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Workshops

Jan 3-5, 2024 | 3 days of deep dive sessions

Choose-your-own-adventure through deep-dive workshops! A special invitation to all hardcore play practitioners and newcomers alike. Step into the artist’s studio as they develop new participatory work, and play a role in the making-of. Dive into intensives on creating experiences with agency at the center!



Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Tristan Winger Bearskin Sapphire Springs: Blue Beginnings
Andy and Jeff CrockerDescriptified: A Performance Lab (+Playtest!), Apple Avenue: A Playtest!
Arlo HowardMeaning-Making + Play
Caridad SvichHow It Ends
Caro MurphyDesigning for Agency, Larp: The Resort
Hortense GerardoPart 1: Brainwave Smackdown, Part 2: Incantation
Idris GoodwinJSonic and the Unknown Salon
Jake PinholsterSwim with the Fishes: Agency in Storytelling
Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie GosnellUndisciplined Play
Jennifer Kretchner and Gabe HicksImagining Inclusive, Anti-Ableist Worlds
John Agyepong and Alton GlassArts, Beats, and Tech, WTF (Where’s The Future): How Do I Unleash My Imagination
Laura Cechanowicz Atlas of an Unbroken World
Latoya PetersonHella Iambic: Toward an Integrated Live Experience, Do I Dare Disturb My Neighbor?: Disrupting Theatrical Norms
Manjari KumarappanSerious Play with LEGO
Michael RohdState of Mind: Participatory Theatre, Mental Health and Rural Communities, How Did We Get Here?
Michaela Ternasky-Holland and Aaron SantiagoHenerasyon | Generation
MX Oops and Eva DavidovaUnFiNiShEd aNiMaL: Party People
8th Wall HackathonSpecial Event







Summit

Jan 6-7, 2024 | weekend festival and conference

40+ participatory sessions throughout Saturday & Sunday celebrates a kaleidoscopic community of practitioners, researchers, producers, and entrepreneurs across game, theatre, and other immersive fields. Sessions include immersive performances, transmedia installations, games for solo players & games for hundreds of players, to killer parties and life-changing rituals.



Alex Coulombe and Kevin Laibson “LINE!” A VR Theatre Game and More: How Olde Theatre Traditions Make New Theater Innovations
Alex M. Lee and Erin GeeProject H.E.A.R.T.
Anne Hiatt and Kamala SankaramImmersive Opera: The Next Adventure in Musical Storytelling
Celia Pearce(Inter)Action Deck: A Generative Workshop
Dasha Kittredge The Art of Emotion: Moving Your Audience
Dustin Smith“Field Trip to the Nemesis Club: Escape Game Experience and Behind the Scenes Chat
Erin Reilly and Azalea LaredoInnovators Roundup: The Future of Commerce
Heidi Coleman (Fourcast Lab)Encounter: Towards Interactive, Improvisational, and Live-Streaming Performance
Janani BalasubramanianHeisenberg
Joanna GarnerPlease Open Your Mouth, Playing with Reality: Lessons from Designing ARG Experiences for Meow Wolf
Julian “joolz” StroopQuick Games w/ joolz: Building an Interactive Table
Juliana MorenoBest Practices for Playtesting Workshop
Kate McGeeGirl Mode, How to Make Your First VR Piece in 6 Months [Don’t]
All My Relations CollectiveTwo Spirit Ojibwe Constellation Bingo
Kristin McWharterHow to be A Good Sport
Matt RomeinCreative Violence: Video Games, Devised Theater, and Motion Capture Strategies
Mattie Brice/mundane/mythologies/speculative/intimacies/
Michael YichaoBuilding New Gameplay with GenAI
Noah NelsonUH OH IT’S GAME NIGHT!
Playable TheatrePlayable Theatre Town Hall
Rachel Joy Victor and Anna HensonThe Creative Production Pathways Workshop
Risa Puno and Ran XiaUnresolved Rage Game, a TTRPG Playtest and Workshop
Raul Zbengheci10KC
Robert KarimiThe Mint Experience!: UI, Worldbuilder, or How I Learned to Love the Non-Technological Sensorial Gestures That Created Booms of Deliciousness!
Ash Eliza Smith and Robert TwomeyInterspecies Communication Theater and Audio Spatial Larp
Siobhán O’LoughlinEvery Day I’ll Hope
Weidi ZhangReCollection
Zoyander StreetAssigned Earth at Birth (Intrapology)



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