Graduation Party — Pärnu

In Pärnu, graduation falls in June, which means daylight until midnight and venues that overheat if the air handling is not sized correctly. The spaces used most often — hotel conference halls, beachfront pavilions, rented warehouses near the center — were built for winter meetings or summer weddings, not three hundred eighteen-year-olds arriving at ten and staying past two.

Rigging for that means front-loading the cooling, testing the subs before doors because bass outdoors behaves differently than bass indoors, and placing the bar where it does not bottleneck the single exit most of these rooms have. The power comes in phases, the DJ table goes where sightlines allow, and the lights are warm enough that photographs work without flash.