Where live immersive creators meet.
The Immersive Creator Huddle is TAM’s anchor event for the immersive community: a night of networking, ideas and good company for everyone making live immersive and interactive experiences. TAM is delighted to be the venue collaborator for the Immersive Experience Network’s Huddles, and the place where creators build, develop and test what comes next.
The Huddle
Your people are in this room.
Huddles are the networking and social nights created by the Immersive Experience Network, and we value the work IEN does for the sector. They bring together people from across the industry to meet, exchange ideas and build meaningful connections. At TAM they’re our anchor event for the immersive community.
Looking for collaborators, seeking advice, or simply want to meet others working in the space? This is a welcoming room to grow your network and become part of the community.
Whether you’re developing your first project or have years of experience creating large-scale productions, you’ll find a diverse community whose work spans everything from independent artistic projects to commercial immersive attractions.
Structured networking
Hosted activities that help you meet new people fast, discover shared interests and spark future collaborations and partnerships.
Ask the Community
Our popular segment: post questions through the evening and tap into the collective knowledge of the room. Ask yours now.
The Board
Pin a post-it to the network board: what you offer, what you need, an idea or a shout-out. Add a note.
On the night
Running order
Timings may shift a little on the night: TAM is a live venue.
- Doors, food & first hellos
Grab dinner from the traders outside and a drink at the TAM Bar. Pick up a name badge with your discipline on it.
- Welcome from TAM & IEN
A quick hello, what’s new in the network, and how tonight works.
- Structured networking rounds
Short, hosted rounds that mix disciplines: theatre makers meet technologists, producers meet designers.
- Ask the Community
The room tackles the most-voted questions from the question board.
- The Immersive Audience Pub Quiz
A live quiz on your phone, drawn from IEN’s Audience Report 2024, with a takeaway for your own events after every answer. Practise now.
- Open huddling
Follow up on the conversations that sparked. Find people on the wall and the post-it board.
- Close
TAM · Temple of Art and Music
More than a stage.
TAM is an incubator for creators. We give you the space to build, the time to develop, real audiences to test with, and the complete sales and marketing machine to take your work to market. The stage and the tech are just the start.
Build
Space to make: rehearsal and build time in a working venue, with crew who know live production.
Develop
Sound, light, AV and staging behind you, plus the people to help shape the experience.
Test
Scratch nights and previews with real audiences, so you learn what works before you launch.
Sell
Complete sales and marketing: ticketing, listings, social, email and the TAM audience, so your work finds its crowd.
Tickets
Book your place
Every ticket includes the networking activities, Ask the Community and the network board. Tell us what you make and what you’re looking for, and we’ll use it to shape the networking rounds.
Booked on Eventbrite or coming as someone’s guest? You don’t need another ticket. Add yourself to the Who’s coming wall instead.
Members of the network: use your code to claim a free ticket.
Tickets are non-refundable. If you can’t make it, you can pass your ticket to a friend: email us their name.
Already have a ticket?
Join the Who’s coming wall
Get tickets is where you book and pay. This is for people who are already coming: booked here or on Eventbrite, or someone’s guest. Tell us you’re coming and add yourself to the wall so other creators can find you before the night.
This isn’t a ticket. Not booked yet? Get tickets first. You can update your entry any time by sending this form again with the same email.
Who’s coming
Filter by discipline, find your people, then say hello on the night.
The network board
Stick it on the board.
A post-it board for the immersive network. Offer your skills, ask for help, pitch an idea or give someone a shout-out. Notes stay up after the night, so the conversations keep going.
Ask the Community
Bring a question. Leave with answers.
Stuck on ticketing, casting, funding, a tricky set build or getting audiences through the door? Post it here. On the night the room tackles the most-voted questions, sharing challenges, ideas and the experience of fellow creators.
Questions appear once our hosts have checked them. You can stay anonymous.
Top questions
TAI Lab
Meet TAI, TAM’s AI for creators.
TAI helped us build parts of tonight, and it can do the same for your shows. Play the pub quiz drawn from the IEN Audience Report, then turn your own reports and notes into quizzes, ask the research anything, or get an audience-led marketing plan.
A · B · C · D MakeQuiz makerPaste any report, programme or backstory and get a pub quiz to host at your own event. AskAsk the ReportPlain-English answers from the audience research, with what it means for you. CoachPitch CoachHooks, posts, FAQs and paddler-to-swimmer participation levels for your experience.
Temple of Art and Music presents
Your idea.
Our stage.
BUILD · DEVELOP · TEST · SELL
- Space to build & rehearse
- Sound, light & AV tech
- Real audiences to test with
- Complete sales & marketing
Collaborate with us
tam.tv · immersive.tam.tv
Mercato Metropolitano · 42 Newington Causeway · SE1 6DR
Collaborate with TAM
Bring us your project.
Whether it’s a scratch idea or a show ready to sell, tell us what you’re making and where you need help. We’ll get back to you about building, testing and launching it at TAM.
In collaboration with
Immersive Experience Network
We value the work of the Immersive Experience Network (IEN) in growing the UK’s immersive entertainment sector, and TAM is delighted to be the venue collaborator for the Immersive Creator Huddles. IEN builds a supportive, collaborative community of creators and gives them resources and research to thrive.
Education
Resources to help market immersive experiences, plus creator profiles and stories from across the sector.
Network
An online directory of creator profiles and portfolios, plus live networking events like the Huddles and the IEN Summit.
Research
Commercial research on the live immersive sector, including The Immersive Audience Report 2024.
Every kind of immersive
Immersive Creator Huddles are an Immersive Experience Network event. immersive.tam.tv is run by TAM.
Food, drinks & supporting the Temple
Come early, eat well, settle in.
Food is from the amazing independent traders at Mercato Metropolitano, right outside our door.
Drinks are served exclusively from the TAM Bar inside the venue. Every pint, cocktail or glass of wine helps pay our musicians, engineers and staff, and keeps this creative space alive.
No outside drinks, please. Drinks brought in from elsewhere are £5 per drink: not as a penalty, but to keep things fair and help us keep the lights on. When you buy from the TAM Bar you’re supporting live music and independent arts.
Discover more at tam.tv.
Getting there
Temple of Art and Music (TAM), inside Mercato Metropolitano
42 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6DR
Nearest stations: Elephant & Castle and Borough.