ActionQuest: ATL - Atlanta Big Game Merges Activism with Play
Georgia Tech's Emergent Game Group (http://egg.lcc.gatech.edu) headed up by Celia Pearce, in collaboration with the Design Studio for Social Intervention (http://www.ds4si.org) will present ActionQuest: ATL, an activist Big Game being produced in conjunction with the US Social Forum, taking place in Atlanta June 27-July 1. Built on the premise that "Play is a renewable resource," ActionQuest: ATL takes players around Atlanta for a hands-on experience of what it might be like to realize the USSF's vision that "Another world is possible." Players discover and uncover past successes in local activism, and perform activist actions to help make the world a better place in both the present and the future. In the process, they will be delighted and rewarded by this encounter with "serious fun" that dynamically fuses real-world activism with socially engaging cooperative play.
ActionQuest: ATL runs daily from noon to 8PM, June 28-July 1, 2007. Players can register online at http://www.actionquest.us or in-person at one of two base camps at the Little Five Points Community Center (1083 Austin Ave. N.E. 30307) or Renaissance Park (Piedmont & Pine). Details can be found at http://www.actionquest.us and http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1407 . For more information or to volunteer as a Game Master, send e-mail to info@actionquest.us .