Welcoming the new year gathers your residents in a single square, looking up at the sky. Celesta designs and produces end-of-year fireworks displays, drone light shows, and heritage lighting setups designed to unite the public and showcase your community’s image.
Each project starts from a blank page. Fireworks, drones, mapping, and stage special effects like cold sparks, heavy fog, or flames: these disciplines can be deployed alone or combined in a global show. This modular logic matches the venue, the budget, and the local authority’s communication goals.
The grand fireworks display remains a must-attend event for municipal or winter festivities in French towns. Town halls, boulevards, castles, or waterfronts: a community fireworks show gathers residents and visitors. Celesta’s pyrotechnicians write each display as a story: build-ups, musical synchronization, and the final bouquet. Scenography is prioritized over sheer quantity, and the system is calibrated to the venue, capacity, and safety perimeter.
Use of category F4 pyrotechnic products, in compliance with Decree No. 2010-455 of May 4, 2010, by an operator holding the F4-T2 certificate.
Hundreds of luminous points rise in silence and draw Christmas trees, snowflakes, a countdown, or your community’s coat of arms in the night. The drone light show appeals to local authorities concerned about night-time quiet, wildlife, or heritage buildings. This type of show usually falls under the specific category and requires authorization from the DGAC. Our teams prepare the file and coordinate the airspace. On its own, the drone ballet offers contemporary aerial poetry. Coupled with fireworks, it multiplies the visual impact of New Year’s Eve.
Framed by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/en/947 of May 24, 2019, applicable since December 31, 2020.
Dancers, acrobats, fire artists, and scenic special effects can join your community’s end-of-year festivities. This human presence places the audience close to the action and anchors each scene in a coherent dramaturgy, in dialogue with visual and audio effects. Celesta’s teams design, staging, and coordinate the entire system for your community.
Each setup complies with fire safety regulations for ERP (establishments open to the public) and is validated with competent services.
The facade of your town hall, a church, or a theater becomes covered with animated images during the holidays. Video mapping dresses the architecture in a luminous story, linked to local history and the Christmas spirit. In many cities, light projections on a cathedral, for example during a Christmas market, attract a large audience each year and extend visits in the city center. Our scenographers write a story specific to your territory, never a generic layout.
The setup starts the evening, before the entry of drone light shows and pyrotechnic effects, orchestrated in perfect harmony.
Artistic intent, display site, and fireworks budget are defined with the community.
The script of your community’s pyrotechnic show takes shape, scene by scene.
Technical design of the fireworks or drone light show, followed by declarations in the prefecture.
The control room synchronizes pyrotechnics, drones, performers, video mapping, sound, and light to time-code.
The control room synchronizes pyrotechnics, drones, sound, and light to time-code.
The production is wrapped up and the next edition is prepared with the community.
Artistic direction, technical studies, administrative permits, installation, event-day execution, and dismantling: your departments communicate with a single team. Public decision-makers gain peace of mind and budget clarity.
The safety of the public, crews, and property comes before everything else. The display of category F4 fireworks is reserved for persons holding the qualification certificate required by Decree No. 2010-455 of May 4, 2010, and Decree No. 2010-580 of May 31, 2010. Past a certain active material threshold, the show must be declared in the prefecture one month before the date. Our certified pyrotechnicians manage the risk analysis, the display plan, and dialogue with state services.
A landmark show brings visitors, animates the city center, and fosters local pride. According to our field feedback, an original creation is widely shared on social networks and extends the visibility of the event long after January 1st.
Are you preparing your community’s celebrations? Contact Celesta’s teams for a personalized quote and an initial artistic proposal tailored to your territory. Present throughout France from Aigremont, in Yvelines, with representatives in Normandy, Celesta produces drone, pyrotechnic, and light shows for local authorities, both nationally and internationally.
Aim for four to six months before the date. This timeline leaves time for artistic writing, rehearsals, and administrative procedures, including the declaration in the prefecture required past a certain active material threshold.
Yes. The drone light show is suitable for dense town centers, heritage buildings, and noise-sensitive areas for wildlife. It runs in silence and limits fallout. Many municipalities choose it as an alternative or complement to the display.
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 has set the European framework since December 31, 2020. A show in an urban area generally falls under the specific category, with authorization from the DGAC. Preparing the file is handled by our teams.
Yes. The effect depends on scenography, not just display volume. We calibrate the system to your budget, from a compact display synchronized with the music to a complete multimedia show.
Celesta’s teams. As pyrotechnicians certified under Decree No. 2010-455 of May 4, 2010, we manage risk analysis, the display plan, declarations, and coordination with state services.
Yes, across the entire national territory and internationally. Our offices in Aigremont, in Yvelines, and our representatives in Normandy cover a wide area of intervention.