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Come Out & Play 2008 in New York City

Come Out & Play 2008 was our best year ever. We were based out of Bluestockings bookstore and activist center from June 6-8. With the power of play, we took over the Lower East Side and beyond during the 3 hottest days of the summer and made the neighborhood come outside to come alive, connect, play and actually delight in the heatwave.

Thousands of players and onlookers participated in 24 incredible games across the city, run by some of the the most incredible and innovative game designers anywhere. The COaP team was astounded and excited by all of the awesome work these designers brought to the 2008 festival.

Bluestockings was the gracious host of the festival. They suffered with a smile through us rampaging around the store and golf balls being putted in through the front door.

We couldn't even consider doing the festival without our army of loyal and dedicated COaP volunteers. Our incredible 2008 volunteers made sure everyone had a good time: Aaron Krasnov, Alfred Omar Almodovar, Angela Pablo, Brea Taylor-Munro, Cathy Longi, Cicek Nef, David Piltz, Debra Keneally, Ginger Gray-Trefry, Hsin Fang Chang, Huali Fu, Ilya Korolev, Ivania Cordero, Jenifer Kaminsky, Ji Yeon Choi, Joe Edelman, Josh Lerner, Kevin Balktick, Leo Arroyo, Lia Bulaong, Nicole Zeiss, Patrick Jao, Pollie Barden, Renate Lunn, Sharon Applegate, Sheryl Santacruz, and Vanessa Hamer

2008 Games

Anytime throughout the festival

	Turf Start Time: All weekend (This game can be played while playing other games) Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
Turf is a massively multiplayer web-based strategy game that'll have you on the ground holding your territory over the course of two days.

	Snap-Shot-City Start Time: Friday 10 PM Friday to - Saturday 9 PM (This game can be played while playing other games) Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington) Notes: Kid friendly game
Snap-Shot-City, is a world wide photographic treasure hunt that will open your eyes to the Extraordinary. Everyday. Everywhere.

Friday June 6, 2008

	Whiffle Hurling MV Start Time: Friday June 6 at 4-6 PM Location: Sara D Roosevelt Park Soccer Field, Rivington and Chrystie St
Wiffle Hurling with musical momentum

	Urban Bingo Start Time: Friday 8:00 PM Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
The everyday becomes game pieces to find and collect in this mash-up between city tour and classic bingo!

	Festival Opening "Ceremony" Start Time: Friday 10:00 PM Location: Arlene's Grocery at 95 Stanton St (between Orchard and Ludlow)
	Opening Introduction to the festival and games.
	Humatar Mind Control through a Joystick!
	Size Game Size up your shadows, block holes. Run and twist!
	The Comfort of Strangers at 11 PM Create your team out of the anonymous crowd; every chance encounter could be your last, or an opportunity to live and survive - find comfort in strangers.

Saturday June 7, 2008

	Panel Discussion Start Time: Saturday 12 PM - 1:30 PM Location: Parsons, Kellen Auditorium at 66 5th Ave (between 13th St and 12th St)
Designers and academics discuss the urban street games phenomenon.

	Manhattan Megaputt Start Time: Continuously throughtout Saturday Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
Play a gigantic game of mini golf on Manhattan's beautiful Lower East Side

	Re:Activism NYC Start Time: Saturday 2 PM Starting Location: Parsons, lobby at 66 5th Ave (between 13th St and 12th St)
Race through the history of riots, protests and activism in New York City and reactivate sites of political action through play!

	Speed Director Start Time: Saturday 2 PM Starting Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
Using the city as your set and cast, stage classic movie scenes as fast as you can.

	Fort Amsterdam Start Time: Saturday 2:30 PM Starting Location: Robert Wagner Park, Battey Place just past West St
The Fort Amsterdam game is a GPS-based multi-player game played with mobile phones, in which players get transported back 400 years to a time when New York was called New Amsterdam.

	The Comfort of Strangers Start Time: Saturday 2:30 PM Starting Location: Parsons, lobby at 66 5th Ave (between 13th St and 12th St)
Create your team out of the anonymous crowd; every chance encounter could be your last, or an opportunity to live and survive - find comfort in strangers.

	Super Happy Fun City Bingo Start Time: Saturday June 7 at 3 PM Starting Location: Tompkins Square Park inside the 9th St & Avenue A entrance by the columns Notes: Kid friendly game
A zany turn on the bingo card.

	The Invention of Murder Start Time: Saturday 4 PM Location: City Hall Park, just north of the fountain (near the entrance at Broadway and Park Place)
The year is 1841, and players are working as cub reporters for the New York Herald, racing to be the first to uncover the truth behind the crime of the century - the murder of Mary Rogers, the beautiful cigar girl whose body had been found floating in the Hudson days before.

	The Lost Sport of Olympia Start Time: Saturday 4:30 PM Starting Location: Columbus Circle Entrance to Central Park Notes: Kid friendly game
The ancient Greeks banned it, but we’re playing it anyway!

	Search Brigade Start Time: Saturday June 7 at 4:30 PM Starting Location: Tompkins Square Park inside the 9th St & Avenue A entrance by the columns
Search Brigade is a fast-paced game of urban cooperation and deception.

	Priced Out Start Time: Saturday 6 PM Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington) Notes: Kid friendly game
Find the best-tasting, lowest priced food and bring it to a party before time runs out!

	Metrophile Start Time: Saturday 6 PM Starting Location: City Hall Park, just north of the fountain (near the entrance at Broadway and Park Place)
The premise of this team-based subway game is for one team to capture the most subway cars over the course of a ride.

	Ravenchase Adventures Start Time: Saturday 7 PM Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
Ravenchase Adventures’ signature adventure races are a mix between the Amazing Race, the DaVinci Code, and National Treasure.

	Come Out & Party - Festival Afterparty Start Time: Saturday 9 PM Starting Location: The Delancey Lounge at 168 Delancey St (between Clinton and Attorney)
Come party with game designers and other players. Plus, there'll be a super fun, super secret bar game too.

Sunday June 8, 2008

	Competitive Picnicking Start Time: Sunday 12 PM Starting Location: Tompkins Square Park inside the 9th St & Avenue A entrance by the columns Notes: Kid friendly game
A large multiplayer picnic in which players trade food and drinks to assemble the tastiest, highest-scoring lunch. Watch out for the ants!

	Thread Start Time: Sunday June 8 at 1 PM Starting Location: Tompkins Square Park inside the 9th St & Avenue A entrance by the columns Notes: Kid friendly game
The game is played by 2 or more players with different color threads, each color representing one player. The winner is the person whose thread ends first.

	Mission IN Start Time: Sunday 1 PM Starting Location: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
Seeking and Finding Intersecting Names

	Human Blackjack Start Time: Sunday 2 PM Starting Location: Tompkins Square Park inside the 9th St & Avenue A entrance by the columns Notes: Kid friendly game
Human blackjack is a highly participative, fast-paced rendition of the classic card game, with those playing serving as both the contestants ("gamblers") and the deck itself ("cards").

	Pigeon Piñata Pummel Start Time: Sunday 2 PM Starting Location: Sara D Roosevelt Park by the basketball courts at the corner of Houston St and Forsyth St
Earn rewards of candy as you vent stress with a wiffleball bat!

	Bike Friendly City Start Time: Sunday 3 PM Starting Location: Sara D Roosevelt Park by the basketball courts at the corner of Houston St and Forsyth St
Pimp and build bike lanes for points and cred.

	The Ministry of Silence Start Time: Sunday 3 PM Starting Location: Union Square by the picnic tables just inside the park at East 16th St and Union Square West
The object of the game is simple: be the first to player to find the mystery person planted somewhere in the same library handcuffed to a briefcase.