EXPLAINING THE GAME

‘EXPLAINING THE GAME’ Podcast is a companion to the free online lessons that teach you how to play the new Story Sharing Game: www.catering2us.nyc/story-sharing-game. In a structured, TV-game-show-like environment, the sharing of personal stories is transformed into a skills building artistic challenge, creating a unique platform for new kinds of open (and protected) exchanges between players. Play the Game at home (or anywhere) at your convenience at no cost! The Game has multiple rounds and different challenges: quick responses with time limits, rules, game props, and scoring. You tell your real life ‘mini-bite’ stories about yourself orally like a performer; there’s no-writing except notes to yourself. Why did I create the Game? While Black and Brown people, women, immigrants, transgender, the marginalized, are calling for more honest and inspiring stories about ourselves on the screen and page, it doesn’t mean most of us know how to tell truthful, personal stories about our own lives or believe there is value in doing so. To un-bury our stories we have to develop our own language and a new kind of awareness about what happens in our everyday lives and how we really feel about it. When we do this, we’ll start figuring out how to prepare ourselves more for success than for defense. The oral stories produced in the Game can be the basis for other creative projects: preserving family and friend history; turned into written stories (www.catering2us.nyc//submit-story); used as the idea for a short script you can self-produce (www.peopleshollywood.nyc); or add illustrations and make your own comic book! Here’s to inspiring each other - Trayce p.s. The backstory of how I came to create the Game: www.catering2us.nyc/about