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Showlight announces more speakers

Showlight 2025 has announced the next round of speakers, with topics drawing from innovations in mixed and multimedia lighting, the illumination of spaces from the smallest venue to the wide open sky, and the subject of climate change and sustainability initiatives.

Nick Schlieper, one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers, will examine the challenges posed by lighting “Cine-Theatre”, a style of production which utilises live feed video combined with pre-recorded footage with which the performers constantly interact. The term was coined by a critic, writing about a ground-breaking production of “The Picture Of Dorian Gray” in Sydney, in 2020, and applied to subsequent productions of “Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula”.

Argentinian lighting designers Sophya Acosta and Luciana Suppicich, from Sophya Acosta Lighting Design Studio, specialise in creating unique moments within the spacial and technical constraints of small venues. Together they will disclose how these restrictions can inspire the most extraordinary and ingenious ideas.

Phil Supple has created outdoor lighting designs for large scale performances, artworks, public and private commissions for over twenty-five years. Celebrating the rewards of an outdoor lighting design practice, he will explore the delivery of landscape lighting and lighting artworks under transitional, dynamic, and sometimes unruly conditions in both urban and rural contexts.

Inspired by Hannah Ritchie’s book “Not the End of the World”, Bryan Raven, erstwhile MD of White Light and champion of sustainability, takes a more positive and optimistic view of the battle against climate change and the wider sustainability topic with examples taken from his experiences with White Light and working with various organisations in the live events sector.

With over thirty years of experience in creating immersive visual experiences, Luc Peumans, founder and creative director of Painting with Light, will use the new-style immersive musical experience of the musical “40-45” to show how he blended emotional storytelling with high-tech motion technology, innovative lighting and multimedia design to maintaining the fluidity and intensity of the narrative.

More speakers will be added to the Showlight website in the coming weeks and months. Showlight will be held from May 19-22, 2025, at Le Parc des Expositions et Congrès in Dijon, France.

Pictured (left to right): Nick Schlieper, Sophya Acosta, Luciana Suppicich (top row); Phil Supple, Bryan Raven, Luc Peumans (bottom row). (Photos: Showlight)

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