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Fran Gogh: Lighthouse Immersive Arrives in SF

Amid power outages, fires, a heatwave, and with a cross-national Stop Asian Hate protest right outside the venue, the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit weathered its first weekend on the West Coast as well as any native San Franciscan. More than 120,000 tickets have already been purchased for the new ‘Fran Gogh’ experience—now extended into September. Since even the largest HD TVs tend to underwhelm after a year in lockdown, thousands of Bay Area art-lovers are clearly jonesing for a more impactful way to experience media.

The Van Gogh Exhibit's Composer and Cinematopgrapher Weigh In

After months as one of the only shows in town, Massimiliano Siccardi’s celebrated Immersive Van Gogh experience will soon be paired with Route 66, a new short film from the same creative trio. Though a stylistic departure from ‘our Vincent’ as they affectionately refer to the exhibit, art director Vittorio Guidotti and composer Luca Longobardi expand on how both pieces are conceptually shaped by how the global shutdown required artists to turn inwards and explore cities of the interior.

Entering the Illusionarium

“Nothing like this has ever been attempted: a real hybrid between experiencing an exhibit and a magic show,” promises Jaime Allan, creator of the upcoming Illusionarium experience that will offer some much needed socially-distanced enchantment this winter. A meticulously designed layout, a committed team, and a massive space will allow patrons to both engage with the last 150 years of magic as a performing art while experiencing brand new innovations in holography and illusion technology.

Barre Class Under the Starry Night

“I do see more gratitude and excitement than I think I maybe would have seen if it wasn’t a pandemic,” remarks the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit’s barre class fitness instructor Amy Walsh, who offers her participants the unique experience of warming up to Van Gogh’s sunflowers and lying down for a core workout to his famed Starry Night painting. With many Torontonians looking for safe ways to be together and transcend the stagnation of quarantine, Amy has developed an up-to-code experience in partnership with Lighthouse Immersive that offers physical, emotional, and artistic invigoration while also allowing participants some much-needed human connection.

Interview, ProfessionalEmily TraceOctober 14, 2020amy walsh, immersive, van goh exhibit, yoga, barre class, covid

Immersive 'Salome' Opera in Van Gogh Exhibit Space

“It was the last show I did before the world shut down,” says international opera sensation Ambur Braid of Oper Frankfurt’s production of Salome, playing the princess who wins the head of John the Baptist by performing the infamous Dance of the Seven Veils for King Herod. But the global shutdown has presented artists like herself and creative talents in the live concert industry with an opportunity to reimagine how opera is presented and delivered to audiences beyond the constraints of shuttered traditional venues. In partnership with musician/producer Dan Kurtz and visual designer Isaac Rayment, she will resurrect the Covid-cancelled character for an operatic experience staged at the same venue where Lighthouse Immersive’s Van Gogh projection installation is currently dazzling Torontonians.