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Festival Weekend for Come Out & Play SF

Where

SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Upcoming

12:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012

Cost

Buy

Categories

Festivals,  Festival

 Games are free, but sign up through EventBrite to skip the lines on game day! Participation priority will be given to people who sign up on EventBrite. Join Come Out and Play and SOMArts for a weekend of city-sized, community-based games!  You'll run through the streets, become a kid again on the playground, explore new ways of behaving in public, and ask yourself why life can't always be this amazing.  Play over 20 games at SOMArts, Victoria Manalo Draves Park, and in the SOMA neighborhood. Find a key to the dates & locations of games on Saturday & Sunday December 1st and 2nd below!  SATURDAY GAMES Games on Saturday, December 1st at SOMArts (934 Brannan St. between 8th and 9th):Propinquity (12–2pm): a mixed-media game designed to evoke both dancing and fighting that uses full body interaction and the use of sound and game play mechanics to produce an intensely social and physical experience.Obtain the Briefcase (1–3pm): a street game of running, chasing, hiding, subterfuge, and the fight to locate one crucial briefcase.Slothchase (1–3pm): a turn-based tag game of strategy and skill that slows players to a crawl as they navigate the cityscape.Third-Person Outer Body Labyrinth (3–5pm): a maze players navigate wearing video goggles to dislocate the sense of sight to a point high above.Sixteen Tons (12–5pm): a gallery-based physical and social strategy game that takes real money to win.WANTED!  (12–5pm): an SMS-based work of interactive street fiction focused on the adventures of a wild cowgirl.Hearst Collection (12–5pm): an in-gallery art heist game in which players navigate a laser maze to steal pieces from the Hearst family.Doodle Defense (12–5pm): an low-tech, whiteboard-based tower defense game in which players race to draw game pieces to beat the onslaught of bugs.The Board Game Lounge (12–5pm): a replication of your living room, but with brand-new board games made by local designers--the handmade Berlin Wall Game, The Cove, and Toy Fight, and the high-tech Sifteo cubes.Games on Saturday, December 1st at Victoria Manalo Draves Park (Folsom St and Sherman St.): Origami Fishing Game  (12–5pm): a variation on the classic fishing game in which players make their own game pieces. Hula Hoop Tag (12–2pm): a fresh take on the classic game of tag; meant for participants of all ages, it will get your heart pumping and blood flowing as you run, jump and dodge hula hoops beneath your feet.Pinkball (12–2:30pm): a cooperative variation on classic "ball and stick" games.Staccato(12–2:30pm): fast-paced, a two on two playground game in which the offense and defense face off to score points--but they can't always move their feet!Broom Ships (2–3pm): a field game for large groups of players in which opposing sides try to keep their ships afloat as they navigate across the field.Don't Drop the Ball (2:30–5pm): a fast-paced, cooperative take on the classic "hot potato."Pickpocket Junction (2:30–5pm): players loot while they commute, attempting to steal treasures from one another as they ride the train home.Humans v. Mosquitos (3–5pm): a physical field game in which humans attempt to defeat mosquitoes by clearing out their breeding grounds, and mosquitoes attempt to defeat humans by depleting their blood supply. SUNDAY GAMES Games on Sunday, December 2nd at SOMArts (934 Brannan St. between 8th and 9th):Third-Person Outer Body Labyrinth (12–2pm): a maze players navigate wearing video goggles to dislocate the sense of sight to a point high above.Slothchase (1–3pm): a turn-based tag game of strategy and skill that slows players to a crawl as they navigate the cityscape.Propinquity (3–5pm): a mixed-media game designed to evoke both dancing and fighting that uses full body interaction and the use of sound and game play mechanics to produce an intensely social and physical experience.Obtain the Briefcase (3–5pm): a street game of running, chasing, hiding, subterfuge, and the fight to locate one crucial briefcase.The Hush (12–5pm): a citywide, free-for-all, game of silent freeze tag inspired by the Muslim call to prayer--three-player teams rove the city, paralyzed the by the call that only they can hear and invited to meditate on silenceSixteen Tons (12–5pm): a gallery-based physical and social strategy game that takes real money to win.WANTED! (12–5pm): an SMS-based work of interactive street fiction focused on the adventures of a wild cowgirl.Hearst Collection (12–5pm): an in-gallery art heist game in which players navigate a laser maze to steal pieces from the Hearst family.Doodle Defense (12–5pm): an low-tech, whiteboard-based tower defense game in which players race to draw game pieces to beat the onslaught of bugs.The Board Game Lounge (12–5pm): a replication of your living room, but with brand-new board games made by local designers--the handmade Berlin Wall Game, The Cove, and Toy Fight, and the high-tech Sifteo cubes. Games on Sunday, December 2nd at Victoria Manalo Draves Park (Folsom St and Sherman St.): Don't Drop the Ball(12–2pm): a fast-paced, cooperative take on the classic "hot potato."Pickpocket Junction (12–2:30pm): players loot while they commute, attempting to steal treasures from one another as they ride the train home.Humans v. Mosquitos(12–2pm): a physical field game in which humans attempt to defeat mosquitoes by clearing out their breeding grounds, and mosquitoes attempt to defeat humans by depleting their blood supply.12-5pm: The Hush, a citywide, free-for-all, game of silent freeze tag inspired by the Muslim call to prayer--three-player teams rove the city, paralyzed the by the call that only they can hear and invited to meditate on silenceOrigami Fishing Game (12–5pm): a variation on the classic fishing game in which players make their own game pieces.Broom Ships (2–3pm): a field game for large groups of players in which opposing sides try to keep their ships afloat as they navigate across the field.Pinkball (2–4pm): a cooperative variation on classic "ball and stick" games.Hula Hoop Tag(3–5pm): a fresh take on the classic game of tag; meant for participants of all ages, it will get your heart pumping and blood flowing as you run, jump and dodge hula hoops beneath your feet.Staccato(3–5pm): fast-paced, a two on two playground game in which the offense and defense face off to score points--but they can't always move their feet!  About Come Out and Play Come Out & Play was founded in 2006 to offer the public new ways to enjoy and experience their city through games played in public spaces. It was the first festival of its kind in the world and remains a leader in identifying trends in public gaming and an inspiration for games festivals worldwide. SOMArts and Come Out & Play would also like to thank  San Francisco Recreation & Parks for participating as a community partner for the Come Out & Play SF Festival and Exhibition and for allowing Victoria Manalo Draves Park to become an off-site location for festival games. Visit EventBrite.com for pricing.
 
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