# Event Details - **Event Name**: asses.masses | Peek Fest 2025 - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 01:00 pm – Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: An epic day of video gaming and uprising: asses.masses invites you to play as a herd of donkeys trying to get their jobs back.About this EventImpulse Theatre presentsasses.masses by Patrick Blenkarn & Milton LimSaturday, November 15 + Sunday, November 16Intrepid Studio (2-1609 Blanshard St)$40, $25, $20, or $10asses.masses is a custom video game designed to be played from beginning to end by a live audience, one person at a time. It’s a 7+ hour epic story of a herd of unemployed donkeys trying to get their jobs back, all while navigating the perils of a post-Industrial society in which they’ve been made redundant.Cheeky, political, and best described as Animal Farm meets Pokémon meets Final Fantasy, asses.masses puts the control(ler) in its audience’s hands and asks them to discover the space between the work that defines us and the play that frees us.co-direction, text, programming, pixel art, 2d animation: Patrick Blenkarnco-direction, text, sound design, video, shaders, 3d visual effects: Milton Limdramaturgy, text, touring producer: Laurel Greenoriginal music, sound design: David MesihaAbout the artists:Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim are conceptual artists exploring urgent questions around the social value of art, digital labour, and the political potential of games. Mixing their backgrounds in performance, philosophy, psychology, and digital media, their collaborations have manifested in video games, participatory installations, digital archives, and card games.In addition to their asses.masses, Patrick and Milton are also the co-founders of the Canadian national video archive of performance (videocan) and the co-creators behind a performing arts economy trading card game (culturecapital), a role playing game about cultural design (FARCE), and an escape room intervention in a German museum (FUNFUG FORUM). Their projects have been presented across Canada, as well as in Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the USA, in English, French, Italian, Catalan, Turkish, Portuguese, German, and Spanish.Their next project, dam.nation, follows the true story of twenty Canadian beavers acquired by the Argentinian government in 1946.Duration7 h 30 approx. with 4 intermissionsThe length of the show is variable, depending on how long it takes the audience to finish the game. Food will be provided throughout the experience and served at each intermission. Non-alcoholic drinks will be available for purchase.Practical Informationasses.masses is not designed for audiences to come and go anytime, or to arrive late. We encourage you to get there on time or you will miss the introduction. Intermissions take place every two episodes, approximately every 1.5 hours.AccessibilityContent Noteasses.masses includes flashing lights, audience participation, violence, crude language, simulated donkey sex, simulated human sex, and references to drug use, suicide, and police brutality. We recommend it for audience members ages 14 and up. This is not a performance that is suitable for young audiences.Participation and active spectatorship is a central part of asses.masses. We invite you to be part of our Herd in any way you can.Artist Provided Access GuideFor additional information about access, please review our Access Guide: asses.masses_AccessGuideIntrepid Studio (1609 Blanshard St #2)Intrepid Studio has level access to the building with a slight lip to go over when passing through the door. It also has two single user, all gender washrooms, one of which is wheelchair accessible. The lobby is fully wheelchair accessible. The stage is on one level and is wheelchair accessible.More details about the venue are available here: https://intrepidtheatre.com/venues/intrepid-theatre-club/itc-accessibility/​Parking & Transit:There is a small, free parking lot in front of Intrepid. Some of the BC transit bus routes that run near Intrepid Theatre are: #6 along Quadra St, #2, 27 & 28 along Pandora Ave, #4, 11, 30, 31, 50, 70, and others along Douglas St.For more information about accessibility, please visit: www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibilityRead our Safer Spaces Policy.AcknowledgementsPresented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the BC Arts Council, the Victoria Foundation, City of Victoria, and the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service.Sponsors include Theatre SKAM, Westcoast Academy of Performing Arts and Braem Accountancy Ltd.Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/victoria/assesmasses-|-peek-fest-2025/100001767228200119 - **Event Categories**: art, theatre, business, festivals, performances, entertainment, it, pokemon - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fassesmasses-peek-fest-2025-tickets-1767228200119 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 12.06, max: 44.06, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Victoria - **state**: BC - **country**: Canada - **location**: Intrepid Studio - **lat**: 48.428997 - **long**: -123.36166709999998 - **full address**: Intrepid Studio, 1609 Blanshard Street, Victoria, Canada ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Impulse Theatre (https://allevents.in/org/impulse-theatre/22971975) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c9fdbc73215595ede978a1374022a68070bbc766ddc03eefbbc1646881c66d77-rimg-w1200-h600-dc463848-gmir.jpg?v=1762038014 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/0cd89aa1284a1cbe9406db2d980682b81d905a1b71c0a439d87e2b95359060bc-rimg-w400-h400-dcfede58-gmir.jpg?v=1762038013 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? 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