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Tomorrow, Saturday 1st October, we’ll be playtesting the Scrub Turkey Sessions game (PDF download) devised as a collaboration between State Library of Queensland and Griffith University.

Urban ecologist Professor Darryl Jones and I made a cheap and simple game which lets people step into the role of a male scrub turkey trying to build a nest and attract a mate.

Librarians across Queensland have been experimenting with the game for weeks now, adjusting the rules and resources – now it’s your turn to get involved. Read more →

This week’s Marvellous, Electrical explores the Brisbane drug scene of the early 2000s.

Image by Wikipedia user lilywatanabe, under a CC BY-SA 3.0 licence

A drug support worker who worked a beat in Fortitude Valley, the historic hub of Brisbane nightlife, joined me to talk about the rhythms and routines of heavy drug use in Queensland’s capital.

Read Marvellous, Electrical: Substance here.

State Library of Queensland’s Online Comic Maker returns for the 2016 Fun Palaces event celebrating the arts and sciences in communities across the world.

I devised the Comic Maker for Fun Palaces 2015; it was designed and built by Talia Yat and Phil Gullberg of the State Library of Queensland, where I’m currently Creative in Residence. (You can read the story of its origins in this Comics Grid interview).

The deceptively simple site encouraged users worldwide to surprise us with non-narrative comics, cheeky horror stories, and even comics in Te Reo Māori.

This year the Comic Maker has been fully integrated into the Fun Palaces homepage, but we’ve also released the code behind the site as a Github repository.

If you’d like to use the Comic Maker code to design and devise your own website – to reimagine, remix, or adapt the State Library’s work into a whole new online offering – visit the Fun Palaces Comic Maker page at Github.

This week’s instalment of my regular newsletter Marvellous, Electrical looks at Aussie rules football.

Sign up for weekly Marvellous, Electrical here.

Three years ago tonight, I was on stage in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn, MC’ing the grand finale of our Dark Night festival.

The weeklong, citywide programme sought to “question, celebrate, and challenge sex and sexuality on page, stage, and screen,” bringing together artists, writers, academics, and fans for open and frank discussions about identity, sex, and the media.

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