Award winning Opera Parallele is hosting a hackathon!  Register here to participate: tinyurl.com/ophackathonreg

You’ll get to:

* Meet creative people 

* Make stuff that could be used in a show April 29-May 1, 2016

* Work with the premier contemporary opera company in the Bay Area 

Since the beginning, OP’s shows have aimed to be immersive and inclusive of the audience. Excerpts of our past productions can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/etCCf-sTNZk. From the moment you enter an OP space, you enter a new world, where the music of the opera carries you further into a fictional landscape.

We’re looking for fresh ideas around this aesthetic. In April 2016, we’ll be producing an opera called The Lighthouse. Here’s the plot in 140 characters: A mystery thriller. Three guys in a lighthouse disappear into thin air. Investigation ensues. Was it a sea monster or a monster within?

Our goal is to give both our performers and our audience an engaging, multisensorial experience, allowing the opera to make an even deeper impact on all people involved. 

Here are some kinds of things you could do:

* Use tools like microcontrollers and sensors to engage the audience in some way during the show

* Create a soundscape or “smellscape” evoking the environment of the show, for the audience to walk through in the lobby

* Have audience members physically become part of the set, sitting on rocks that move during the performance

And of course, ideas that haven’t been thought up yet!

Prizes:

- All participants will be invited to the dress rehearsal of The Lighthouse on April 28, 2016!

- All participants will be credited in the program of The Lighthouse as part of the Production Team.

- The top team(s) will work with Creative Director Brian Staufenbiel on implementing their project for the show!

 Register to attend this event at tinyurl.com/ophackathonreg

• Immersive Experience
  
• Aesthetics
  
• Viability
  
• Cost
  
• Use of technology