entertainment

USA – Raleigh, North Carolina-based Alpha Production Group has taken delivery of six Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights, which were quickly dispatched on the northeastern and southeastern legs of Lauryn Hill’s current tour. “The day the Scenius fixtures came in were the day they went out for four weeks with Lauryn Hill,” says Hayes Twisdale, Alpha Production Group’s owner and production...

CANADA – “Les Feluettes” (“Lilies”) made its world premiere at the Opera de Montreal recently playing to full houses during its four-night run. Lighting designer Martin Labrecque utilized seven Clay Paky Scenius Spots for the new production. “Les Feluettes,” with a book by Michel Marc Bouchard and music by Kevin March, is a play within a play. It begins as a prison confessional and unfolds as a...

POLAND - Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2016 has yet again set a new all-time high in viewership and engagement, it was the biggest eSports event in ESL history. The finals of the tenth Intel Extreme Masters season were seen by more than 34 million unique viewers - a staggering 32% increase on last year. The three-day main event itself saw 113,000 fans stream into the Spodek arena and IEM Expo...

USA – No sooner had Fresno’s Live Light, Inc. taken delivery of 50 new Clay Paky Mythos fixtures than the company was sending them out the door to the 2016 California State Future Farmers of America (FFA) Leadership Conference. Mythos played a key role in the entertainment component of the annual conference where they upped the excitement quotient for more than 6,000 high school agriculture...

Following the resounding success of the September concerts in the Arena Centrale of the Foro Italico in Rome and the two triumphant evenings on live TV on RAI UNO in October, Baglioni and Morandi have embarked again - by popular demand - on a bright new adventure around Italy, together with Clay Paky. I Capitani Coraggiosi (the courageous captains), as they are known, will do a new series of three...

Portugal – the creative manager of the agency Newtonlab, Lucio Ferreira, designed and developed the creative idea/guidelines for the world launch of the Pirelli's new high performance tyre range, on the roads of Portugal and at the historic Estoril racing circuit. Newtonlab developed all the architectural solutions needed to organize the interior spaces together with its creative manager: the...

Italy – For several years now, Calzedonia run by its founder and CEO Sandro Veronesi, has put on a Calzedonia Summer Show at the Calzedonia Group's headquarters. It is more than just a fashion show. It is a true presentation event performed several times with international models, show business celebrities, and music and dance interludes. The lighting design and programming were entrusted to the...

CANADA – Telemiracle, the annual telethon in Saskatchewan, Canada that benefits the Kinsmen Foundation, celebrated its 40th anniversary with a 21-hour, commercial-free live broadcast on the province’s CTV affiliates. This year lighting designer Linus MacDonald stepped up the show’s look with Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights. The Kinsmen Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that...

Indonesia – Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) successfully held their third Clay Paky open-house event on 28th January 2016. We've seen it in Singapore and Malaysia, it is finally here in Indonesia. Organized to introduce Clay Paky’s The Projectors series: the Scenius, Mythos, Supersharpy and Stormy for the Indonesian market. The open-house event was held in conjunction with Clay Paky at Thamrin...

AUSTRALIA - Darwin’s Dreamedia Events now has a Clay Paky package comprising of eight Sharpy, eight A.leda B-EYE K20 and eight Mythos fixtures. Managing director Chris O’Brien comments that he was first drawn to Clay Paky because the brand had a reputation for robustness and reliability. “Up here in the Northern Territory all technology is up against the elements,” he said. “You really have to...