[spectre] Reminder | Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames and Kimathi Donkor

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Today | Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames and Kimathi Donkor

Saturday 23 June 2012, 1-5pm


Join us for a day of debate around the leader of the Haitian Revolution, 
Toussaint Louverture, now regarded as an important icon of anti-slavery 
struggles. Class Wargames interviews the artist Kimathi Donkor who 
created the history painting Toussaint Louverture at Bedourete to mark 
200 years since the independence of Haiti. The event will kick off with 
a picnic in the park (or indoor lunch in the event of rain!!!) and 
continue with an afternoon of collective playing of Guy Debord's The 
Game of War, a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must 
maintain their communications structure to survive – and where victory 
is achieved by smashing your opponent’s supply network rather than by 
taking their pieces.

In a short film by Ilze Black, Dr Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett 
of Class Wargames interview Donkor about the work. Alex Verness from 
Class Wargames will be documenting the day by taking xenographs of 
participants.

More info: 
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/invisible-forces-events

Part of the Invisible Forces exhibition 
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces

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