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Corona: Leisuretec UK illuminates DW Stadium in Wigan with Robe

Event production specialist Leisuretec UK, headed by Phil Jameson, lit up Wigan’s DW Stadium in a variety of colour combinations, showing support for the National Health Service (NHS), essential workers and various community initiatives as everyone pulls together to beat the coronavirus pandemic.

The venue is used by both Wigan Athletic football club and Wigan Warriors rugby league club, and Leisuretec UK is the preferred event technical supplier, which entails providing kit, services and crew for corporate activities happening there.

With all that and other work on hold, the idea of firing up some lights started at the Leisuretec UK warehouse in support the UK’s weekly Thursday night ‘Clap For Carers’ action which Phil Jameson illuminated with their 12 x Robe Pointes. Worldwide during the Covid-19 crisis, light and luminescence have become a sign of hope, resilience, and unity as everyone battles to flatten their curves and control infection rates.

Positive reaction made Jameson think about taking the Pointes down to the stadium. Initially, he proposed a pilot session to venue manager Andy Birch to see how it would look. The first week, the 12 Pointes were positioned on the roof of the stadium’s retail area and blasted beams into the sky. The second week they took the lights inside the stadium and shot beams in the air and also projected a rainbow and other colouring onto the roof gantry of the East stand.

The following week, Jameson suggested leaving the lights in and also doing a lighting scheme for the 75th anniversary of VE Day (end of the Second World War in Europe), so devised a red, white and blue colour scheme. He and programmer Gareth Whittle also created some other variants including gobos and prisms in swirling geometric shapes and effects covering the pitch.

While his lighting and production business has been halted during the pandemic, Jameson has offered himself up for Wigan Council’s volunteer list and for the last few weeks has been utilising the company van and delivering medicines and prescriptions two days a week to those who are unable to get out and collect their own. He has also completed some runs for the local food banks.

(Photos: Bernard Platt)

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