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📢 🏆 🥸 Wise Guys Events wins the 2024 Bernie De Koven Big Fun Award:

For immediate release: It is with the utmost of hoity-toity dignity, and absolutely not whilst doing a pratfall and landing face-first into a banana cream pie, that Wise Guys Events accepts the Bernie De Koven Big Fun Award. As Head Honcho, I bow deeply and use my cummerbund to wipe some whipped cream off my digital trophy. (Hm, how did that get there?)

Here’s what the website says: “Bernie De Koven Big Fun Award: This annual honorary award was created in collaboration with Bernie De Koven, to honor his legacy and to recognize creators significantly furthering the field and impact of new, big, and physical games. We love big, pervasive games, because of the way they bring people together and forge connections on a large scale.”

Kidding aside (mmm, this pie is delicious), to be honored with this recognition in particular, which has deep meaning for me, by the IndieCade festival, which has been such a haven of joy and a vital community in my professional and artistic development, makes me feel amazing. Being Head Honcho during the 2020’s has had highs and lows, but this award fills my bucket and galvanizes me to keep doing what feels important: making the world a more playful place by sharing my voice and engaging those around me in Big Fun.

Here’s the announcement on the IndieCade website: https://www.indiecade.com/festival-2024/awards/
And here’s a link to my acceptance video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-61CoxoCo2Y&t=2451s

(I think I understood the assignment especially well)

And here are some photos of the session I led at the Creators Retreat in LA last week. Thank you to Willa for holding the mic, to Tonz for being the demo volunteer, and to everyone who played! Let's do it again.

Final week to submit to SF MOMA

Open Call: SFMOMA Artcade Artists, designers, and creators: propose a game that will be displayed in the museum’s Koret Education Center! Games can be on any platform, including board games, phone games, video games, or live action role-playing games.

In 2015, Getty Center invited us to provide games for a Family Day of Play. We're back this summer: this has the makings of an every eight-year tradition! An octo-habit?

Join us for a fun-filled festival inspired by medieval play and pastimes on July 9 at 10:00 am at the Getty Center. Arrive in costume or create your own custom tunic, immerse yourself in a medieval village, sing, dance, play traditional games (that's from us!), or storm the castle with foam swords and shields on the Getty’s expansive garden lawns (that's us too!).

This free, all-day, all ages event complements the exhibition Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages, on view through August 6, 2023.

📅 July 9 at 10 am at the Getty Center

🎟️ Get your free tickets for July 9 here: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3846.html

When you select our charitable team building challenge course in the park SUPERHERO ACADEMY, it can be National Superhero Day EVERY day! Which frankly sounds exhausting! But presumably you gain some sort of super stamina after completing the accelerated course of study… check out the video to learn more!

Superhero Academy | Wise Guys Events Wise Guys Events presents a new team building adventure to turn your team into a super squad, while supporting a charitable cause.