Future Sandpits

Sandpit #3 is over — false moustaches fallen to the floor, living rooms successfully smuggled, manila envelopes handed over, and misleading maps drawn. (If you have any pictures from the night on Flickr and want other players to be able to find them, tag them with sandpit3 and they’ll appear in the sidebar on the site.)

A section of the Trap Street map, at the end of the night.

Sandpit #4 will be at the Battersea Arts Centre on Saturday 10 May, as part of the opening night party for the Burst festival. The party itself is going to be full of playful events, and if you’re interested in running a game we’re particularly looking for anything connected to G.K. Chesterton, who called Battersea “the most beautiful of human localities”, and wrote about Sandpit-style games long before they existed in the real world. Expect anything from balloons, books and buses to chaos and common sense.

Sandpit #5 will be at the Hayward Gallery on Friday 30 May, to coincide with the opening of their Psycho Buildings exhibition. It’ll be full of games that can be played among the exhibition, both inside and on the outdoor terraces surrounding, and if you’re interested in running a game yourself this is a good Sandpit to pick, since one of the games will chosen to receive a budget to run again at the Hayward as part of the Hide and Seek Festival in June.