FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL PLAYFULNESS
26-30 June 2024
Meeting of Playful Adults:
Educators, Play Designers, Artists, Musicians, Circus Folk, Adventurous Souls, Kind Hearts and Game Custodians.
EMBRACING CREATIVE PLAYFULNESS AND SPONTANEOUS KINDNESS
A place to
Rediscover
Your Playfulness
Together with 80 people from all over Italy and Europe
- Dozens of playful workshops (dedicated to play and playfulness).
- Magical, somewhat wild location, far from everyday life
- good food, music, joy and lots of nature!
Play is not something you do at the end of a long day: it is the way we choose to live.
Would you like to find your authentic playful self again?
Would you like to meet other creative and spontaneous people who feel like celebrating life?
Do you feel like discovering new ways of playing and touching true Playfulness?
Do you feel the need to recharge your batteries with humanity, joy and beauty?
This is the week for you.
- “I laughed, smiled, danced, jumped, thought, talked, hugged, met new friends. I connected. I really enjoyed this group of people driven by a common vision and such generosity in giving of themselves and sharing their passions.”
“Here, as in other places where a certain kind of positive thinking is cultivated, the unspoken rule of the game is ‘more you give, more you get’. I saw it happen in the people next to me and experienced it first hand. By surrendering myself to the flow, I felt sincerely authentic for all four days and perhaps because of that, I also felt deeply recognised and understood by others”.
“Giocosamente was a nourishing experience in so many ways. It was fun and exciting… In the days that followed, I missed both the people I met and the atmosphere that had been created between us. Anthony was a wonderful play facilitator, deeply connected to his heart and to the time and space around him.
For four days, during Giocosamente Festival, you will have the opportunity to rediscover your playful self.
We are most generous and warm when we focus on what unites us rather than on our differences. Play itself is the force that unites us in infinite games, and it is therefore not a question of looking for who is the best or who is right.
We are most generous and warm when we focus on what unites us rather than on our differences. Play itself is the force that unites us in infinite games, and it is therefore not a question of looking for who is the best or who is right.
The festival is conceived as a meeting for Game Enthusiasts to exchange good practices and get charged up with great energy!
The festival will take place in English and Italian.
Registration opens on 1 April at 21:00 CET.
Giocosamente Festival is a gathering of creative playfulness and spontaneous kindness, residential and immersed in the nature of the Italian mountains near Rome. A special place where you can dedicate yourself completely to play.
The festival is for enthusiastic Playful Adults: Educators, Play Designers, Artists, Musicians, Circus Performers, Adventurous Souls and Kind Hearts. There are 15 places for children with parents.
To create magic, we ask participants to join in the whole event from the start to the finish.
For general public it is possible to participate on the Sunday afternoon.
– Deepen our connection, Immerse in the Experience, Embrace Transformation.
At Giocosamente we play and play again!
There is something truly liberating when adults play. After playing and being full of life, we talk, share, dance and then play again.
There is something truly liberating when adults play. After playing and being full of life, we talk, share, dance and then play again.
Playfulness is what makes life worth living.
26-30 June 2024
Join us to celebrate
Giocosamente Playfulness
Festival 2024
Registration opens 1 april
Places are limited!
Participation is limited to 80 playful enthusiasts. Yohooo!
Sign up as soon as the registration opens to secure your place.
what you find in this
YEAR'S edition 2024
Giocosamente Festival will to return to presence in 2022. It will be a residential festival in a place surrounded by nature, so that participants can dedicate themselves completely to playfulness.
The theme this year is -“The Nature of Play”. The festival is conceived as a gathering for the Enthusiasts of Play to exchange good practices and get charged with good energy!
Residential in Nature
We will be together for three full days sleeping in tents and wooden houses and eating delicious veggie food. In an Agricamping called Pianeta Verde, Montenero Sabino.
- Collaborative workshops
Workshops of various themes where everyone can share games, ideas and have fun.
e.g. Deep Play Games, Parachute Games, Word Games,Embodied Games, New Games, Warm up Games..
- Unconference
Unconference creates a wonderful play space where all attendees are also contributors. All you need to do is show up, and you will be given the opportunity to propose some games, or play the games proposed by the others.
- Open Space Technology
OST is a method for organizing and running a meeting or multi-day conference, where participants have been invited in order to focus on a specific, important task or purpose.
- One hour to the festival
This is a way to give back to the community. Either a workshop or an hour of volunteering would be great and in the spirit of the festival.
FESTIVAL LOCATION 2024
We have chosen the AgriCamping "Pianeta Verde"
- as the location for the 2023 Festival; at 700m above sea level, it is truly a beautiful place in the Sabina region, about one hour from Rome.
A magical location, partly wild, far from daily life. Lots of welcoming spaces to eat and inspired settings to dive deep into our play-work.
We eat vegan food and sleep in tents and wooden houses.
Disclaimer:
– The place is very cozy and spartan at the same time: we are in nature.
– There are two large indoor facilities but we are also outdoors.
– The food is vegan (after midnight you take care of silence).
The Italian
Manifesto
del Gioco
Al Festival sarà presente anche il Manifesto del Gioco. Nel novembre del 2021 sono nati i primi 60 custodi del gioco e Giocosamente sarà l’occasione per incontrarsi dal vivo dopo tanti incontri online
www.manifestodelgioco.it
"I am playful, I am joyful and
I love life!"
Outline Programme of the
Festival 26-30 june 2024
Wednesday 26th of June
Thursday 27th of June
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9.30 am Check in
at Pianeta Verde, Montenero Sabino.
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10.30 am Welcome ceremony
Name and Networking games to get to know each other. Workshop presentation.
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1 pm Lunch
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2.30 pm Workshops
eg. co-created, body play, art play, word play, experimental games, facilitating play for adults etc.
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5 pm Talks on “The Nature of Play”.
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7.30 pm Dinner
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9 pm Improv games
Saturday 29 June
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU!
REGISTRATION OPENS
AT 9pm on the 1st of April 2024!
Ticket Price
Arrival Wednesday 26 June 2024 - Departure Sunday 30 june after lunch 2023
Early Bird price for the first 15 signed up.
* 4 nights including all activities, 4 veg breakfasts, lunches and dinners per person plus dessert!
Extras not included: Drinks.
In your tent: 210€ per adult (advance payment 100€)
FULL PRICE (subject to availability)
Tent: = 282€ (advance payment 172€)
Bed in double bungalow per person (no single use) = 362€ (advance payment 252€)
Bed linen and towel kit €10
Discounts for children (15 places)
Up to 3 years: Free
From 4 to 7 years:
In Tent €136 (advance payment €86)
Bed in bungalow €186 (advance payment €126).
From 8 to 11:
In Tent 190€ (advance payment 140€)
Bed in bungalow 260€ (advance payment 210€)
4 places in Bungalow for children to be booked together with an adult ticket in Bungalow.
Bed linen and towel kit €10
