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FableVision Presents: Day of Play!
September 7th @ 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Boylston T Stop, Boylston St & Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
The Emerson UnCommon Stage and Harpoon Beer Garden Day of Play is a day of connection, fun and in-person play at the Emerson UnCommon Stage and Harpoon Beer Garden, located at the corner of Boylston and Tremont in the Boston Common. The event is inspired by the Come Out and Play Festivals in New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Emerson students and local game designers have built six original, in-person outdoor games related (albeit tangentially) to life in Boston to get Bostonians new and old excited about the new school year. Visitors will run, hop, have cut-throat games of friendship, frantically throw beanbags, utilize hula hoops, ride in inflatable boats, toss tea, miss trains and hunt goblins. We welcome all students, families, and passers-by to drop in or spend all day with us at the UnCommon Stage and Harpoon Beer Garden between 12 and 5PM. Play, be loud, have fun and meet some new friends!
Difficult Hop-Scotch
Getting around Boston is easy! It’s just a hop, skip and a jump away. Take the Red Line (unless it has slow zones). Or the Green Line (unless it’s disabled for track maintenance). Take the Orange Line (unless it’s on fire). Or you can just take the Blue Line and stay in Eastie forever. Four players play competitive, simultaneous hopscotch on four T lines to try and be the first to make it home safely.
Game Designers:
Habeebh Sylla, Henry Kacik, Evan Tsapatsaris, Regan McKenzie
Emerson Troll Hunt
So you’re going to become a media student? Congratulations! You’d better get used to trolls early. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Start training to look for trolls hiding all around the Day of Play UnCommon Stage and Harpoon Beer Garden space. When you find one, see what it has to say and assemble the message…but don’t think too hard about it, they’re just trolls. After a while they even start to look sort of cute!
Game Designers:
Zoe Deyermond, Peyton Schweibert, Zeang Fang, Chris Fortin
Boston Tea Party
Boston is a city of history: the freedom trail, the shot heard around the world and the infamous Boston tea party! Join us for this almost accurate reenactment of the Boston tea party where patriots feverishly try to throw tea bags into the harbor and tories feverishly try and throw them back out of the harbor. We’re pretty sure it happened like that.
Game Designers:
Nicole Armbrecht, Mikayla Lastowski, Helen Bo, Liwei Wang
Competitive Friendship
It’s good to have new friends. But who’s the BEST friend? Will you win this friendship? And most importantly, how do you prove to your new friends that you are the best at friendship? By playing Competitive Friendship of course! In this game you’ll have an intense two-player competition at simple “getting to know you” games. Whoever reaches their side of the board will be victorious. May the best friend win!
Game Designers:
Sarina LoPresti, Emma Millin, Lang (Oscar) Qin
Charles River Regatta Go
The Charles River divides Boston from Cambridge and on crisp Boston autumn mornings, you can see collegiate rowers silently slicing their boat through the still water. Jealous? Don’t worry, this in-person game will train you to be exactly like a professional crew member. First don your Personal Floatation Device and then step into the inflatable boat. Use two to four facsimile oars to row your boat along your digital Charles River. Just make sure you steer straight, avoid obstacles and go as fast as possible!
Game Designers:
Ziba Scott, Ichiro Lambe, Kellian Pletcher, Luigi Guatieri and Members of the Boston Indie Games Collective
Moving Day
Did you know that ALL RENTAL LEASES in Boston begin on September 1st? If you don’t, you will someday when you join Boston Christmas: the insane, competitive, speed-based packing puzzle that is Moving Day in Boston every September. By moving more boxes than you knew you had, you’ll collaborate with your new roommates and also compete with your new roommates. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll probably scream and hopefully, eventually, you’ll move into your new apartment.
Game Designers:
Kellian Pletcher, Marie Hubert and the Teams From FableVision Studios and Red Fox Escapes
DJ Lineup
12:30 – 2:30 PM: KNSZWRTH
Originally from Haiti, KNSZWRTH (pronouns: he/him) first arrived in Boston for college in 2004. Kenny then cut his teeth at mission-driven organizations like the West End House Boys and Girls Club, Cambridge Youth Programs, the Cambridge Public Library and more recently, Now + There, before joining the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture as Chief of Staff. As a DJ, therapeutic mentor, film photographer, board certified basketball referee, and plant dad, Kenny is passionate about connecting with communities and individuals that share a passion and excitement around conversations and experiences that open minds and help co-create spaces to celebrate the creative diversity of Boston’s dynamic and ever-changing cultural fabric.
3:00 – 5:00 PM: Little Kil0
“Hailing from Houston, Texas, I am Little Kil0. I’m latinx, queer, and I see my therapist weekly. I like good music and I’m pretty good with flags.”