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Polish Beauty Pageants
Use LED Curtain as Stage
Backdrop
PLOCK, Poland —Aram Multimedia
supported the finale for three beauty
pageants that took place here recently,
Polish Miss 2009, Miss Supranational 2009
and Miss Teen 2009 Poland, with nearly
80 square meters of LED curtain.
The LED curtain, from Fourlight, provided
LED visuals as a stage backdrop,
and was hung on 17 suspended belts
ranging in height from 3 meters to 7 meters.
Aram also rented 20 square meters
of LED screen, which was suspended in
the center of the stage at the height of
3 meters.
The crew included Pavel Zeitz and
Gerard Parzutka, the events’ organizers;
Simon Losiewicz, its director; Adam Tyszka,
lighting director; Leszek Malinkiewicz
with the stage building team and the
crew from Polsat, POKiZ and others.
PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS
MAYNOOTH, Ireland — The Mantra Garden
Bar & Club, an investment of about $7 million,
might have racked up an even more impressive
cost total if Frank Murray, proprietor
of sound and lighting specialist Audiotek, had
opted for something besides the PR Lighting
fixtures for the double-floor venue.
“They deliver more bang for the buck,”
Murray said, of the eight Solo 250 moving
head fixtures from PR Lighting that are
mounted on a circular truss that surrounds
an LED centerpiece in the Mantra nightclub
upstairs. There, the Solo 250s duke it out with
lasers, scanners and an ever-changing LED
peripheral landscape.
Murray, who is no stranger to PR Lighting
gear, is also confident the cost-savings won’t
just be for the short term. “I must have used
these in over 50 venues now,” he said, adding
that they are “exceptionally reliable.” He also
said, “the color is consistent, and for an entry
level product they perform way above their
class, rock solid and flicker free.”
The Mantra nightclub also uses four PR
Lighting Orland scanners, also run off a Light
Jockey controller, while downstairs in Harveys
Bar, Murray specified eight PR Lighting
Pilot 150s as the main dancefloor effect, with
eight scenes and eight programs stored in a
PR Lighting PK60 memory controller.
Distributors MilTec (UK) Ltd supplied all
the PR Lighting gear. The Deluxe Group of
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Portadown served as the main contractors
for the Mantra project, which is operated by
Kavanagh Group.
The Mantra Garden Bar & Club is equipped with PR Lighting
fixtures
In all, 83 beauty contestants vied with each other, and
the set, for the attention of the viewing audience.
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