Graduations, Convocations & Academic Events

One ceremony, hundreds of families watching. Every graduate’s name, heard clearly. It has to run right the first time.

Straight Street produces graduations, convocations, and academic ceremonies across Ontario — clear sound for every name and speech, staging and lighting for the platform, and processional cues timed to the second. One all-in quote, and a senior event designer who owns the ceremony from planning to the last graduate.

Backed by our Comfort Warranty — if something isn’t right, we do everything within our power to make it right.

A graduation or convocation is a ceremony families travel for and remember — hundreds of names read, a processional to time, and speeches that have to carry to the back of a gym or a stadium.

Those rooms are among the hardest for sound, and there’s no second take. We handle the technical side: clear sound for every name and speech, staging and lighting for the platform, presentation and video support, and processional cues timed to the second.

Every quote is all-in — equipment, labour, and transportation — and a senior event designer owns your ceremony from the first planning call to the recessional.

What a ceremony needs

Every name, heard. Clear sound so every graduate’s name carries to the back of the room and to the families who came to hear it.
Speeches that reach the whole room. Sound tuned to a gym, auditorium, or stadium’s tough acoustics, so the address lands from the front row to the top of the bleachers.
The platform, framed. Staging and lighting for the stage and podium, so the ceremony looks as formal as the moment deserves.
Presentation and video support. Slides, name displays, and video content run cleanly, with screens sized for the room.
Processional cues, timed. Music and cues for the procession and recession, timed to the second so the ceremony flows without a pause.
A rehearsal before the room fills. We walk the run-of-show and the cue timing with your team beforehand, because the real audience only arrives once.

A few academic events we’ve produced

Student and welcome events at York University (Welcome Students 2015, Frosh 2010–2018)
Graduations including Huron Heights (2018).
We work in every kind of ceremony space — gymnasium, auditorium, assembly hall, stadium, theatre, or conference centre.

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most recently 2027

Backed by the Comfort Warranty: one all-in quote with no hidden fees, constant communication, a direct line to your lead event staff on show day, and support after the event. If something isn’t right, we do everything within our power to make it right.

Straight Answers

“It’s in a gymnasium and the sound is always echoey.”

That’s the first thing we fix. We tune the sound to the room so every name and every speech is clear from the front row to the back — not the echo a gym usually gives you.

“We have hundreds of names to read.”

We set up for exactly that: clear podium sound for the reader, and name displays on screen if you want them, so no graduate’s moment gets lost.

“The timing has to be exact — processional, speeches, recessional.”

We map and cue all of it. The music and transitions are timed to the second and rehearsed with your team, so the ceremony moves without an awkward pause.

“Families who can’t attend want to watch live.”

We can stream the ceremony with clear sound and a reliable connection, so relatives anywhere can watch the moment as it happens.

For the ceremony your graduates and their families will remember.

Tell us about your ceremony — venue, size, program, and budget — and we’ll recommend the right production for it. Not the most complex one. The right one.

No obligation. Prefer to talk it through?
Call (519) 893-3668.

Your Event Goals. Our Expertise. That’s Straight Street.