Events

Soho Theatre by Mark Hillary.

Future events

We’ve got a couple of events over the next few months - including one in Cardiff! So do come along and play.

• 2 July: Sandpit Cardiff, running 6-10pm on 2 July, organised with National Theatre Wales.
• July 31 to Aug 2: the Hide&Seek Weekender - Sandpit-style games in the RFH’s Clore Ballroom ALL WEEKEND LONG!

Previous events

Sandpit #1 was held on the 13th of February 2008, with a social gaming theme. Amongst other things, we played The Gossip Game and Mudlarking with Francis Barking.

Sandpit #2 was held on the 20th of March 2008 with a “Listening” theme. Games included Holla-Lulu, HipSync, Thoughtcrime, Freemasons and Francis Barking’s Crazy Golf, with a lot of Paper Telephone, Nomic and The Hat Game going on in the background.

Sandpit #3 was held on the 16th of April 2008, and was all about “Spying and Lying”. The night’s games included Trap Street, Dossier, Manila, Checkpoint and Make Your Own Moustache.

Sandpit #4 was held on the 10th of May 2008 as part of the Battersea Arts Centre’s Burst Festival. The night was themed around the works of G. K. Chesterton, who lived in Battersea and called it “most beautiful of human localities”. The games included The Man Who Was Thursday, Poets versus Policemen, Skipping Chesterton and Asparagus.

Sandpit #5 was held on the 30th of May 2008, as part of the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. The evening included games of Comfort of Strangers and Small Freeze inside the gallery space, and Checkpoint, Be Part of My Drawing Machine, Lost Sport of Olympia and Skylarking on the terraces and staircases outside.

The Hide and Seek Festival itself ran at London’s Southbank Centre from the 27th to the 29th of June. It featured a lot of the best games we’ve hosted this year, along with the traditional range of pick up and play Sandpit games.

Sandpit Games at Duty Free was a smaller-scale Sandpit on the 26th of July, at Stoke Newington International Airport, and saw a new batch of games: Fishing for Compliments, Congestion Zone, Animal Mayhem, Hunt the Scavenger and Standoff.

Sandpit #6 ventured down to the coast, to the streets of Brighton. We played Comfort of Strangers and Checkpoint in the North Lanes, Standoff, Texas Hold Me and Hipsync at the Lighthouse, with the ambient city games of Trap Street and City Blocks as their backdrop.

Sandpit #7 ran in darkest Soho in October 2008. We played Mr Smith, Night of the Vampire, Bogeyman Bagsnatch, Privacy is Dead, Surpass the Parcel, Hand to Hand, and were regaled with The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Sandpit #8 ran in the ICA in February 2009. We played new games Press Gang, Pulgar Libre, Paparazzi, Earpiece, Free London’s Monsters and Semaphoria.

Sandpit #9 ran at the Barbican in March 2009. Games included Mr Smith, Watch Your Back, Function, Congestion Zone, Hear No Evil See No Evil Speak No Evil, City Blocks and Semaphoria.

Sandpit #10 ran at the ICA in April 2009. Games included Rubble, Ponzi!, Moveyhouse, e-merge walks, Prophecy, Bacterius and Shrine.

Sandpit #11 ran at the BFI, as part of their Bond Weekender. Games included QNTMFSLC, Lasertrap, Surveillance, I’ve Been Expecting You, and more.

Sandpit #12 was held at Soho Theatre, and we played a whopping 10 games, including Soho Spy Squad, Theatre of Alienation, Epit, and Youdunnit.

Sandpit #13 ran on the 24 June, along the Spirit Level at the Royal Festival Hall, and included Scoop!, Binohunt and Parse the Parcel.