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👻 It’s officially Scary Season! The UK is bursting with spine-tingling Scare Experiences and Attractions and you have just 1 week left to catch them! Whether you’re seeking the classics – haunted houses, theme park fright nights, and family-friendly pumpkin patches – or craving something more daring like mind-bending escape rooms, eerie cocktail nights with a twist, or night surfing (yes surfing 🏄♀) - we've got it all. We've gathered 30 of the boldest, most creative, and downright terrifying Halloween events to ignite your imagination and face your deepest fears. Explore the UK’s ultimate Halloween hotspots – if you dare… 👻 FEAR Scream Park - Bristol Prepare for spine-chilling scares and adrenaline-pumping rides at this scream park, blending live actors with 7 terrifying attractions for the ultimate horror experience. 🧟 Scare Kingdom Scream Park - Blackburn A multi-award-winning scare park offering 5 immersive, theatrical horror mazes that push the boundaries of fear. 🎃 Derry Halloween Festival - Londonderry Join Europe’s largest Halloween festival, featuring spooky parades, street performances, and dazzling fireworks that transform the city into a realm of the supernatural. 👻 Shocktoberfest - Crawley Europe’s largest scream park returns with more haunted attractions, live shows, and terrifying walk-throughs to push your fear to the limit. 🎢 Fright Night at Thorpe Park - Surrey The UK's premier theme park transforms into a haunted hellscape, with scare mazes and terrifying rides in the dark to test even the bravest souls. 🤡 Ffear Fforest at Zip World - Conwy Prepare for a hair-raising evening of high-flying thrills and terrifying scares in the heart of the Welsh forests. 🐈⬛ Séance at the London Dungeon - London Step into the dark and disturbing world of Victorian spiritualism in this immersive, spine-tingling experience at London’s iconic dungeon. 🧛 A Jack the Ripper Tour of Whitechapel - London Walk the same cobbled streets where Jack the Ripper once lurked and uncover the gruesome details of his unsolved murders on this haunting guided tour. 🍹 Poisoned Chalice Cocktail Experience at The Mind Palace - London Solve riddles and brew your own lethal concoctions in this interactive cocktail experience where mystery meets macabre fun in Sherlock Holmes Mind Palace. 🧛 Halloween: Horror Upload, Hijingo - London Step into a Halloween-themed bingo experience with a terrifying twist – where the stakes are high, and the scares are real. See the full list here: https://lnkd.in/dXusX_m5 Ready to face your fears? Choose your scare and let the countdown to Halloween begin!

🚀 Connecting creative brilliance with operational mastery in immersive worlds! 🚀 The Immersive Experience Network Summit was nothing short of extraordinary. And this headline doesn't even begin to capture the magic! Here are Dan Howson’s key takeaways from the event: ✨ Disney Magic Learning the craft of designing, planning, and building wonder with Sara Thacher from Walt Disney Imagineering. 💡 Story-Driven Accounting Yes, you read that right! Chi Yun Wai from Immersif shared the THEME framework, making project management and finance FUN! A total game-changer. 🎯 🎨 Art meets Business: Jessie Fu from Fever delivered powerful insights on blending creative vision with commercial success to elevate audience experiences. Truly eye-opening! 🤯 🎭 Immersive Theatre Magic: The powerhouses from Punchdrunk— Sophie Hewlett, Lauren Storr, Sarah Georgeson, and Georgia S. Figgis—offered invaluable advice on thriving in this ever-evolving space. Inspiring doesn’t even cover it! 🌍 🤝 Brand + Immersive Experiences Ollie Jones from SWAMP and James Seager from Les Enfants Terribles delivered a masterclass on how brands and immersive worlds collide. 🚨 Industry Trends & Secrets Adrian Hon, gave us a thrilling look into the future of the immersive landscape—don’t worry, Adrian, your secrets are safe with us! 🔥 Massive shoutout to Attila Keskin Mark Bustard Cat Kevern Dan Barr Donnacadh O'Briain Arlo Howard Papp Péter Reese Kirsh Alice Hubley—and everyone else we missed! 🙌 Huge thanks to Sheena Patel FRSA, Andy Barnes, Joanna Bucknall and Owen Kingston—we'll be counting down until next year... and beyond! 🔮 #ImmersiveSummit2024 #CreativityMeetsBusiness #GameChangers #SharingWisdom

🚨 Event Alert! 🚨 Dan Howson is live today at the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London today, ready to chat all things immersive, creative, and a little bit out of the box. 🌀 You may remember him from our last event at Brand Licensing Europe… yes, the guy on Shrek's throne 🧻, clearly mastering the art of getting comfortable in every space he enters! 😄 If you’re around, make sure to swing by, say hello 👋, and dive into some big ideas with Dan. He’s got plenty to share and is always up for an inspiring conversation! 💥 #ImmersiveExperience #ExperientialMarketing #ImmersiveArts #ImmersiveIndustry #LondonEvents

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📣Sound on! Imagineerium for Wake The Tiger Guildhall Cafe Bar / Event Space Watch the Guildhall come to life from the design animation through to the live experience in this fantastic video created by the wonderfully talented Alex Allen (using our design animation of course). We’ve been involved with the incredible creative vision for Wake The Tiger since its very beginning, working closely with the founders on the Amazement Park’s concept phase, illustrating and visualising what the space and characters would look like, before going on to design, develop and deliver several areas of this mind-blowing immersive experience. Originally inspired by a children’s toy shop, the concept also incorporated Meridia’s four guilds of earth, water, air and fire, which is represented throughout the space with various modes of transport for each guild; 🌍 Earth: The working train which travels around the suspended train track 💦 Water: A ship themed stage, featuring a moving compass backdrop and hanging sails 🌪 Air: Hot air balloons and airships 🔥 Fire: A key element used to power hot air balloons, airships and steam trains In line with the narrative of Meridia that runs throughout the experience, which sees the inhabitants repurposing and recycling old technology, we used a lot of recycled industrial materials, all of which is hugely in keeping with Wake The Tiger's ethos of sustainability. #ImmersiveAttraction #AttractionDesign #WakeTheTiger #ExperienceDesign

When our founder Natasha attended Ideas Fest - a conference hosted in a field - it sparked a lot of questions for us. Could this really work for a professional event? Here’s what she had to say: "Most conferences feel so corporate, and even as a speaker, I’ve sometimes felt like an outsider. But holding a conference in a field? It instantly becomes more inclusive, laid-back, and a lot more fun. There’s something about being outdoors that takes away the pressure. People are more relaxed, conversations flow easily, and it’s way less about status. Plus, who wouldn’t trade a stuffy conference room for fresh air and a bit of sunshine (and a little bit of rain, it is the UK after all!)? The best part is that everything you need is on site. Not only were there talk spaces, food trucks, and trade stands in the daytime, they also hosted the StartUp Awards (where we were nominated! 🥳) and the lively Big Festoon Hoedown in the evening, meaning that there were even more opportunities for networking and making connections. I even camped nearby with other entrepreneurs after the event, finishing the day by chatting around a campfire whilst being surrounded by stunning nature. It was rejuvenating and a true break from the usual grind, but still productive. I’ll definitely be back next year."

StartUp Awards update... 🌟 What an incredible journey it’s been for Imagineerium! While we didn’t take home a national win at last Thursday’s StartUp Awards, we’re still over the moon to be named Regional Winners in both the Global StartUp and Creative StartUp categories. It was a night to remember at Ideas Fest, surrounded by amazing entrepreneurs from the NatWest Accelerator program (Ed Bartlett, Emma Downer MBA, Samantha Hamlin). Check out our growing list of accolades 👇 🏆 Global StartUp Regional Winner - StartUp Awards 2024 🏆 Creative StartUp Regional Winner - StartUp Awards 2024 🏆 Young Entrepreneur Regional Winner - FSB Awards 2024 🏆 Top 50 Immersive Influencers - Blooloop 2023 🏆 New Business of the Year - Business Champions Awards 2023 🏆 30UnderThirty - Access All Areas 2022 And this is just the beginning! Watch this space. #SUA2024 #StartUpAwards #Imagineerium #Entrepreneurship #Innovation

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As summer wraps up, so does festival season, and it's the perfect time to reflect on some of the standout creative concepts and designs we saw this year. Festivals are a hotbed of innovation, with organisers and creatives consistently pushing boundaries. Here's a look at some of the best new stages from this year’s events: Tomorrowland - Life Stage Known for its incredible stages, Tomorrowland in Belgium upped the ante in 2024 with the Life Stage, a 36-meter-high structure featuring waterfalls, video tiles, 230 speakers, and 40 performers. Handcrafted by in-house artists, it was a visual and auditory masterpiece. 📸 tomorrowland.com Glastonbury - Arcadia Dragonfly This year at Glastonbury, Arcadia introduced the Dragonfly, a repurposed Navy helicopter turned into a mechanical marvel. Its laser-lit wings created a dazzling spectacle across the festival site, as DJs played from its "eyes," replacing the iconic spider stage with a new level of festival innovation. 📸 mixmag.net Boomtown - Nexus Boomtown, a UK festival known for immersive theatre and outstanding creative production, wowed with the new Nexus, a mushroom-inspired stage stretching above the audience, offering a captivating central spectacle. 📸 boomtownfair.co.uk Coachella - Do-Lab Mushrooms At Coachella, LA-based Do-Lab created nine vibrant fabric mushroom shades that offered both beauty and functionality. 📸 dezeen.com Both Nexus and Do-Lab Mushrooms reflect a growing trend of incorporating mushroom themes into festival design, including the use of the material mycelium to create structures such as Glastonbury’s 6° pavilion. Burning Man - Temple of Together Burning Man's Temple of Together, stood 70 feet tall, combining Gothic arches with Lebanese weaving. Its theme of unity and humility culminated in the temple being set ablaze, symbolising the ephemeral beauty of art and community. 📸 dezeen.com Looking to blow some minds next festival season? Now’s the time to get planning, so give us a shout to let us bring your ideas to life for festival season 2025.

This Thursday evening we'll be attending the Ideas Fest National StartUp Awards, where we’re nominated for Creative StartUp and Global StartUp of the Year! Having already won the Regional StartUp categories we’ve got everything crossed for a national win! A big shout out to all of the other nominees, and a special shout out to other South West winners and friends we will be cheering for: Consumer Services StartUp of the Year – Wake The Tiger Education & Training StartUp of the Year – HUM4NS Green StartUp of the Year – PEEQUAL Judges Choice - LAYBL Wish us luck! #StartUpAwards #IdeasFest #IdeasFest24 #CreativeIndustries #CreativeBusiness