“The cathedral is a huge, extremely ornate building so it was really important that we did something really spectacular,” says Tess Landon, director of education and outreach at ART WORKS Projects. “We had worked with Scharff Weisberg seven years ago and returned to them, now under their WorldStage branding, after we were invited to do this project at St. John the Divine. We made sure WorldStage was involved the whole time to make the most of a very minimal budget and help us deliver on our mission of using design and the arts to raise awareness.”
“It was gratifying to use the skills and tools we’ve honed over the past twenty years for a good and important cause. The Cathedral is a significant icon for the refugee support movement and was a fitting canvas for the poignant images we projected,” says WorldStage president Joshua Weisberg.
WorldStage provided Christie Digital HD18K projectors and a Dataton WATCHOUT system to display the custom-made video on the bell tower. In addition, the company furnished a faA§ade lighting system and a sound system for the show’s musical accompaniment.
“WorldStage did a great job; we rely on companies like them for projects like this,” says Landon. “WorldStage has a combination of artistic vision and technical knowledge that make for the perfect collaborator.”
WorldStage Inc., the company created by the merger of Scharff Weisberg Inc and Video Applications Inc, continues a thirty-year legacy of providing clients the widest variety of entertainment technology coupled with conscientious and imaginative engineering services. WorldStage provides audio, video and lighting equipment and services to the event, theatrical, broadcast and brand experience markets nationally and internationally.
