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Christie Lites delivers lighting and crew for Cisco Live 2020

Technology experts from around the world descended on Barcelona for the annual Cisco Live EMEA conference in January 2020 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.

Christie Lites UK worked alongside production managers, technical managers and lighting designers to design the lighting and control package. This year, the team specified more than 850 fixtures and a crew of 27 experts, as thought leaders shared visions and performers including musician Nile Rodgers entertained the crowds.

GPJ’s Head of Technical Production, Mark Bannister, worked alongside GPJ Production Managers John Carss for the Main Plenary and Isobel Webb and Dave Whitty for the Party Area to realise the project. Christie Lites UK Account Rep Andy Strachan managed the delivery of the lighting solution to the event.

Lighting designer Simon Grant kick-started design concepts in response to the original brief from GPJ. He focused on the Party area, with 20 lighting crew. Grant used two of Christie Lites’ GrandMA3 consoles networked together to control the main stage and the Party space lighting. On the main stage, Christie Lites supplied a package of Martin MAC Viper Profile, MAC Viper Wash DX, GLP JDC1, GLP X4 Bar 20 and “a boat load” of Martin VDO Sceptron 10.

In the Party space were specified 170 VDO Sceptron, GLP JDC1 and Bar 20s, Martin MAC Viper fixtures including Performance, Profile and Wash DX models, along with Martin’s MAC Aura XB and MAC Encore Performance fixtures to light up the central bar, and a spattering of Prolights Eclipse FS for specials.

“The theme for the party was ‘music through the decades’,” Grant explains. “I took block colours as a simple way to deliver each decade. Inverted truss beams above the stage created a roof to the stage that raked up high above the audience. Using only four fixtures for the main stage kept the looks clean and simple.”

(Photos: Ben Phillips Photography)

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