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Dulwich Picture Gallery at Bermondsey Street Festival 2015
This Saturday saw teens from volunteer scheme NCS The Challenge join me and staff from Dulwich Picture Gallery at the Bermondsey Street Festival. #comicseverywhere with @SweetestCyanide &...
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Fun Palaces Countdown: Role-playing games with Andy Horton
As the 2015 Fun Palaces launch on Saturday 3rd October approaches, Lambeth Libraries are gearing up for their borough-wide, simultaneous 11-venue celebration of arts and sciences. In the countdown to...
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International Harvester: The Ozofarm Game
Today sees the official release of the Ozofarm game and game development competition for Queensland’s public libraries. As I discovered on my visit out to the cotton fields of the Darling Downs,...
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Losing control in digital space: Liberact 2016
Last month I spoke at the Liberact conference of digital interactive experiences. My paper was ‘Play, Chance, and Comics: Losing Control In Digital Space’. We explored comics, creativity…and what...
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Tabletop Superheroes Revisited
Here’s a blast from the past – the all-ages Tabletop Superheroes game devised during my Reader-in-Residence placement at Parkes Shire in New South Wales. The game is Creative Commons licensed and...
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Library Island at NLS8, Canberra
I’ll be running an interactive workshop, Library Island, at the 8th New Librarians’ Symposium in Canberra, Australia, this June. Reasons to register early for #NLS8: Friday workshops! Get in now to go...
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Perpetual Stage: The Value of Pretend Play
I just binge-watched a TV show; rare for me, these days. I love TV but it’s so time-consuming. Your evenings and weekends just seep away in front of the screen. But I felt I had to watch FX’s Legion,...
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Best #FyreFestival Ever: From Melbourne to Library Island
1. #FyreFestival So you may have been watching accounts of the Fyre Festival’s collapse on social media. Yes; the #Fyrefestival story is as gloriously nightmarish as you've heard it is:...
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Library Island hits #nls8
My professional development roleplay Library Island visited the New Librarians Symposium at the National Library of Australia last weekend. Librarians old and new joined forces to explore their work...
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Battle for Library Island @ALIAnls workshop notes
The team behind this year’s NLS8 conference have released notes from my Battle for Library Island workshop in PDF, PPT, and Keynote formats. Public library simulator @ALIAnls #nls8 #noisy...
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