Know a Game Curious Person?
We have a new Hand Eye Society program called Game Curious? that starts on October 5th, a week Saturday. It's a free weekly discussion/play group of the untapped art of videogames [...]
Volunteer Ops, Gamercamp Submission Deadline 5 Days Away
Game Curious? is our 6-week program exploring the untapped art of video games, for people who don’t necessarily identify as “gamers”. If you have game consoles or laptops you can loan to [...]
Announcing WordPlay: A New Writerly Games Festival
Taking place Saturday, Nov. 16th from 12-5pm at the Toronto Reference Library, WordPlay will be a free one-day festival to celebrate the most interesting writerly games. It'll feature: A showcase of local [...]
Playing With Ideas: Point-of-View Games Workshops
Hand Eye Society Executive Director Jim Munroe will be running a two session workshop at the Liaison for Independent Filmmakers of Toronto: Games with issues that engage, rather than talk down to the [...]
Volunteer Opportunity: Outreach to the Game-Curious
Do you think the world would be a better place if more people knew what games were capable of expressing? The Hand Eye Society and Impossible Arts are partnering on a [...]
A Steamy Toronto Summer: Cheap Local Games
The Steam Summer Sale is in full effect till the July 22nd and it's a great opportunity to pick up some local indie games you may have missed for cheap! Here's [...]
Kings Quest the Band / Indigenous Game Commission
Our pals at Dirty Rectangles, Ottawa's game collective, are on the road touring with their indie rock band Kings Quest. They're in Toronto a week tonight (Thurs. July 18) at Rancho [...]
Make a Game at the Museum
Jaime from Gamercamp writes with this unique game jam opportunity at the Royal Ontario Museum: Bring History to Life at The First ROM Game Jam! Gamercamp, University of Toronto, and the [...]
How should public arts funding be extended to game making?
Last Thursday the Hand Eye Society was invited into the Ontario Arts Council along with members of Dames Making Games and Bento Miso to speak about the needs of artists in [...]
Torontaru One
Mourning the end of the Hand Eye Socials? This new event announcement will cheer you up! Marie-Christine Bourdua and Kris Piotrowski write: This is the beginning of a new age... of [...]