater output. Ideal for highlighting skin tones, textiles, or set pieces, the MAC 101 white light variants are already finding use in touring applications as a front light, main light, blinder or beam effect. They look great on camera in TV studios and are ideal white light fixtures for car shows, showrooms, fashion shows, corporate events or any exhibition environment.

MAC 101 CT™: Incorporating both cold and warm white LEDs, the MAC 101 CT allows for easy changes in color temperature from crisp cold looks to warm shades, and features simple intensity control. Each MAC

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GDS is to launch the highly anticipated LiteWare G3 at this year's PLASA show and will exhibit a number of other new products.

GDS will exhibit its "most exciting product range to date" at PLASA 2011. A recent teaser-ad campaign for the new LiteWare G3 has caused quite a stir within the industry.

PLASA will see GDS showcase all seven of its i brands: LiteWare the original Wireless battery uplighter incorporating LiteWare G3, HO and UL, the SMConsole, CueSystem TCPIP programmable ethernet based cue light systems, MOBAL tester the original and award winning automated Socapex tester, the BluesSystem utilising BlueBeam and Dome and MainsSystem.

In addition to this GDS will show its new ARCSystem a retro-fit, fully dimmable LED auditorium house light system that replaces incandescent fittings for any size of venue using a control system that can integrate with any type and siz

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