PXR2026
Call for Proposals

Calling all XR performers, creators, world builders, researchers, academics, and enthusiasts! 

The Performance and XR Symposium (PXR) is a hybrid conference exploring the intersection of liveness, storytelling, and extended reality (or XR). Now in its sixth year, PXR remains the first and only conference on digital and mixed-reality performance creation in Canada.

As we gear up for PXR2026 (running February 20 – March 1, 2026), we are looking for unique projects — performances, presentations, installations, workshops, discussions, and games — that fall within the following streams:

EXPERIENCE 
Ready to go in-development or presentation-ready live performances that are hybrid or digital, with special interest in projects that focus on audience agency and interactivity. 

Digital performances should be available for audience members to watch live in a VR platform such as VRChat. Hybrid performances should be available for audience members to watch live in Vancouver (BC), Toronto (ON), and/or Kingston (ON), and should have an XR component. 

Selected projects will be slated to present up to four performances to PXR attendees and the public. Open to Canadian artists, with additional funding available for BC and Ontario-based projects. 

Apply for PXR Experience here.

ENGAGE
Interactive, digital presentations that take full advantage of the XR medium, rejecting the traditional Conference powerpoint plague of “talking heads”. 

We want to hear about your creative vision for live XR productions, and how your specialization and expertise influences your creative approach in this medium. Perhaps you are developing a new platform for digital storytelling, or you can offer a blueprint for what is required to develop a live experience. What would you like to share, and what is the most powerful way you can do so? 

PXR Engage presenters will have the opportunity to present in our custom-built VRChat conference world, with technical support from the PXR team. We are also open to presentations taking place in the platform / world of the presenter’s choice.

Open to Canadian artists and International Artists. Apply for PXR Engage here.

LABORATORY
Technical deep dives into the development process and/or specific tools vital to creating in XR, often led by developers, designers, gamewriters, project managers, etc.

Do you have an exciting unity project you can walk us through? A behind-the-scenes tour of a recently developed experience? Perhaps you have a mini-masterclass for experienced developers, or a 3D modeling tutorial for those who are just getting started. Consider us interested.

PXR Laboratory presenters will have the opportunity to present in our custom-built VRChat conference world, with technical support from the PXR team. We are also open to digital presentations taking place in the platform / world of the presenter’s choice.

Open to Canadian artists and International Artists. Apply for PXR Laboratory here.

ARCADE
VRChat games, XR/AR installations for on-site events, and other social experiences

PXR Arcade is a hybrid stream encouraging connection, and perhaps competition, through play. Digital projects must be uploaded to VRChat, and are preferably team-based. On-site projects presenters will be either asked to bring their own equipment to set up at our venue or provide an equipment list and remotely work with our production team to set up your installation at our venue. Priority will be given to applications that are clear with how we can recreate the installation at our other venues.

Successful applicants will be provided a small development & sharing fee, with additional funding for projects based in Kingston, Ontario. Open to Canadian artists and international Artists.

Apply for PXR Arcade here. 

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All successful applicants will receive a presentation fee. You are welcome to apply for one or more of the above streams. 

Submissions will close Monday, September 15, 2025 at 5pm. Please reach out to contactus@singlethread.ca if you have any questions.