Zara Residence: Site and Ticketing for an Abuja Music Residency

Zara Residence is a music residency in Abuja built around Amapiano and African electronic music, more a community you join than a venue you visit. It needed more than a landing page: events change, tickets need issuing, members need accounts. The usual answer is a website plus Eventbrite plus a mailing list plus a spreadsheet at the door. I put all of it in one place.

The site had to feel like the events do. The piece I'm most fond of is the event blueprint, a floor plan of the venue rebuilt as an interactive arena. Tap a zone, from the dance floor to the DJ booth or the merch corner, and a spotlight lands on it with a note about what happens there. It turns venue info into something people explore before buying a ticket.

The residents section leaves a trail of images behind your cursor, and the hero mascot moves through a small WebGL shader.

Behind it are member accounts with passwordless sign-in, event registration and door-ready tickets. A ticket is just a link: it works on any phone, and the door team checks it in a browser, with no scanner app.

Design, frontend, backend and deployment. Live at https://zararesidence.club