Workshops and Masterclasses
Punchdrunk Enrichment - Introduction to Design
You will get unparalleled access to explore our immersive space and discover how the role of the designer works to create characters, stories and sets. Led by our experienced facilitator, you’ll dive into immersive design techniques and learn the fundamental principles that we apply to all of our work.
This hands-on workshop is perfect for anyone who wants to develop their design skills and unlock the secrets of creating an impactful, immersive experience.
📍 Wembley Park
💰 £120.00
🕒 1st June 2026 (10am-1pm)
🎟️ Book via punchdrunkenrichment.org.uk
Punchdrunk Enrichment - Origin Stories
Join us in our immersive theatre 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.
📍 Wembley Park
💰 £120.00
🕒 4th June 2026 (10am-1pm)
🎟️ Book via punchdrunkenrichment.org.uk
Punchdrunk Enrichment - Making Immersive Work for Young Audiences
In this practical session, you'll uncover the creative decisions and storytelling techniques that shape our work. You'll also discover our 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.
📍 Wembley Park/Online
💰 £120.00/£55.00
🕒 8th and 9th June 2026
🎟️ Book via punchdrunkenrichment.org.uk
Miami Immersive Intensive and Summit 2026
Welcome to the second annual Miami Immersive Intensive, where performers, producers, directors, writers, and creative instigators gather to explore what’s next in immersive and site-specific storytelling.
Over four days in the heart of Downtown Miami, participants train with the artists and companies reshaping the rules of immersive experiences. The program includes three days of hands-on workshops and masterclasses, culminating in the Miami Immersive Summit—a new full-day gathering featuring keynote talks, panels, and conversations with leading artists, producers, and innovators shaping the future of immersive experience. The Summit is presented in partnership with The Immersive Experience Institute.
The Miami Immersive Intensive is a new kind of creative gathering. More than a workshop. More than a professional development experience. It’s a living, breathing lab for immersive and interactive storytelling—created by and for the artists pushing immersive experiences into uncharted territory.
📍 Miami, Florida
💰 $495 (Intensive + Summit) and $175 (Summit)
🕒 4th - 7th June 2026
🎟️ Book via miamiimmersiveintensive.com
Networking Events
Immersive Experience Network Huddles (London)
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
🕒 18th May & 20th July 2026
🎟️ Book via immersiveexperience.network
Creative Retreats
The Edge of Eden by UNCLE BARRY
Atop a sun-drenched hill where vines creep through cracked stone, a small group gathers to eat around long tables, wander through mountain air, and create together.
By night, the garden reveals another side of itself.
Part creative retreat, part holiday, part immersive performance, the Edge of Eden welcomes the creatively curious who feel drawn to the unexpected.
📍 Priados, Portugal
💰 From £495 (includes 4-night stay, workshops, immersive experiences and meals)
🕒 19th - 23rd & 25th-29th June 2026
🎟️ Express interest via unclebarry.live/edgeofeden
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.
Koro Lab
Koro Lab supports migrant and Global Majority creatives to develop bold immersive, interactive and site-specific work through artist development and R&D commissions.
Taking place in spring-summer 2026, the programme includes training, mentoring, production support and seed funding, delivered in partnership with arts and heritage venues.
Between April and October 2026, nine artists or companies will receive:
• Training: A two-day programme of workshops on immersive and site-specific theatre-making on 7-8 May
• Space: One week of free R&D space at Shoreditch Town Hall, Theatre Deli or Wellcome Collection
• Seed funding: A £2,500 bursary
• Showcasing opportunities: A public sharing with professional filming and photography
• Production support: Mentoring, production and fundraising support from the Koro team and collaboration with an access consultant
