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Over 400 Clay Paky fixtures help launch Wroclaw as European Capital of Culture 2016

The inauguration of Wroclaw’s term as European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2016 saw a live street performance and light show with over 400 Clay Paky fixtures directed by ECoC performance curator Chris Baldwin. Announced as the winner in 2015 following eight years of preparation, Wroclaw has an ambitious programme of 400 projects and 1000 cultural events planned for the rest of the year.

Kicking off the proceedings was the opening ceremony ‘Awakening’. Baldwin’s design saw four different parade routes, around 5 km each, simultaneously occurring throughout the city before meeting in its heart. These represented awakening the four different elements of Wroclaw’s history - the Spirit of the Flood of 1997, the Spirit of Rebuilding following World War II, the Spirit of Many Faiths celebrating diversity and the Spirit of Innovation representing the city’s universities.

Lighting designers Sebastian Pachciarek and Bogumił Palewicz worked alongside Baldwin to specify the Clay Paky package, which comprised 132 x A.leda B-Eye K20, 118 x Mythos, 108 x Alpha Spot 1500, 64 x SuperSharpy, 60 x Sharpy and 24 x Alpha Profile 1500, supplied by Transcolor, ATM and TSE. Prolight is the official Clay Paky distributor for Poland.

Pachciarek and Palewicz placed the Clay Paky fixtures at each stop along each route and in the city square which hosted the grand finale. “We used the Clay Paky fixtures’ effects to add to the look and feel of each spirit’s theme along the route,” explains Pachciarek. “The gobo ranges of the Alpha Spot 1500 in particular allowed us to project textures and graphics onto the buildings to create a backdrop to each show, whilst the sharp beams of the Mythos and SuperSharpy in a range of colours evoked fire and water and illuminated the entire length of the buildings.”

‘Awakening’ was the second movement of the ‘Flow Quartet’ project created by Chris Baldwin. Preceded by ‘Mosty’ in June 2015, the ceremony will be followed by ‘Flow’ and the finale ‘Sky Web’, the closing ceremony for the European Capital of Culture 2016.

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