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Elation lighting package provided for Canadian block party and music festival

Since its inception in 2013, the Glowfair Festival in Ottawa has grown substantially with the two-day event attracting roughly 60,000 people in June 2018. The name itself is an indication that lighting is an integral part of the event hosted along 10 full blocks of Bank St. in Ottawa.

As it has for the past five years, Ottawa Special Events (OSE) provided a package of Elation lighting fixtures for Glowfair - some drawn from their own inventory and others rented from Christie Lights. In all, nearly 100 Elation fixtures were deployed, a combination of Platinum HFX hybrid moving heads, ZW19 LED moving head beam/wash effects, compact ACL 360i beam effects and SixPar 200 LED Par lights.

In total, OSE specified 8 Elation Platinum HFXs, 12 ZW19s, 24 ACL 360is and 60 SixPar 200s. ADJ Focus Spot Three Zs were also supplied for Glowfair’s DJ stage, as well as ADJ UV Cob Cannons and Ultra Hex Bar UV fixtures for deployment around the site.

Four HFX units were placed on each of the central main stage trusses and used for a variety of looks, including all spotlighting. “They were our only spots on the rig because a lot of the bands have electronic features, so there are a lot of beams, strobes and flashes and we didn’t need a ton of spots,” comments OSE Production Manager Joel DesLauriers.

The remainder of the rig was rented from Christie Lights. The ZW19s were spaced evenly (6 per truss) on the upstage and downstage pipes. DesLauriers had intended to use 12 Elation Platinum 5Rs, not ACL 360is, but Christie’s fixtures were rented so OSE doubled up with 24 ACLs.

“We used them a lot to do symmetrical chases and 360 effects. We had 6 dance towers,” he says, “2 doubles and 1 single tower per side, so we placed 4 360is on the far stage left tower, 6 on the middle one and 4 on the next.” The same placement was used on stage right, with the remaining ACLs mounted centrally on the rear truss above a video wall. “So the beams were separated like fingers shooting down.”

Sixteen Elation SixPar 200s were deployed on the DJ stage, and the rest placed throughout the site to provide UV light for ‘Glow Fit’, ‘Glow Yoga’ and other events.

(Photos: Ghost Vapor Photography)

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