From a single stage to a multi-day festival — we design, build, staff and run large-scale live events across Istanbul and Turkey, so promoters and brands arrive to a site that simply works.
Turkey combines world-class production infrastructure with costs well below Western Europe. Stage systems, LED, sound and lighting are all available locally, crews are experienced, and a euro or dollar budget goes considerably further — often the difference between a two-stage festival and a four-stage one.
Istanbul sits within a four-hour flight of Europe, the Gulf, Russia and North Africa, which makes artist routing and international audiences realistic. Venues range from seaside amphitheatres and historic squares to purpose-built festival grounds, and the outdoor season runs comfortably from May to October.
Main stages, side stages, roof systems, trussing, barriers, backstage compounds and VIP structures — engineered, certified and built by our own production team.
Line-array PA, festival-grade lighting rigs, LED walls, IMAG screens and broadcast feeds, specced against the artist's technical rider and the acoustics of the site.
One production manager, one schedule: site plan, load-in and load-out, crew rostering, power distribution, vendor coordination and run-of-show.
Municipality and governorship permissions, noise and curfew limits, fire and safety approvals, temporary-structure certification and insurance — handled locally on your behalf.
Accredited security, accreditation and ticket-scanning workflows, crowd-flow design, medical points and emergency planning built into the site plan from day one.
Rider fulfilment, dressing rooms, catering, ground transport, visas and hotel blocks for artists, crew and international guests.
Whatever the format, the production logic stays the same: a safe site, a strong stage and a schedule that holds.
Multi-stage, multi-day festivals in camping or city-centre formats — from 2,000-capacity boutique events to arena-scale line-ups.
Brand-owned festivals, anniversary celebrations and customer events where the production has to carry a marketing message as precisely as it carries sound.
Food, wine, film and heritage festivals for municipalities, chambers and cultural institutions — including sponsor activation zones and press operations.
Marathons, e-sport finals, university festivals and public celebrations that need stage, screens, sound and crowd infrastructure in public space.
BACKSTAGE Event owns its stage design and production capability rather than subcontracting it — the same team that has delivered launches and large-scale events in Turkey for Ford, Toyota, Lexus, İş Bankası and Tüpraş. For a festival that means realistic technical drawings before you commit, a crew that has worked together for years, and a single point of accountability from site survey to load-out.
We take your line-up, capacity target and dates, then survey candidate sites for access, power, acoustics and permit feasibility.
Site plan, stage and rig drawings, crew list and a line-by-line budget — so you can see exactly where every unit of spend goes.
We secure the official permissions, contract the vendors and build the site, with daily progress reporting throughout load-in.
Full production management through show days, followed by a clean, on-schedule strike and a post-event report.
For a multi-day festival, six to nine months is comfortable — permits and venue holds are the long poles. A single-day concert or brand festival can be produced in eight to twelve weeks if the site is straightforward.
We do. Municipality, governorship, fire, noise and temporary-structure approvals are handled locally by our team, and we flag early if a site or curfew is going to be a problem.
Yes. We handle work permits and visas, customs carnets for touring equipment, rider fulfilment, ground transport and accommodation for artists and their crews.
We regularly produce events from a few hundred guests up to tens of thousands. In practice capacity is limited by the site and its permits rather than by production.
It depends on stages, capacity and technical spec, but production budgets in Turkey typically land 30–50% below Western Europe for equivalent output. We quote line by line, so nothing is hidden.
No. Istanbul is our base, but we produce across Turkey — Antalya, İzmir, Bodrum, Cappadocia and Ankara among others — with the same crew and equipment travelling to site.
Send us your dates, capacity and line-up idea. You'll get a site recommendation, a technical outline and a transparent budget.
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