Halifax Waterfront Play Day 2021

Play is joy. Play is community. Play is universal.

On Sunday, July 11th, 2021, the Multicultural Playtime Society presented the first “Waterfront Play Day” at the Sands at Salter in Halifax – a multi-cultural event in the spirit of World Play Day!

The fun event included many games, special guests, and groups like:

• Alex Smith – Loose Parts Play
• Toy Maker of Lunenburg – Booth
• Afghan Society – Kite Making
• Germany – Word Game
• Zimbabwe – Game of Bhora and Game of Nhodo
• Zambia – Game of Walassa Wangena
• Nigeria – Game of Suwe
• Philippines • India – Pavement Chalk Games and Story Corner
• Nepal – Bagh-Chal Game

Multicultural Board Games

I added some reference info to my github repo about the Multicultural Board Games we played at the Duc Games Club: https://github.com/odoepner/board-game-docs/blob/master/README.adoc

The page is still a work in progress. I am going to add Bagh-Chal, Alquerque, Othello/Reversi, Sudoku, Pachisi and others soon.

Bagh-Chal at the family festival

We played Bagh-Chal – also known as “goats and tigers” – at the 10th annual Fairview family festival and barbeque.

Thanks to the wonderful Ruth Byrne from the Fairview Family Centre we found some table space for the game board.

I was fortunate enough to play with a senior member of the local Nepali community. He doesn’t speak much English, I don’t speak any Nepali. So I am not even sure I properly caught his name, but we had fun playing anyway … 🙂

We used a board I made last year for an international game night hosted by Nuriya Shamsuddin from Fairview action for neighbourhood change.