1781C: Bookings

1781C is the Event Booking Arm of the 1781 Collective.

What does the C stand for? Collective, Community, Curation, Concerts, Commercial, Corporate - anything but Catastrophe.

 
 

Option #1: tailored, personal concerts.

Our creative team has been in charge of designing and delivering personalised concert performances to a remarkably diverse set of clients, including:

The National Science Museum; Oxford Saïd Business School, New Scientist Live, Tech Open Air, Q Berlin Questions, Most Wanted: Music, Wear It!, London Fashion Week, Innovation is Everywhere/Google, Fusion Festival, Garbicz Festival, Hedoné Seminar, The Royal Society, South Australian Agent-Generals Office, Also Festival, Festival No. 6, Per Anhalter Festival, Feel Festival, Bergen University, Reflex Festival, Anton&Alexx Design, and Noerr Law Firm. 

Creative Director and founder of 1781 Collective , Chris Lloyd will utilise their wide and unique set of performance tools that allow us to offer a truly memorable and completely personal event, tailored exactly to your needs and wishes.

 

Option #2: Choose Your Own Operadventure:

The most entertaining and interactive product of the 1781 Collective, ‘Choose Your Own Operadventure’ combines the world of classical music and opera with the universes of cabaret, Black Mirror, and the choose your own adventure books from childhood. 

Part parody, part Faustian, part interactive game show, audiences are thrust into the action by a Host who introduces a range of nameless characters encountering each other in a crowded Berlin club. If you’ve ever wanted to hear an opera singer perform Celine Dion and Engelbert Humperdinck in one night; choose between repentance or retribution; or simply make sure the villain gets to win for once - this is your event.

First developed and produced for Garbicz Festival (2024). Six performers, duration: 1 hour.

 

Option #3: MYSTERIUM

Over 100 years ago, Russian symbolist and theosophist composer Aleksandr Scriabin announced his magnum opus: Mysterium. A piece so grandiose that it would herald the end of current civilisation, end all conflicts between humankind, and welcome a race of advanced beings who would descend upon the temple in the Himalayas built specifically for its week-long performance. Using fire, music, colour, scent, architecture, and bells hanging from the sky, Scriabin envisaged a performance where spectators were part of the spectacle, participating in this final dance of humanity as we know it.

In 2025, the 1781 Collective presents MYSTERIUM: an ode to Scriabin for the 21st century. Utilising elements of Introspective Ritual Design, the experience explores human connectivity and art, and how the audience integration in the Dionysian model espoused by Nietzsche in ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ can be used to bring people together through music and dance.

Option #4: LABYRINTH: The Cabinet of Curiosities

Our flagship production, LABYRINTH is an event experience that might be a rare occurrence of a performance truly being one-of-a-kind: based on the promenade theatre model, it is the perennially sold-out masterpiece of the 1781 Collective. Audiences enter a large space and encounter anywhere from 10 - 40 musicians and artists as they explore specifically curated themes and spaces; evoking the imagination of the entire history of western art, philosophy, literature, and culture.

Previous public iterations include;

  1. The Cabinet of Curiosities 

  2. The Persistence of Memory (Narcissus)

  3. Inferno (after Dante)

  4. Metamorphosis (Ovid and Kafka)

  5. Melancholia (Wagner & the 19th Century embrace of melancholy)

  6. The Rites of Spring (Eastern European Pagan Ritual Sacrifice)

  7. The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe in Decadence)