Audiences, but not as we know them

Audiences eh. What to call them?

‘Audience’ just doesn’t cut it when the projects are designed to interact and encourage engagement.  Participant is too easily confused with the people helping to make the project/up on the stage/running the workshop/delete as applicable.

I’ve just spent a very clunky and irritating 3 hours writing a funding application calling them ‘audience/participants’.  Helps my words per minute stats, but surely I can do better than this.

Hmmm.  Audicipant?

Anyone?