Buffalo Infringement Festival

Meet the City

Presented by calhoonplay

Website: meetthecity.calhoonplay.com

Meet the City is a two hour, scavenger hunt that encourages teams of three to investigate different areas of the city and interact with the people in it. Various clues lead players to ten checkpoint locations and their next photo assignment. Each checkpoint has a topic and a minimum number of people required for the photo. Some topics are meant to cause reflection (Worst Presidential Moment) and others are just plain fun (Broadway Musical). After deciding on an idea for the topic's photo, teams must get other non-players to help them act it out and then send the photo via picture messaging to the given email address. When the two hours are up all teams meet to share experiences and judge each photo submission with an applause meter. Points are counted and the winning team receives the coveted Roaming Gnome. The entire event takes 3 and a half hours.

The goal of the game is to introduce players to different local businesses (no chain stores) and to encourage them to interact with new people face-to-face. So far 28 people have played and over 180 different people took a few moments from their day to help the teams collect the checkpoints.

Game Dates:

• Saturday, July 26th @ 4pm
• Sunday, July 27th @ 1:30pm
• Wednesday, July 30th @ 5:30pm

All games start at the College Street Gallery.

Requirements:

• Three people per team.
• One person per team needs to be able to send picture messages from their mobile phone to an email address - most phones can do this! Test it out.
• Comfortable shoes - you'll be doing a lot of walking!
• Donations of new children's books or toys will be accepted for a local charity.

Sign up early to guarantee your team’s spot. Space is limited. Email: team name, each members' email address, and date you want to participate to morgan@calhoonplay.com

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