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The Sitting
We take the day apart with you. Who is being honoured, who must be comfortable, what the room should sound like at nine in the evening. You get it back in writing.
Since 2014
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We publish the last number because it is the only one that matters.
Overheard
She went quiet for three weeks.
Nine days out, nobody could tell us who was coming.
Half the vendors were never actually booked.
My mother spent her own party holding a clipboard.
We run your day the way a tour runs a show.
One producerTheir direct number, from the first call to the last truck.
A written update every FridayMiss one and your next invoice drops ten percent.
Every vendor contracted before your money movesIn writing, in the Book.
How it is done
Five moves. The same five, every time.
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The Drawing
The day drawn: room plans, a light plot, a run of show to the minute, a colour and cloth direction, and a budget with nothing hidden. Bound. We call it the Book. Yours at week three.
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The Build
Trucks, rigging, cloth, sound, flowers. The room goes up in thirty six hours and we rehearse in it before you ever see it.
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The Night
A producer on headset, a stage manager in the room, the run of show in every hand that needs it. Nobody in your family carries a clipboard.
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The Return
Film, photographs, the cloth folded and labelled, the whole archive in your hands within twenty one days.
Commissions
Four rooms we built.
Try it
Put a name in lights.
That is the only part of the day you have to do yourself.
The house
Six people answer the phone.
Adaeze Nwachukwu
Founder, Creative Director · Lagos
Built stages for arena tours for nine years. Came to her first wedding angry about how it was run.
Kunle Adesuyi
Head of Production · Lagos
Structural engineer. Owns the build schedule and the load limits. Says no for a living.
Hauwa Sanni
Director of Cloth · Kano
Sources aso oke, lace, adire and kente. Can date a weave by touch.
Naa Adjeley Mensah
Director · Accra
Runs the Gulf of Guinea circuit. Twenty two venues on speed dial.
Aissatou Diallo
Director · Dakar
Francophone West Africa. Negotiates in three languages before lunch.
Yewande Coker
Director · London
Handles days planned from abroad. Your two in the morning question gets a two in the morning answer.
Four doors
Lagos builds it. Three cities carry it.
Lagos
14 Akin Adesola, Victoria Island
Headquarters and the workshop
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Accra
Airport Residential
West coast venues and crew
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Dakar
Plateau
Francophone West Africa
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London
Fitzrovia
Commissions planned from abroad
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Last year we built in London, Lisbon, Dubai, Atlanta and Kigali. Lagos is where we are built, not where we stop.
Cloth sourced in Kano. Folded, labelled and returned to you.
What it costs
We publish our minimums. The alternative wastes your time.
The Room
from $18,000
One day, one venue, up to 300 guests. The Sitting, the Book, the build, a producer on the day.
The Weekend
from $52,000
Two to four events across three days. Traditional, white, after party. Up to 1,000 guests.
The Season
on request
Multi city, multi month. Homecomings, launches, milestone years.
Travel and freight are quoted separately and shown to you at cost.
Straight answers
The six questions everybody asks.
No. One producer, their direct number, and a written update every Friday until the day. If we miss a Friday, your next invoice drops by ten percent.
A producer on headset and a stage manager in the room. Nobody in your family carries a clipboard.
Then we are the wrong house. We will say so on the first call and point you to two we trust.
Yes. Last year: London, Lisbon, Dubai, Atlanta, Kigali.
Every vendor is contracted before your money moves, and every critical role has a named backup in the Book. A failure becomes a swap, not a story.
You get the Book at week three. Room plans, light plot, run of show to the minute, and a budget with nothing hidden.
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