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Introducing Boardroom Movie Premiere After Party: the Murder Mystery. Photo bombs, paparazzi and lights guaranteed, it is sure to be a KILLER event! Come make friends (and enemies!), snack on bougie charcuterie boards, and movie-ready popcorn perfect for the action! Enter the mysterious world of film-making, but can you get out with your reputation (and your life) intact?

5th May Thursday.Tickets for MVR 270 per person. Book now, because there's only 16 tickets! Ticket sales close on 2nd May Monday.

It's time again for Open Board Game Night! This Saturday, come along for an entire evening of boardgames, competition, and fun. Try out all our boardgames, and pay just MVR 100 for the whole night!

This event runs from 4PM-11PM. Book your tickets and come anytime during these hours! Free snacks and drinks courtesy of Boardroom.

We request that all guests provide proof of double-vaccination to confirm booking.

DM or call/text 950147 for info and to book.

Our games:

Jenga

Foosball

Cards

Uno

Dos

Cards Against Humanity

Joking Hazard

Vilu Vaadha

Code Names

Happu

Memory Chess

Shut the Box

Taboo

Shut the Box: 4 Players

Pandemic

Chess + Checkers

Ingenious

Race to the Top

Go

O'valhugondi/Mancala

Pozimus

Land of Dragons

Pictionary

Monopoly

Scrabble

Clue

Jigsaw puzzles

Rubiks cubes

Darts

Oracle cards

This Thursday, come along for an entire evening of boardgames, competition, and fun! Try out all our boardgames, and pay just MVR 100 for the whole night!

This event runs from 4PM-11PM. Book your tickets and come anytime during these hours! Free snacks and drinks courtesy of Boardroom.

We request that all guests provide proof of double-vaccination to confirm booking.

DM or call/text 950147 for info and to book.

Our games:

Jenga

Foosball

Cards

Uno

Dos

Cards Against Humanity

Joking Hazard

Vilu Vaadha

Code Names

Happu

Memory Chess

Shut the Box

Taboo

Shut the Box: 4 Players

Pandemic

Chess + Checkers

Ingenious

Race to the Top

Go

O'valhugondi/Mancala

Pozimus

Land of Dragons

Pictionary

Monopoly

Scrabble

Clue

Jigsaw puzzles

Rubiks cubes

Darts

Oracle cards

Join us this February 14th from 4pm to 7pm to celebrate your love, learn about your partner through fun games and charades; win sweet treats for each other.

Our games include; Pictionary Codenames Taboo Happu

Special activities such as letter writing, 13 questions and blind drawing are also included.

Our Poke-a-heart station lets you win sweet treats such as assorted chocolate to round off your evening!

Not Your Valentine is a celebration of one's self. Your relationship status is irrelevant to this event. The theme is 90s grunge.

At Not Your Valentine, discover yourself with a series of guided creative and self-reflective activities, such as:

⁕ Painting

⁕ Writing a letter to yourself

⁕ Air-dry clay sculpting

⁕ Giant Jenga

⁕ Darts

⁕ X-Box station

⁕ Musical instruments

This Friday, come along for an entire evening of boardgames, competition, and fun! Try out all our boardgames, and pay just MVR 100 for the whole night!

This is a masked event. Please make sure to sanitise between games. Only double-vaxxed guests will be permitted. Proof of vaccination required to confirm booking.

DM or call/text 950147 for info and to book.

Our games:

Jenga

Foosball

Cards

Uno

Dos

Cards Against Humanity

Joking Hazard

Vilu Vaadha

Code Names

Happu

Memory Chess

Shut the Box

Taboo

Shut the Box: 4 Players

Pandemic

Chess + Checkers

Ingenious

Race to the Top

Go

O'valhugondi/Mancala

Pozimus

Land of Dragons

Pictionary

Monopoly

Scrabble

Clue

Jigsaw puzzles

Rubiks cubes

Darts

Enter a world of intrigue and adventure on this New Year's Eve with our Masquerade Murder Mystery Party.

Set in a fictional auction house with glitz and glamour aplenty, someone will "die". Can you figure out who the "murderer" is before midnight?

Paired with exciting drinks and finger foods, a night filled with suspense and endless fun await! Purchase a ticket to recieve an invitation to this big event! Ticket sales close on Saturday the 25th of December.

In collaboration with Amina Publishing, Boardroom presents Poetry Club Night! Debuting with the poetry collection ‘The One with the Blue Pages’ by Aminath Shirneem (author of ‘A Medium Rare Heart’). This book headlines the author's personal journey navigating mental health issues. Join us for a discussion and meaningful discourse surrounding the themes and structure of this collection, as we are accompanied by Shirneem.

Boardroom and Amina Publishing are teaming up to destigmatise the perception of mental health and wellbeing; a personal and important cause for both of our organisations.

Join Boardroom as we discuss depictions of the Autism Spectrum in movies and pop culture. Led by Bonk, resident autistic person with years of social research experience.

We will be talking about works such as Inside Out, The Good Doctor, The Big Bang Theory, The Imitation Game, Atypical, My Name Is Khan, Rainman, Amelie, Parenthood, The Middle, etc!

This will be an open conversation between everyone present. Neurotypicals are welcome, but we highly encourage neurodivergent (people on the Autism spectrum) adults and young adults to join us. We aim for this event to lead to community outreach for adults on the spectrum.

Need feedback or editing for your writing? Come to Boardroom on Fridays this month for Friday Feedback! Bring any and all of your writing! Poetry, prose, plays, short stories, microfiction, comics, essays, etc are welcome. We encourage alternative forms of expression.

Pay only MVR 5 entrance fee for Friday Feedback.

Creative writing sessions now available for young adults and adults! Each session will be curated with unique exercises to help encourage creativity, conduct research, and develop composition skills.

Our facilitators: Bonk - BA English Literature, BATEFL, trained teacher specialising in creative writing and literature. Shaina - BA Illustration, MA Visual Communication, freelance illustrator specialising in narratives and comics.

Help your kids uncleash their creativity in writing! Each session will be curated with unique exercises to help encourage creativity, conduct research, and develop composition skills.

Our facilitators: Bonk - BA English Literature, BATEFL, trained teacher specialising in creative writing and literature. Shaina - BA Illustration, MA Visual Communication, freelance illustrator specialising in narratives and comics.

Novella November is an interactive writing challenge that dares all literature lovers to up their writing game. Respond daily to a series of writing prompts for the month, or do as much as you like. Hardcore writers, amateur writers, hobby writers, writer-hopefuls, and more are welcome! Participants are free to join a second challenge: to write their own novella. Participants writing a novella, novelette, or collection with the intent of publishing will receive guidance and aid from Boardroom once the work is completed. The prompts can be used as inspiration for such longer pieces.

Creators/auteurs of alternative forms of expression such as comics/graphic novels are encouraged to explore their chosen media throughout this month, too.

To participate, simply write. For those who are comfortable, we would love if you share your pieces online in whatever form and tag us on any of our socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardroommv/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoardroomMaldives/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/boardroommv

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@boardroommv

Tumblr: https://boardroommv.tumblr.com/

Use any of these channels or email us at [email protected] to get in touch if you would like feedback from the Boardroom founders or our guest editors for Novella November. We invite use the following hashtags in order to help us collate all the participants’ work that is shared:

#boardroom #boardroommv #novellanovember #novellanovember2021

Participants within the Greater Male’ City Area are welcome to come in to Boardroom to write or consult with us on your writing or research. We will also be hosting peer feedback sessions and creative writing workshops during the weekends here at Boardroom. All participants receive an exemption from the book fee for one book rental.

Now go out there and write to your heart’s content!

We often hear stories of people who have learned from their dreams or been inspired by them, many of them being authors, scientists, and artists, their work made better and more meaningful after a night of sleep. We actually had a Boardroom Antics episode about this!

For centuries, dreams have been regarded as having special meaning, harbingers of something prophetic. Even though we all see different things, some aspects of it remain the same; dreams about teeth falling, running late and being naked are all common themes that we have heard of over the years. Let's explore this week's fics about dreaming and see if it paints a larger picture about the subject.

Read Dreaming by Paul Dicken here.

Read In Dreams by finleyexp here.

Read The Twelfth Nights: Follow the Black Cat by Caleb James K. here.

Read The Sixth Night: Empty Space by Caleb James K. here.

Read An Excess of Ranch by Emma Lindhagen here.

Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to rest our brain and physical health each day. Atop of sleep, dreaming provides essential emotional first aid and a unique form of informational alchemy.

Join us on Saturday 3rd July as Bonk leads the discussion on dreaming! We will be live at 4:30PM (GMT+5) on IG Live.

Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, and comes under the umbrella of literary nonsense (or nonsense literature), of which nonsense verse is the most popular. It tends to be prosodic in nature; that is, involving expression, intonation, and flow -- such as in a song. It’s particularly remarkable for its humour and whimsicality, but is not a lack of meaning, but rather an excess of meaning that punctuates this effect of nonsense.

Nonsense verse owes itself to its parents: oral folk tradition in the form of folktales, nursery rhymes, etc; and intellectual absurdities put forth by scholars and court poets. The Anglo-Saxon riddles are said to be early versions of nonsense verse. Unsurprisingly, nonsense verse isn’t exclusive to the English language or peoples. That being said, all the texts we will be exploring this week are English works of notable nonsense verse poets.

Read Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll here.

Read The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Leary here.

Read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss here.

Read Agamemnon by Laura E. Richards here.

Read After a Trip to the Natural History Museum by Laura E. Richards here.

Do these poems evoke any feelings of child-like playfulness and fancifulness? As we read through these, let's try to see if there indeed is layers of meaning to these fun and whimsical texts!

This week, we will be joined by musician and disability rights activist, Harry Goldfinch.

Tune in to our IG Live, Saturday, 26th June at 4:30PM (GMT+5) here.

To receive updates and reminders, RSVP to the event on Facebook.

Further reading:

To rebel is so much more than just rising up with arms to overthrow a president.

It is the instrument of change, the voice of the oppressed, what brings life to a decaying stagnating way of living. The inner power that sets you to fight something greater than yourself, perhaps in hopes of achieving something even greater, for someone you love, or maybe for the kicks of it.

That resistance against something; be it the government, authority, society, culture, or even reality itself.

This week's FFS! features texts on this theme, for us to contemplate what this might mean by exploring the fics, and what we might learn from it.

Read The Socialist by Ryunosuke Akutagawa here.

Read Freedom Toll by EJ Dahm here.

Read Freedom by Bonnie Cehovet here.

Read Rise Up, Save the World by Emma Lindhagen here.

Read Rebellion by Pat Cummings here.

Read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. here.

Though rebellion by form is generally unpopular and unacceptable, the narrative of it has been a much-loved part of human storytelling as far as we can trace back human literature; the young girl who refuses to back down against an opponent perceived to be more powerful by society, the young boy refusing to bow down to his people's standards though his culture demands otherwise; hell, even writing is usually a rebellion in itself; words could set a person's mind to an inkling of an idea, an idea that may kick start a movement, a rebellion that changes the world (hopefully for the better?).

Join us on IG Live as Jin leads the discussion on rebellion with a special guest on Saturday, 19th June at 4:30PM (GMT+5)! https://www.instagram.com/boardroommv/

RSVP to the event on Facebook to receive updates and reminders: https://fb.me/e/192DNbMLW

Further reading on this subject:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html http://futurismic.com/2009/09/01/new-fiction-is-this-your-day-to-join-the-revolution-by-genevieve-valentine/