The Society of The Lost Games

A series of performances, lectures and print

May & June 2010

With Katy Norton

As historians from the future, Jim Lockey and Katy Norton present The Society of The Lost Games. A programme of events including scientific reenactments of forgotten rituals, a touring lecture and a series of informative publications exploring 'the lost games'.

www.thesocietyofthelostgames.co.uk

Click here for PDF of a Society of The Lost Games Publication

"'The Society of The Lost Games' positions Norton & Lockey as leading members of a group of professional historians and enthusiastic, knowledgeable amateurs who are passionate about a long forgotten Games. A series of pamphlets attempts to decode and piece together what the Games were, through frequently misunderstood fragments of information and images. The first, 'A Brief Introduction', reminds us of the 'Great Cataclysmic Event' that all but destroyed human archaeology and wiped out most of the human race. As with all histories, the attempts to piece together this mythical past inevitably shed a great deal of light on the present, and in this case, on the values that our current society places on the Olympics. 'The Society of The Lost Games' deftly delivers a debate on value and faith, through a multi-aspected work including performances (in the form of 'scientific re-enactments' of such events as the 'Finishing Line' where representatives of each nation would take turns to cross the Line in a ritual recognising individual achievement), and publications." - Sue Jones, 2010