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FoST Explorers Club
A vibrant community for those on the cutting edge of storytelling, culture, and technology.
ABOUT THE CLUB
A gathering place for people shaping the future of storytelling.
The FoST Explorers Club is a global community for people curious about where storytelling is going next.
Our members include creators, technologists, executives, and cultural explorers who want to stay close to the ideas, experiences, and innovators shaping the future of storytelling.
Through invitations to curated trips, conversations with master storytellers, and private community channels, the FoST Explorers Club offers a way to discover emerging forms of storytelling and connect with others who share that curiosity.
At its heart, the club is for people who believe in better stories for a better future.
What membership includes
MEMBERSHIP
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Priority Access to Trips & Gatherings
Members are first in line for FoST trips—behind-the-scenes experiences with the pioneers shaping immersive storytelling. First access to registration and 10% off.
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Monthly Learning & Discovery
Exclusive access to speaker sessions with authors, artists, technologists, and boundary-pushing creators—plus live FoST Podcast recordings and early access to our newsletter, FoST in Thought.
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A Thriving Community
Your fellow Explorers are some of the most interesting people you'll meet. Monthly Cabin Calls gather small groups around a thoughtful prompt, and Collab Circles are where members bring real work and leave with real feedback. A members-only WhatsApp and Member Portal keep the community connected year-round.
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The FoST Seal of Approval
Being part of this community comes with its own perks. Members receive occasional discounts and giveaways on conferences, shows, and experiences we genuinely believe are worth your time—plus an annual gift celebrating your place in the FoST Explorers Club.
“My calendar is packed, but after I came to the first Explorers Club trip I rearranged my entire schedule to make as many as possible. It's incredibly valuable for me, professionally.”
Rob Bredow
Former Chief Creative Officer, Industrial Light & Magic
Curated Multi-Day Trips
PRIORITY ACCESS
At least twice a year, we go somewhere most people can't. 2–4 days of behind-the-scenes access to the people and experiences defining the future of storytelling.
Insider Access
Private tours, talkbacks, and sit-down conversations with the master storytellers behind the experiences—past access has included ILM, teamLab, Punchdrunk, Niantic, WētāFX and much more.
Fully Programmed
Each day includes carefully chosen experiences—shows, tours, talks, immersive experiences and moments you couldn't have planned on your own. Tickets, logistics, and itineraries are all taken care of.
Members First
FoST Explorers Club members get priority registration. Members receive 10% off all trip prices.
At PixMob, we’ll explore how wearable technology can transform audiences from spectators into active participants in a shared story. The Montréal-based team has powered major crowd experiences from Super Bowl halftime shows to Olympic ceremonies, using light, synchronization, and scale to turn thousands of people into a living canvas. Our visit will include a look inside the lab and facilities, a wristband demo, and a conversation about the future of audience technology in live experience.
At The Black Mirror Experience, we’ll enter a premium immersive adventure from Banijay Live Studio that brings the world of Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed series into a physical, participatory format. Set inside the showroom of a fictional tech company unveiling an AI companion called LifeAgent, the experience places small groups at the center of a new story about desire, convenience, control, and personal data. Recently recognized with a Special Mention in the Cannes Immersive Competition, it offers a timely lens on AI, identity, audience agency, and the expansion of screen-based stories into live experience.
Coming up in 2026
September 25 -27
London
Three days of private studio visits, immersive experiences, and behind-the-scenes conversations with some of the most inventive teams working at the cutting edge of storytelling, technology, and experience design.
At Supply + Demand, we’ll go behind the scenes with a creative studio building location-based immersive experiences that combine world-building, interactivity, and live operation. Their work includes Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue, developed with Microsoft and Mojang Studios to bring one of the world’s most beloved game worlds into a physical, interactive format. Our session will include a demo of an in-development interactive connected to their Minecraft work, plus a hands-on workshop using physical miniatures to collaboratively design an immersive experience.
Black Mirror Experience
Ubisoft’s La Forge
At Ubisoft Montréal, we’ll get a private look inside one of the world’s most influential game studios, whose teams have helped define the language of contemporary interactive worlds through franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Rainbow Six and more. We’ll also meet with La Forge, Ubisoft’s research and development group, for a conversation about the technologies making game worlds more believable, adaptive, and alive — from AI, animation, rendering, and physics to sound, player behavior, and dynamic environments. The visit offers a rare chance to explore how production, research, and storytelling converge inside the future of interactive entertainment.
Dpt. Studio
At Dpt., we’ll visit one of Montréal’s most inventive interactive studios, working across VR, AR, mixed reality, AI, gaming, film, and physical installation. Their acclaimed projects include The Enemy, the Basquiat and Music AR experience at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, and Oto’s Planet, a Venice-recognized mixed reality tale exploring coexistence, colonization, and environmental fragility. The visit will explore how Dpt. blends narrative, emerging technology, and experience design to create immersive worlds that feel technically ambitious and emotionally resonant.
The 7 Fingers
At The 7 Fingers, we’ll step inside the creative process of the Montréal-based contemporary circus company known for blending acrobatics, theater, dance, music, and physical storytelling. The company has helped redefine circus as an intimate, character-driven form, using movement, risk, ensemble collaboration, and theatricality to create deeply human live experiences. Our visit will include conversations with the team and a look at works currently in development, including upcoming projects.
Interested in joining us in Montréal? Email explorers@fost.org to learn more and express your interest.
July 30 - Aug 2
Montréal
Montréal Trip Highlights
OVERVIEW
Moment Factory
At Moment Factory, we’ll begin the trip with a special welcome event and behind-the-scenes look inside one of the world’s leading multimedia entertainment studios. Known for transforming architecture, public space, concerts, and cultural landmarks through light, sound, video, and interactive technology, Moment Factory offers a powerful window into how story, spectacle, and collective experience come together at scale. The evening will also include a public FoST community event with a creative discussion panel and cocktail social, bringing Explorers into conversation with Montréal’s immersive and experiential scene.
PixMob
At least twice a year, we go somewhere most people can't. 2–4 days of behind-the-scenes access to the people and experiences defining the future of storytelling.
Supply + Demand
Upcoming Programming
2026 CALENDAR
JULY 30
- Aug 2
TRIP
Montreal Trip
A curated multi-day trip–details to be announced. Members get priority access and 10% off.
SEPT
25-27
TRIP
London Trip
A curated multi-day trip–details to be announced. Members get priority access and 10% off.
DEC
TBA
GATHERING
Meow Wolf LA
A day trip to Meow Wolf’s new LA exhibit. Members get priority access and 10% off.
TBA
More to come
Cabin Calls and Collab Circles happen monthly year-round. Speaker sessions and additional in-person gatherings are added throughout the year — members hear about everything first.
Executive Vice Chairman,
Cirque du Soleil
Chief Archivist, City Museum
Maria Cassilly
Ben Grossman
MONTHLY LEARNING & DISCOVERY
Speaker Sessions
Private conversations with the writers, directors, technologists, and business leaders shaping the future of storytelling. Some sessions are recorded live as FoST Podcast episodes, with members in the room and a dedicated Q&A at the end.
Founder, Magnopus
Amanda Raposo
Daniel Lamarre
Dr. Paul J. Zak
Neuroscientist
Brian McDonald
Chief Experience Officer, CAMP
Screenwriter, Director, and Author
Past Speakers
Glen Keane
Legendary Animator
Adam Moss
Former Editor, NY Mag
Sarah Furnace
Co-Founder, Manual Cinema
Sir Richard Taylor
Founder, Wētā Workshop
Jennine Willett
Co-Artistic Director, Third Rail Projects
Felix Barrett
Artistic Director, Punchdrunk
Vince Kadlubek
Co-Founder, Meow Wolf
Takashi Kudo
John Hanke
Susan Bonds
CEO, Infinite Rabbit Holes
Brand Director, teamLab
Founder, Niantic
Meaningful Connections
A THRIVING COMMUNITY
The people in this community are some of the most interesting you'll meet. Monthly Cabin Calls and Collab Circles bring members together around ideas and real work. A members-only WhatsApp and portal keep the conversation going between sessions.
Cabins
Small groups meet to discuss a single carefully chosen prompt. No presenter, no agenda—just honest conversation with your fellow Explorers.
Collab Circles
Bring something real. Leave with something better. Members share a project, idea, or challenge and get honest feedback from people genuinely invested in seeing good work exist in the world.
A members-only WhatsApp group that stays alive between sessions.
Member Portal
Your member archive and community hub — a dedicated space to revisit recorded tours and speaker sessions, connect with fellow members, and share your own personal and professional updates.