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On Friday night the glass and steel canyons of downtown Toronto echoed to the running footfalls and excited yells of almost two thousand participants in the annual Newmindspace game of Capture the Flag. Dodging traffic, sidestepping security guards, and disappearing into the PATH system, teams ebbed and flowed across the King Street "neutral zone" throughout the night. In the end, if the score mattered, the blue team emerged victorious by four captures to two.

FILM: Filmmaker and scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin, companion of Nouvelle–Vague visionary Jean-Luc Godard throughout his Dziga Vertov period, is in Toronto for his self-curated series "The Way of the Termite: The Essay Film." Gorin will introduce Chris Marker's Sans Soleil tonight to launch the series, which runs until December 3 and will also feature a couple of Gorin's collaborations with Godard (Ici et ailleurs and Letter to Jane), as well as the Canadian premiere of La Rabbia di Pasolini. The films screened over the next month explore the balance between history and anecdote, fact and fiction. Each work speaks as clearly about the filmmaker as their world views, resulting in the perfect meeting of art and politics. The series invites audiences to reflect on how we think about history and how we process current events through images, which is particularly poignant in an age of media saturation. TIFF Cinematheque (2 Carlton Street), 7 p.m., check online for ticket prices.

                            

Last Saturday night the normally oh-so-sober Financial District came alive to Newmindspace's latest interactive urban adventure, a game of Capture the Flag. Approximately 1700 people gathered at the corner of King and Bay to hear the rules, grab their glow sticks (the teams were orange or green), and mingle before dispersing to plant their flags and plan their strategies. After more than two hours of running, skating, biking, and tagging the green team emerged victorious and everyone gathered again to swap stories, commiserate, and try their hand at virtual graffiti.

SPORTS: If you're wandering around the Financial District tonight, don't be too shocked when you see hundreds of people running around erratically. It's got nothing to do with the economic crisis; it's Newmindspace's Capture the Flag, back for its sixth episode, where the only crisis participants face is determining the whereabouts of their opponents' flag. Full details, the official map, and rules are available here. King Street and Bay Street (on the southwest corner), 9 p.m., FREE.

Friday night saw some 1600 people (according to glowstick consumption) running through downtown Toronto looking for pink and blue flags, having a generally awesome time for Newmindspace's Capture the Flag event. In the end, the Blue team emerged victorious!

With a little over twelve hours to go until this year's Capture the Flag, Lori and I are feeling anxious and excited.

Our own very Kevin Bracken, co-founder of newmindspace with Lori Kufner, just posted this video online today of the massive game of Capture the Flag that they organized at the end of September. 1,200 people showed up, which, at last count, is quite a lot. And hey, remember when it was warm enough to be outside with slivers of exposed flesh? Good times. Check it out: