Program and Schedule
Program
Thursday June 26, 2025
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Check-in: Pick up your registration and (MII) goody bag.
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Keynote by: MiKhael Tara Garver of Culture House Immersive
"How We Human Together" Light bites and networking after the Keynote.
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Group Outing to "Drift" by Le Clair Obscur
Location: Frost Museum of Science.
An immersive multimedia work that suspends us in space-time in the middle of the void. Includes one free cocktail before the show.
Presented by Film Gate
Friday June 27, 2025
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
MiKhael Tara Garver: Immersive Involvement Training
A toolbox that Mikhael has developed over the past 25 years to create immersive narrative experiences that involve audiences through multiple comfort levels of participation. These tools were used as the framework to build and lead projects like the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser; an original slate of projects at Culture House Immersive; and early cast development of Sleep No More at A.R.T. in Boston.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Punchdrunk /Lauren Storr : A Live Stream From Sleep No More to Viola's Room
Exploring the craft of producing large-scale immersive experiences. Drawing on her experience across productions including Sleep No More and Viola’s Room, Lauren will share practical insights into the evolution of PunchDrunk’s approach to world-building, audience engagement, and creative collaboration.
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Octavio Campos: The Sacred Art of Interruption: Disruption as Method
In immersive theater, disruption is not a mistake. It is the methodology. This segment begins with a guided provocation: “What happens when the expected collapses?” Participants are led through a series of short movement- and voice-based interruptions—physical phrases, whispered texts, gaze interventions—invited to break the frame of their own behavior and then each other’s. We explore disruption as intimacy. A way to awaken attention. A way to say: “I see you. Are you still here?”
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Intimate Round Table Dinners with Miami creators
Saturday June 28, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Coffee and VR with O Cinema
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Le Clair Obscur: Immersive Creation, Transmedia Storytelling, and Hybrid Artistic Practices
This masterclass offers a deep dive into Le Clair Obscur's process using immersive forms and hybrid systems, combining performance, theater, sound, video, and interactive technologies. In collaboration with Filmgate.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
France-Luce Benson: Immersive Playwriting that Transforms the Past
Step into the past and bring hidden history vividly to life through immersive theatre. In this hands-on workshop, participants will discover how historical events, landmark places, and evocative spaces, can inspire powerful, site-responsive, and interactive storytelling. Through guided writing exercises, improvisation, and sensory exploration, you'll explore the craft of writing engaging and dynamic immersive theatre for audiences of all ages. Taking place at HistoryMiami Museum.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tanya Bravo: Producing Immersive theatre.
A case study on Miami Motel Stories
From finding forgotten spaces to building immersive stories with artists and the community, Tanya Bravo shares the real-world process behind Miami Motel Stories. Learn how funding, collaboration, and place-based storytelling came together to reimagine Miami's history.
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Octavio Campos: A Collective Cool Down
After days of pushing limits, absorbing new information, and creating at full tilt—it’s time to land. Come Down to Rise Up is a guided decompression lab designed to bring artists back to the body, back to presence, and back to each other. This is a soft reboot. A sacred sigh. A movement toward integration—of all that was learned, felt, and discovered.
6:30 PM - 7:30PM
Documentary screening: Meow Wolf: Origin Story
When a group of young DIY artists in Santa Fe can’t find a door into the art world, they blow open an entirely new portal with their grit, passion, and tenacity. Within just a few short years – and with a little help from George R.R. Martin – this group called Meow Wolf ultimately hits a cultural nerve and garners massive, unexpected success with their exhibit, House of Eternal Return.
Sunday June 29, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Alexandra Renzo : Meow Wolf
Cultivating the Communal Magic of Making
A workshop dedicated to creativity and making in community. Through individual and group prompts we’ll explore, play, and encourage the collective weirdo in us all.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Pioneer Winter: Inside the Workroom
In this site-specific movement/theater workshop participants are guided in responding to unique environments. Using what’s found in the space, we’ll explore the body as both form and fabric, shaped by reflection, repetition, and transformation. This is a chance to devise exploring process and play.
4:00PM - 5:00 PM
Natasha Tsakos: Keynote – Creating in Space. Blast off into the future of story making
Join visionary artist Natasha Tsakos as she explores the possibilities of storytelling in outer space—pushing the boundaries of imagination, technology, and immersive experience beyond Earth.
Farewell Cocktails
Location
All sessions will take place in Downtown Miami and the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus and additional spaces.
Ready to go all in?
Don’t miss your chance to train with pioneers of immersive performance.