Don't miss the opportunity of a lifetime - from iconic designers to Icelandic TV, a lighting archive to LEDs, Showlight 2013 promises to be truly international and truly educational.This year's Showlight has so much to offer, whether you work in the theatre, television, architectural, film or event lighting. Here's a glimpse of some of the 25 papers waiting for you:
• Don Holder may give us an insight into the challenges of lighting Spiderman on Broadway, but he also lights Dreamworks TV's Smash, turning his talents to lighting a TV drama - about a stage musical. An interesting crossover of genres!
• Beverly Emmons and Ken Billington, award winning Broadway lighting designers, on the project to establish a lighting archive available on the internet.
• Tim Routledge, lead programmer on the London 2012 Olympics on the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics.
• Tupac Martir, who has pioneered the use of automatic moving light tracking in dance, will talk about the lighting of Nierka.
• Alfred Bodvarsson, the lighting and set designer for Icelandic TV's production of the X Factor, was expected to match the UK version with the budget of a country of just 300,000 inhabitants.
• Christopher Baugh on the iconic Czech Scenographer Svoboda, pioneer of projection and light curtains. Baugh worked with Svoboda at London's National Theatre.
• Durham Marenghi on the lighting of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace.
• LED Panel discussing the many advantages of LEDs, their use and misuse, the colour balance problems with video cameras, and the dangers of specifying them for the wrong reasons. Panel Members: Jim Tetlow, Fred Foster, Ryan Fletcher, Fabiano Besio.
Register as a delegate today and be sure of your seat on the free coaches from the airport! Visit the website for the full list of speakers www.showlight.org