Everything Immersive’s SPRING FLING
Tickets on sale NOW for the event coming up March 27th & 28th
It’s been quite the year, and to mark it we’re going to celebrate the ingenuity of the immersive & experiential creative community with a weekend-long “Fling.”
Sure, there will be Panels & Salons, but we’ve also got a Game Night on Saturday Night that will include VR Worldhops, Social Games on Clubhouse, and all kinds of shenanigans with the community and the NoPro crew.
And we’re not doing it alone. We’re being joined by our friends at ARGNet, Room Escape Artist, PAIR-CG, Midsummer Scream, Voices of VR, The Wild Optimists, and the XR Social Club.
All for just $10 for the weekend, cheaper if you’re a NoPro Patreon backer.
Here’s the line-up, and you can get the full descriptions and speaker bios at the Spring Fling page of the HERE Summit & Festival.
ALL TIMES PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME
MINI-SUMMIT
CREATOR TRACK
SATURDAY — March 27th
Meaning Making in the Metaverse (Salon)
Date/Time: March 27th @ 10AM PDT
Guests: Sarah Perry (Movement Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Dream), Nancy Baker Cahill (New Media Artist), Edward Madojemu (VR artist & creator, Dami and Falian)
Strange New Worlds — The Art of Worldmaking (Salon)
Date/Time: March 27th @11:30AM PDT
Guests: Kaitlin Chin (THICKETT), Jaden Andrea (Gather), Em Lazer-Walker (Roguelike Celebration), Jen Davis-Wilson/Fionna (VRChat Prefabs)
Tagging The Metaverse (Salon)
Date/Time: March 27th @ 1PM PDT
Guests: Members of the PAIR-CG working group; Chris Grim (CTO of the HERE Institute and chief architect of the Everything Immersive site).
COMMUNITY TRACK
SATURDAY — March 27th
Covering the New Age of ARGs (Panel)
Date/Time: March 27th @ 10AM PDT
Guests: Inside A Mind, Nick Nocturne ( Night Mind), Anthony Robinson (No Proscenium), Marn S. (ARGonauts Podcast)
Hosted by: Michael Andersen (ARGN.com)|
Playful Isolation: Creating & Enjoying Theatrical Digital Escape Games (Panel)
Date/Time: March 27th @ 11:30A PDT
Guests: Mark Larson (Trapped Puzzle Rooms), Sarah Zhang (OMESCAPE), Matt Carson & Kathryn “Moose” Kaehler, Thin Reality Experiences via Escape Room Melbourne), Peih-Gee Law (Reality Escape Pod, Survivor). Moderated by: David Spira
Celebrating The Cast of The Under Presents (Panel)
Date/Time: March 27th @ 1PM PDT
Guests: Brandon Bales, Michael Bates, Karlie Blair, James Cowan, Sophie Cooper, Genevieve Flati, Whitton Frank, Stephanie Hyden, Dasha Kittredge, Terence Leclere, Deirdre Lyons, Haylee Nichele, Soren Royer-McHugh, Katelyn Schiller
SUNDAY — MARCH 28th
Educating The Next Generation of Makers (Salon)
Projected Date/Time: March 28th @11:30AM PDT
Guests: David Bassuk (Purchase College, SUNY), Anna Henson (Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, University of Nebraska — Lincoln), Elena Araoz (Princeton University), Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago); Moderator: Kathryn Yu
Halloween In Quarantine (Panel)
Date/Time: March 28th @ 12:30PDT
Moderated by: David Markland (Midsummer Scream)
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Workshop & Special Sessions
Embodying Virtual Space w/ Tara O’Con
March 27th @ 3PM PDT
Workshop
Intersectional Safety & Accessibility Planning For Immersive
March 28th @ 9AM PDT
Special session by Control Group Productions in collaboration with Majestic Collaborations and Phamaly Theatre, with the support of Performing Arts Readiness.
GAME NIGHT & THE FLING — SATURDAY, MARCH 27th
Note: many games and worldhops have capacity limits. Sign-ups begin March 20th for ticket holders.
The NoPro Cafe (Discord)
Open March 27th 3–10PM PDT
Including DJ sets, pick-up games, and casual conversation.
Free Play (Discord)
3PM-10PM PDT
The NoPro Discord will act as a hub for community pick up games of every stripe: from Jackbox party games to VR multi-player and social games on Discord and Clubhouse. Find new friends to play with in the Discord, or sign up to host a game (sign ups start Saturday March 20th).
Famous Ferrets (Discord)
March 27: 3PM & 8PM PDT
Famous Ferrets is a party game where you try to play the perfect combination of cards to get the other players to guess the celebrity you’re describing. Think Codenames meets Celebrity.
Hosted by: Ariel Ruben (3PM) & Juliana Patel (7PM), The Wild Optimists
XR Social Club VR Worldhop (VR)
March 27th: Time TBA
Hosted by: Will Cherry
VRChat Prefabs Worldhops (VR)
March 27th: Times TBA
Hosted by: Members of the VRChat Prefabs Community
ALIEN RPG — The Fate of The Freya
March 27th @ 6PM
Hosted by: Patrick McLean, NoPro Chicago
Social Play (Clubhouse)
March 27th @ 4–5PM & 9–11PM PDT
Clubhouse app required. Sessions are open to the public, tickets not required.
Hosts: Kyle Kaminsky & Michael Ronen
E.I. After Dark (Clubhouse)
March 27th @ 7PM
Clubhouse app required. Sessions are open to the public, tickets not required.
Hosted by: Kent Bye of Voices of VR
Additional Game Night & Saturday Night Fling Programming TBA
