Community Corner
Connect the Dots Game. Will You Play The Game With Me?
In this time of self-isolation and global panic, let's find new ways to connect and explore Long Beach history and heritage.
On June 30, 2012 I started playing a game I called The Community Lemonade Game. It was a game played out on social media and inspired by the Maker Movement. That game led to the building of communities of creatives (called Makers) who gather in spaces (called Makerspaces) to make things. Brickersville, a LEGO® themed maker and entrepreneurship space in Long Beach CA, is one of these communities.
On February 1, 2020, I started working on a new game. I called it Connect the Dots. There is some history to this as it is inspired by Steve Jobs' Connect the Dots speech to Stanford University's graduating class of 2005.
Today, March 15, 2020, I am starting the Connect the Dots game.
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This first playing of Connect the Dots will focus on exploring the historic Long Beach Pike (in Long Beach, California) together, at a time when we must be socially distant.
I am seeking those who might play this family friendly game with me from as few as 6' apart, but as many as thousands of miles.
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We will explore history, open new conversations, write stories, draw, paint and build models. We will use LEGO® Bricks, and we will eventually use other materials. We will make models I want to make, and models you want to make.
We will together create a comic book, a mini carnival and an art contest and show and celebrate the community we have created. We will find ways to organize it digitally and in person, if we can.
I am seeking volunteers who might care to create do it yourself (DIY) videos on any family-friendly subject from their location for posting on their (and/or my) YouTube channels, regardless of audience size.
I must communicate with an adult, but you are encouraged to involve your kids in the project.
If you are interested in participating in this opportunity, please sign up here.
This project is a collaboration between the Atomic Basement Comics (ABC) and Brickersville|A Makersville community. Once this is all over, please visit with us!
You can find my DIY videos and life observations on my Squigglemom YouTube channel.