 COVID-19 Update: October 15, 2020: The Third Peak
It's not getting better, Fewer people are dying from COVID-19, but cases continue to rise, and in many localities, hospitals are filling up. Europe is under siege. But the White House insists otherwise, as an election looms. And the ... 
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 ACT Lighting Offers Limited Time Discount on All ACT Academy Online Courses
ACT Lighting Inc. has launched a new ACT Academy promotion offering all of its online courses -- including newly updated grandMA3 courses -- at a 25% discount. The promotion runs from October 19 through October 25 and is available ... 
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 Meyer Sound Redefines Tanger Center with USA's Largest Constellation System
The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro, North Carolina is now the home to the largest Meyer Sound Constellation acoustic system in the United States. The center's events will be supported by world ... 
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 "311 Day" Three Night Las Vegas Party Brought to Life with GLP Bars and Hybrid Strobes
Kentucky based production designer, Bobby Grey, already had a wealth of real-world experience behind him -- ranging from theme parks to theatre, touring, and designing top end festival stages -- by the time he had reached 30. ... 
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 5 Words Media installs CODA Audio N-APS at Hope Church, Virginia
5 Words Media (5WM) is a US systems integrator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 2011, principally as a design/build company for houses of worship, its skilled team also designs and installs audio, lighting, and AVL systems regionally ... 
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 Bandit Lites Supplies Canto USA's Retro Fit Series for Town Chamber
The Town of Cary, a diverse and thriving community in the heart of North Carolina, had a dilemma. The ambient lighting in the Town Council Chambers was in dire need of renovation, but LED retrofit solutions were not lining up with their ... 
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 The Vital Role of Staging in a New Era of Live Events
The following message is from Cindy Albrecht, director of sales and marketing with Staging Concepts: "Due to the heavy impact of COVID-19 on the live events industry, spatial distancing will likely play a major role in ... 
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 Renkus-Heinz Provides Impressive - Yet Hidden - Audio Solution for Stunningly Designed Bahá'í House of Worship
The Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois is a beautifully ornate building, featuring a main worship auditorium that rises 138' to its ceiling. Stunning and intricate white ornamental concrete and crushed quartz patterns sit upon ... 
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 Veteran Engineer Carter Hassebroek Selects SQ-5
With a long and illustrious résumé spanning monitor engineer stints for the cast of the hit show Nashville, the Dove Awards and the Stellar Awards, system engineer outings with Peter Frampton and Celtic Woman, and FOH/PM ... 
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 Panoramic Bastione at Lake Garda Brought to Life With Blackline X8
Situated at the foot of Mount Rocchetta near Italy's Lake Garda, the Bastione is a fortress built in the early XVI century. It is one of the symbols of Riva del Garda and overlooks both the city and the lake itself. ... 
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 Electro-Voice and Dynacord System Unites Multiple Spaces at Faith Family Church
Since its start in 2013, Faith Family Church in Baytown, TX has seen continued growth, quickly outgrowing its roots as a portable house of worship. Land was acquired, a campus was planned, and a 60,000 sq. ft. facility with a 1,400-seat ... 
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 Danley Takes OS80's to Deep Run High School for Concert Level Sound
As the Henrico County, Virginia school system slowly rolls out a turf upgrade for all of its high school football stadiums, the Deep Run High School Wildcats are the lucky recipients of the first upgrade. Attendance at the games is a ... 
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 Theatre in Review: American Dreams (Working Theater)
Who better than Working Theater to delve into the tortuous American way of immigration? Despite our national ambivalence -- I'm being polite here - about this issue, we depend on immigrant labor, an inconvenient fact from which we ... 
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 COVID-19 Update, October 14, 2020: The Second Wave
As the second wave of COVID-19 appears in Europe and the Middle East, people are getting increasingly fed up with their governments' policies. Numbers are growing in the US, too. There are several developments on the vaccine front, but ... 
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 d&b audiotechnik and Autograph Partner to Launch d&b Fanblock
German audio technology and solution company d&b audiotechnik announces the company has partnered with theatrical and creative sound designer, Autograph, to co-develop and launch a stadium sound application, creating a live crowd ... 
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 Elation Helps Fill Void and More on New Season of Dancing with the Stars
Tom Sutherland was back on the set of Dancing with the Stars recently, lighting his second season of the American reality dance competition for the ABC network. Lead designer at DX7 Design, Sutherland, who used Elation ... 
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 Stark Raving Solutions Builds Lighting Foundation at Manna Fellowship With Chauvet Professional
Step by step, the final pieces of Manna Fellowship church's new building fell into place this summer. On June 24, the church's red white and blue sign was installed. A day later, the stage was framed. In July the cement walkways were ... 
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 The Long Reach Long Riders and Behind the Scenes Charity Announce the LRLR 2020 Autumn Extravaganza
The Autumn Extravaganza is a one-time event that will feature two members of the original Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR), Greg "Chrome" Williams and Wayne "Razz" Rasmussen, riding in all 48 contiguous states over ten ... 
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 National Theatre of Greece Production Chooses Robe
The National Theatre of Greece (NTG) staged three acclaimed performances of Aeschylus's The Persians -- first produced in 472 BCE -- in July at the ancient Epidaurus open-air amphitheatre, complete with a fully socially distanced ... 
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 LEDucation 2021 Call for Speakers!
The 2021 LEDucation Tradeshow and Conference, organized by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY), seeks dynamic, lighting-industry presentations for the 2021 event. Lighting designers, innovators, thought leaders, and ... 
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