ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 IMMERSE is like an arts playground where you and your family can get as interactive as you want. With 160 artists and organizations applying, the bar is high.<\/p>\n
Creative City Project began in 2012 as a group of artists performing on street corners and in plazas around downtown Orlando.\u00a0The event was renamed IMMERSE at the beginning of 2017.
\nIMMERSE kicks off in a few days, meaning 10 Orlando city blocks will be peppered with interactives, engagements, attractions and experiences.
\nCole NeSmith is the founder. \u201cIt really is that embodiment of how art brings people and culture together,\u201d he said.
\nCole gave a tour of around Architects of Air. It\u2019s an impossible-to-miss inflatable attraction set up on the Seneff Arts Plaza in front of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. A British arts organization created the walk-through inflatable structures that are \u201ckind of modeled after stained glass in a cathedral.\u201d
\nIMMERSE and its multi-sensory arts playground runs this Friday, Feb. 20, through Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. Most of\u00a0IMMERSE \u2014\u00a0presented by AdventHealth<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0remains free and open to the public, but some of the experiences are ticketed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 IMMERSE is like an arts playground where you and your family can get as interactive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4093,1595,274,104,115,4094,1335,139,141,140,135,278,2032,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-159272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-allison-walker","9":"tag-app-arts-entertainment","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-on-the-town","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-orlando-headlines","17":"tag-orlando-news","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-trending-topics","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}