This week the videos from the 2019 Immersive Design Summit were unleashed onto an unsuspecting world. Now you can check them out on the IDS YouTube channel in the 2019 Playlist. There are countless gems.
We’ve got a lot of amazing links, podcasts, and stream archives… not to mention classes other professional opportunities in the space below.
So let’s hop to it!
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Graham Wetterhahn, Founder of After Hours Theatre Company (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Last Five Years: A Multisensory Experience) joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the founding of the company, their immersive-adjacent work, and the first LA Immersive Invitational — which was a total blast.
THIS WEEK’S LIVESTREAM
Kathryn Yu, Blake Weil, Cheyenne Ligon, and Noah Nelson (clockwise from top left) discuss the pop-up phenomenon in this lively discussion that tackles The Museum of Ice Cream’s Series A funding round, Showfields, the Museum of Future Experiences, answer our first audience mail, and more!
Next week: Join Jeff Heimbuch of Horrorbuzz, Transmedia producer Emmett Furey (D&D, Ingress), Anthony Robinson of No Proscenium and host Noah Nelson as they talk about the stories of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Our focus will be on the recent novels — Black Spire and A Crash of Fate and how they are integrated into the parks. (9/10/19. 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern)
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
NYC: Carmen (Remount), Virtual Reality Underwater Spa, Arcadia Earth, Oasis, Performance for One: Parts 1 & 2, The Raven (Preview — Extension), Privilege of Escape (Extension),
Philadelphia: Honey Honey (Workshop), 2nd Sanctuary,
Pittsburgh: The Scream District,
Charleston, SC: Osceola’s Muse,
New Orleans: Look Don’t Tell,
Portland, OR: The “Lake House” Hamlet
LA: Urban Death Tour of Terror,
Remote: Oasis
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COMMUNITY
NYC: Join Everything Immersive in New York City for a meetup on October 9. RSVP on Facebook.
LONDON: The Gunpowder Plot presents SANDBOX | Immersive Worlds and Playable Spaces on 28 & 29 September. Tickets on sale now for a weekend of panels and discussions on creating immersive worlds.
APPEARANCES
Find members of the NoPro team and Everything Immersive family in your neck of the woods
September: Ricky Brigante & Noah Nelson — VIFF Immersed
October: Kathryn Yu— Indiecade 2019
REVIEWS
From No Proscenium:
‘Galleria Esperienza’ Presents A Delightful ‘Menu’ of Immersive Theatre Bites (The NoPro Review)An exhibition of micro-encounters by Roll the Bones highlights experience for experience’s sakenoproscenium.comSlip Into The Surreal Shoes Of ‘Adios Dolores’ (Review)NoHo’s Zombie Joe’s plays host to a twisted dreamnoproscenium.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
The Aurora Society was a standout escape game. Decode Ypsilanti struck a balance between adventure, story, puzzle, and technology that all came together into a cohesive world.
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com:
Highlights from the 2019 Denver Immersive RetrospectacleDenver correspondent Danielle Look recaps the eventnoproscenium.comEnroll At The Fastest Med School In The West: Dr. Botcher’s (Preview)LA’s Two Bit Circus won’t tell anyone if you drink and surgerizenoproscenium.comIntrigue On Ice: Spy Brunch’s Nick Rheinwald-Jones Talks Spies (Q&A)The creator of LA’s ‘Safehouse’ series, and writer of ‘Cold War Lounge: The Asset’ dives deep on his love of the genre.noproscenium.co
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
Ticket sales are now open for Room Escape Artist’s Grand Tour next year: Escape Immerse Explore: Montreal 2020.
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From Kellian Adams Pletcher, Green Door Labs:
Club Drosselmeyer is BACK this December 8th, 10th-13th for all new Nutcracker/Sci-fi/Swingtime adventures with a star-studded 1942 war bond rally! We’ll raise morale while we raise funds for our troops but keep your wits about you: loose lips sink ships and one never knows what will happen at Club Drosselmeyer.
I’m so sad to miss the Philadelphia Fringe Festival but so excited to see such a great lineup of experimental immersive with shows like Know Thyself, Spies!, Emergency Contact, and Question Reality.
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
Every Game in This City is a podcast about ten game designers, researchers, and curators who met up in Malaysia to try and play every escape room in Kuala Lumpur. Episodes every other week, new episode Monday, Sept 9.
THE DISCOURSE
Discussions and posts from Everything Immersive & Twitter:
IKEA and Sonos are creating what they call an “immersive theatre experience” in London called The Sound Affect. It may actually have a stronger similarity to the selfie factory or a walkthrough art installation or podplay from the description. The work is being created in collaboration with UK theatre company Les Enfants Terribles (Inside Pussy Riot, Alice’s Adventures Underground). The intent is to “allow participants to discover how sound transforms their surroundings as they lose themselves in a multi-sensory narrative led by sound.” -Kathryn
NOW FUNDING
I Love You So Much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH
LA: Koryn Ann Wicks, the creator of I Love You So Much, SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH, and the Immersive Invitational Grand Prize winning Casting is raising funds for the remount of I Love You So Much, Squeeze Me To Death at the Bootleg Theatre this Fall.
Carte Rouge, A Puzzle in 52 Parts
via Michael Andersen of ARGN
Daemonologie: Smoke & Mirrors
Boston: An immersive game theatre experience where you will decide a woman’s fate.
The Ode at Pint’s End
Chicago’s Birch House preps an immersive folk tale
CHICAGO: The Ode at Pint’s End, written by Lauren N. Fields and Janie Killips, is an epic folktale that features traditional Irish music and new music by Janie Killips.
As they celebrate a full year on dry land, three Irish sailors recount the story of a shipwreck that changed their lives and the secrets they found at the bottom of the sea that still haunt them. Their tale unfolds in increasingly magical ways with the help of the mystical Merrows, the sailors’ wives, and the audience. The Ode at Pint’s End explores the journey from ambition to wisdom, the weight of our choices, and how we learn to let go.
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Jobs, Grants, Gigs, Classes and more
ODYSSEY WORKS WORKSHOPS & INTENSIVES
SF: Empathy and Experience Design Workshop by Odyssey Works. October 20th.
Austin: Odyssey Works Design Intensive. Oct. 12 & 13
NYC: Odyssey Works Design Intensive. Nov. 9 & 10.
The VIFF Immersed Co-Production Market
Got an XR project in-development? Looking for co-financing?
Kaleidoscope is putting together “Canada’s foremost XR creators and industry leaders with their international counterparts in order to co-produce and co-finance the next wave of great XR projects. Are you a Canadian XR creator looking for international support? Or are you developing an XR project outside of Canada and looking for a local co-production partner? If this sounds like you, then submit your work below and join Canada’s premiere XR market.” Submissions now open. Deadline September 9th.
Virtual Being Developer Grants
Deadline September 17th
Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Applications
Deadline October 1
Immersive Design Residency
Applications accepted year round. Fall session: November 8–13, 2019
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