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 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
“You aren’t alive anywhere like you’re alive at Lemon Joust Club…. Lemon Joust Club isn’t about winning or losing jousts. Lemon Joust Club isn’t about words. You see a guy come to Lemon Joust Club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself
Just because it’s launched doesn’t mean we can’t keep adding things to our program:
Rue Bebelons will be our venue for Lemon Joust Club
Taking place on Thursday, August 18, Lemon Joust Club will take you into the yellow belly of Melbourne to experience the world’s grubbiest – but nicest smelling – underground competitive sport.
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In the absence of us being able to bring international speakers over or finding someone locally to hit some of the keynote ideas we’d sketched out, we knuckled down and tried to think what else we could do that would still be inspiring and could still connect to our 2011 theme of Handmade. Continue reading | 1 Comment
As our theme for 2010 is play is everywhere we thought it only sensible that we turned the festival itself into a game.
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We’ve set up an account for Freeplay and also locations in foursquare
Backchatter
Thanks to John Sietsma from Tall Games, we’ll also be running Backchatter throughout Freeplay… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Two and a half weeks to go!
We’ve updated our program with new speakers, bios, and confirmation of Brandon Boyer’s Saturday keynote.
All Play is Personal
Games and their creation don’t exist in a vacuum. Every moment of our life informs our creative process, our personal themes, our unique perspective and need to express something. But what difference does any of that make… Continue reading | 1 Comment