(Ebook) Games for the New Years: A DIY Guide to Games for the 21st Century by Bill Harpe ISBN 9780954062101, 0954062108

(Ebook) Games for the New Years: A DIY Guide to Games for the 21st Century by Bill Harpe ISBN 9780954062101, 0954062108

Games For The New Years: A DIY Guide To Games For The 21st CenturyIn the later part of the 20th Century we became increasingly aware that "we are the food we eat". This 21st Century guide is informed and inspired by the complementary idea that "we are the games we play".Recipe books for dishes drawn from around the world are now widely available. This guide is something new. This guide is a recipe book for games drawing upon cultures from around the world. But the guide does more than introduce and describe games which you may wish to play. This guide also describes simple and basic structures which will enable you to devise your own games. Games created and played as a result of using this guide will be extremely varied. But they will all have something in common. None of the games will set players against one another in images of warfare (games as the embodiment of "warfare without weapons"). They will, nonetheless, be very challenging games, with the players exercising all their skills (including communication skills) in the pursuit of a common purpose. They will be creative and co-operative games.Bill Harpe is a choreographer, writer on dance, cultural commentator and former dancer. Bill was born in Darlington and comes from a family with roots in the mining communities of County Durham. He won a scholarship in Maths and Physics to Cambridge where he chose to read English Literature and also became involved in the performing arts and dance. After graduation he pursued a dance training in London, and paid for this training by working as a cook. Work followed as a freelance dancer, choreographer and producer and as the director of a Commonwealth Arts Festival.