After Sandpit #4

A playful Sandpit #4 last night, doing its bit for the “multi-artform bingo blowout” of the Battersea Arts Centre’s Trashy party, with a number of Chesterton-themed and other games running along the top floor, and out into the wider, wilder spaces. The spirit of G. K. Chesterton was invoked through false moustaches, pince-nez glasses, cigars, bon mots, fugitive poetry, Table Gype and several innovative ways to eat asparagus.

The game of Conversation Piece. Photo by Holly.

Poets versus Policemen ended up tied at one-all at the final postbox collection, although we’re told that one of the beat officers apprehended a suspiciously thoughtful-looking character in the bar, only to discover that they’d caught an actual poet who wasn’t playing the game. And The Man Who Was Thursday revealed herself at the stroke of midnight, after hiding out in a corner of Battersea Arts Centre for most of the last half hour, avoiding the attention of the straggling Wednesdays and Fridays.

Sandpit #5 will be running at the Hayward Gallery in just three weeks’ time, on Friday the 30th of May. Game details and signup forms will appear nearer the date.