Role-Playing Game Research - RPG Community Center & Museum Property Acquired!
Non-profit 501(c)3 RPG Research just signed the lease on new dedicated property!
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RPG Community Center and experiential learning historical RPG Museum property officially acquired for non-profit 501(c)3 charity RPG Research!
Woohoo! It is official!
We just signed the lease on the new RPG Research property today!
Paid, and have the keys.
It is a very significant "fixer-upper", but it is ours at last! ~3,000 square feet between the two buildings, plus the rest of the lot. When we have the money we also have the option to buy!
Donate Equipment, Supplies or Services Wishlist
About our founder, Hawke Robinson
Much to do to make it available to the public, but this is a great milestone!
RPG Community Center Website: https://rpgcc.org
RPG Museum Website: https://rpgmuseum.org
RPG Research Website https://www.rpgresearch.com
Our new location as of March 3rd, 2022:
101 North Stone Street
Spokane, WA 99202
Email: info@rpgresearch.com
Donations: https://www.rpgresearch.com/donate
Volunteer today: https://www.rpgresearch.com/volunteer
We'll still be receiving mail at our old location for a few months during this transition: 1312 North Monroe Street, Suite 114, Spokane 99201.
Thank you for your wonderful volunteering, donations, and support helping make this all possible!
The downstairs facility will be fully wheelchair accessible, including the restroom.
In addition to the general public for all ages, we will also strive to provide spaces and adaptive accessibility equipment for:
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Blind and VI
- Adaptive equipment for those with grasping disabilities
- Safe areas for very young gamers with their parents
- Quiet times/spaces for senior adults
- At-risk populations
- Autism spectrum
- and more!
It will probably be a few months before we can open the door to the public as we prepare the space for be friendly and accessible. Stay tuned for updates!
It will take us a few months to finish preparing the space for public use.
We especially emphasize accessibility in games, and we have adaptive equipment for many.
We also actively encourage Deaf/VI and Blind/HoH community, Autism spectrum, senior adults, and many others to come benefit from cooperative tabletop games and music.
We are so excited to be opening up this space to the community as soon a possible.
We are going to need plenty of help from the community with donated supplies, services, and funds to help us finish this fixer-upper.
We'll be posting a wish list (based on the inspector's lists) online in coming days.
We are 100% volunteer run, and so glad to be able to server the greater Spokane community.
The new location is at 101 North Stone Street.
Just 1 block north of Sprague and the Vanessa Behan building. (the old Pacific Metals building is what we've acquired).
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Hawke Robinson
Known across multiple industries as "The Grandfather of Therapeutic Gaming" because he has been studying the effects and uses of role-playing games and their potential to achieve therapeutic goals longer than anyone else, Hawke Robinson is a Washington State Department of Health Registered Recreational Therapist.
He has a diverse and deep background in Therapeutic Recreation / Recreation Therapy, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology, neurotech, research psychology, nursing, play therapy, education, music, and role-playing gaming.
- Hawke Robinson has been involved with role-playing games in community settings since 1977.
- Studying methods for optimizing the experience of role-playing games, software development, and online since 1979.
- A paid professional game master since 1982.
- Studying the effects of role-playing games upon participants since 1983.
- Providing role-playing games in educational settings and for educational goals since 1985.
- Working with incarcerated populations since 1989.
- Researching and using role-playing games to achieve therapeutic goals for a wide range of populations from 2 years old through senior adults since 2004.
- Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit 501(c)3 charitable research and human services organization, RPG Research.
- Founder and CEO of the for-profit RPG Therapeutics LLC and RPG.LLC.
- Author of multiple books in technology and gaming W.A. Hawkes-Robinson books available on Amazon.
- Creator of the wheelchair accessible RPG Mobile fleet vehicles and trailers.
- Founder of the experiential learning Role-Playing Game RPG Museum, and much more.
- Creator of the Brain-Computer Interface Role-Playing Game (BCI RPG) and many other related projects.
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