Hot on the heels of our first huddle of 2024 where we had over 100 immersive creators join us, we’re excited to continue to provide opportunities for immersive creators to meet and meaningfully connect with each other.
We’re going to be doing more structured networking to help introduce people to each other and help kick off new collaborations and partnerships. We’ll also be continuing with our ‘Ask the Community’ segment where we invite the community to provide insights and solutions to questions submitted throughout the evening.Â
Also in this Huddle, we’re inviting Mark Lofthouse from Neon Skull to chat to us about the Scare Attractions and themed entertainment sectors and give us some inspiration and insights that could be useful to people working in other immersive genres.Â
We’ve kept the ticket price very low and placed you all at the heart of the content. So if you’re looking for a sound board, new team members, specialists, collaborators, partners or simply some like-minded friends, please join us!Â
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Mark Lofthouse brings over 16 years of experience to the themed entertainment industry. Beginning his career as a scare actor, he has worked in various roles involving ideation, operation, and marketing of theme park attractions and immersive walkthrough experiences.
He has contributed to over 140 separate scare mazes, rides, walkthroughs, activations and seasonal events. Now, as a Creative Director, Mark works with theme parks, venues, and private investors, creating engaging and interactive experiences across a broad range of mediums.
His passion for all things related to theme parks, immersive environments, and entertainment drives him to centre the audience in every experience, enhancing their emotional connections and ensuring they leave with lasting memories.
Absolutely! Contact us at team@immersiveexperience.network and we’d love to chat it through with you.
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Thanks to our supporters helping underwrite our Huddles, the concession rate tickets are for anyone for whom the full price might be a barrier for them to participate. If that’s you then just choose the concession ticket at check out and we’ll look forward to seeing you at the Huddle.
Our Huddle events are opportunities for creators of immersive work to come together to network and learn from one another’s experience. They are open to everyone and we usually have a mix of people at different career stages, working across the commercial, academic and subsidised sectors.
“Emotion can be the feeling of being lost in something. You know, being entirely in a bubble, in elsewhere, in another time, another space and everything co-operates to create this idea in your participant. So it’s about believing, it’s about not bursting the bubble, while interaction is the mutual action
“That’s one of the great freedoms of integrating your access is that it’s there from the start. You don’t have to feel like it’s this clinical thing which is going to take away from all the art you’ve put into the work. It can be a part of the art,
“The immersive experiences that we attend, they need to resonate with our sense of meaning. I got into theatre, arts, culture, whatever you want to call it, because I wanted to make people feel something. I wanted to help enable the rare but, sometimes amazing, moments where you get the
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