An arcade with deep soul ties pops up on Great Jones Street
Temitope Olujobi and CultureHub gather ten games animated by inner lives, musical expression and ever-present spirits, Thursdays and Fridays, Nov. 12 to 20 in NYC.
CultureHub's loft at 47 Great Jones Street is taking games seriously Tethering: An Arcade with Deep Soul Ties, curated collaboratively by Temitope Olujobi and the CultureHub team. It seeks to do the things games do so well and "explores the often invisible bonds that feed our souls," per the announcement. It runs Thursdays and Fridays, Nov. 12, 13, 19 and 20, 6 to 9 p.m. ET, with tickets on a sliding scale from $10.
Habitat Games' Wild Chorus, one of the games in the arcade. Full trailer with sound on Steam.
Nicolas Oueijan's Grove of the Felled Olives is a free virtual memorial to the more than 60,000 people killed in Gaza, a quiet place built for paying respects one name at a time. Near it is Palestinian Skating Game, whose West Bank streets, where the soldiers can surround you, we've written about before. Other titles feature include Bub, Todd Anderson and Case Jernigan's adventure about chronic illness; Common Opera's rhythm game Young Cathedral; Habitat Games' hand-illustrated Wild Chorus, where you charm Sound Sprites away from Silence; Ivy Road's Engine Angel, a rally car driven jointly by a human and an angel; plus story games from Mengna Da and Ada Interactive and a four-player card game by Jordan Jones-Brewster. Everest Pipkin's The Poppy Growers is in there too too.
Nightly programs run alongside the open arcade, including a screening of films made in game engines, night not yet scheduled. An evening of performances closes the run Nov. 20 at 7 p.m., lineup to be announced.
From the lineup: Palestinian Skating Game, Bub, Young Cathedral, Wild Chorus, Grove of the Felled Olives and I Want To See You. Images courtesy the artists and CultureHub.
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