We are delighted to announce a number of opportunities available to creatives and artists for playARK festival 2013. We are commissioning game designers and experience makers to bring their games to Cardiff this November. The games can be anything from pervasive street games to computer assisted games. During playARK festival 2013 we will be programming two headline games, five pop-in games and then two games specifically for family orientated audiences. So if you have a game that you have already designed or you want to bring something new that will premiere at playARK we want to hear from you.
Below is a link for application packed full of further information on what we are looking for.
The deadline for applications is 12 noon August 30th
If you have any queries regarding this opportunity please contact Natalie yello@yellobrick.co.uk
Two days of talks and games that dares you to playfully Reclaim learning, living and working now and in the future.
Festival Talks – Friday 1st November
10am - 5pm (9.30am Registration)
Weston Studio
Full - £25.00
Concessions - £15.00
Early bird tickets - £18.00 (available for a limited period only)
A conference that brings together a day of brilliant thinking from renowned speakers from the UK and internationally that explore the theory, practice and importance of playful and creative approaches to what we make and do. The day will look at how games, story and play is influencing new ways of developing creativity and changing behaviours and patterns of attention. Whether you have an interest in gaming or want to look at your business differently or investigate a possible new way of structuring education or even understand how games can pave the way towards social change then come and join us and find out what the possibilities are. Previous speakers have included Alice Taylor, Matt Locke, Dave Sharp, Dan Dixon and Dr Gareth Loudon.
Tickets are now on sale and are available from the WMC
Festival Games – Saturday 2nd November
10am - 5pm
WMC Glanfa Stage Area
Drop in Games - Free
Headline Games - £5.00
Thanks to everyone who came to the "co-production: social change in action" event last night. I enjoyed it loads (and people have said that they did too, so that's cool.)
Just a quick note to say that due to timings (and having to invent a screen to project onto), we didn't get a chance to chat about potential new projects at the end, so we're going to get together to chat about it on Monday (this coming Monday - 1st July).
Where: at mine, 15 Janet Street, Splott, CF24 2BD
When: from 7pm
There may even be cake, and juice, and there will always be lots of fancy teas.
There are a couple of things in the pipeline -
1. The IDEO + acumen free 5-week course "human-centered design for social change" (http://plusacumen.org/courses/hcd-for-social-innovation/) - we're getting together a Cardiff team, deadline to register is Wednesday 3rd July.
2. The People's Health Trust has got £50k funding over 2 years for active communities. (http://www.peopleshealthtrust.org.uk/apply-for-funding/active-communitie...) Could we do something with that? Deadline for application is mid July.
3. At last night's event one of the groups started talking about issues affecting Splott, including the (existence and) implantation of heavy industry, and how this affects the neighbourhoods. This may be something to explore within 1. and 2. ...
We are delighted to announce our fourth meetup which will once again take place on Wednesday 27th March. We'll be talking about co-production of public service with Noreen Blanluet. Noreen is a partner in All In this Together, an organisation that promotes co-production and its principles in Wales.
Co-production is “delivering public services through equal and reciprocal relationships between professionals, people using services, their families and their communities”. During the evening we will be talking about how co-production can be applied in a variety of contexts. The evening will include an interactive thinking and doing session around examples of where co-production has had an impact.
We will also have time to chat about projects people are thinking about doing as well. So if you have an idea want to meet new people and develop some socially motivated projects why not come along.
Please come along, 7pm, DOWNSTAIRS in Fire Island, CF10 1DD - http://fireislandcardiff.co.uk/restaurant/location/
Check out the amazing work being done by All in This Together at http://allinthistogetherwales.wordpress.com/
Trade School Cardiff is running again this month (19th - 21st June) during Refugee Week Wales.
You can book classes at the following address http://tradeschool.coop/cardiff/class
We are collaborating with Oasis Cardiff and the Welsh Refugee Council classes will be run by refugees and people living in Cardiff. We have decided to not have a barter system this time but we are providing an opportunity to exchange experiences, culture, heritage and skills.
We would love if you could support this Trade School by attending classes and offering to teach. We are hoping to have a mix of practical skills and insights to living in Cardiff and Wales.
Oasis Cardiff have kindly provided us with a venue and we are talking with the refugee community about classes they can run. We’re excited about this new collaboration and can’t wait to see you there.
You can sign up for classes from Wednesday 12th June
To run a class - this is the way it works:
You decide what you can teach to other people (think about the things you love doing like drawing, cooking, gardening, computers, fixing bikes, telling stories - your class can be as serious or as fun as you like)
We can help you to plan and run your class.
You decide what you want in return. It could be socks, it could be DIY, it could be advice, whatever you need.
Register your class.
This months meet up is a shoe and tell event your chance to turn up and talk about something you have been working on. The talk doesn't have to be fancy of be very long, just bring something to show.
Confirmed talks are:
- Trade School
- Sustainability talk
- walks and talks alpha test opportunity
If you would like to take part or just come and hear somethings this month we will be at Bachus (the old CAI) from around 7pm
We are delighted to announce our second meetup which will once again take place on Wednesday 27th March. We'll be talking about Creativity and Play with Steve Coleman. Steve is currently "researching the links between play and creativity with a weather eye towards pervasive gaming".
We will also have time to chat about projects people are thinking about doing as well. So if you have an idea want to meet new people and develop some socially motivated projects why not come along.
Please come along, 7pm, upstairs in 33 Windsor Place, CF10 3BZ.
Wednesday 27th February, 7pm, 33 Windsor Place, Cardiff - thinkARK's monthly meet-ups kicks off with an informal talk from Victoria Tillotson who co-produces projects as part of the Collect, one of which is Spoon Feed - an arts mirco-funding event that has been running since February 2012 in Bristol and combines support for artists from fellow practitioners with a delicious soup supper. http://www.thecollect.org/ Victoria has a background in visual art and currently works at the Pervasive Media Studio as a Producer.
We have arranged our first monthly meetups.
http://www.facebook.com/events/433638886712139/
Hope to see you all there.
We have been thinking about thinkARK and how it can develop and over the last year or so we have been struggling (so to speak) to bring the mountain to us. So we have decided why not go to the mountain. To this end we have decided to make our weekly meetings monthly which will be special more event based evenings. The first one is going to be at the end of February (27th) at 33 windsor place. which is going to be really great to get it kicked off.
Victoria Tillotson one of the people behind the sunday soup groups in Bristol is coming over to talk to us about their experiences about the project. So please come along to that. Then for all the other wednesday's we will be heading far and wide to experience other peoples events and learn new things so we will be changing our calendar slightly so that we put on things that people might be interested in going to do and see. A kind of what's on for people who want to learn, do and socialise.
Why not come along to our meeting on Wednesday evenings and see how you can get involved! Click here to view our calendar.
