{"id":18033,"date":"2013-11-01T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=18033"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:45:13","slug":"playark-festival-returns-to-cardiff-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/playark-festival-returns-to-cardiff-bay","title":{"rendered":"Games and play come to Cardiff Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC7812-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18040 \" alt=\"A game of Human Bingo - photo provided by Alison John\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC7812-2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A game of Human Bingo, one of the games that will be played on day two of Playark Festival &#8211; photo provided by Alison John<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the past four years <a href=\"http:\/\/yellobrick.co.uk\">Yello Brick<\/a>, a creative marketing agency, have been looking into how games and play can connect people socially. With the help of other gaming companies, they will be hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playark.co.uk\">Playark Festival<\/a> on 1 and 2 November.<\/p>\n<p>Playark started in 2009 as a simple day of games in the park. Now the\u00a0festival has grown into a two-day event. This year, day one will be dedicated to explaining the theory of play through talks, and day two will be putting the theory into practice with a day of games. These include\u00a0Extreme Musical Chairs, Super Bacon Grab, and Spaghetti Standoff.<\/p>\n<p>Yello Brick decided to put on the festival because they are interested in how adults don\u2019t play anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Alison John, producer at Yello Brick, said, \u201cIt\u2019s all about bringing people together to make the city a playground.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rediscover the carefree joys of childhood and relearn how to play at Playark Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[2972,2971,366,2968,115,2969,2967,2546,2970,2973,930,2974],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Games and play come to Cardiff Bay - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/playark-festival-returns-to-cardiff-bay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Games and play come to Cardiff Bay - 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