PXR2026 EXPERIENCE SHOWS

Ever wanted to connect brainwaves with a mushroom, experience life as a seabird, or break out from a monotonous prison? Our three PXR2026 EXPERIENCE shows had it all. Exploring themes of climate change, interconnectivity, and finding your agency while engaging with immersive tech that was built to inspire.

EXPERIENCE show tickets no longer available. Thank you to all who attended!

PXR2026 EXPERIENCE SHOWS:

SYMBIOSIS/\DYSBIOSIS by THE MYCELIUM NETWORK

UNCANNY ALLEY: A NEW DAY by FERRYMAN COLLECTIVE

AWAKE & STILL DROWNING by XOSECRET 

ONLINE & IN HUBS

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SYMBIOSIS/\DYSBIOSIS by THE MYCELIUM NETWORK

SYMBIOSIS/\DYSBIOSIS makes its Canadian Premiere in Toronto as an award-recognized live VR theatre experience where forests respond, breathe, and remember. Celebrated through the Goethe-Institut Montreal’s New Nature Climate Science Award, the work fuses live performance, immersive VR, human EEG, and live music co-performed with living fungal mycelium into a responsive world. For its Canadian premiere, living fungi at Theatre Passe Muraille are networked live with fungi at VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver, forming a cross-Canada wood-wide web! Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council, and sponsored by InteraXon Muse Toronto, Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis invites audiences into a forest that listens back. Available online & in person at Hubs in Toronto, Kingston, and Vancouver.

UNCANNY ALLEY: A NEW DAY by FERRYMAN COLLECTIVE

Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a collaboration by Ferryman Collective and Virtual Worlds Company, had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it received the Fanheart3 XR Experience Award. It went on to win XR Must’s 2024 award for Best Interactivity/Performance and took 2nd place for Best Sound Design. Following its international debut, the piece was featured at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, Tempo Dokumentärfestival, and SXSW. It was also selected by NewImages Festival, where it hosted the world premiere of its French-language performances, and just finished a festival run of shows at Raindance Immersive. 

Meet Gh0st, a cyberpunk computer-whiz, racing against the clock to lead a group of escaped detainees and her increasingly sentient Service-Bot, Atom, to freedom through a hacked portal, before the fascistic corporation that controls Uncanny Alley can erase their memories using experimental Radio Frequency technology. The gang must evade capture and decide whether to leave their beloved digital city and start a new life in the open metaverse or stay and fight for their freedom, and their home. Available online & in person at Hubs in Toronto, Kingston, and Vancouver.

Uncanny Alley: A New Day is a guided virtual reality theater experience with live actors. Each show runs approx. 75 minutes long.

HUBS EXCLUSIVE

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AWAKE & STILL DROWNING by XOSECRET

AWAKE & STILL DROWNING is a hands-on, mixed-reality performance about climate change, place, and collective movement. Audience members become part of a flock of seabirds attempting to cross the rapidly flooding Chignecto Isthmus—the narrow land bridge connecting Nova Scotia to mainland Canada. Guided by quiet narration, hand-drawn text, and a bird companion, participants move together through a shifting landscape as the water rises around them. The experience is physical and shared: you walk, pause, adjust, and respond in real time as you navigate the space alongside others. 

By turning viewers into participants, AWAKE & STILL DROWNING invites audiences to feel the urgency of environmental change not as a distant issue, but as something lived, collective, and unfolding in the present. The work received the Best Immersive Experience Award at the 2025 Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF) in Mexico. Available in person at Hubs in Toronto, Kingston, and Vancouver.

Showtimes:

FEBRUARY 28th – 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST

MARCH 1st – 11:00AM PST / 2:00PM EST