"Marooning Bodies" Gameplay Session

Module 2 of Level Ground's Social Practice Labs features our hyper-local activation workshops. We are proud to partner with Marooning Bodies to extend the themes of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn into an immersive experience of gameplay, worldbuilding, and imagining better futures.

In the game, players are guided through a series of questions and scenarios about how a society might organize itself. Together, you will make decisions about shared resources, community rituals, responses to harm, and systems of care. Along the way, you will be invited to reflect, discuss, and create through simple writing, drawing, movement, or storytelling prompts.⁠

This is not a performance and not a lecture. It is a facilitated, participatory experience designed to be welcoming to everyone. No art or game experience is required. Just bring your curiosity and willingness to imagine. What emerges in each session becomes part of the project’s evolving future history.⁠

Come as you are. Bring a friend. Leave having built a world with strangers.

Please plan to attend the full 2.5 hour workshop. Snacks and drinks will be provided. If the ticket price is inaccessible to you, please reach out to [email protected].

Many thanks to Pieter for hosting this event. Parking and accessibility information for the venue is available here.

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Marooning Bodies creates immersive games, installations, future relics, and curriculum that help communities rehearse new ways of living together. We work across: game design, fine art objects (future relics), public installations & educational programming. For more information, check out https://www.marooningbodies.com/about.

Level Ground’s Social Practice Labs are artist-led humanities seminars and workshops inspired by revolutionary texts that have provided us with analysis and frameworks that lead to cultural and political change. The program is best suited to support artists and cultural workers in developing works that interrogate our socio-political landscape and build pathways towards the movement-inspired art.

Level Ground is an award-winning nonprofit artist collective and documentary production company. We create purposeful and sustained spaces where filmmakers and visual artists can learn, develop, produce, and exhibit work with and for each other and our communities. Our programs are designed to address the common barriers artists face by fostering non-extractive and regenerative practices around artist support and development and helping to remove economic barriers so that artists can sustain their work over time. Our core community is based in Los Angeles, but our work reaches audiences across the country and around the world. For more information, check out https://www.levelground.co.

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