Guest Sessions And Cultural Conversations

Portal Posse

Portal Posse brings speakers, contributors, interviews, Q&As, workshops, and cultural sessions into VR with context and care.

Program Context

Portal Posse sessions bring originators, artists, educators, culture keepers, practitioners, and contributors into VR conversations with context and care.

Sessions may include interviews, Q&As, workshops, history discussions, practice sessions, guest talks, cultural conversations, and preparation materials for future public programming.

What Sessions Can Include

InterviewsRecorded or live conversations that preserve process, history, and lived knowledge.

WorkshopsPractice-based sessions where guests teach, demonstrate, critique, or explain context.

Q&AsCommunity question sessions with artists, dancers, DJs, builders, educators, and culture keepers.

Attribution Review

The Faceless is building a reviewed public roster for past Portal Posse and related guest sessions. Names, handles, aliases, spelling, and whether a session should be listed publicly need approval before publication.

Until that review is complete, this page describes the program without publishing an unapproved guest list.

Why It Matters

Not all knowledge lives in textbooks. Some knowledge lives in scenes, communities, elders, movement traditions, creative practice, survival stories, technical craft, cultural memory, and lived experience.

Portal Posse helps preserve and share that knowledge with care, context, credit, and respect.

Cultural Respect, Credit, And Lineage

The Faceless values proper credit, lineage, boundaries, and context. Portal Posse contributors are invited to share names, teachers, scenes, organizations, sources, influences, acknowledgments, and resources that should be included when their session is introduced, promoted, or archived.

The program is not meant to extract knowledge. It is meant to create respectful space for people to speak, teach, tell stories, answer questions, and be credited accurately.

Recording And Archive Choices

Portal Posse sessions may be recorded or archived only when appropriate permissions are given. Contributors may request no recording, internal notes only, public archive language, or further discussion before anything is published.

Who We Hope To Hear From

Cultural knowledge keepers.
Dancers, originators, and movement educators.
Artists, musicians, DJs, performers, and scene elders.
Folklore, horror, goth, Appalachian, and humanities voices.
Scientists, astronauts, engineers, technologists, and STEAM educators.
Accessibility advocates and digital inclusion leaders.
Historians, archivists, public scholars, authors, and storytellers.
Community builders and people preserving under-documented cultural memory.

Portal Posse Speaker / Contributor Packet

Use this form if you are a speaker, contributor, interview guest, cultural-session guest, educator, artist, practitioner, or someone helping prepare a Portal Posse session.

Submitting the packet does not automatically schedule, record, promote, or approve a session. Additional review, scheduling, media terms, archive language, or written approval may be required.

Portal Posse - Speaker / Contributor Packet - V2

Portal Posse - Speaker Packet

Collects details needed to prepare, host, credit, and archive a Portal Posse session respectfully.

Preferred public display name

Organization / role / contributor context

Proposed session title

Short bio / intro

Session description

Which Faceless pillar does this most directly support?

Explain the Community, Culture, Education, and/or Charity connection.

Topics to avoid / boundaries / sensitive areas

Accessibility, tech, or comfort needs

Recording permission

Archive permission

Links, references, films, music, books, teachers, scenes, or resources to include

Credit / lineage / acknowledgments that should be included

Will this session mention, link, solicit, or promote outside paid offerings, tips, donations, subscriptions, personal services, merch, or outside communities?

If yes or maybe, describe what would be mentioned, linked, solicited, promoted, or credited.

Who else should VR audiences hear from?

I understand scheduling, recording, promotion, media use, archive language, paid-offering references, and public credit may require additional approval or written terms.

I understand the session may not be used to recruit, soft-scout, solicit payments/tips, or advertise outside paid services unless expressly approved in writing.

Privacy Acknowledgment I understand that The Faceless Inc. may collect and review the information I submit through this form, including my name, username, email address, Discord/VRChat identifiers, written responses, uploaded files, and any other information I choose to provide. I understand that this information may be used to respond to my submission, evaluate requests or applications, coordinate programs, support community operations, maintain internal records, and address safety, governance, moderation, or legal obligations when necessary. I understand that I should not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for the purpose of this form. I confirm that I have reviewed the Privacy Policy and am submitting this information in good faith.

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