Let's Play: 24 Hour Interactive Jam

Let’s Play: 24 Hr Interactive Jam is the first all-night evolution of OA’s Let’s Play: Interactive Works-in-Progress showings. Come as an maker or artist to experiment through the night, or roll up as an audience to participate in the wild outcomes.  This event is the collaborative brainchild of: Obvious Agency and Futurefull (Dain Saint), Wherehouse (Taj Rauch), IKantKoan Play/s (Jessica Creane), and Yannick Trapman O’Brien (The Telelibrary),

🎲 Players: RSVP or just show up at 3pm 3/29

🛠️ Makers: RSVP then show up at 6pm 3/28

For Audiences:

All you have to do is show up ready to play at 3pm on March 29th! We’ll tell you everything you need to know and make sure you’re having a great time. What should you expect? The unexpected.

For Makers and Artists:

This time is for you. You will have access to dedicated workspace, technical support, and peer expertise. We’ll loosely structure the work period to provide creation time, ad-hoc talks/demos on specific topics, and as-needed technical and creative support. And, of course, the chance to share with an audience at the end!

We’re intentionally throwing our definition of interactive (playable, immersive, whatever) as wide as we can. We don’t know the best words to talk about what we do and what we love - what’s important is that the art lives in the interaction between audience and artist. Come playable theater makers, come LARP creators, come game designers, come experimental dance artists, come musicians, come all!

New to making interactive (playable, immersive, whatever) work? You’re welcome here - whether you’re a veteran or a noob we have the space, time and support to make the time worth your while.

You're welcome to come alone, or with an existing group of collaborators! We welcome people teaming up emergently at the event, working solo, or setting out with an established crew.

(For Makers and Artists) Event Flow:

We're still working on finalizing the flow of the day, but here's what we know at this point:

• Everyone will receive an orientation to the day starting at 6pm on 3/28. It's important to be there for this!

• Over the 21 hours of making time before audiences arrive we'll cycle between long work chunks and shorter rest and skill-sharing segments. Within this everyone is encouraged to do what they need, rest and eat as appropriate.

• Our team will provide a set of deadlines that need to be met for inclusion in the audience sharing. These will be pretty simply (deciding on tech, audience size, etc.) so that we know how to structure and guide the sharing. We'll provide support to make sure it's easy to meet all of these regardless of your experience level or tech expertise!

(For Makers and Artists) Tech:

We will provide a variety of technical elements for use in your work. Stay tuned for a full list of these, but they will likely include at least projector(s), simple sound equipment, and office supplies. Let us know at checkout if you have specific technical needs and we'll do our best to meet them.

Indy Hall has a wifi, couches to crash on, and a variety of other co-working amenities. Check out their website for more and run any specific questions by us.

Pricing:

Tickets are free! This event is costing Obvious Agency and collaborators about $1,300 plus staff compensation for administrative work. We are offering this as a gift to our community, but welcome donations when you select your ticket or at the event to offset our costs!

COVID Policy:

We are finalizing our COVID policy for the event - stay tuned. At this point we know that we will be asking artists to COVID test at the beginning of their work period and that audiences will be required to mask for the sharing. Obvious Agency will provide tests and masks.