In the Venetian middle ages, a codega was one who escorted nobility, merchants and foreigners by torch or lantern; steering off thieves and demons while providing protection and guidance, often telling tales of Venetian legend and lore.
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The Codega Group
The Codega Group is a media and entertainment venture dedicated to the very best of design, film and live music. Rooted at the creative center of Los Angeles, our diverse team is comprised of modern day codegas — shining the light, seeking to inspire and be inspired, and thriving on collaborative creativity. Through our unrivalled network of friends, contacts and partners we offer the full spectrum of marketing, media and live event production.
Our diverse management team has shared ideas, values, interests and goals:
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Design
Design veteran Chris Hughes heads up the art department. With over 12 years’ professional experience in advertising and new media production, Hughes has worked with clients such as Microsoft, Blue Cross, T-Mobile, Alaska Airlines, and Cisco Systems, as well as with agencies including Fitch, Wongdoody, and Foote Cone & Belding. See his work at thecodega.com/design.
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Film
As a first time filmmaker, Fernando del Sol passionately decided to finance his initial project by selling a successful San Francisco business named in honor of his Grandmother…Momi Toby’s Revolution Café. Fernando began the long process (2001 & 2007) of documenting the World’s largest human gathering, the Kumbha Mela. With an estimated figure of 50 to 80 million Hindu pilgrims arriving at the confluence of India’s three sacred rivers in a town called Allahabad, he and his crew documented ancient fire rituals & bathing ceremonies performed by wandering tribes of Holy Men called ‘Sadhus’. Always being called back to the desert, in 2006, Fernando traveled to the Sahara desert outside of Timbuktu, Mali, Africa to work as creative director with Swiss director, Kathi von Kurber, documenting the indigenous blues music of the nomadic Tuareg tribes. Footsteps in Africa is currently on tour in theaters and museums around the world. Fernando has recently returned to Los Angeles, where he begins Pre-Production on his first feature-narrative film entitled Destiny of the Spirit.
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Music
As one of the primary bookers in the Los Angeles music scene, Jaclyn Strong has established a brand of excellence in live music event promotion and production. An LA native, Jaclyn was a student at UCLA when she became the co-vocalist of the psychedelic-southern rock band, Fanbelt. Collective jam nights spearheaded by the band evolved into Can of Jam Productions, which Jaclyn co-produced for eight years. Having worked with Hard Rock Cafe, Viper Room, House of Blues, The Key Club, The Joint, The Derby, The Mint and many more, she brings years of experience to the live music scene as a booker, promoter, and artist. Her unrivalled taste in music teamed with an unparalleled talent roster always guarantee a stellar, one of a kind live music experience. Musicians and music lovers alike have displayed their trust in Jaclyn’s hard work by fully supporting the recent emergence of The Codega. Living up to her name, Jaclyn Strong exhibits strength and grace with her pioneering entrepreneurial spirit. Partners Chris Hughes and Jaclyn Strong joined forces in 2009 with different backgrounds, but the same standard of excellence and the shared vision to design their lives.
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Vision
Our vision is to harness the momentum of the age of electronic media and be a breakthrough company producing world class competitive graphic design creations; discovering and promoting eclectic and inspired musicians who have a dream to change the world for the better; producing fiery visionary film projects designed to affect spiritual renewal and social liberation towards new beginnings.
Our goal is to carry a torch providing revolutionary ideas by evolutionary people — establishing contractual relationships with high minded talented artists working together towards mutual abundance — implementing innovative artistic strategies in business identity and artist branding while always maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards in all of our business dealings.
Our dream is to develop and produce spiritually inspired & positive community-based music & film projects, while establishing exposure platforms for all mediums of intentional artistic expression.
Our Mission is evocative, invocative, provocative:
- evoking magical moments in time
- invoking educational awareness and economic success through symbiotic collaborative brilliance via print publications, entertainment programs, music events, and film screenings.
- provoking reader, listener & viewer to transcend a status quo of mediocrity maintained by negative world views of separation, scarcity, and limitation… thus, transforming life on the planet into a positive cultural, political, religious & economic civilization.
We propose to attain all these lofty goals and subversive intentions by simply creating and curating beauty in all artforms.
You are invited to join our conscious creative collective in a sustainable renaissance as part of a universal vision quest, infinite in possibilities, embracing the birth of a new society of art, music & cultural elegance… A grand experiment with an aim to bring down a little more Heaven on Earth!
