Showlight Introduces New Workshops for 2025 Fresh for 2025, Showlight is introducing a new attraction, a program of informative, interactive workshops. These will take place on May 21 and will be open to all delegates on a first-come, first-served basis, with a strong emphasis on student attendance. Showlight will be held at Le Parc des Expositions et Congres de Dijon, in Dijon, France. The workshops will be conducted by leading experts in their fields, offering insights into subjects ranging from the latest technology to personal development. Numbers are limited, so delegates will be encouraged to sign up via the Whova app when it goes live closer to the date. The workshops include: Led by lighting designer, author, and co-founder of Studio School of Design, Clifton Taylor, Color and Light in the Age of LED Luminaires will be a practical demonstration exploring design storytelling afforded by today's high-powered, multi-emitter LED luminaires. Topics will include agreeing on a language of color, and the limitations and possibilities of working in LED-based rigs. Lighting Loopholes: Award-winning lighting designer Sherry Coenen has extensive experience working on puppetry and new writing. She will bring this knowledge to her examination of how to use non-theatrical lights in theatrical settings, theatrical lights in ways they weren't designed for, and other lighting loopholes on tiny budgets and other restrictions. Redefining Success!: Founder of an award-winning, women-owned lighting firm, Traci Klainer has over 30 years of experience and more than 100 lighting designs to her name. This workshop will explore what success in lighting and beyond really looks like and what happens when you start your career wanting to be a Tony award-winning lighting designer and end up as an executive producer. Developing Your Own Health and Wellbeing Workplace Strategy: This interactive wellness workshop will be led by the collective skills of Mig Walsh, Brant Thomas Murray, Dr Keili Camille Murray, and Grace Halton. Participants will be encouraged to think about their own personal health and wellbeing workplace strategy; learn about emotional intelligence, burnout, and the law and policies that can be adopted in the workplace linked to health and wellbeing and come away with their own action plan to take back into working practice. Understand and Quantify the Visual Appearance and Aesthetic Rendering of Scenic "Objects" under LED Lighting: This workshop will introduce the SceALED project, a university project (granted by the French National Research Agency) aimed at understanding and quantifying the visual appearance of scenic objects under LED lighting, to create standards and practical tools for performing arts professionals. It explores how light spectra affect aesthetic perception, develops measurement tools, and applies an interdisciplinary methodology combining artists, engineers, and researchers, and offers the audience the opportunity to participate in a psycho-visual experiment. This workshop will be led by Veronique Perruchon, Noel Richard, and Ludwig Lepage. More information on each of the workshop leaders can be found on the Showlight website at www.showlight.org/workshops. The new Showlight 2025 workshops are sponsored by platinum sponsor Claypaky. Showlight 2025 tickets can be purchased now from the Showlight website at www.showlight.org. Hotels can be booked at special rates at www.showlight.org/hotels-travel. 
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