Manifesto
- The Traditional Game Communities
The Traditional Game Communities, through the game, keep alive the historic memory, the environmental peculiarities and the social creativity of their territory.
Selection's criterions that define a Traditional Game Community:
- Connections with territory
The communities of game are particular just because they are connected to history and to each territory's conditions. This connection has social, historic and environmental foundation.
Traditional games keep not written knowledge, handicraft heritage of a own territory and they are replicable in every time and space, the game ground is a place of social daily shared exchange.
The game action of communities has to be recurring in own belonging territory, not necessarily bound by specific events. It doesn't have to be a sport or a manneristic action, but a game traditional practice that renews in contemporary contexts. In this sense they are not to be considered Game Communities those which do historic and folkloristic commemorations or simple didactic or animation activities, although considered a valid instrument of surfacing of traditional game.
Traditional game has to be preserved because it risks to be forgotten.
- Belonging to game community
Traditional game works on the concept of territory and not of ethnic group. It is possible to include game communities of migrant, which are bearers of different cultures.
Game communities shouldn't have profits. The relationships with private individuals and firms don't have to be prevalent on several communities' initiatives. It is not possible to use game, players and places to carry business or commercial projects.
The traditional game community has to be composed by almost all practicing players.
It is an intellectual challenge that obliges to play a game with all senses and with the mind to evaluate the complexity, the typical things and the history.
Verona, The 17 of February 2008, Associazione Giochi Antichi