Thanks to everyone who submitted a slide for our (un)Keynote this year and who then generously gave us permission to put their slides up online. They’re a mix of insight, wisdom, call to arms, reflection, science, and art, and reflect the individual views of their creators, but stitched together perfectly illustrate our theme of Handmade. Continue reading
I knew going into this year’s festival that gender was an issue for us in terms of representation in our program, but coming out of the festival, it has obviously evolved into a much larger conversation centred around our panel The Words That We Use.
While I wasn’t physically present, I have read through all of the articles, blog posts, and twitter commentary – which I’ve linked to as… Continue reading | 5 Comments
When we came up with our theme of Handmade for this year’s festival we sketched out a list of ideas that it meant to us, one of which was the realisation that a festival wasn’t actually a concrete thing without an audience. In many ways the process of designing a festival is like designing a game. You’re creating a possibility space for an experience – an experience that becomes unique for everyone who comes along, influenced by their focus, their desires, their relationship to the speakers or the topic or each other, and things as simple as where they sit in the room. Continue reading
Nobody can be told what Lemon Jousting is, you have to see it for yourself. Luckily, there were secret cameras there to capture the event. We neither condone or condemn people who snuck these through the backstreets of the city to hidden rooms in bars where people congregate with spoons and fruit. Continue reading
Last night we had the first of our Playful Program events at the Bella Union – The Games That Made Me. Continue reading
It’s here! We all made it. Well done everyone. We’re off to the printers this morning to pick up the last of our stuff and then we’ll be checking everything is order before things start on Wednesday evening for our first Playful Program event, The Games That Made Me. Continue reading
Since Freeplay started all the way back in 2004, the opportunities for artistic and independent development have completely changed. As every year rolls around, we find ourselves thinking – and writing – about exactly how things were and what things might be in the future.
But as a snapshot, we know that more people are making more things, and that those things are increasingly personal, experimental, less designed… Continue reading
It would be impossible to fully explore our theme of handmade and our goals of looking at the individual’s role in the creative process without finding some way of digging deep into a range of individual experience, failures, and successes. Continue reading
The list of submitted slides is growing, but we still need more for our (un)keynote happening exactly one week from now.
What’s an (un)keynote? I hear you ask through the intertubes. For a whole bunch of reasons, we struggled to find a keynote speaker this year so rather than not have anything, or stand up there and do it ourselves, we thought it might be interesting – and in line with our theme of Handmade – to crowdsource it. Continue reading
A week from now, we’ll be on day 3 of the experiment that is this year’s Freeplay, and after the sharing of The Games That Made Me and the exertion of Lemon Jousting, we’re taking a quiet little break to hang out, grab a drink, and listen to some music.
Part of what we wanted to do with this year’s festival was to take games out of… Continue reading