In short: Novelty Spain, a Barcelona-based technical AV event production company and part of Groupe Novelty, delivered the full audiovisual production (lighting, sound, video and live direction) for a corporate gala dinner for 670 guests in the Sala Marqués de Comillas at Barcelona's Maritime Museum on 9 June 2026, organised by MCI Spain thanks to its Production department.
Bringing your corporate events to Barcelona means choosing a venue your guests will never forget. But a landmark building only delivers if the event production does too. For this private corporate event for 670 guests at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona (Museu Marítim), held on 9 June 2026 and organised by MCI Spain thanks to its Production department, Novelty Spain acted as the local AV partner that turned a medieval shipyard into an immersive gala experience.
We handled the full audiovisual design and installation: event lighting, sound equipment, video and live direction.
When you produce an event in another country, you rarely get to walk the venue more than once. Heritage venues add another layer: no drilling, no fixing to the walls, limited power and strict rules to protect the building.
Get it wrong and the venue works against you: screens blocking the architecture, sound that fades at the back tables, a stunning hall left in the dark. Your guests travelled to Barcelona for something special, and that is what is at stake.
The answer is a local technical partner who knows the city's venues and designs the production around the space from day one. That is exactly what our technical AV for any space service is built for, from hotels and exhibition centres to museums.
The evening was designed as a journey through several spaces of the Drassanes Reials, the Royal Shipyards and one of the finest Gothic civil buildings still standing in Europe:
Novelty Spain also provided lighting and sound in the welcome areas, so every transition felt seamless and the story of the night never dropped.
The dinner featured welcome and keynote speeches, a closing address, a live string performance and a flamenco show, the kind of local touch international guests remember.
Everything happened on a circular stage in the centre of the room. It brings every table equally close to the action, but it demands more from the tech: lighting, sound and video must work in 360 degrees, with no dead zones. For more ideas, see our guide to stage design lighting techniques.
To make sure no guest missed a moment, we installed 12 screens of 136 inches around the room, serving two purposes:
All signals ran through an Analog Way Zenith 200 switcher, moving seamlessly between corporate content and live feeds.
The result: a historic hall transformed into an immersive environment, while keeping the intimacy of the central stage.
The hall had a star of its own: its columns and arches. So we designed wireless lighting to highlight the architecture without running cables across a heritage building.
Around the dinner area, wireless Chauvet WellFit uplighters brought out the columns and arches, while wireless Cameo Zenit B200 wash lights guided guests through the entrance and access areas. On stage, Ayrton Rivale Profile and Stradale Profile moving heads, together with Astera AX9 PowerPAR fixtures, shaped each scene from an Avolites Tiger Touch II console.
Additional lighting washed the ceiling, creating different textures and moods as the night moved from arrival to dinner to the flamenco finale.
Architectural lighting is a signature of premium events, as in our Biotherm event at Espacio Xavier Corberó.
One room, three very different audio needs: clear speech for the addresses, live music for the strings and flamenco, and background music throughout the dinner.
Novelty Spain designed a sound system for the performances that reached all 670 guests with clarity, while still letting conversation flow at the tables. At its core was an L-Acoustics SYVA system with Kiva II, X8 and SB18 and SB15m subwoofers, run from a Soundcraft Vi1 console.
Speeches and strings were captured with Shure Axient Digital wireless systems and DPA 4099 microphones. In the welcome areas and courtyard, wireless Sowa Tour 6 speakers and Meyer Sound ULTRA-X20 delivered sound without a single cable run.
With over 40 years of experience, our own 8,000 m² warehouse and over 13,000 pieces of equipment, Novelty Spain supports international agencies and corporate planners with end-to-end event production: from audiovisual consulting to event staging and rigging. Our clients rate us 4.9/5.
That experience in audiovisual services for events shows in projects such as MWC 2026 at Fira Barcelona, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 and the Biotherm event at Espacio Xavier Corberó.
Bringing a gala dinner or corporate event to Barcelona? Tell us about your project and we will design the technical production your venue deserves.