
Enter the fiction, enter the magic circle, enter Club of What If. Play experimental and queer pen-&-paper role plays, live action role plays, and worldbuilding games or test and develop your own.
Club of What If is a society for analog role play games and live action role play, collective imagination and worldbuilding. It seeks narratives beyond existing fantasy stereotypes, related forms of playful imagination in other fields such as choreography, and works to decompose the boundary of play and non-play through the occult and magic.
Initiated by: Sidi Dungeorine, Big Diane Little and others.
For Whom?
Particularly suitable for people who enjoy playing along and fabulating, or who want to develop their own games. No special knowledge is required.
No registration for Club-Meetings
Just drop by.
Registration for individual sessions,
due to space limitations.
The club meets usually every second Sunday. Before the session is a Club Meeting to get to know the Club and to prepare coming sessions
- Location
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Festival centerMertonstraße 30, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, 1. Stock
Das Festivalzentrum von IMPLANTIEREN 2022/23 befindet sich auf dem Campus Bockenheim im ehemaligen Gebäude der “Akademie der Arbeit” (kurz: AdA), in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft des “Offenes Haus der Kulturen” mit dem Café KOZ sowie des Senckenberg Museums.
Seitdem Auszug der “Akademie der Arbeit”, einer gewerkschaftlichen Bildungseinrichtung, wird das Gebäude von verschiedenen Initiativen genutzt, bevor es in Zukunft in ein generationsübergreifendes Wohnprojekt umgewandelt werden soll. Neben dem Projektbüro der Wohnprojektinitiative von AdAptiv e.V. befindet sich im selben Gebäude auch die ada_kantine sowie Ateliers, die von basis e.V. verwaltet werden.
ANREISE:
Die Anreise mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln er- folgt mit den Linien U6, U7 und U4 über die U-Bahn Halte- stelle “Bockenheimer Warte”.
GOOGLEMAPSMÖGLICHE BARRIEREN:
Das Festivalzentrum ist über 6 Stufen am Gebäudeeingang zu erreichen. Es gibt ein Treppenhaus und einen kleinen Personenaufzug zum Festivalraum im 1. Obergeschoss. Die Toilette ist im gleichen Stockwerk und hat Einzelkabinen. Genauere Informationen zu Türenbreite und weiteren Barrieren sowie zu anderen Festivalorten folgen Anfang September online.
DURATION:
Individual games can last up to 5 hours with breaks. Spontaneous breaks are possible at any time. One can leave at any time.
LANGUAGES:
Spoken German and English.
PSBL. BARRIERS:
Typical session takes place in a seated position. Following the conversation is usually necessary to play. Participation with visual impairment is possible. For better preparation, please mention this in the registration. Human and animal companions are welcome, as well as children who do not need too much attention. Information on the accessibility of the festival center can be found HERE.
Content Note:
Role-playing games develope according to interests of the players and can thereby address different forms of (structural) violence. The club works with established safety mechanisms.
HYGIENE:
For low numbers of cases, masks can be omitted in the case of unanimity, and tests can be assumed instead.
Initiated by Sidi Dungeorine, Big Diane Little and others.
Production: Greta Katharina Klein, Assistance: Lara-Marie Weine
Initiated by the festivalteam.
Produced by ScriptedReality and IMPLANTIEREN 2022/23. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste through means of Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien within the frame of NEUSTART KULTUR, as well as Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main and IMPLANTIEREN 2022/23, supported by StudioNaxos.
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Tilman Aumüller
Tilman Aumüller writes and makes collaborative art. He is interested in how fictions and play, create world and communities and put existing reality into question. He is interested in the grotesque embodiment of thoughts and the narrativization of bodies. Tilman is co-founder of the artist* collective ScriptedReality, the role-play-game club “The Club of What If”, as well as co-creator of the festival IMPLANTIEREN 2022/23. He studied applied theater and visual arts and lives in Frankfurt am Main and sometimes in Prague.