Immersive Weekend Mixer and Surprises

As part of the Immersive Weekend, we're organizing a mixer at The Lower Case.

Hang out with other immersive enthusiasts at our mixer. We will curate some games, installations and puzzle experiences. We'll have snacks, drinks, games and more surprises.

This event will feature puzzles from Purple Crayon Immersive's latest offering, a 90's Murder Mystery, a teaser of Patchwork Adventure's Cocktail Party for Spies mega-game, a brand new cowboy themed board game, Hearts of Cranes by You&I, and more surprises.

About the activities:

Purple Crayon Immersive specializes in bespoke activations for corporations and intimate puzzle solving parties. This event will feature a few puzzles from their latest offering, a 90's Murder Mystery guests arrive in '90s attire and soon learn there has been a murder and everyone is a suspect.

Patchwork Adventures hosts virtual and in-person teambuilding events, brand marketing pop-up events, and private and public events throughout the United States. Our team has hosted over 1000 events for corporate clients and the general public, ranging from pop-up escape rooms, virtual murder mysteries, hybrid scavenger hunts that incorporate participants in various locations, and more. Our biggest event of 2024 is the remount of Order of the Golden Scribe: Initiation Tea, currently playing at Caveat in NYC. We're developing a mega-game, based on board game mechanics of engine building, where participants are given roles with special powers to create synergistic partnerships, or poison each other...

The Golden Outlaw is a western-themed social deduction game created by Alex Johnson. Alex has created several games with Patchwork Adventures, including our popular virtual Trivia game. 

Welcome to the Wild West of California! You like many others came out here in search of gold and your party of Miners has struck rich, but one of them has been mingling with the wrong crowds. This past friend now secretly deems themselves a foe: The Golden Outlaw. Their plan? Take down the wagon by stirring up distrust in shifty towns along the route home. The wagon is loaded with your hard earned gold in tow, but will you be able to bypass these treacherous towns on the route by staying in safe havens across the barren landscape? Or will The Golden Outlaw and the miners they’ve convinced to join them outwit or kill every last one of you and keep the gold for themselves? Find out in The Golden Outlaw!

Heart of Cranes is a 15 minute snippet of a full length interactive theatre experience that invites the audience to participate in the traditional Japanese ritual of origami. Performed with an intimate audience of no more than three participants at a time, Heart of Cranes creates the opportunity to connect with community and allow a sense of reflection and active meditation through the centuries old cultural practice of origami.

“These are the hopes, the wishes, the things that we look forward to, for after all of this passes, the positivity that was shared from people and was folded in to the cranes will last. The positivity is the heart of the cranes: the energy made them come alive to carry it with them.”

Accessibility: At this time, this experience is accessible to audience participants with vision, hearing, and hand based motor skill abilities.

Bios:

Manatsu Tanaka (Performer, Co-creator, they/them): is a non-binary Japanese artist working in dance, immersive theatre, stage combat, visual art, burlesque, and aerial arts. Proud dance company member of Hard/Femme Dances. Recent theatrical work includes: “Church of Strangers” by Randy Wiener, “Pansy Craze” by Maya Dwyer, “Zerospace” an immersive technological art experience by the producers of Queen of the Night. Film & Music Videos: “MOVE” by Skout, “Lifted” by Mona Haydar, “Build to Last ft. BETA” by Cell7 www.manatsutanaka.com @manatsu.tanaka

Fernando Moya Delgado (Co-creator, he/him): is an NYC-based performer and choreographer born and raised in Ecuador. He has a BFA in Acting for Film and Television with a minor in Dance from Pace University. Fernando’s credits include performing for New York Fashion Week, Lincoln Center Education, Facebook, Amaro Montenegro, and ZeroSpace: an immersive technological art experience by the producers of Queen of the Night. As a choreographer he has worked with Curet Performance Project, Ecuador’s national dance team, Homegrown theatre company, and Grind Arts Company. He is also the co-founder of experiential performance collective You&I. Fernando’s work comes from a passionate, colorful background bred in his home country and a love for bringing people together. www.fernandomoyadelgado.com @fonsismoya

Allie Marotta (Co-creator, she/her): is a collaborative theatre artist and arts educator specializing in immersive and devised theatre. Allie has presented original work at NYC venues Teatro SEA, FringeNYC, Theater for the New City, Dixon Place, Theatre Row, and HERE Arts Center, and internationally in Ecuador, Greece, Argentina, and throughout the U.K. Allie teaches for various arts organizations and currently consults on experimental performance throughout NYC. She is a NYC staff correspondent for No Proscenium. Education: current Ph.D. Theatre candidate (CUNY Graduate Center), MA Contemporary Performance Practices (RHUL), BA Acting, BA Directing (Pace University). www.allie-marotta.com

You&I (Production): are experiential performance creators specialized in immersive, site-specific, movement based and participatory work. After a long term friendship and an artistic collaboration in 2017, Fernando Moya Delgado and Allie Marotta worked to create You&I and became established as an artmaking partnership and collective based in Brooklyn, NY. Comprised of international artists, You&I has created and presented work in multiple countries attracting the attention of global media. You&I seeks to create imaginative and often interactive worlds within their work.