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PL&P THE NATIONAL ARTS An Experience CENTRE Like No Other Rejuvenating a Beacon Toronto’s Samsung Experience Store for Canadian Arts & Culture Streaming into the City Coquitlam, BC’s Pinetree Way Enhancement Project A Consummate Creative Professional In Conversation with LD Brent Clark The 2018 Juno Awards, Carly Rae Jepsen & More www.professional-lighting.com Summer 2018 22 No.2 Volume CONTENTS DEPARTMENTS 09 News Flashes The latest from Canada’s lighting, video & production industries 15 Agenda Your industry event calendar 16 Northern Lights The 2018 Juno Awards, Carly Rae Jepsen & more 34 In Focus Mike Filsinger & Stephan Gotschel 36 Product Spots The newest products & technologies to hit the lighting, video & staging markets 41 Advertisers’ Index 44 Classifieds 46 Project Update Rocktopia at the Broadway Arkells onstage for the 2018 Juno Theatre, Don’t Let Daddy Know Awards broadcast, Pg. 16 Amsterdam & more. Cover Photo: The National Arts Centre in FEATURES Ottawa by Trevor Lush 18. THE NATIONAL 26. STREAMING INTO ARTS CENTRE THE CITY Rejuvenating a Beacon for Canadian Coquitlam, BC’s Pinetree Way Arts & Culture Enhancement Project PHOTO: BOB GUNDU BOB PHOTO: By Andrew King By Andrew King The longtime Ottawa landmark is This signicant urban development amidst a $225-million overhaul. Here, includes outdoor LED lighting that we explore the architectural and creates a owing eect through the illumination enhancements of the rst gateway to the city. of two phases. 22. AN EXPERIENCE 30. A CONSUMMATE CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL LIKE NO OTHER In Conversation with LD Toronto’s Samsung Experience Brent Clark Store By Kevin Young By Andrew King A new xture of Toronto’s Eaton Centre, The go-to designer for acts including the Samsung Experience Store is a The Tragically Hip, Stereophonics & “touch point” for the popular brand with others discusses his latest designs, The concept behind Toronto’s sleek new a design inspired by “innity.” shares some industry outlooks & more. 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We can provide you better RESULTS and make your life easier. www.nor.com Contact Jim Norris 905-374-9012 [email protected] PL&P 09 Redefining Distribution Over the Decades SFM Celebrating 40 Years of Business in 2018 News Flashes News Flashes By Andrew King When Sol Fleising formally incorporated SF year also saw Fleising take a step back in Marketing, his eponymous sales agency, in his role with the company, handing over 1978, it was a one-man operation with a cor- day-to-day operations to his executive porate headquarters that also happened to be team led by COO Randal Tucker, who its namesake’s house. has since also been given the title of Now, 40 years later, SFM occupies an president. impressive 80,500-sq.-ft. facility in the Greater “Distribution is an old business Montreal area that’s home to hundreds of model, so we’ve been rethinking what employees and a diverse distribution catalog that means,” shares Tucker about the comprised of some of the top brands in the company’s evolution in recent years. pro visual, pro audio, musical instrument, and “That involves continually asking a custom integration markets. lot of questions about what we do – SFM’s headquarters in Dorval, QC “I actually started my company with sometimes dicult questions, and we $1,000,” Fleising shares, recalling his ve-year don’t always get the right answer, but plan to raise enough capital as a rep to start we spend our time thinking, ‘How do importing merchandise. “I knew early on that we oer something that’s relevant and I’d be more successful as a distributor than a valuable to our customers, end users, rep, and it was actually just two years before and suppliers?’” I signed an agreement with König & Meyer The company’s current Pro [stands in 1980] to distribute their products in Visual catalog of lighting, video, and Canada.” production lines includes major brands That year, the company moved into a and leading innovators like ADJ, Antari, new 3,000-sq. ft. oce and warehouse space. Christie Digital, Elation Professional, ADJ exhibit at Expo-Scene 2018 Exclusive Canadian distribution agreements Global Truss, Leprecon, and Wireless with now-iconic brands like QSC and Neutrik Solution. market adapt to you.” soon followed, and in the ensuing decades, As Mike Gregory, director of sales, pro While they may not have always been the company saw its distribution portfolio business unit, explains, “The way we’re selling touted as loudly as they have been lately, grow in tandem with its overall prole. is dierent now than it was 10 years ago, or the cornerstones of SFM’s business – always In 2012, the company ocially rebranded even ve years ago. We’ve adopted a systems- adapting to the market, adding value at every as SFM, formalizing an ongoing shift in its based approach on the integration side of the possible stage of a transaction, and continually approach to business that focuses more on business, where it’s been about building an reinvesting in the business – have existed end-to-end solution.” since Fleising was driving across the country That formula has proven to be a winning selling guitar amps and speakers to Canadian one, as SFM’s total sales have doubled in the music stores in the late ‘70s. Put simply, past decade, SFM’s ongoing success is based on a balance surpassing between its proven and continually rened $70 million business practices and its rock and roll roots. in 2017/18. “We’ve always kept the customer at the In Gregory’s centre of our business,” says Fleising. “Everyone words, that has to win to do good business, and that’s success is what we strive for. I treat our employees, the result customers, and suppliers how I’d like to be of “being treated. It’s a very simple mantra.” SFM’s Pro Visual Team (L-R): Claudia L’Écuyer, adaptable to Marketing Project Manager; Franco Caruso, Brand the market, Manager; Nick Martino, Application and not trying Andrew King is the Editor-in-Chief of Specialist; Justin Gauthier, Brand Manager service and solutions than just products. That SFM Founder & CEO Sol Fleising to make the Professional Lighting & Production. Summer 2018 | 9 Expo-Scène Musikmesse & Prolight + Sound Raises Bar Continue to Evolve for Fourth Annual Over 90,000 visitors from 152 countries made Edition their way to Frank- PHOTOGRAPHIE MILEMOT PHOTO: furt, Germany for the CITT/ICTS wel- Musikmesse and Prolight comed the North American live + Sound trade fairs and FRANKFURT MESSE PHOTO: entertainment conferences from April GUNTHER EXHIBITION/JOCHEN 10-14, 2018. industry to Montreal for the fourth annual Expo-Scène trade show and The reintroduction conference, which was held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from of days reserved for trade March 28-29, 2018. visitors resulted in a This year’s sold-out show featured a bigger hall and more exhibit decline in the number of private visitors from Germany, which organizers had space, hosting more than 80 exhibitors and showcasing hundreds of new anticipated. On the other hand, there was a 10 per cent increase in the share products and technologies. For the rst time, Expo-Scène also featured of trade visitors and more visitors from outside Germany, which organizers say sold-out pre-show workshops. resulted in a seven per cent increase in the level of exhibitor satisfaction. “We are thrilled to see an increase in attendees, especially from neigh- One of this year’s focal points was immersive technologies, such as 3D bouring provinces and from abroad.