Light Grey Game Night: Love & War

When you think of war in gaming, you might think of a table full of grunts, clashing over a contested capture point. And you could be right. But there are tenuous political alliances, supply chains and logistics, brave heroes and bold personalities, friends, foes, and drama, as well. And we'll be exploring them all, so if you're ready to gear up for battle, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, August 17th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm!

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Love & War!

Brave the physical and psychological hardship of war with your brothers in arms in the WWI coop The Grizzled, strategize troop deployment over a map of feudal Japan in Samurai, create a colorful cast of brave heroes in Roll Player, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite board game, bring it!

So grab your friends, family, or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier!

Light Grey Game Night: Cat & Mouse

When is the last time you felt the thrill of a narrow escape? Or alternatively, the rush of stalking your clueless prey, efficiently and silently gaining ground? The classic cat and the mouse relationship, cunning and fierce versus quick and wily, is an age-old dance of constant pursuit, near capture, and daring escape. If you can relate to the classic pairings of Batman VS The Joker, Jimmy McNulty VS Stringer Bell, Tom VS Jerry, or Itchy VS Scratchy, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, July 27th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm!

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Cat & Mouse!

Survive as a team of stranded explorers as an unknown entity hunts you down in Not Alone, use teamwork and mutant powers to ferret out the infiltrating agent in Specter Ops, or traipse across Europe in a search for none other than Dracula himself in Fury of Dracula, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite board game, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier!

Light Grey Game Night: Cyberpunk

There are autonomous drones buzzing overhead, riots are broadcasted in real-time, high-resolution streams directly to social media, Virtual Reality headsets are a dime a dozen at the local Target, and we're all carrying more tech in our pockets than the average gargoyle from Neal Stephenson's iconic sci-fi novel Snow Crash. Real talk; the dystopian Cyberpunk future we've always dreamed about is here. If you're ready to jack in your implants and hack the system, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, July 13th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm!

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Cyberpunk!

Use your synthetic humanoid technology to break into mega-corp CyberSolutions Inc. and commit futuristic larceny in Android: Infiltration, put together a crew and take on some questionable 'freelance' in Shadowrun: Crossfire, or suit up for the day job in a struggle for sinister corporate domination in New Angeles, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier!

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And if you're a fan of cyberpunk, movies, drawing, or FUN, then check out Light Grey Art Lab's newest extracurricular activity: Sketch Cinema! Sketch Cinema is a reoccurring night to visit the gallery for an evening of classic movies and drawing! Sketch Cinema: Digital Zone is the first event, and will be showing two 90's films from Cyberpunks heyday, Johnny Mnemonic and Hackers! 

Light Grey Game Night: Summer Camp

Children are running wild in the streets, the days are long and lazy, and the night sky glows with fireflies and crackling bonfires. With summer comes the hallmark of American youth; Summer Camp. If you've got the urge to break out your best pair of short-shorts and down a big jug of bug-juice, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, June 29th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Summer Camp!

Grab a canoe and head down the river in Lewis and Clark, build the perfect fire from scratch in Robinson Crusoe, or put on your best performance for the talent show in Histrio, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite board game, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Auction House

If you're a bargain hunter to the core, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned auction to get the blood pumping. With a juicy prize on the line, a friendly day at the market can turn into a steely-eyed showdown in a heartbeat. If you feel ready to host your own reality TV show about haggling old fogies away from their beloved family heirlooms for mere pennies, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, June 15th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Auction House!

Invoke the favor of the gods for the best deals in the high-stakes Egyptian auction game Ra, bid for the precious resources to survive the zombie apocalypse in the campy Hit Z Road, or set cut-throat prices and make that dastardly McNeacail clan pay through nose in Isle of Skye : From Chieftain to King, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite board game, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Animal House

Hey, let's not kid ourselves. I love animals, you love animals. I don't need to write a big intro setting this up; let's play some games about animals. If you find yourself in constant awe of animals and their ability to be cute, deadly, and surprising all at once, then it just might be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, June 1st from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Animal House!

Adapt to stay one step ahead of the pack in Evolution, stash that boar in the living room in the classic worker placement game Agricola, or put cash down on your favorite even-toed ungulate in the nail-biting race game Camel Up, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite board game, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Dive Deep

The dog days of summer approach and the temperature steadily rises. To a Northerner like me, I'll admit it's getting a wee bit uncomfortable. You can try to dress lighter, stay in the shade, take it easy... but to escape the heat, sometimes the only thing left to do is dive straight into a nice, cool body of water! If you feel like hanging out in the murky depths for a few hours, it might be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, May 18th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Dive Deep!

Close the hatch and join your crew on a submarine to use cunning, communication, and pure gut instinct to sink the enemy in Captain Sonar, explore the ocean's depths to find the most diverse wonders in Oceanos, or brave the flooded depths of the dungeon for riches in Clank!: Sunken Treasures!, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Shady Business

Summer's finally here, and you know what that means? That's right, all your favorite summer activities; lazy backyard BBQ's, smooth summer jams, staying out late riding bikes all night, selling illegal drugs in the park, and some good-natured petty theft! Wait, that's NOT how you normally spend your summer? Uh, yeah, me neither. I normally... play a sport. But if the nice weather's got you in the mood for some good old-fashion mischief and chicanery, by golly it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar forThursday, May 11th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Shady Business!

Pull off the perfect caper in the cooperative heist game Burgle Bros, sneak epic loot out of the dungeon without making too much noise in Clank!, or use teamwork and communication to solve a grisly murder, but beware the murderer might be in your midst, in Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Hard Day's Work

After a month of gallivanting around the beautiful and vibrant country of Japan for five straight weeks, we're finally home! ...And faced with a pile of neglected responsibilities the size of Mount Fuji. But that's cool, no sweat! After that much R&R, we're charged up and ready to put our collective nose to the grindstone. If you're feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to put in a solid day of work, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, April 27th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Hard Day's Work!

Rise when the rooster crows in Fields of Green, set up the most efficient assembly line in Factory Fun, or hire the best of the best to rule the lands in the Japanese-import Demon Worker, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Magic Academy

Alright, let's try this again... Practice makes perfect, especially in the world of magic. Your first health potion might accidentally turn your skin into tree bark. A test flight on a broomstick could quickly become 'crash course' in emergency landings. And a quiet night of incantation studies could easily become an epic battle against a great summoned evil. If you aspire to be Gandalf, but currently feel a bit more like Professor Hinkle, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, February 23rd from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Magic Academy!

See if you've got what it takes to survive and graduate from the Wizard's Academy, work with your wizard-school classmates to close an evil tome in The Big Book of Madness, or hone your potion-making skills in Potion Explosion, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: The New Era

There comes a moment in history where a trajectory is all but set, and you know you're in for one hell of a bumpy ride. If you feel like things are spinning out of control but you're not done fighting yet, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, January 26th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. That's right, THURSDAY - game night is moving back to Thursday, so make sure to make a mental note! 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is the New Era!

Ferret out the fascists before it's too late in Secret Hitler, recruit survivors from the nuclear winter landscape to become the dominate colony in Arctic Scavengers, or build your post-apocalypse empire 51st State, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it! 

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Onward & Upward

After a long night, loud, and rambunctious night of New Years Eve gaming (everyone just plays games all night to celebrate the new year, right?!?) 2017 is here at last! For us here at Light Grey Art Lab, 2017 is a big year. It brings with it a speedy pace, big goals, and plenty of growth! If you're ready to kick this year into high gear and conquer new heights and build new things, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Thursday, January 12th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. That's right, THURSDAY - game night is moving back to Thursday, so make sure to make a mental note! 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Onward & Upward!

Race upward to build the iconic greek city of Santorini, pave the way for towering skyscrapers in New York 1901, or watch your empire grow in Imperial Settlers, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it! 

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Thursday!

Light Grey Game Night: Like Clockwork

Programming games are a genre of boardgame where you and your opponents simultaneously preplan your actions, then resolve them in order and watch as the best-laid plans fall to pieces. Programming games combine skillful planning, a good sense of spatial awareness, the ability to read those around you, and a hearty dose of humor as things never quite go as expected. If you're feeling like a calculating, cold, emotionless robot ready to program the night away, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, December 7th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Like Clockwork!

Rev up your robo-rides and smash some baddies in Mechs VS Minions, grab the loot and dash in Colt Express, drunkenly stumble your way through a tavern fight in The Dragon & Flagon, or work together to beat the clock in Bomb Squad, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it! 

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!

Light Grey Game Night: Danger and Glory

There are some folks who like to live life on the edge. A gaping chasm exists to be leapt across. A cursed treasure map was made to be followed. And a heaping pile of glittering treasure is just waiting to be claimed. If you're in the mood to risk life and limb for fame and fortune, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, November 16th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Danger and Glory!

Duel on top of a speeding locomotive in Colt Express, race to the bottom of the sea before your oxygen runs out in Deep Sea Adventure, or save innocents from a blazing inferno in Flash Point: Fire Rescue, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it! 

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!

Light Grey Game Night: Wasteland

There's an ominous sense of electricity in the air, if you close your eyes and focus you might even be able to hear the droning buzz. As pressure mounts, tension runs high, and emotions run the gamut, it almost feels as though there's a fat greasy finger of a hot-headed wanna-be politician hovering just over a big red button, eager to unleash a nuclear fury and turn our world to dust. If you feel a creeping unease that the future might not be so bright after all, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, October 19th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Wasteland!

Build, trade, and fight amongst the new new-era societies of the wasteland in 51st State, hunt for supplies and fellow survivors in the brutal Arctic Scavengers, or watch humanity topple into extinction in Pandemic, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!

Light Grey Game Night: Final Frontier

October is here, and with it comes fall. Each passing day the wind gets crisper, the leaves get brighter, and the night get longer. Before you know it, you're greeted by the twinkling stars as you leave work in the evening. As you walk home under a bright autumn moon, you can't help but let your mind wander about what else might be out there past the moon... in space. If you feel the need to take to the heavens in search of fame and fortune, otherworldly intelligence, or a worthy opponent, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, October 5th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is the Final Frontier! 

Race to explore and exploit the solar system in the campy Onward to Venus, negotiate your way to universal domination in Cosmic Encounter, survive against the alien presence in Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game, or avoid a mid-flight disaster in Spaceteam, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!

Light Grey Game Night: Magical Realms

Sure, we'd all jump at the chance to live in a magical fantasy world filled with rejuvenating potions, fantastical talking creatures, and larger than life heroes. Of course, we forget the trade-off for all this splendor is the prerequisite unstoppable forces of evil and darkness that come along with it. But hey, nothing in life is perfect. If you feel the need to team up with a plucky band of magical children to save the world against all odds, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, September 7th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Magical Realms!

Race against other dragons to hoard gold and dominate puny human villages in the beautifully produced Dragoon, work with your wizard-school classmates to close an evil tome in The Big Book of Madness, or hone your potion-making skills in Potion Explosion, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!

Light Grey Game Night: Teamwork

If life has taught us anything, it's that you can't do it all by yourself. Sometimes you're going to face an obstacle too daunting for one person to overcome, and in moments like these, you'll need a team. A squad. A posse. A group of allies with a common goal. If you feel the need to participate in exciting, hilarious, and mandatory team building exercises, it must be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, August 24th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Teamwork!

Pit your collective cunning against your opponents the real-time game Captain Sonar, flex your vocabulary and telepathic link with your teammates in Codenames, or race to the escape pods before the aliens convert you to their side in Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!

Light Grey Game Night: Map the World

There's been a lot of travel-related gaps in the Light Grey Game Night schedule this year; we're currently in Iceland, leading brave groups of artists to remote ash-covered glaciers, through dense mossy terrain, and down plenty of winding dirt roads. For the past few weeks, we've done our fair share of squinting at maps, asking for directions, and even forging our own path when necessary. Soon, we'll follow the dotted line across the Atlantic, back to our all-time favorite place on the map; Minneapolis! 

If you also feel lost at sea with a burning desire to scour an aged map in search of answers, it might be time for another Light Grey Game Night! So mark your calendar for Wednesday, August 17th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. 

As you might remember, we're attaching a theme to each night to help people narrow down what games they might want to bring (although you're still welcome to bring whatever you'd like!). This week's theme is Map The World!

We'll be scouting and exploring unknown territory, building cities, and fighting over battle-worn maps! Explore, grow, and conquer in Scythe, map out a powerful kingdom in Castles of Burgundy, imagine you own skyline and build along NYC's iconic streets in New York 1901, or race across the frontier in Lewis and Clark, among plenty of others! If you have a favorite boardgame, bring it!

So grab your friends, family or favorite stack of board games, and come play with us! RSVP via our Facebook event, and feel free to share! The more the merrier! See you Wednesday!