XP Dispatch: May 2026
Welcome to XP Dispatch — our monthly look ahead at the events, gatherings and cultural moments shaping the experiential industry. Each issue, we go deeper on three. We talk to the people building them, participating in them and watching them closely. Consider it your field briefing for the month ahead. This month we're watching motorsport, music and museums. Three worlds that look nothing alike, all circling the same question: what does it actually take to make someone feel something in 2026? FORMULA 1 MIAMI GRAND PRIX May 1-3, 2026 | Miami International Autodrome, Miami, FL Miami is the F1 race that figured out how to be a cultural festival, and the festival is what's growing the sport. The 2026 weekend has the racing (sprint Saturday, Grand Prix Sunday) and the rest of what's now considered standard issue. F1's official Fan Fest at Lummus Park on South Beach is free and open to the public for the first time. The campus across Hard Rock Stadium is built around neighborhood-themed zones — Wynwood, Key Biscayne, Little Havana — with food, art and entertainment scaled to each. Miami is selling Miami first, and racing is the reason it's all happening this weekend. The...
