Sandpit #9
Barbican walkway by maz hewitt.
Sandpit #9 took place on Saturday 7 March, when we visited the Barbican as part of their Do Something Different weekend.
Scheduled games included:
Mr Smith
Chase Mr Smith around the Barbican, trying to win tokens of your success - with one difficulty: Mr Smith can teleport… (From Yao Song Ng.)
Test Case
Try to capture the image of your enemies, while making sure you don’t get caught yourself - despite the fact that you’re carrying something rather conspicuous. (From Hide and Seek.)
Congestion Zone
Try to find your way out of an ill-conceived one-way system, whilst keeping your road rage at bay. (From Simon Katan.)
Animal Mayhem
Become a bee, a hippopotamus, an octopus; set the other animals a task; and then find a task of your own to fulfill. (From Silke Abele.)
Watch Your Back
A game of deductive backstabbing, calculated trust and very careful movement. (From Celine Llewellyn-Jones.)
Function
Many of you, but only two can win. Your moves will be broadcast to you by an unusual caller. Bring a mobile phone. (From Anna Wexler, Tassos Stevens and A. N. Other of Coney.)
City Blocks
Read the rules, add to the growing city, and come back later to see how the streets have changed. (From Holly Gramazio.)
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.
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