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I wonder if we'll see them chortling their way through the local council estates as they pay £20 for a game of 'adult' hide and seek. Whizzo!

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CITYDASH IS COMING TO BRIXTON

Citydash, the fast-paced, clue-cracking immersive game by Fire Hazard, is coming to Brixton in May. The game will run in the area on two dates: Sat 20 May and Sun 28 May.

The Craft Beer Co. Brixton, a local pub on Brixton Station Road, will serve as the HQ for the Citydash players.

Citydash is a high-energy urban adventure which takes place mainly on the streets. Players race against other teams to solve puzzles and find checkpoints around the game zone. This
is no ordinary treasure hunt however, as the Citydash guards will be on patrol, and they can steal points! Players may need to run or hide.

Described as ‘London’s greatest urban adventure’ by Curious London and ‘like you're living in an N64’ by Time Out, Citydash is an exhilarating street game of hide-and-seek with a
twist. It has been played by over 7000 people across London.

To find out more or book tickets, visit the Fire Hazard website. General admission is £20, concessionary rates available.
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Background 'People are paying £20 to run around council estates for bants'
 
Is this actually "paying to run around an estate for the grim lols" or something different that you are characterising thus? I like games, puzzles and escape rooms, and this sounds like that kind of thing.
 
Suspect you've hit the nail on the head: the main argument seeming to be "running something unaffordable on a council estate"; albeit a small segment of a larger game.
 
Could go either way IMHO - a game played out on the streets sounds interesting and doesn't bother me so long as it doesn't impact residents too badly. Hopefully the organisers have learnt from when this was a story before - IIRC at that time they had some clues in communal areas of peoples blocks which was obviously taking the piss a bit.

Pretty low on my things to get upset about though.
 
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SpamMisery said:
Suspect you've hit the nail on the head: the main argument seeming to be "running something unaffordable on a council estate"; albeit a small segment of a larger game.
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A third of the checkpoints were in estates. More than a small segment.

Local TRA said

"Secondly, it rather rankles that this is a commercial event that costs £20 per participant, which would be way too costly for most residents – so they are having to watch an activity they can’t join."

And
"However, the witness said that when a group of children from the estate tried to join in, management told them they could join in ‘next time’.

‘The local kids started chasing the guards and players, but management said they could play next time – but it’s £20 per ticket.’"

They never asked the people on the estate if it was ok.

Be interesting to see what there route is in Brixton.
 
Am I delirious or did we have this very thread a couple of years ago (or even longer)?

If so, why are all the posts shown as having been made yesterday?

Time for bed perhaps...
 
T & P said:
Am I delirious or did we have this very thread a couple of years ago (or even longer)?

If so, why are all the posts shown as having been made yesterday?

Time for bed perhaps...
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I thought the same thing. We've done this before. U75 - the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
 
This looks good fun. The idea that everyone playing it is some kind of over-priveleged wanker is ridiculous. £20 isn't that much money, and tickets are only £15 atm. Not much more than going to the cinema and cheaper than an afternoon in the pub.

Equally the idea that everyone on these estates is poverty-stricken (lots of owner occupiers etc) and can't afford it is also far-fetched.
 
Maggot said:
This looks good fun. The idea that everyone playing it is some kind of over-priveleged wanker is ridiculous. £20 isn't that much money, and tickets are only £15 atm. Not much more than going to the cinema and cheaper than an afternoon in the pub.

Equally the idea that everyone on these estates is poverty-stricken (lots of owner occupiers etc) and can't afford it is also far-fetched.
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As someone who grew up on a council estate (particularly poverty stricken single parent family to boot) I do find the Dickensian 'poor urchins with only a piece of coal to play with' narrative pretty patronising. Also never mind owner-occupiers, but in my experience the majority of tenants on council estates are employed and amongst my friends at least it's the one renting privately that have less disposable income once the landlord has taken a pound of flesh.
 
Also I think characterising this as some massive money spinner at the expense of locals is probably not true - in that it's probably not much of a money spinner. Most live participation games and events run on tight margins even when half the people work for free.
 
salem said:
As someone who grew up on a council estate (particularly poverty stricken single parent family to boot) I do find the Dickensian 'poor urchins with only a piece of coal to play with' narrative pretty patronising. Also never mind owner-occupiers, but in my experience the majority of tenants on council estates are employed and amongst my friends at least it's the one renting privately that have less disposable income once the landlord has taken a pound of flesh.
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I go to local meetings in my area Loughborough Junction. It has a large Council Estate. There is a high level of youth unemployment. At meetings one of the complaints from the people on estate is that they cannot afford , for example, the Ritzy cinema. They feel improvements are not for them.The Council also agree it's an area of high deprivation. There phrase. This isn't being patronising. It's how it is. Whilst central Brixton may look like it's thriving with new restaurants and bars there is a class divide. It's not just me saying this it's what people on local estates tell me. It's them and us.I get this from people in work. A lot of people just get by. Feeling is that London is becoming just for the rich- as one said to me.

This isn't a fictitious "narrative". It's a fact.
 
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I go to local meetings in my area Loughborough Junction. It has a large Council Estate. There is a high level of youth unemployment. At meetings one of the complaints from the people on estate is that they cannot afford , for example, the Ritzy cinema. They feel improvements are not for them.The Council also agree it's an area of high deprivation. There phrase. This isn't being patronising. It's how it is. Whilst central Brixton may look like it's thriving with new restaurants and bars there is a class divide. It's not just me saying this it's what people on local estates tell me. It's them and us.I get this from people in work. A lot of people just get by. Feeling is that London is becoming just for the rich- as one said to me.

This isn't a fictitious "narrative". It's a fact.
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The 'them and us' battle is causing it to be very hard to get people to come together here regarding something as obviously important as trying to save the playground from being sold off for flats. Even if everyone who lives in LJ would like to see the playground saved, the divisions seem more important to some. So if there are 'them' at the meeting, 'us' refuse to come. This is deeply sad.
 
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The 'them and us' battle is causing it to be very hard to get people to come together here regarding something as obviously important as trying to save the playground from being sold off for flats. Even if everyone who lives here would like to see the playground saved, the divisions seem more important to some. This is deeply sad.
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Up to a point I agree.

That doesn't mean that the underlying class divide does not exist in economic terms. Nor that the Them and Us does not have a real basis.

When I was leafleting the estate about the Adventure Playground I did talk to some people on the estate. They were all against the selling off of the APG to build private flats. The LEMB committee oppose selling off of the playground. To ask people on estate to raise funds and voluntarily run the APG is a tall order. I know one parent on the estate,for example, who is really opposed to the sell off. But she is working single parent who simply has not got the time to do this. So IMO the Council's it all up to you response won't work.
 
Of course. All that's true. I just feel that we (Loughborough junction) is suffering badly from hunkering down in the us and them trenches.
 
bimble said:
The 'them and us' battle is causing it to be very hard to get people to come together here regarding something as obviously important as trying to save the playground from being sold off for flats. Even if everyone who lives in LJ would like to see the playground saved, the divisions seem more important to some. So if there are 'them' at the meeting, 'us' refuse to come. This is deeply sad.
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A larger point is that "us" don't feel the Labour party ( in Lambeth run by the right wing of the party) stick up for the people they were set up to represent. See this at Cressingham estate.
 
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