Radical Play
Monsterhearts 2 x
Imagination: A Manifesto
National Commission for Black Arts & Entertainment
123 E McMicken Ave, 2nd Floor
Wednesday, March 5, 4–6pm, Register:
https://taft.center/4hkfmuR
Wednesday, March 12, 4–6pm, Register:
https://taft.center/4aIHJ3a
How are games vehicles for justice? Join us for an interactive play session led by Cassandra Jones. Our game will take place in the fictional Nina Simone School for Girls (and Monsters), an exclusive all-Black girls prep school. Come and explore how play and worldbuilding can be used as an incubator for revolutionary thought as we pair Ruha Benjamin’s
Imagination: A Manifesto with Monsterhearts 2, “a story game about the messy lives of teenage monsters.” Attendees will receive a free copy of
Imagination: A Manifesto, while supplies last.
Free & open to the 18+ public. Presented in partnership with NCBAE.
Role-Playing the Humanities
Monday, March 31 & Tuesday, April 1
Taft Research Center
co-sponsored with UC Games Lab
Register:
https://taft.center/3Xj9OIR
Join us for two days of panels, workshops, and play as 15 expert designers and scholars of role-playing visit UC's campus! Learn about the new cross-college BFA in Games & Animation and how role-playing can enhance the work of the humanities.
Featuring: Cody Pondsmith, Tim Kask, Jonaya Kemper, José Zagal, Michaele L. Ferguson, Nicolas Proctor, Aaron Trammell, Shelly Jones, Emily C. Friedman, Edmond Y. Chang, Megan Condis, Jason Cox, Maria K. Alberto, Beatrix Livesey-Stephens, Luke Hernandez, Antonio Roda Martínez, Evan Torner, Katherine Castiello Jones, Cassandra Jones, Susan Longfield-Karr, Andrew Cullison, George "Loki" Williams III, and Elaine Bettochi.
Workshops Include: "Role-Playing and Student Engagement || Emancipatory Role-Play," "Role-Playing and Worldbuilding/Worldmaking," "Five-Hundred Year Old Vampire || Chicago 1968," and "Role-Playing History, Philosophy, and Language." Panels include: "Role-Playing Studies: The State of the Field" and "Actual Play, Actual Lives." RPG & Actual Play Sessions held at Clifton Court and Braunstein Halls.