Patent ID: 7591566

Claim:
A lighting system, comprising: a housing, suitable for mounting to a structural unit, the housing including a plurality of enclosure panels; a plurality of light-bearing members, each moveable relative to the enclosure panels; an actuator, in operable communication with at least one of the light-bearing members, the actuator being operable to selectively extend the light-bearing member from the housing into a display configuration; and retract the light-bearing member into the housing; and at least one lighting element attached along a length of each of the light-bearing members, each of the lighting elements being visible by a spectator when a respective light-bearing member is at least partially extended from the housing; wherein at least one of the light-bearing members includes at least two substantially rigid segments oriented in a non-parallel relationship to one another, each of the rigid segments having at least one lighting element attached along a length thereof.