Ananya Bloom
Creative Director & Co-Founder
Ananya leads creative vision across every project. With a background in installation art and community theatre, she brings an artist's eye to every event brief.
Ananya Bloom
Creative Director & Co-Founder
About the Studio
An art agency
that produces events.
We are not a typical events company. We are a creative studio that happens to produce events — and the difference is felt in every detail of what we make.
Our Philosophy
Events are the most
ephemeral art form.
We founded Bloom Events Co. because we believed the events industry had lost something essential — its sense of wonder. Too many events are interchangeable: the same production values, the same venue configurations, the same experience template.
We started asking: what if an event were treated like an artwork? What if the brief were a curatorial prompt, the venue a canvas, the programme a composition? That question became our practice.
Today we work with cultural institutions, community organisations, non-profits, and forward-thinking brands who want their events to feel genuinely distinct — to leave people changed, even slightly, by the experience of being there.
8
Years creating
What Guides Us
Our values
Integrity First
We do what we say, when we say it. Our clients trust us with their most important events, and we take that seriously.
Joy as a metric
We measure success by whether people felt something at our events — not just attendance numbers.
Community at the Centre
Every event begins and ends with the community it serves. We are never the story — the people are.
Creative Courage
We push our clients to be bolder than they thought they could be — and we deliver on those ambitions.
The People
Meet the studio
A small, dedicated team of artists, producers, and community builders.
Kavindra Mendis
Head of Production
Kavindra has produced over 80 large-scale events across South and Southeast Asia. His calm under pressure is legendary among the team.
Kavindra Mendis
Head of Production
Saffron De Costa
Curatorial Lead
Saffron oversees all artist relationships and exhibition programmes. She previously curated for the Colombo Art Biennale.
Saffron De Costa
Curatorial Lead
Reuben Jayawickrama
Community Partnerships
Reuben builds and maintains our community relationships across Colombo and beyond. He is the connective tissue of everything we do.
Reuben Jayawickrama
Community Partnerships
Studio History
How we got here
2016
Founded in a Colombo 07 apartment by Ananya and Kavindra.
2018
First major festival: produced Mela Arts Festival with 3,000+ attendees.
2020
Pivoted to hybrid events during the pandemic. Launched our digital productions arm.
2022
Opened our studio space in Colombo 05. Hired the curatorial and community teams.
2023
Named one of Asia's top 25 emerging cultural producers by Event Industry Asia.
2024
Produced 28 events across Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Singapore.
Work with us.
We take on a limited number of projects each season. Tell us about yours.