Babycastles Summit in NYC this weekend

This is a fascinating-sounding event combining talks, workshops, and concerts under the auspices of the NYU Game Center among others and headlined by the designer of Katamari Damacy. The event is covering all sorts of gaming, not just LARP, but, among the LARP-specific bits, on Saturday Lizzie Stark is running her Ars Amandi workshop which rocked Intercon last year.

From the Facebook event page:

The Babycastles summit is a three-day series of talks, panels, bands, hands-on workshops and custom video game installations designed by Keita Takahashi , game designer of Japan’s Katamari Damacy. The summit will be hosted by the Museum of Art and Design from August 24th through the 26th as part of the “Fun Fellowship”.

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♥ SATURDAY, AUGUST 25TH ♥
Open 12PM - 1AM

Talks, Workshops, Panels from 1PM - 8PM
♡ Japanese Shmups and the Ascension of a Bodhisattva
♡ Participatory Games Workshop
♡ How To Babycastles
♡ Physical Intimacy in Larps [emphasis mine -ed.]
♡ Performance Machines in Game Space
♡ Nick Fortugno
♡ The Bill Murray of Video Games
♡ Designing Games for Public Spaces

Party and Performances from 8PM - 1AM
♡ The Suzan
♡ Eula
♡ Habibi
♡ Sweet Tooth
♡ Peggy Wang DJ Set (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)

If you're in the area, definitely check it out. It sounds crazy and awesome.