With great thanks to Elliot Summers who created this awesomeness!
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Spirits Walk – a new pervasive street game for #freshair14 by Serious Business
A Lost Waif, a Wandering Entertainer, a King by the River… the spirits of Melbourne must find the forgotten and impossible Gods who walk the streets as the sun is setting.
Headlining Pop Up Playground’s 2014 Fresh Air Festival will be a brand new game designed and presented by international guest artists Serious Business from the UK.
In their game, Spirits Walk, players enter the spirit world and make new spirits of their own through a series of rituals and a masked procession after sunset.
7th 8th and 9th of March
Starting at 7:00 PM at the Pop Up Playground tent at Federation Square
Free to play but bookings would be appreciated – bookings@popupplayground.c
Fresh Air Festival is presented by Pop Up Playground and Federation Square.
Final playtest for Fresh Air 14
People! People! Come help us fine tune some of the new games we’ve designed for Fresh Air, 2014. It’s free, it’s fun and it’s the most important part of the game designing process.
We need you!
10-4, Saturday 22 of Feb, 2014
Come along at 10 and meet in the Atrium at Fed Square (usually we start at the big table in Beer Deluxe) and be the first to play(test) our newest, funnest games yet!
If you can make it all day or only for an hour or two, we’d love you to come help us make awesome situations! Email us to let us know you’re coming – rabbithole @ popupplayground.com.au
Playtest for Fresh Air 14
Fresh Air is returning for another year, as we have a load of brand new games we need to playtest.
10-4, Monday 27 Jan 2014
Come along at 10 and meet in the Atrium at Fed Square and be the first to play(test) our newest, funnest games yet!
If you can make it all day or only for an hour or two, we’d love you to come help us make awesome situations! Email us to let us know you’re coming – rabbithole @ popupplayground.com.au
Fresh Air 2014
Ooo! Fresh Air is back this year, bigger, better and more filled with games and play than ever before! Put the dates in your diary – March 7-10, 2014. Everything is free and filled with fun. More details coming soon!
This is a Door – All Day Play Room on Sometimes Melbourne
Play with the Valkyries
This is a Door – All Day Play Room
Pop Up Playground
29 November to 1 December
Theatre Works
theatreworks.org.au
popupplayground.com.au
Pop Up Playground are bloody wonderful.
Robert Reid, Sayraphim Lothian, Ben McKenzie and their gorgeous game makers realised that we weren’t having as much fun as we should be and have been popping up all over the city with games for everyone.
A Pop Up Playground event is guaranteed to have you feeling happier than when you arrived.
And you get to play!Read More
New addition! TWITTER DUNGEONCRAWL for #tiad13
TWITTER DUNGEONCRAWL
28th Nov
Are you on twitter? Next Thursday the 28th of Nov at 9pm Grant Howitt from Serious Business will be running a TWITTER DUNGEONCRAWL as part of This is a Door. Play with (or against) people around the world as you battle monsters and attempt to steal treasure. Make ready your battle axe! Follow @gshowitt to play.
Photos from I See Magical Creatures for #tiad13
Yesterday, in gorgeous weather in a park in St Kilda, Katie and Lea from I See Magical Creatures pitched their pyramid, spread out their beautiful ground cover and invited passersby to create magical creatures to install around St Kilda.
Check out the photos of the day!
Guerilla Poets Opening Doors – 2 new videos #tiad13
The Guerrilla Poets, Preprint and Haikubomber, made a little film of their guerrilla poetry drops yesterday:
Guerrilla Poets Opening Doors drop from popupplayers on Vimeo.
Haikubomber also made another film, “Open Hands” which you can see below:
Open Hands from popupplayers on Vimeo.
Several of the finders reported back via Instagram, including this response from the Melbourne street artist Legojacker
Thanks to both the Guerrilla Poets for such a beautiful project!
Lego Poetry for #tiad13
LEGO POETRY
29th, 30th Nov and 1st Dec
Lego. Poetry. Together.
Lego Poetry was developed by Daniel Donahoo at Project Synthesis to respond playfully to primary students literacy needs. It is about building small, playful literary moments like we have always done in private diaries, on toilet doors and to unsuspecting audiences. Take a photo, post of Facebook|Twitter|Instagram with the tag #legopoetry and follow @LEGOPoetry.
Location: Theatre Works foyer, 14 Acland Street St Kilda
Time: 1pm, 4pm, 6:30pm
Tickets: Free to create