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Notes from the studio. The work, as we are doing it.

A hall set for an audience, before the doors open.

9 November 2026

A new company. Nine years in the work.

Damakese is a new name for a team that has already spent years inside Ethiopia’s biggest rooms.

Before the company had this name, the people in it were already in the halls: concerts, exhibitions, and trade fairs. Damakese Marketing & Events brings that experience into one house in Addis Ababa. The work is the same kind of day. The difference is that the thinking, the plan, and the crew now answer to one name.

  • A presenter opening a seated launch.

    20 October 2026

    Four ways the work shows up.

    A campaign, an identity, a produced day, or a live show. The brief decides which one leads.

    Some briefs need people to stop and take part. Some need a visual identity that still holds when it moves from a poster to a stage. Some are the day itself: the venue, the suppliers, the rehearsal, the doors. And some are the moment the crowd takes over. We keep those four close, so a launch does not lose the brand, and a concert does not lose the plan.

  • A speaker and a listening room.

    8 September 2026

    Before the doors open.

    By the time people arrive, the experience has already started.

    Someone saw the announcement, made a plan to come, and arrived with an idea of what to expect. We write the day from that first sight through to what they remember afterwards. The stage is tested the day before. The name on the badge is the name the guest uses. If something has to change, the person who makes the call is already agreed.

  • Stage lights over a concert audience.

    12 August 2026

    The moment the crowd takes over.

    Live shows are a plan, until the room decides they are a night.

    We work with promoters, artists, and production teams on the technical coordination, the rehearsals, the backstage, the cues, and how people move from the door to the last song. The crowd is the point. Our job is to have the room ready before that moment arrives, and to stay until the work is actually done.