League Easy League collaborated with The Everything Company to host a small event at the Bomford Studios, a temporary building in which Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford are constructing their monumental artwork Dead Head from recuperated building materials. The Everything Company
Upcoming play — Sunday 26 May — B.Y.O.Bocce
For the next League play date on Sunday 26 May, you’re asked to B.Y.O.B: Bring Your Own Bocce. Bocce, Pétanque, Bowls and Bowling, Curling, Golf, Croquet, Marbles — all are games of precision and strategic positioning. Each uses objects and
Bean Race 2013
1… 2… 3… grow. Bean Race 2013 is now on in the field house yard. A meandering, but dramatic, race to new heights, the Bean Race is a test of patience and care. Your competitors are: 1… Verena Kaminiarz and
Workshops: play and process
Reminder: next League play day is this Sunday, 22 April, noon to 3pm at Elm Park. We’re going to slow things down in recognition of Slow Art Day. League is available to facilitate workshops on topics such as play and
Upcoming play – 21 and 28 April 2013
Spring has arrived, and that calls for two play dates this month: Sunday 21 April, 3-5 pm — with special guests from Arts Umbrella Teen Scholarship Program Sunday 28 April, noon-3pm — regularly-scheduled League gathering 21 April League recently
Upcoming play 31 March
Next League play date is Sunday March 31, noon to 3pm at Elm Park in Kerrisdale. This gathering will turn around hiding and finding, one of the most basic game mechanisms. As League regular and electronic game designer Ian Verchere
Played: 24 February 2013
Walkshopping On this day, we set out to explore the idea of walking as a tactic for turning urban space to other uses. “Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker
Kerrisdale Playbook article
Introduction to League and the Elm Park field house by Germaine Koh in the Kerrisdale Playbook, March 2013.
Upcoming play 24 February: walkshopping
Walking. We might take it for granted, but it is one of the ways in which individuals know, shape, and give meaning to places. Walking is an everyday tactic that bends the city toward unplanned ends (Michel de Certeau). It’s
Workshop: “Little League”
League regular Bruce Emmett brought some of his International Baccalaureate art students to the field house to workshop some games. In their class they have been developing games as an exploration of creative procedure, dubbing the exercise “Little League”. We