Events

This is a calendar of upcoming pervasive games around the world - both individual games, and larger, organised events. If you're planning to run a game in your area, in whatever context, you're welcome to add it to the list with a date, time and location.

(There's an archive of past events, if you want to see what you've missed.)

November 2008

Thursday 27th

• Rear Window in London

6pm-7pm

As part of the "With a Small P" programme ("Can playing be a political gesture?"), Checkpoint designer Andy Field is running Rear Window, "a chillingly exiting social experiment, drenched in Hitchcockian suspense and rooted in Stanley Milgram’s cynical spirit of experimentation. Inviting participants to test their courage and their resistance to peer pressure, Andy dares the audience to find out how long it takes before one intervenes against the status quo..."

More information at http://www.delfinafoundation.com/exhibitions_and_talks.html

December 2008

Tuesday 2nd

• Rear Window in London

6pm-7pm

As Thursday 27th of November.

Tuesday 9th - Saturday 13th

• A Small Town Anywhere

8pm onwards

A Small Town Anywhere has no performers, only you and the other audience members - the playing audience. Become the residents of this small town, where amenities include a pub, a prison and a working postal service. You’ll talk to friends and strangers, mostly one-on-one. Or you can skulk in the shadows and write letters. But let’s hope you’re not forced to leave town…

Coney are running their full-on, bells-and-whistles version of The Gossip Game at BAC five nights this week, developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio. Full details and ticket booking at http://bac.org.uk/whatsonresult.php?id=3233