A company anniversary, a convention, a year-end gala: each event deserves a moment that remains in memory long after the speeches. Celesta designs and produces pyrotechnic shows, drone light shows, and special effects designed for businesses, both in France and internationally.
Students enrolled in higher education in 2024-2025
Students at university in 2024-2025
Grandes Écoles members of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles
International students welcomed in autumn 2024
Source: SIES, Ministry of Higher Education, Note Flash No. 17, July 2025; Conférence des Grandes Écoles, 2024-2025.
The graduation ceremony has become a full-fledged communication event for institutions. It seals membership in a promotion, fosters family pride, and strengthens the school’s image with future candidates. In 2024-2025, French higher education crossed the three million student threshold for the first time. Celesta brings its expertise to this moment: highlighting graduates, projecting promotion names, and creating a final show that will remain in memory.
Promotion entry, stage presentations, final under the stars, closing gala: we adjust the system to the site, capacity, and establishment’s spirit. Slide to view formats.
A pyrotechnic final or a drone ballet to close your school’s graduation ceremony. Celesta writes a moment worthy of your institution’s reputation, from Paris campuses to regional and international locations. School colors, promotion year, and the logo appear in the sky, carried by music.
For graduation at the scale of a faculty or a campus, our teams design systems for large capacities. Scenic effects on the stage, video mapping, closing fireworks, drone light shows: the format is composed according to your budget and site.
The moment when each graduate joins the stage gains relief with cold sparks, lighting design, and a soundtrack synchronized to time-code. These scenic effects, designed for both indoors and outdoors, pace the graduation name call without ever covering the speaker’s voice.
Video mapping projects graduates’ names onto the facade of an amphitheater, a castle, or a campus building. Each promotion sees its identity projected in large scale, a perfect backdrop for souvenir photos and social networks.
After the official graduation ceremony, the gala extends the party. Fireworks synchronized to the music, drone shows, lasers, and confetti give the prom night an intensity that graduates will tell stories about for a long time. Celesta orchestrates the whole, from opening to final bouquet.
Are your campus locations abroad organizing their own graduation? Our teams travel across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Aigremont’s ICPE-classified facility gives logistics a rare autonomy to take your ceremony outside France.
Depending on your corporate event, Celesta combines or separates three disciplines: fireworks displays, drone light shows, and special effects. Each format is composed to match your project.
We start from your objective, your budget, and the meaning you want to give to the moment.
Choice of effects, scenography, site survey, calculation of perimeters and capacity.
Supply and technical design from our ICPE-classified facility.
Timing adjustment on the music, tests, and second-by-second adjustments.
Our control room pilots the flow live, in coordination with your teams and emergency services.
Show review to support your upcoming events.
A successful corporate show is first a safe show. Our pyrotechnicians hold the qualification certificate required for category F4 fireworks and scenic pyrotechnics (Decree No. 2010-455 of May 4, 2010). For drones, we operate in the specific category of European Regulation 2019/en/947, with DGAC authorization. Our teams take care of administrative declarations, coordination with emergency services, and securing the perimeter. You keep peace of mind, we carry operational responsibility.
Certified pyrotechnicians F4
Drones – DGAC permit
ICPE-classified facility
Declarations & emergency services coordination
A combination still rare on the market, entirely serving your brand narrative.
Shows produced in front of several hundred thousand people, from grand public displays to private evenings.
Your image and story belong to you: each show is written for you.
Are you preparing an event and looking for an effect that makes an impression on your guests? Let’s arrange a meeting to define your project, its format, and its budget. Our teams build a custom proposal with you.
Company anniversaries, exhibitions, congresses, seminars, conferences, general assemblies, study days, conventions, festivals, team-building, gala evenings. We also operate to celebrate major contract wins or product launches. The system adjusts to your capacity and venue.
It replaces or completes it, according to your intent. Drones suit noise-sensitive venues and environmental constraints, as they fly in silence. Fireworks remain unbeatable for the raw emotion of a final. We often recommend a combination of both.
Count on six to twelve weeks for an accomplished project, more for a major drone show subject to DGAC authorization. The earlier the scope is defined, the wider the creative margin.
Yes. Cold sparks, heavy fog, scenic flames, and confetti are designed for closed spaces, complying with fire safety rules. Our teams study the room in advance.
Yes, throughout France and internationally. Aigremont’s ICPE facility and Normandy presence give our teams autonomous logistics to travel to your venues.
Our teams take care of it: prefecture declarations, coordination with emergency services, safety perimeters, and event-day control room. You retain artistic control, we manage regulatory compliance.