In its second year, INTERACT at Greenbelt offers unique access to nationally acclaimed video-game speakers, international journalists, YouTubers, Minecraft educators and the founder of the National Videogame Foundation. Join us to experience unusual, moving, funny, sad and entertaining games as we journey towards a more meaningful engagement with games, technology and YouTube.

Contributors
Andy Robertson (@GeekDadGamer) is a journalist for national newspapers specialising in meaningful technology and video games for families.

Simon Parkin (@SimonParkin) is a contributing writer for the New Yorker, a columnist for the Observer and a regular contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman and others. He also wrote the critically acclaimed book, Death by Video Game.

Iain Simons (@IainSimons) is CEO of the National Videogame Foundation, a unique not-for-profit develops the role of videogames in culture and society.

Adam Clarke (@thecommonpeople), is a critically acclaimed Minecraft educator and Stampy collaborator who runs cultural gaming events for museums, festivals and communities.

Victoria Bennett lives in Eden, Cumbria, with her husband and young son. She is a full time carer and poet. Winner of the Andrew Waterhouse Award, she has written since childhood.

Alastair Jones (@a_b_jones) CEO of Frontier Youth Trust, supporting youth workers in marginalised communities. He has recently implemented digital spirituality in diverse settings with a focus on young people.

Fri. Aug. 26th
6:30-7.30 PM Little Big Top - How Video-Games Matter

Sat. Aug. 27th
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The Lawn - JOUST & SPACE TEAM

Sun. Aug. 28th
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Little Big Top - LOSS, CANCER & MINECRAFT
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The Lawn - JOUST & SPACE TEAM

Mon. Aug. 29th
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Little Big Top - WHERE VIDEO GAMES GO NEXT

--------

Fri. Aug. 25th
IDEAS 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Little Big Top


INTERACT: HOW VIDEO-GAMES MATTER
Andy Robertson
Call of Duty, Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto, Pokemon or Roblox. You or someone you love plays a lot of video-games, or watches hundreds of hours of other people playing them on YouTube. Join Andy for a rare opportunity to contemplate what games are doing to our families -- good and bad. Come and discover how to turn it from a worry into something of eternal value.

Sat. Aug. 26th
CHILDREN 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lawn

INTERACT: COME AND PLAY VIDEO-GAMES OUTSIDE
Andy Robertson, Adam Clarke
Join us on the Lawn to play video-games like you’ve never played them before. Use pens and paper to draw and scan-in Minecraft skins with Stampy collaborator Adam Bennet. Or run, dance and shout as we play groundbreaking experiences like Joust, Spaceteam and A Dark Room. Best of all you can take these games home with you.


Sun. Aug. 27th
IDEAS 2:30 PM - 4:00PM
Little Big Top

INTERACT: LOSS, CANCER, AND MINECRAFT: A PLAYABLE POEM ABOUT SAYING GOODBYE
Andy Robertson, Adam Clarke, Victoria Bennett
Join Minecraft artist and Stampy collaborator, Adam Clarke, and poet, Victoria Bennett, as they share their unique playable Minecraft poem “My Mother’s House”. It’s a moving poem-world about their personal experience of terminal illness, cancer and death. In a new medium, it explores the memories we carry with us when we say goodbye to those we love.

Sun. Aug. 27th
CHILDREN 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lawn

INTERACT: COME AND PLAY VIDEO-GAMES OUTSIDE
Andy Robertson, Adam Clarke
Join us on the Lawn to play video-games like you’ve never played them before. Use pens and paper to Draw and scan-in Minecraft skins with Stampy collaborator Adam Clarke. Or run, dance and shout as we play groundbreaking experiences like Joust, Spaceteam and A Dark Room. Best of all you can take these games home with you.

This is part of the INTERACT spirituality stream at Greenbelt. Come to any session to find out how to get more out of games in your family, church and community.

Mon. Aug. 28th
IDEAS 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Little Big Top

INTERACT: WHERE VIDEO GAMES GO NEXT
Andy Robertson, Simon Parkin, Iain Simons
Games and culture don’t usually mix. But what if they did? We ask Simon Parkin, New Yorker writer and Iain Simons, CEO Nation Videogame Foundation, whether video-games offer more to society than entertainment. Come and discover how games can offer a deep pool of meaning, spirituality, catharsis as well as competitive enjoyment.

свернуть