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Improving Accessibility for Live and Digital Events.

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Learn the tools of making your experience accessible as well as a new paradigm for thinking of events that will open up your experiences to the widest possible people. After a case study of Vita Nova (a live/metaverse musical in the States) where Christopher is working on creating the most accessible metaverse on the internet, there will be a run-down of available accessibility tools for live and digital events. Then Jenifer Toksvig will bring us her paradigm shifting Copenhagen Interpretation which re-imagines not only accessibility but how we approach events/storytelling as a whole.

Jenifer Toksvig
The Copenhagen Interpretation

Jenifer Toksvig is a theatre maker, musical theatre librettist and lyricist, director, facilitator and pedagogue, poet, artist, photographer, crafter, game designer, and advocate. She makes everything from traditional fourth wall theatre, to audience-involved, immersive hybrid gaming/theatre, to small games run on social media platforms. Her work under The Copenhagen Interpretation is accessible, inclusive, open and involved theatre across analogue, digital, and live performance platforms. (Also, little tiny games here and there.)

Christopher Morrison
Reality+, LLC

Christopher Morrison is a boundary-pushing writer, director, and educator with over 200 projects spanning VR, video games, immersive theater, film, and circus across four continents. From AAA games to metaverse activations for P&G to Cirque du Soleil, he thrives at the intersection of storytelling and technology.

His VR sensation *The Werewolf Experience* played Cannes 2023 and became the top attraction at Tokyo’s NEUU Space. He’s the Digital Experience Director and Lead Narrative Designer for *Vita Nova*, a groundbreaking metaverse/musical hybrid focusing on accessibility backed by a seven-figure grant from the Doris Duke Foundation.

His feature film ‘The Bellwether’ was released in 2019 and seen over 80,000 times. He has written and directed 360° films as well as being commissioned for screenplays and plays alike. He also has multiple credits as a VO Director working in the entertainment and corporate spaces.

An in-demand speaker on the future of storytelling, he’s addressed the UK House of Lords twice, spoken at global festivals, and mentors XR creators at SXSW. He teaches immersive storytelling as an Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts, shaping the next generation of narrative innovators.

Cirque du Soleil calls him “a huge asset to the creative process.”

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