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If tech leads to anxiety more often than serenity, the VR Live Mandala Experience may alter your state of mind. But you’ll need to dash to Allapattah Tuesday to partake.
Hands in the controls, VR headset strapped on, you’re ready to climb the Himalayas and enter the Temple of the Tilting Buddha.


Marchak said she was one of about 70 businesses that had to rush out of the decades-old building at 168 Southeast 1st Street in downtown Miami.
An unsafe structures notice was posted on the front door a few days later and a police officer was in the lobby Friday as tenants took out some of their belongings and furniture.
“They made it seem like we were going through what Surfside went through and it will collapse on us,” said tenant Diliana Alexander.

FILMGATE INTERACTIVE
MEDIA FESTIVAL #09
Stay Alive, My Son
Country Greece
Creators Victoria Bousis
Medium VR
Year 2022
Upon being shown a photograph of a 6- year old boy, now digitally aged to 50, Yathay Pin’s realities collide. Haunted by his inner demons, his guilt his surfaces for abandoning his son to escape during the Cambodian genocide. The Player, embodying Yathay, plummets into his mental prison, containing locked memories. As they experience Yathay’s journey, they discover his reason for living: to reclaim all that he lost and to reunite with his son. Therefore, finding his salvation and healing his heart.
DOWNTOWN MEDIA CENTER:
168 SE 1st Street, Miami, FL 33131
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