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July 11, 2005
Please join us for our next Salon on Wednesday, July 20th!
The Games for Change Summer Salon:
Behind the Scenes of The UN's Food Force
THE EVENT:
- Meet the UN World Food Programme's North America spokesman.
- Learn how they made their game and what they hope to accomplish.
- Discover how a game about air dropping food rations reached over 1,000,000 players within two months.
- Introduce yourself to others in the G4C community.
- Enjoy the drinks, light fare and networking opportunities.
- Show your own game during the cocktail hour.
THE PLACE:
Wednesday, July 20
6 - 8pm
Fund for the City of NY
121 Avenue of the Americas (@ Broome Street) 6th Floor (for directions: http://fcny.org/portal.php/fcny/directions/)
As sponsored by the Fund for the City of New York, the Games 4 Change salons are always free to attend.
RSVP (requested not required) to rsvpgamesforchange@yahoo.com so we have enough food and drink. Thanks.
THE HOSTS:
Games for Change is a non-profit organization working to bring together non-profits and their partners in industry, academia and the arts, to explore the use of digital games for social change. G4C is an off-shoot of the Serious Games Initiative, which is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. For more information see:
Please feel free to forward this announcement to other people and lists you think would be interested.
Posted by jtroy at July 11, 2005 03:30 PM