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ETCCONNECT ABOUT AUTHORS CONTACT Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on LinkedIn SPOTLIGHT ETC CULTURE GEAR LEARN ODDSENDS BRIGHT IDEAS Search Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on LinkedIn ✕ SPOTLIGHT ETC CULTURE GEAR LEARN ODDSENDS BRIGHT IDEAS Theater Regensburg Gets a New Look with Halcyon Theater Regensburg was looking for a powerful and bright solution when they decided to replace their halogen spotlights with LED. Martin Stevens,... Read More SPOTLIGHT Illinois Theatre Fest Overjoyed with Apex In the winter of 1975, a planning committee began forming the first-ever Illinois High School Theatre Festival. This state-wide festival has been... Read More ETC Culture ETC is reducing plastic shipping foam We thought for Earth Day, we would take you behind the scenes for a look at a pretty cool packaging change we started rolling out a few years ago.... Read More LEARN Stage Lighting Design: Glossary 18-Apr-2024 SPOTLIGHT Inspire Solutions Drives Hog 4 For Corporate Events 12-Apr-2024 FEATURED Through the Generations: ETC Fred Foster Student Mentorship Program 4-Apr-2024 FEATURED ETC Springs into Trade Show Action 27-Mar-2024 Subscribe Sign up for blog updates from ETC and never miss a post! ETC a blog of bright ideas Theater Regensburg Gets a New Look with Halcyon By Quinn Wirth 9-May-2024 Theater Regensburg was looking for a powerful and bright solution when they decided to replace their halogen spotlights with LED. Martin Stevens, Head of Lighting at the German venue, noted, You can’t do a one-to-one replacement with LEDs. But converting to LEDs has become essential. Additionally,... Read More 0 SPOTLIGHT Illinois Theatre Fest Overjoyed with Apex By Rachel Frederick 2-May-2024 In the winter of 1975, a planning committee began forming the first-ever Illinois High School Theatre Festival. This state-wide festival has been bringing students and teachers together from around the state for this non-competitive event ever since. The 2024 festival featured a production of She... ETC Culture ETC is reducing plastic shipping foam By Wendy Luedtke 22-Apr-2024 We thought for Earth Day, we would take you behind the scenes for a look at a pretty cool packaging change we started rolling out a few years ago. Our manufacturing team went looking for a more sustainable alternative to the plastic foam that is used to cushion some products for shipping. LEARN Stage Lighting Design: Glossary By Katherine Stamp 18-Apr-2024 In the world of stage lighting, designers rely on a multitude of technical terms to create stunning visual effects. However, understanding these terms can sometimes feel like navigating a maze, with their multiple meanings and interpretations. While delving into every single one would be quite the... SPOTLIGHT Inspire Solutions Drives Hog 4 For Corporate Events By Bruce Jordahl 12-Apr-2024 Based in Irving, Texas, Inspire Solutions is a service event, creative, and digital production company serving many clients, ranging from local, regional, and even international touring to corporate events and beyond. Inspire Solutions’ National Director of Lighting for Show and Event Services,... FEATURED Through the Generations: ETC Fred Foster Student Mentorship Program By Quinn Wirth 4-Apr-2024 This article appears in the 2024 Spring issue of Protocol It all started with a group of students who had a dream. Fred Foster, his brother Bill Foster, and two friends James Bradley, and Gary Bewick were students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when they invented their own lighting control... FEATURED ETC Springs into Trade Show Action By Opasna Randev 27-Mar-2024 ETC has stayed busy this spring with a round of phenomenal industry trade shows. From Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, to LEDucation in New York, to USITT in Seattle, we’ve had a great time showing customers our latest solutions. SPOTLIGHT Kinetic uses ETC to create flexible color and control for FOX Sports By Jacob Coakley 20-Mar-2024 There is no off-season for sports coverage, just a constant competition to be the best. LEARN Stage Lighting Design, Part 9: Getting Technical By Katherine Stamp 14-Mar-2024 Welcome back to our journey through the world of stage lighting design! In our previous installments, we explored the fundamental concepts of lighting , its key objectives , the versatile properties of light , the diverse types of lights available, and the role of lighting angles , colors , and lighting... SPOTLIGHT Sugar Hill: The Ellington / Strayhorn Nutcracker Ballet Picks Halcyon By Bruce Jordahl 7-Mar-2024 SPOTLIGHT The Art of Lighting Churches By Tess Lincecum 29-Feb-2024 Every venue in need of new lighting comes with a unique set of challenges and opportunities. This is especially true for churches, spaces that require special attention to accessibility, consistency, and visual simplicity. ETC sat down with Chris Rynne, OCS Lighting + Control’s Director of... SPOTLIGHT The Met Goes Gold and Platinum with HES Halcyon By Bruce Jordahl 22-Feb-2024 The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center is an iconic performing arts venue and has been a New York City cultural landmark for over a century. Home to the world’s top tier operatic performances, the venue recently upgraded their lighting plot with High End Systems Halcyon Gold and Platinum... LEARN Stage Lighting Design, Part 8: Planning Your Design By Katherine Stamp 15-Feb-2024 Welcome back to our exciting series on stage lighting design! In previous parts, we covered the basics, introducing the concept of lighting and its objectives . We also discussed different types of lights , the controllable properties of light , and the importance of lighting angles, color, and ... SPOTLIGHT Unexpected Ways to Spectacular Things By Marshall Bissett 8-Feb-2024 I started Preston Productions with an ETC Ion , a few thousand dollars and a credit card,” Justin Preston says when we meet with him in the unlikely setting of downtown Los Angeles. ETC Culture GLEAM 2023: Enchanted Tree Chronicles By Rachel Frederick 1-Feb-2024 Olbrich Botanical Gardens, located in Madison, Wisconsin, is just a few miles from the ETC headquarters building. For the past six years, in late summer, a team of lighting designers, artists, marketing/branding specialists, and horticulturists collaborated to produce a community art exhibit called... SPOTLIGHT Lonestar Saves the Day for Riverside Theatre’s Production of Million Dollar Quartet By Tess Lincecum 25-Jan-2024 Riverside Theatre’s lighting supervisor, Will Gibbons-Brown, recently found himself in the middle of every lighting designer’s most commonly recurring nightmare: he had 48 hours to light a musical from scratch. With only two days until previews for the first show of the season, the production... LEARN Stage Lighting Design, Part 7: Lighting Systems By Katherine Stamp 18-Jan-2024 Welcome back to our exciting series on stage lighting design! In previous parts, we covered the basics, introducing the concept of lighting and its objectives . We also discussed the controllable properties of light , the importance of lighting angles, and color . Now, let's move on to lighting... GEAR ColorSource and City Theatrical's Multiverse Deliver Flexible Solutions for High Schools By Tess Lincecum 11-Jan-2024 The tightrope act of outfitting a high school performance space with new lights is not a task for the weak of heart. Theatre educators in need of new lighting equipment must jump through countless hoops to secure funds, and when they do, the pressure is on to make it count. You have to make sure... ETC Culture 2023 et cetera... blog recap By Rachel Frederick 28-Dec-2023 We find ourselves once again at the end of the year. This is the time when we look back and take stock of what we’ve accomplished, the milestones we’ve hit, the people we’ve met, the music we’ve listened to, and recount our favorite memories. We at ETC are, once again,...