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 for people who don’t necessarily identify as “gamers”.

We’re super-excited about it but we’ve been relatively quiet about it on this channel by design, because the program’s mostly for people who feel outside the existing games community — if you’re following our dispatches you’re probably pretty game-savvy already.

But at this point we thought we’d ask you to take a second to think about one person you know who, when you talk about games, seems interested — despite knowing nothing about them. Who’s… game curious. And we’d like you to forward this along to them and encourage them to find out more and perhaps consider registering here.

You’ll be helping our modest, person-by-person attempt to expand the circle of game enthusiasts and raise the level of game literacy. Thanks much to those who advised us at the planning meeting and the volunteers who handed out hundreds of flyer at Word on the Street, and thanks also to our partners who make it possible: The Academy of the Impossible, Ontario Trillium Foundation, and Diaspora Dialogues.