Gauteng, South Africa – Event lighting and set designer Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier has applied the “extra output and great gobo work” of Clay Paky Mythos fixtures to create a dramatic, broadcast-ready design for the Miss South Africa 2016 beauty pageant. The glamorous event was staged at Carnival City in Gauteng and showcased in a two-hour live broadcast on South Africa’s M-Net and Mzansi...
Italy – Bergamo's Creberg theatre sold out. The show was full of genuine musical masterpieces: the first half promoted the singer's new album with songs crammed with Dylan's metaphors and rhetorical figures, fully translated into Italian, and the second half was devoted to his own verses, from "Rimmel" (Mascara) right up to the naive immortal flight of "Donna Cannone" (the Lady Cannonball)...
Light shows in Bergamo's old upper city centre from 7 to 25 September 2016 for the international “I Maestri del Paesaggio” (masters of landscape) exhibition. Clay Paky is celebrating its 40th anniversary at Casa Suardi in Piazza Vecchia with an exhibition that tells the story of the MoMS, a new museum devoted to modern show lighting. The films that won the international “Riprenditi la città...
Germany - Fournell showtechnik GmbH is a family-run SME, based in Haar (Munich), which deals with shows and events. For no less than 25 years, the firm has successfully followed the entire entertainment industry market. Fournell Showtechnik has expanded its stock of lights for future projects with 20 Clay Paky Scenius Profiles. Holger Amann, Fournell Showtechnik's sales manager, had this to say...
MALAYSIA – The long-awaited award-winning Anugerah Juara Lagu 30 event was held on 24 January 2016 at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam. AJL is an annual music competition, which has been organized in Malaysia by TV3 since 1986. Besides enjoying the amazing performances by the artists themselves, the audience were impressed by the lights. The swirls and beams from the lighting fixtures formed a show...
SOUTH AFRICA - Thankfully no one was injured in a massive fire, which burnt down Durban Christian Centre in Mayville, KwaZulu Natal on the evening of 8 th June. Three days later, the sky was lit up by 12 Clay Paky Mythos, all pointed towards a star, as the congregation met together for a service held in their parking lot. One of the largest churches in Durban, the 5 500 seat auditorium known as...
USA – MTVU’s Woodie Awards returned to SXSW in Austin, Texas where Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights made their show debut during the performance of London-based electro-pop artist Jack Garratt. Tom Kenny also returned for the third consecutive year as lighting designer of the show, which celebrates the music voted best by college students. MTVU is an award-winning channel that broadcasts...
AUSTRALIA - The CMC Music Awards 2016 were held at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), with some of the biggest names in country music including superstars Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line, Australia's own Adam Harvey, and rising country star Kelsea Ballerini taking to the stage to perform. Broadcast live on Foxtel's Country Music Channel the event celebrated the music and artists...
USA – Felix Lighting helped Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) celebrate its 20th anniversary with a large complement of Clay Paky lighting fixtures at its flagship Las Vegas Motor Speedway venue. EDC is one of the biggest electronic dance music festivals in the world. The June 2016 Las Vegas event drew more than 400,000 revelers to three days of the top EDM DJs, carnival rides, art and circus-style...
Germany - Jugend Forscht is the biggest youth science and technology competition in Europe. The event was created by the then editor-in-chief of Stern magazine, Henri Nannen, way back in 1965. Every year, in addition to the regional contests organized in the individual states, a national competition is held, which is the highlight of the event. It is contested by the young scientists and...