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Claypaky fixtures used at Bahrain’s celebration of football team’s Arabian Gulf Cup win

A large complement of Claypaky lighting fixtures was on hand for the celebration hosted by the State of Kuwait at Bahrain National Stadium following the victory of the Bahrain national team at football’s 26th Arabian Gulf Cup.

Faalyat Event Management were the main event organizer. Showtech Productions W.L.L., an event management company in Bahrain, produced the gala event and provided the lighting design and fixtures for it. Lawrence Rodricks, CEO of Showtech, was the Lighting Designer for the celebration. Claypaky fixtures included forty Skylos, forty Xtylos, and forty Scenius Profiles.

Alex Douglas, a freelance Lighting Programmer and Operator in the Gulf region, has used Claypaky fixtures on a number of installs in the Middle East. The Arabian Gulf Cup celebration marked the first time he utilized Skylos, Claypaky’s all-weather, laser-powered beam.

“All the beam fixtures were behind a big rectangular stage in four lines of twenty each”, he explains. “They displayed the national colors of red and white and delivered beams for a region which likes them as far as the eye can see: In the Middle East the bigger the beam, the better.”

The array of Xtylos created a particularly “bright red, which was key when showing the national colors”, he notes. “Since the event was televised, everything had to look good on camera, and the lights had to hold their own against the fireworks finale.”

Douglas points out that the Skylos’s IP66 rating came in especially handy at the event. “The heat of the day combined with the cold of the night in the desert make the condensation level insane, especially in winter”, he says. “So the fixtures were constantly wet from condensation, but we had zero problems.”

The Scenius Profiles were positioned twenty on each side of the stage to act as front lights and base lights for the presentations.

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