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Meat Outfits, Smores Game: Picnic Event Held At Fort Greene Park

The Competitive Winter Picnicking games, which were covered by Brooklyn Magazine, are as much a competition as a piece of performance art.

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The Competitive Winter Picnicking games, which were covered by Brooklyn Magazine, are as much a competition as a piece of performance art.
The Competitive Winter Picnicking games, which were covered by Brooklyn Magazine, are as much a competition as a piece of performance art. (Kathleen Culliton/Patch)

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — Brooklynites donned outfits of meat and assembled fortune-telling smores games at Fort Greene Park as part of last weekend's Competitive Winter Picnicking games, Brooklyn Magazine reported.

Now in its fourth annual year, the event, which is ostensibly a contest with cash prizes and handmade trophies, is more of a performance art piece intended to bring people together, according to the magazine.

Jacklyn Atkinson, who co-runs Shadow Traffic, the event's organizer, told Brooklyn Magazine that the games are meant to create "interstitial spaces for gathering in the urban landscape, and opportunities for people to make weird shit together."

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In this instance the "weird shit" included upwards of four hours of costumed outdoor fanfare orchestrated by a dozen teams, all in 28 degree weather.

Read the full piece, and see pictures of the event, at Brooklyn Magazine.

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