Selecon Solution for the City of Good Thoughts

Friday, August 10, 2007 || Selecon Lighting

History will show that the city of Tartu, otherwise known as the City of Good Thoughts had a very good thought the day the decision was made to authentically restore Athena House to its pre-Soviet glory. Estonias second largest city, located on the banks of the River Emajgi has more than 700 cultural events take place over the summer with 36 museums and galleries, and over 30 nightclubs and bars opening their doors to welcome the public.

Although the renovations to the Athena Conference and Incentive Centre are yet to be fully realised, the venue is completely booked up for the next year with cultural event and conference organisers eager to take advantage of the state of the art in-house theatrical lighting, sound and video equipment on offer, not to mention the specialist staff on hand to operate it all.

Athena has two theatres, the first holds 275 seated; and if all the seats are removed this increases to a 700-person limit. The second is black-box style seating 150 patrons. Lighting equipment for both theatres includes over 150 Selecon luminaires including Rama 175 High Performance PCs with Fast Focus Technology yokes, Arena 2kW PCs, white Acclaim Axial 18 -34 Zoomspots, Pacific 12-28 and 23-50 Zoomspots with 80V 1200W power systems, Pacific Followspots with 80V 1200W power systems, Acclaim Fresnels and PCs, Acclaim Axial 24 -44 Zoomspots, Pacific 45 -75 Zoomspots and Hui 800W Cycs.

Selecon luminaires supplied to Athens House by Tallinna Linnateater, photographs courtesy of Kalle Karindi.