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New Comma x LSTV x Somerset House x Pryntd

The Bragging Circle

A hybrid shared reality experience for African and diaspora creatives, built so celebration, access, presence, and community are no longer limited by who can physically enter the room.

Immersive experience portal

Explore the shared reality experience.

The portal is where remote audiences can enter the cultural room, navigate Somerset House virtually, and stay connected to the live event layer.

Stage view Caption layer Remote circle Replay node
Room view active. Physical and digital audiences share the same event context, reactions, and creative discovery layer.
Opening narrative
A creative community is not just built by proximity. It is built by presence.

For millions of people, presence remains inaccessible: physical distance, mobility barriers, chronic illness, sensory overwhelm, finances, neurodivergence, care responsibilities, anxiety, immigration restrictions, and travel limitations can all decide who gets to take part.

The irony is painful. The creatives who most need connection are often locked outside the cultural rooms that claim to celebrate community.

The Bragging Circle can become the opposite: a celebration space where African and diaspora creatives speak openly about what they are building, what they are proud of, and who they are becoming.

Somerset House as cultural node Place, stage, archive, community room, and shared interface.
The cultural format

Not performance. Not networking. A room built around encouragement.

The Bragging Circle by New Comma and LSTV represents a new cultural format: a show-and-tell environment where confidence, visibility, and encouragement become shared practice.

Celebration

Creators can name what they are proud of.

Bragging becomes communal care rather than individual performance.

Healing

Isolation is answered by collective witnessing.

Freelancing and cultural production feel less lonely when the room is structured for affirmation.

Access

The circle can travel beyond its walls.

Pryntd extends the room so disabled, remote, and diaspora audiences can participate with dignity.

What this means for disabled audiences

Instead of watching culture happen elsewhere: being inside it.

For many disabled people, hybrid participation is not convenience. It is access to culture itself.

Chronic illness

Still present when travel is impossible.

A young African creative can enter the event remotely, follow the room, ask questions, and revisit the experience afterwards.

Mobility access

Still included when the venue is difficult.

A wheelchair user can choose a digital route through the event without being reduced to a passive stream viewer.

Sensory comfort

Still connected without overwhelm.

A neurodivergent audience member can use captions, slower pacing, replay, and lower-stimulation participation modes.

Diaspora reach

Still inside the room from elsewhere.

A creative outside London can participate socially, discover showcased work, and feel part of the cultural moment.

Venue operation Livestream Accessibility tools Audience interaction
Pryntd
Shared Reality Layer
Physical + digital participation Adaptive access + AI assistance Digital twin + replayable archive
The Pryntd solution

Do not replicate the room. Extend the room.

Traditional hybrid events often keep the physical audience in the real experience and digital audiences in a reduced version. Pryntd challenges that hierarchy by turning the event into one shared participation system.

Multi-perspective viewing

Stage view, audience view, speaker focus, creative showcase perspectives, and immersive roaming environments.

Interactive participation

Live reactions, contextual engagement, remote networking, creative discovery, and audience interaction.

Accessible infrastructure

Mobile-first access, caption-ready workflows, sensory-flexible participation, and replayable asynchronous entry.

AI-assisted presence

Guided context, simplified language, room descriptions, suggested questions, and adaptive participation modes.

Digital twin environment

Visitors explore Somerset House virtually while engaging with the event and its cultural context in real time.

Persistent archive

The event becomes a living cultural record people can revisit, share, and learn from after the night ends.

Stakeholder value

The Bragging Circle becomes a prototype for cultural infrastructure.

The same hybrid layer can expand reach, strengthen accessibility, preserve culture, and create new commercial surfaces across the whole partnership.

NC

For New Comma

Expanded global reach, disabled audience access, diaspora community building, creator discovery, replayable cultural preservation, and scalable sponsorship formats.

SH

For Somerset House

Accessibility leadership, increased participation beyond venue capacity, operational intelligence, future-facing venue innovation, and global cultural reach.

LS

For LSTV

Documentary and cultural storytelling expands into participatory media, giving audiences more than social content and creating long-term archive value.

PY

For Pryntd

A powerful proof point for accessibility-first shared reality infrastructure, rooted in culture and built around human participation.

Unlock shared reality

The future of creativity should not belong only to people who can physically enter the room.

Build accessibility-first hybrid experiences where physical and digital audiences coexist, disabled audiences are considered from inception, and everyone who wants to feel present has a meaningful way in.

Live captions: The Bragging Circle is available through room context, speaker focus, remote reactions, spatial navigation, and replayable access.
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