WHY GAMES?

Everyone deserves to have more fun. Play belongs in everything we do.

Often, we get told that things must be done a certain way. But a good game structures our experience in a unique way, and reveals that there is never ONE way to accomplish something.

So, we play Games to prove that looking at things differently and making connections between seemingly disparate ideas is a way to access robust creativity. 

When we get to try something new in the spirit of PLAY— just for the heck of it — our vision expands and we recognize that any type of obstacle we face can be solved in myriad ways.

Gamers thrive on Hard Fun. We ask “How do we make this incredible thing ourselves?” or “How can I do this impossible feat?” and then attempt to make or do them. 

When we generate these kinds of voluntary obstacles, we get to dive in, join together, and GET THINGS DONE. And this is waaaaaay more mood-boosting than relaxation!

The more challenging the obstacle, the more engaged we are, the better we feel when we achieve our aim, and the more fun we get to have in the process. 

HOW WE PLAY

Book Club is the hallmark activity of our Games practice. We read something together — a book (duh!), a short story, a recipe, a piece of junk mail, a billboard — and use it as our starting point: 

What’s intriguing? 

How do we literally make something we’ve just read, using people in three dimensions? 

Everything we do to answer those questions is a game. And our Games are Just for Fun: we actually celebrate risk and failure while figuring this stuff out.

We actively strive to bring more Hard Fun into people’s lives. We’ll give you the tools and provide the forum to play with us as we generate new material together: scenes, “happenings,” dances, art pieces, and songs. There’s NO experience necessary, apart from the experience of being a curious person. In fact: we’re all capable of inventing something profound, delightful, or compelling in very short order — if we’re properly engaged and in good company. So let’s play.

Would you like to be on the mailing list for our next Games session? Would you like us to come to your space —school, theater company, white-shoe law firm — and organize a Games workshop? Do you just want to say hi? For those reasons or any others, click the button and shoot us an email.