Category Archives: Low Energy Lighting

Low Energy Lighting – Carbon Trust Information Packs

The Carbon Trust (www.carbontrust.co.uk) has some excellent information on low energy lighting solutions. See: www.carbontrust.co.uk/publications/publicationdetail?productid=CTV021 Spend some time on the website - there is a huge amount of relevant information. Much of the information requested by the arts sector is already … Continue reading

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Latitude Press Release

ARCOLA THEATRE PROVIDES FUEL CELL POWER AND LOW ENERGY LIGHTING AT LATITUDE FESTIVAL London’s Arcola Theatre, renowned for having the world’s first fuel cell powered studio, has taken a brave new step in delivering low energy lighting and hydrogen fuel … Continue reading

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Jigsaw Falling Into Place: Radiohead concerts LED-lit

Radiohead’s Tour may well be using the first exclusively LED tour-lighting system. From Radiohead’s official website: Andi Watson, the lighting and visuals designer for Radiohead since their club days, has a reputation for innovation and attention to detail.  It was … Continue reading

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Low energy lighting for Salisbury Cathedral

Thanks go to Jim Morse for his useful tips on the low energy fluorescent uplights used to light the main ceiling and side aisle ceilings at Salisbury Cathedral: “Firstly we chose Osram T5 high output lamps with 2700K colour temperature. … Continue reading

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Rig plan for “the lady from the sea”

Please find here some information about the lighting design of “the lady from the sea”: – the Power Spread sheet: here – the rig plan: here

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Kit list for “an enemy of the people”

An enemy of the people, directed by Mehmet Ergen **** The Guardian **** The Independent **** The Times **** What’s On Stage **** Time Out Critics’ Choice “Far superior to the laborious spectacle the National gave us a decade ago. … Continue reading

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Lighting fit up for “an enemy of the people” – Power Saving

The show’s lighting designer, Michael Nabarro, writes:  The challenge was to light a naturalistic piece of theatre, a new translation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, using just five kilowatts of energy. The method employed on the previous show … Continue reading

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Kit list for “the Living Unknown Soldier”

The Living Unknown Soldier, directed by Sebastian Armesto Time Out – Critics’ Choice Living Unknown Soldier used the following (all on loan from White Light, except for the lighting desk supplied by ETC, and the house lights we bought): Stage … Continue reading

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Lighting fit up for “the Living Unknown Soldier”

The Fit up for the ‘Unknown Living Soldier’ took place on Sunday 10th Feb in the Arcola’s main Studio space. On the surface it hardly differed from any other fit up, same kind of crew, as far as I know … Continue reading

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Andy Downie’s work on LUS

As working Lighting Designers, faced with all the well know challenges of lighting in the Arcola’s main space, which of us would relish the extra challenge of limiting total power draw to 4.5kW? Even with the generous support of White … Continue reading

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