Illuminarium is coming to The Distillery District
TORONTO, August 9, 2023 – Illuminarium at The Distillery District, a brand new permanent immersive entertainment venue located at 28 Distillery Lane officially opens this August with two experiences WAKING WONDERLAND and SPACE: A Journey to the Moon and Beyond. Designed to entertain ages 3 to 103, visitors can choose their own adventure as both experiences are played each day.
Illuminarium at The Distillery will be open Tuesday to Sunday from 11 AM to 11 PM. Tickets will be available for presale for both experiences on Tuesday, August 15th. On August 25th, Illuminarium at The Distillery will open with a ticketed preview. Full operation starts Thursday, August 31st.
Here’s what to expect from the experiences at Illuminarium in Toronto
WAKING WONDERLAND
Show Run Time: 40 minutes
August – November 2023
Created and developed by Secret Location, the experience unfolds across multiple projection-mapped environments, each incorporating a range of physical props, live characters and interactive technologies.
Experience:
Inspired by Lewis Caroll’s fantasy novel, “Through the Looking Glass,” WAKING WONDERLAND picks up three generations after the original Alice and Wonderland has been dormant. The main character is Anna, Alice’s granddaughter, and guests discover she is on a quest to awaken a slumbering world and bring back the magic to Wonderland told to her through stories from her treasured grandmother.
As visitors arrive in the first room of the immersive environment, they discover they are magically transported into the drawing room where they first meet Anna and take on an active role to help Anna search for Wonderland. Visitors will be asked to touch, search, smell and play with a range of surreal settings and colourful characters. They soon find out that today is special as they catch a glimpse of The White Rabbit, a character that has been lost for many decades. As The White Rabbit discovers that Alice is gone, he asks his new friends to help him save Wonderland as it has been sleeping since Alice’s last visit. With a stroke of luck, Anna and visitors enter the Looking Glass and they get ready to embark on a wonderful adventure to help wake up a sleeping land.
Through motion tracking and spatial audio soundscapes, visitors are transported into a magical forest where they are told to trust the Cheshire Cat Guidebook as he hopes that Anna can be the one to save Wonderland. On their adventure visitors are transported through unique lands, encounter the Mad Hatter in his chaotic tea factory, come face-to-face with the Queen of Hearts in her throne room and meet brand new characters in their quest. The question remains, can they Wake Wonderland up for good?
Key Features:
- 7.2 Million Real-Time frames in the experience
- Musical score composed by JUNO Award Winning artist LIGHTS
- 1834 Mushrooms in the interactive Mushroom Forest
- 30+ Unique Interactions across the entire experience
- 138 White Rabbits found hidden across each world
- Four immersive sets
- Real-life characters throughout the experience
- Costume design by Soulpepper Theatre Company
- Audiences are encouraged to use their bodies and movement to interact with the space
- Audiences are to interact with physical sets
- Following the experience, visitors can take a memorable photo at The Tea Party Portal area
SPACE: A Journey to the Moon and Beyond
Show Run Time: 46 minutes
August – November 2023
Illuminarium’s high-tech animation systems and 360 cinematic immersive screens provide a mind-blowing journey through our solar system, where guests will experience what it’s like to walk on the surface of the Moon.
Experience:
An out-of-this-world immersive experience, taking visitors on an extraordinary journey across the galaxy. The exhibition will include interactive and visually-stunning imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most groundbreaking telescope ever built, through the lens of Illuminarium’s high-tech animation systems and 360-degree fully immersive screens.
Beyond being immersed in the extraordinary images that the JWST sent back to earth, Illuminarium guests will also see first-hand the dramatic unfurling and deployment of the JWST in deep space — how a telescope the size of a football field that was crammed into a rocket less than 30 feet in diameter came to life. Some have described the unfolding of the JWST as that of an origami creation or like a remote-controlled opening of a gigantic Swiss army knife. Visitors will see an extraordinary 3-D recreation of this amazing technological feat.
Experience what it was like to blast-off in a rocket and land on the Moon, just like a real astronaut. As visitors explore the familiar rocky planets of the Solar System’s inner regions, they travel to gas giants dominating the outer regions, then to the distant and remote ice worlds and comets of the Kuiper Belt, and finally to the celestial beauty of the stellar Nebula beyond.
Key Features:
- Countdown to “Takeoff” into Space with a rocket
- Travel around the Solar System to four unique areas
- Step and watch as visitors leave footprints on the Moon
- Jump on meteors and watch them explode
- Learn about the famous Apollo 11 mission and how space exploration has improved
- Explore the stunning discoveries of the all-new James Webb Telescope
- Driven by an unprecedented blend of technology, including 4K laser projection, 3-D audio, LIDAR based interactivity
- Strobe effects, immersive sound, and realistic & responsive projection may all be part of the show they experience
Illuminarium, a global experiential company offering breakthrough immersive 360-degree cinematic entertainment in expansive, projected spaces, partnered with Toronto-based Secret Location, known for its Emmy® award-winning interactive VR and AR experiences, to combine cutting-edge technology with immersive storytelling to create incredibly digital projection mapped experiences. Illuminarium in The Distillery District joins Atlanta and Las Vegas as the third Illuminarium location in North America.
For more information and to sign up for the online ticket waitlist, guests may visit www.illuminarium.com/toronto
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About Illuminarium Experiences
Illuminarium Experiences is a breakthrough, global experiential entertainment company created by worldwide leaders in cinematic and interactive content, architectural and theatrical design and venue operations. Illuminarium Experiences are immersive entertainment spectacles presented in custom-designed venues called “Illuminariums.” What museums are to art, cinemas to movies and concert halls to music, Illuminariums are to experiential entertainment. Illuminariums are reprogrammable immersive theaters that surround visitors in a sensory space of sight, sound and scale unlike any other, providing access to the most amazing, but typically out-of-reach, places, people and experiences to make our planet a more inspired, more empathetic and more connected place. Created by entrepreneur Alan Greenberg, Academy and Emmy Award winning RadicalMedia, Tony Award winning Rockwell Group, and operated by the global venue operator Legends, Illuminarium Experiences brings together best-in-class partners in content creation, theatrical design, interactive technologies and venue operations. Learn more at Illuminarium.com.
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