The Waltham Forest Games Market

Join us for the Waltham Forest Games Market! There’ll be toys, games and interactive art for sale, plus food stalls, games to play, and drop-in workshops and performances throughout the day.

There’s free activities including:

• Street Tape Games from Chad Toprak and Helen Kwok,  an artist duo specialising in playful installations, experimental games, and public play activations
• Verbal Kabaddi from Thukral & Tagra, an artist duo who work on new formats of public engagement and attempt to expand the scope of what art can do
• Hula-Hooping demos and workshops from Marawa’s Majorettes, a Guinness World Record holding hoop troupe from East London
• All sorts of wooden games from Play Wooden, who encourage communities to come together and unite via play
• Sound Test, a videogame music challenge, by Amad Ilyas
• A penalty shootout challenge from Dalmage Active
• A new fairground game from Oubliette Design, who design and produce immersive experiences, games and escape rooms
• The game Metaform by Hamish MacPherson, run by Alexandra Baybutt
• Flash courses in how to juggle from Circus Kids UK

Plus there’s vendors, selling their wares and in some cases running even more games, including:

• Bez Shahriari, selling card games and running drop-in games for visitors
• Geek Retreat, selling card games and running try-it-out card game sessions
• Get Your Game On, demo-ing and selling tabletop games and puzzles
• Johnny Chiodini with small-scale RPG booklets
• Paul Petit selling toys
• Rowan, Rook and Decard, selling RPGs
• Sweet Paper Creations selling piñatas and running free make-your-own-piñata workshops
• The Goblin’s Chest with playful objects and running quick try-it-out RPG sessions
• Viviane Schwarz and Kevan Davis with their book “Board Games to Create and Play”
• Play Wooden with home-scale versions of their wooden toys and games

Drop by for a coffee or something to eat, browse the stalls, and join us for a game or two (or more)!