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December: Toy Hacking Tuesdays

Posted on December 2, 2012 By PLAYER1 Reply

Get into the spirit of the season by giving new life to an old toy or or new meaning to a broken gadget. League is toy hacking Tuesday evenings in December, from 5pm on. Bring toys and gadgets we can

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Weekly highlights: play in urban space

Posted on November 29, 2012 By PLAYER1 Reply

A bunch of projects crossed our desk recently that are all about re-imagining the potential of urban space. 1. Walking East First off, here’s a project that is underway right now, for an undetermined length of time — perhaps a few

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Played: Sunday 25 November 2012

Posted on November 27, 2012 By PLAYER1 1 Comment

Everyone was asked to bring a stick of some kind, and it was a funny sight to see people arriving at the field with brooms, umbrellas, lacrosse- and hockey sticks, branches, a mop, and a piece of bamboo. Others pulled

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Upcoming play — Sunday 25 November — stickplay

Posted on November 13, 2012 By PLAYER1 Reply

    Bring something stick-like: a branch, broomstick, sticks for playing, a club, a staff… Each object’s purpose will reveal itself. Sunday 25 November, noon to 4pm Elm Park

Highlights of the week: breathing, junkyard sports, origins of Monopoly, Checkered Chess, Paul Pfeiffer / James Naismith, and Sergio Romo’s fastball

Posted on November 1, 2012 By PLAYER1 1 Comment

A roundup of interesting projects and issues that recently crossed our desk. 1. Below the Belt from Vimeo user jiann Below The Belt is an interactive installation exploring the tensions between competitive contact sports and the inward focus of breathing

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Played: Sunday 28 October 2012

Posted on October 29, 2012 By PLAYER1 1 Comment

Gölstrom A new game that organically emerged from goofing around with the equipment at hand, as we realized that everyone was up for some fairly physical play. It was very fun and natural and completely unrelated to the games that

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Upcoming League play – 28 October

Posted on October 26, 2012 By PLAYER1 Reply

League play Sunday 28 October 12:00-4:00 Elm Park, Kerrisdale League is an open gathering for the purpose of playing games and sports invented by community members. Each game, its playing field and its strategies will evolve through trial and improvisation,

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Played: Sunday 14 October 2012

Posted on October 14, 2012 By PLAYER1 1 Comment

Notes from kickoff day, a rainy Sunday, October 14. After realizing that the borrowed couch wouldn’t fit through the field house door, we strung up a tarp outdoors and tried three different activities: Couchie, Monkeying Around Training Program, and Massively

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Press: Georgia Straight, “Vancouver artist Germaine Koh asks public to help invent new sports”

Posted on October 12, 2012 By PLAYER1 Reply

The Georgia Straight Vancouver artist Germaine Koh asks public to help invent new sports By Stephen Thomson, October 12, 2012 Germaine Koh wants to bring fun and games to a small park in Vancouver. The local artist is behind the

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From the vault: “Checks and Balances” from Art Lies

Posted on October 11, 2012 By PLAYER1 Reply

When discussing play and art, I was reminded of this piece I was challenged to write four years ago for the art journal Art Lies. The theme of the edition, guest-edited by the curator Stuart Horodner, was “second acts” — the

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