USA – Fall Out Boy just wrapped “The Boys of Zummer Tour” (sic) co-headlining with Wiz Khalifa, and once again Clay Paky fixtures were along for the exciting cross-country ride. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky products in North America. Robb Jibson of So Midwest, Inc. continued his relationship with the pop punk band, this time as production designer for the US...
UK – Clay Paky’s industry-leading beam light, the Sharpy, has proved the ideal festival lighting tool on ‘The Great Stage’ at Secret Garden Party (SGP), one of the UK’s most popular independent arts and music festivals. This year’s SGP saw over 30,000 revellers hit Mill Hill Field in Cambridgeshire for a long weekend of festivities ranging from performances by big name music acts such as Angus and...
Finland – Lighting and set designer Mikki Kunttu has used an array of Clay Paky Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures to create a truly stunning lighting design for a production of symphonic poem Kullervo at the Finnish National Opera. Composed by Finnish national composer Jean Sibelius and first performed in Helsinki in 1892, the opera is based on the character of Kullervo in the epic poem...
Italy – Bergamo hosted the 5th Edition of “ I Maestri del Paesaggio” (the masters of landscape) from 5 to 20 September. This now famous event is devoted to high class landscape architecture and has been held in the most enchanting parts of Bergamo’s upper city since 2011.Every year the association Arketipos brings internationally renowned landscape architects together and invites them to present...
USA – Port Lighting Systems in Seabrook, New Hampshire has taken delivery of 16 Clay Paky Alpha Spot QWO 800s for its inventory. The company offers entertainment lighting production services for special events, corporate meetings, trade shows, concerts, theater and social events. The Alpha Spot QWO 800s are an 800w light source featuring the latest MSR Platinum lamp. “We purchased them for...
Italy - Mario Biondi is one of the few Italian artists who can claim some sort of esteem and saleability outside Italy, perhaps on account of the characteristics of his kind of music, or perhaps because he sings in English. Before taking on a huge number of concerts in major European and Asian capitals, he embarked on a tour of theatres in Italy to mark the release of his latest work BEYOND. This...
GERMANY - Last weekend, the official celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Germany took place in Frankfurt am Main. In honor of the occasion, a lighting installation designed by Sven Sören Beyer and Björn Hermann illuminated 25 bridges across the Main as part of a spectacular light show on October 3. For the technical side of things, they relied on products from Clay...
UK - The eighth Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) ceremony was held on Sunday 4th October at London's glamorous art deco Troxy to sparkling success. Once more it saw representatives from the professional entertainment lighting and video industry come together to celebrate the creative achievements of lighting and video professionals working on shows across the UK. The ever-popular awards...
UK – Twelve Clay Paky Mythos fixtures projected text and images onto the Tower of London in September as part of a star-studded charity event honouring wounded armed forces veterans. The initiative was launched to raise awareness of the Haig Housing Trust, which offers housing assistance to ex-service people and the week culminated in a fundraising event, ‘For Queen and Country’, to mark the...
Santiago, Chile – Clay Paky Mythos fixtures have illuminated the Costanera Tower, the highest skyscraper in Latin America, with a fantastic light show to celebrate each match in the Copa América 2015 football tournament. The award-winning Clay Paky fixtures were part of a lighting design by Toni Amoros, who also lit the tournament’s opening ceremony. Each time a player scored Amoros employed the...