Architectural projection mapping that honored a century-old sanctuary

The Global Methodist Church gathers for its Trinity Annual Conference inside a historic church in Shreveport — a building that has stood for a hundred years and carries its own quiet authority. The room is the point. Any production we brought in had to read as part of the architecture, not on top of it.

The challenge was one of restraint. The conference needed contemporary energy and clear sightlines for a large in-person gathering, plus a clean feed for audiences who could not be in the sanctuary. None of that could come at the expense of the venue’s classic character.

We led with architectural projection mapping, treating the building’s own lines and surfaces as the canvas. Rather than wash the space in generic visuals, we mapped dynamic content to the structure itself so the projection accentuated the venue’s timeless beauty instead of competing with it.

Wireless dynamic lighting carried the ambience. Untethered fixtures let us shape color and mood across the room and shift it as the program moved, without running cable through a century-old sanctuary.

Beyond the room, we produced dedicated content for three distinct audiences — web, overflow, and online — so attendees outside the main hall received a feed built for them, not an afterthought.

Across three days, the Trinity Annual Conference hosted 1,200 attendees in a venue that looked elevated and entirely itself. The projection mapping and lighting added movement and modern polish while the historic architecture stayed the star of the room.

With dedicated web, overflow, and online content running alongside the in-room production, the conference reached people well beyond the sanctuary’s walls — the kind of producer-led execution that lets a historic venue carry a modern, multi-day program with confidence.