Christmas Party — Otepää

A Christmas party in Otepää runs through three stages: afternoon light through snow-weighted pines, dusk when the room begins to matter, and the hours past midnight when sound and warmth are the only things holding a group together. Most venues here were built for summer; December asks different things of a room. Heating that works when fifty people arrive from outside. Audio that carries over ski jackets instead of cotton. A load-in through ice that formed overnight.

After 5 Events handles the production: the crew, the rig, the coordination that starts when the venue opens and ends when the last case rolls back onto the truck.