Carnevale
EXPERIENTIAL / ENVIRONMENTAL / NARRATIVE / EVENT PRODUCTION / CONTENT
Overview
An invite-only gathering to launch Studio Dream Factory’s ongoing “Last Supper Club” series and bring together artists, designers, and cultural operators within a deliberately constructed narrative environment, operating as a curated, immersive encounter between disciplines, aesthetics, and conversation.
Thematic production design, narrative atmosphere, character and theatrical elements, and thoughtful coordination of creative collaborators and interactive activations, the gathering was not only a live, social experience for guests but moreover the formation of a participatory, enduring artifact of visual and editorial material, a narrative foundation for the forthcoming series’ events, and a uniquely personal, natively uninhibited opportunity for connection, dialogue, and forging new relationships.
While itself inherently transitory in nature, the event, through its built-in social, experiential, archival, and narrative components, leveraged the ephemeral and temporally delimited format as the genesis of the ongoing Last Supper Club series’ “world”—its initial history, lore, citizenry, material relics, narrative premise, and audience interest—for enduring community-building, collective narrative creation, ongoing cultural documentation, and ongoing interpersonal, experiential participation.
process
team
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Andrew Niklas Curtis
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Ava Tichenor
EXPERIENTIAL PRODUCERS
Christy Casey
Simon Zhu
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Kiana Livingston
Samantha Cartwright
THEATRICAL DIRECTOR
Christy Casey
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Joe Eckstein
CASTING DIRECTOR
Ruse Experiences
SET DRESSER
Harriett Chan
MUSIC PRODUCER
Riccardo Torres
ART COLLABORATORS
Leo Amir
Simon Zhu
CATERER + FOOD STYLIST
Staci Valentine
Ventiko
NARRATIVE PRODUCERS
EVENT SPACE + STAFFING
Venue 66
BAR MANAGER
Annika Nelson
EVENT VIDEOGRAPHER
Joe Eckstein
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHERS
Ava Tichenor
Erin Greene
POST-PRODUCTION EDITORS
Joe Eckstein
Ava Tichenor
SPECIAL THANKS
Venue 66
Tichenor & Thorp Architects