Delivered Live is a vibrant weekly music and comedy performance concept streamed live-and-direct from Melbourne, Australia, the result of a dynamic collaboration between Handshake Management, rental and production company Harry The Hirer Productions and the Victorian State Government.
In February just before the Coronavirus pandemic forced much of the world into lockdowns and social dispatching as part of massive efforts to delay the spread, Astera’s reporting team were on-the-ground in Australia and caught up with the action at D1 Studios in Sydney.
Reaching 56.4 meters above the crystal blue waters of St. Anna Bay, the Queen Juliana Bridge (the highest structure in the Caribbean), affords spectacular views of this nation’s capital city and its beautiful beaches. On the evening of Sunday March 22, it also offered an inspiring view of the future, when it served as the centerpiece of “Light The Sky” in Curaçao.
Sunday 22nd March for half an hour, a number of Benelux lighting rental companies and individuals – in fact anyone with access to a light – were invited to point it upwards and #LightTheSky in support of all the key workers, heroes and heroines on the frontline of fighting the Coronavirus pandemic.
New York-based lighting design firm works with the fashion event agency Shades of Grey and creates a dynamic visual statement using Robe Lighting PATT 2013 and picklePATT luminaires.
Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens invited outdoor event producers Robin Morley and Simon Teesdale with lighting designer Phil Supple, to create a new large-scale light trail through what has been called the best woodland garden in England.
Spanish lighting designer Joan Teixidó (known industry-wide as Teixi) used 30 x Astera AX3s ‘Lite Drops’ on the most recent tour for Spanish singer Alfred García, who played over 50 dates around Spain.
Paul Siebert makes no bones about it: every night, as soon as punk rockers Menzingers strike the first snarling note in one of their Hello Exile Tour sets, he kicks his lightshow into fourth gear. “I really try to introduce a lot of energy into the room as early as possible,” he explained.
When Circus Flic Flac rolled into town at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund for its ninth annual Christmas show, it brought with it a 1200-capacity Circus Tent, an array of exceptionally talented human-only artistes and a stunning Ayrton lighting arrangement by talented lighting designer, Christopher Rostalski, from CR-Lichtdesign in Soest, Germany.
Leading technology experts from around the world descended on Barcelona for the annual Cisco Live conference in January to learn, share and drive our digital future. For the third consecutive year, Christie Lites UK was commissioned by production company GPJ to design, supply and crew a lighting solution for the conference’s main stage and party area.
