2026 theme submissions.xlsx

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5	1	Rooted	Rooted speaks to connection to self, community, and land. Stability in a chaotic world, origins, ancestry, and identity.	Installations that grow over the event (literally or metaphorically) like mycorrhizal or mycelium...I see a network of lights blanketing the entire space! Interactive “root networks” connecting camps
6			Growth that comes from being grounded. It’s a theme that balances stillness and expansion - being deeply planted while reaching outward.	Spaces where people leave something behind (messages, objects, intentions). Living structures (plants, reclaimed materials). The Tree of Life
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8	2	Lost Between Worlds	Lost Between Worlds” captures the idea of a space that exists beyond reality, a threshold where time, identity, and expectation fall away. It reimagines something like Neverland not as a place of innocence, but as a liminal world where people come to disconnect from who they are and explore who they could be.	“Lost Between Worlds” opens the door to a wide spectrum of artistic expression rooted in transformation, duality, and escape. Artists can explore contrasts between light and shadow, fantasy and decay, innocence and rebellion, translating these ideas into engaging installations, interactive environments, and evolving performance pieces.
9			To be “lost” here is not confusion, but freedom, a release into creativity, expression, and connection. “Between Worlds” reflects the moment of crossing over, where fantasy and reality blur, and every individual becomes part of a shared, experience.	Sculptors play a key role in bringing the world to life, creating large-scale structures such as fractured clocks, shipwrecks, portals, and hybrid creatures that feel caught between realities. Doors and gateways become powerful symbolic elements throughout the space, hidden entrances, oversized frames, or interactive passageways that guests physically move through, each one representing a shift between identities or worlds. These can reveal secret areas, trigger light or sound changes, or act as thresholds for transformation.
10				Costuming can move beyond literal interpretations into abstract identities: shadow figures, bioluminescent beings, lost tribes, or time-warped characters. Visual artists can experiment with projection, reflective surfaces, and layered textures to create shifting realities, while performers and dancers embody the idea of transition, constantly changing, adapting, and responding to the space. The result is a living, breathing environment where art is not just observed, but experienced and co-created by everyone within it.
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12	3	Dreamscape	Sentella is a chance to Dream, to Imagine and to play with ideas. Imagine walking out of the "normal" world and into a dream literally come to life? Illusions, games, art, performance and a chance to do what you don't normally get to.	Illusions, tricks of the eye. We could build a cloud to dream on together. The chance to build that thing you have been contemplating. A canvas for our imagination
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14	4	Lemons	Because... lemons. They are loved by all. Lemons are versatile, much like any good theme should be	Yellow things. Sour things. Tequila things. A giant lemon with surprisingly sweet things inside. When life gives you lemons things. Got any grapes?
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16	5	Pirates	Let's get swashbuckling dronk. Ships and treasure	Artwork on the water
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18	6	Phenomenom	It's a nom feeling	That's a reflection of there expression
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20	7	Through the Looking Glass	Through the Looking Glass feels like an invitation to step into a slightly different version of Sentella. One where things look normal at first… and then you notice something’s off.	This theme could inspire optical illusion installations, forced perspective builds, mirrored structures, playful distortions, and immersive spaces that feel like stepping into another layer of reality.
21			Imagine turning a corner and suddenly feeling like you’ve shrunk. Walking past a doorway that looks ordinary, until you step through it and everything shifts. Mirrors that stretch, reflections that surprise, structures that play tricks on your eyes. It’s about creating moments that make people laugh, pause, and say, “Wait… what just happened?”	Camps could create portal style entrances, upside down elements, hidden reveals, or spaces that look completely different depending on where you stand. Even simple builds like a distorted sign, a light and shadow illusion, or a creative photo spot could bring the theme to life.
22			Clever illusions, playful perspective shifts, interactive spaces that pull people in. A funhouse corner, a distorted stage, a portal entrance that feels like crossing into another layer of the event.	It also opens space for performance art that plays with perception and duality, costumes inspired by reflection and inversion, interactive storytelling, and surreal stage design.
23			Through the Looking Glass is about curiosity and imagination. It turns the whole space into a playground of perception - where nothing is quite as it seems, and that’s exactly the point. :)	The beauty of this theme is that it encourages clever creativity rather than large scale production. Small illusions can have a big impact, especially in an intimate environment like Sentella.
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