Workshops and Masterclasses
Bridge Command - Exploring Immersive and Interactive Performance
Spend a day working with Artistic Director, Owen Kingston and members of the Bridge Command company to learn how we approach dynamic character and performance with the audience, all while maintaining the world of 2181.
This intimate full day practical workshop will explore foundations of immersive and interactive performance, where you will be closely supported in developing your own skills.
This session is aimed at anyone who is interested in exploring immersive and interactive performance as a potential career, or to broaden their understanding of creating immersive and interactive theatre.
📍 Bridge Command, Vauxhall
💰 £250.00
🕒 2nd February 2026
🎟️ Book via bridgecommand.space
Vinicius Salles - Immersive Theatre Residency
Inspired by the research behind Rotten Meat / The Old Kip on Meatham Estate, this residency invites participants to work closely with space, character, and narrative to generate intense encounters between performer, environment, and audience.
Through task based improvisation and sensory exploration, you will investigate how bodies respond to spaces shaped by tension, uncertainty, and resilience. The work centres on presence, proximity, and how meaning is constructed through direct engagement with the audience.
Drawing on Vinicius Salles’s fifteen years working with Punchdrunk and his own extensive immersive practice, the residency offers practical tools for understanding how space, narrative, and audience can operate together as active collaborators in performance.
This residency is for performers, dancers, actors, and artists who are curious about immersive theatre and want to expand their creative practice. Expect a focused, challenging, and supportive process that encourages risk taking, reflection, and bold experimentation.
📍 Theatre Deli, Leadenhall
💰 £150.00
🕒 2nd - 3rd February 2026
🎟️ Book via tickettailor.co.uk
Punchdrunk Enrichment - Making Immersive work for Young Audiences
Go behind the scenes of Fireside Tales and join a masterclass led by Steve McCourt -director and writer of the show, and incoming Artistic Director of Punchdrunk Enrichment.
In this practical session, you'll use Fireside Tales as a live case study to uncover the creative decisions and storytelling techniques that shaped it. You'll discover Punchdrunk Enrichment’s signature approach to making immersive theatre for young audiences, and explore how to design narratives that empower children to shape the adventure.
This interactive masterclass is an ideal opportunity for artists, theatre-makers and creatives with an interest in immersive practice, particularly those developing work for children and families.
Please note, that there are two options for this masterclass: online and in-person. The online class can be accessed internationally.
📍 Punchdrunk Enrichment Stores, Wembley Park and Online
💰 £40.00-£100.00
🕒 10th - 11th February 2026
🎟️ Book via punchdrunkenrichment.org.uk
Punchdrunk Enrichment - Origin Stories
Join us in our immersive venue to explore Punchdrunk Enrichment’s signature creation process. In this fun and practical workshop, you’ll learn the skills required to develop an immersive theatre project.
You will collaborate with fellow participants to play our world-building game, exploring the multiple worlds of our projects, to develop rich, immersive narratives. Drawing on our playful imaginative techniques, you’ll take away a toolbox of creative methods that you can use to make your own origin stories and projects.
This workshop is perfect for passionate storytellers and creative minds who want to turn their ideas into action and ignite the imagination of audiences.
📍 Punchdrunk Enrichment Stores, Wembley Park
💰 £100.00
🕒 12th February 2026
🎟️ Book via punchdrunkenrichment.org.uk
Les Enfants Terribles - Immersive Theatre for Actors
Work with the twice Olivier Award nominated Les Enfants Terribles Team for a full day and discover our approach to making and directing immersive work, as well as how to prepare for an immersive audition and how to rehearse an immersive scene.
We will take both a theoretical and a practical approach to understanding this art form and preparing to work as a performer in an immersive show. We welcome actors from all backgrounds, skill levels and specialisms to join us for this collaborative and interactive day!
Spaces are limited, so book now to secure your place.
📍 Theatre Deli, Leadenhall
💰 £95.00 (Bursary spaces available)
🕒 11th March 2026 (10.30am-4.30pm)
🎟️ Book via lesenfantsterribles.co.uk
Networking Events
Immersive Experience Network Huddles
Huddles are an opportunity for immersive creators to meet and meaningfully connect with each other.
These events are for creators involved in making all forms of live immersive and interactive experiences, ranging from theatre, escape rooms, immersive & experiential art, scare attractions, ARG & Transmedia, location based VR & AR to themed attractions.
They include structured networking to help introduce people to each other and help kick off new collaborations and partnerships and ‘Ask the Community’ segments where we invite the community to provide insights and solutions to questions submitted throughout the evening
📍 COLAB Tower, London Bridge
💰 £11.00
🕒 17th January, 23rd March, 18th May & 20th July 2026
🎟️ Book via immersiveexperience.network
Festivals
Voidspace Live 2026 - Open Call
Voidspace Live 2026 (6th-7th June 2026)
Call for performances, texts, games and multimedia pieces that invite their audience to participate in some way, in addition to watching, reading or listening.
This could look like participatory performance (linear or durational, for an audience of one or many) interactive fiction, experimental games, playable art, immersive audio, or formats we haven’t thought of yet.
Payment: £100-200+
Closing date: 28 February 2026
Notification of outcome: Mid-April 2026
📍 Theatre Deli, Leadenhall
🕒 Deadline for applications: 28th February 2026
🎟️ Apply via voidspacezine.com
Other Resources
Immersive Experience Network
The live immersive experience sector has undergone extraordinary growth over the last 10 years as creative companies have developed interactive experience concepts from fringe experiments to global companies with multi-million pound turnovers.
The Immersive Experience Network is being set up as a catalyst to support creators making new work, developing new audiences and growing financially sustainable creative companies. Our strategy is built around:
• Building Community
• Facilitating Knowledge Sharing & Education for creators
• Commercial Data Collection, Analysis and Publication.
Immersive Arts
Immersive Arts is an ambitious three-year programme taking place across the UK, using an artist-led approach to working with immersive technologies.
This exciting programme encourages artists of all backgrounds and experience to explore, experiment or expand how they work, or would like to, with immersive technologies.
Immersive arts means different things to different people. We define it as ‘art that uses technology to actively involve the audience’.
Think virtual, extended and augmented realities:
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engaging multiple senses
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bridging the gaps between physical and digital spaces
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connecting people to each other and the environment
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changing the way we think and create
You don’t have to be tech-savvy (though you can be) to apply. All you need is a curious mind and a creative practice.
