Showlight 2025 announces more speakers

The countdown to Showlight 2025 (19th – 22^nd May 2025 at Le Parc des Expositions et Congrès de Dijon) is upon us and the organisers have 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, here’s the next selection to tantalise and titivate your technical tastebuds:

Lighting ‘Cine-Theatre’

Nick Schlieper, one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers, will examine the considerable 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 ofThe Picture Of Dorian Gray in Sydney, in 2020 and applied to subsequent productions ofJekyll and Hyde and Dracula.        

Small Venues, Gigantic Ideas

Argentinian lighting designers, Sophya Acosta and Luciana Suppicich from Sophya Acosta Lighting Design Studio, specialise in creating unique magical 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.

Embracing the Blue Hour – lighting design under an open sky

Phil Supple has created outdoor lighting designs for large scale performances, artworks, public and private commissions for over 25 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.

Not the End of the World

Inspired by Hannah Ritchie’s book of the same name, 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.

The musical 40-45 brings 360 Degrees of Emotion

With over 30 years of experience in creating immersive visual experiences, founder and creative director of Painting with Light, Luc Peumans, 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 website in the coming weeks and months – check www.showlight.org/speakers to find out more.