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 new game literacy pilot program that aims to give a deeper understanding of game culture to people that haven’t found a place in Toronto’s game community.

We are having a meeting for volunteers who want to help us get the word out about this program, as our biggest challenge is outreach outside of the existing games community. As usual, if you rack up 10 volunteer hours in a year you become a voting Hand Eye Society member!

Monday, July 29 at 7pm
Academy of the Impossible
231 Wallace Avenue
Please RSVP to sagan@handeyesociety.com

(If you don’t have time to help out, but have some ideas as to where to outreach to, feel free to email Sagan.)

What will the program look like? It will be a six week program in the fall where up to 20 participants will meet once a week to play and discuss games of all sorts. Plus, they’ll meet and hear from guests who fill a variety of roles in the culture, from beta tester on console games to designer on indie games, from academics to journalists. Sagan Yee — animator, gamemaker, and co-facilitator of the second Difference Engine Initiative — will be running this pilot, and it will take place in the Junction Triangle’s Academy of the Impossible.