A little art project

This is a little art project built around moving around to make and play games. Games of running, writing, theater, improv, clowning, dancing, meditation, games mixing all these games, and game creation games. I invite whoever I can to some spot in a park, usually Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and I talk a little about games, then we think about them, then we run around and play some, then think about what was played, then create new ones, then play a few more, then think about what was created and played, and then create and play more. And then other things happen. 

At the end there will be orange slices.

Where, When, Contact

Dates and locations have varied, but for now I've settled on Saturdays at 1 (next on September 20th, then 27th) in the Rose Garden of Prospect Park. It's those three concrete circles that were once fountains, in the woods near the top of the park, near Flatbush Ave, above the Veil of Cashmere. I'll keep it going every Saturday at 1 in this spot, but check this website for the most up to date information.

If you have trouble finding us, want to RSVP, or have any questions, feel free to email me at cgziemba@gmail.com. 

It's free, but I wouldn't mind a donation, or we tend to go to Fiona's Bar after, where you could buy me a beer. I usually put it on nonsensenyc.com (which has the most amazing listing of strange and wonderful events in NYC, I can't recommend it enough) and have been testing out platforms to promote it: instagram, Luma, WithFriends, Eventbrite. But marketing is very very much not my skill set, so please feel free to bring friends. 

Also, it's been both kid and dog friendly, and to folk who aren't athletically inclined, and even to folk who haven't experimented with poetics and play in a while.  It adapts based on who shows up.

Theory and Methods. Pieces and Sets

Experiments in Athletics, Poetics, and Play. 

Think and move and make. 

Games to create games. 

I've written a lot trying to explain this little project, both in terms of a larger philosophy of play, and the specific methods for creating and playing games. I invite you to explore some of this writing in the links below, though you're also invited to just show up when I'm holding a session. 

Also, writing is a recursive process. It's a game where you take a step and then fix that step, and then take another step and then fix the first two, then another step and you're fixing three, and on like that, so that by the time you're taken ten steps you've fixed fifty five. It's rather exhausting, and I know that my fixing hasn't kept up with the steps. I had a vision, but one that is evolving, so it's hard to keep up with the work of clearly articulating it.