Jackie

MC & event hosting

Hold The Room

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The thing nobody else offers

A poem for the couple

Most MCs read the programme. She writes something for the couple and performs it. On one wedding she co-wrote the poem with the groom and read it to his bride on the day.

It is optional, and it is the reason people book her over someone cheaper. A wedding gets a hundred toasts and one moment the room goes quiet, and that moment can be written on purpose.

Formats

What she hosts

Weddings

Certified MC for weddings at home and abroad, in English, Kiswahili or both across the same evening.

A poem for the couple

Written with you, for them. She has co-written a wedding poem with a groom and read it to his bride on the day.

Book and product launches

She has run her own launch from the stage. She knows where a programme sags and how to carry a room past it.

Corporate and campus events

Symposiums, award nights, conferences and graduations, held to time without going flat.

Why her

Certified, and a performer

  • A certified MC

    Trained for it, and hosting weddings internationally rather than only at home.

  • English and Kiswahili

    Both, across the same evening, switching to suit whichever side of the family is being addressed.

  • She has run her own launch

    She built and hosted the launch of The Rollercoaster from the stage, so she knows the job from both sides of the microphone.

  • A poet's sense of timing

    Years of competitive spoken word means she knows exactly how long a room will hold a silence, and when to break it.

Jackline Malavanu reading a poem at a wedding

How it works

Booking her

01

Tell her the date

The date, the city, the language of the room and roughly how many people.

02

Agree the run sheet

She reads your programme and tells you honestly where it will lose people.

03

She shows up early

Sound checked, names pronounced correctly, and the poem written if you asked for one.

Check her date

Weddings at home and abroad, launches, award nights and corporate events. Send the date and she will tell you straight away if she is free.