Southbank Sandpit November 2009
Bright yellow staircases by Martin Pettitt.
The next London Sandpit will take place at the Southbank Centre on 23 November 2009, from 6:30pm onwards for sign-ups (games begin 7:00).
We’ll be based in the Clore Ballroom in Royal Festival Hall, and the theme will be translation, so expect to find stories translated into games, games translated into secret languages, secret languages translated into reasons to chase your enemies, and much more.
Do come along to hide, spy, decipher, compose, deduce, plot and play!
The Zemblan Ambassador Will Make a Brief Statement
The tiny country of Zembla is the key to averting an international crisis. But the UN’s pool of Zemblan translators has been infiltrated by spies. Can you believe what you hear?
Hatchet
Receive your card; find your place. A team game of songs and sorting.
Backstab
Join a team, declare your loyalty, then go about the rest of your night’s business – but be careful, because both your enemies and your allies are watching for you… and you for them.
Storyline
Come join in a game of narrative consequences that can go in any direction you like, as long as it involves the props, actions and characters you draw from the hat each round.
Gostak International
Can you make it through the red tape and security of the immigration queue, in an airport where you don’t speak the language?
Transliterature
We translate foreign-language classics anew for new generations, but English-language work tends to miss out… until now. Try translating some English fiction into English fiction.
Narrative Atrophy
Learn your story and keep it straight: this is important. But after it makes the rounds, criss-crossing with other stories and jumping from listener to listener, will anything remain?
Samizdat!
As loyal Russian journalists, you’re keen for your headlines to support the state in full – but do be careful, as exactly what that requires can shift unexpectedly.
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