Part I: Before the game begins the 5 minute video Hate: Part I presents a montage of generally light-hearted hateful images. Each person in the group is then assigned a number at random and given a note card. Each person is asked to write short definitions of hate on their card.

The cards are collected, shuffled, and drawn at random by the people assigned numbers 1 to 10, or the people in the first half of the group if there are less than 20 people playing. Each person is given 90 seconds in which to provide their own explanation of the definition written on the card they have drawn.

Those people who are not reading definitions are each given a green and a red card. After each definition is presented, players can "cash in" their green card and present no more than 30 seconds of support, or cash-in their red card and present up to 30 seconds of disagreement. Once commentators have used up their green and red cards they cannot comment further in Part 1. Part 1 continues until all the definitions have been read.

Concept: The word "hate" is frequently used yet so poorly understood that it's not clear what we mean, or what is communicated.

Here we draw equally from all participants to demonstrate both how widely the term is misunderstood, and how few people recognize or explore its meanings.

Part II: In the second part of the game everyone is asked to write a paragraph describing something hateful they did. These are collected, the insubstantial stories are culled out, and the remaining stories are redistributed at random to people other than those who authored them. Those who did not present a definition in Part 1 are asked to present the story they pickd in 120 seconds or less, out loud, as if it was their story. The person to their left is then asked to spend 30 seconds describing how they would feel if they were the victim of this action, and the person to their right is given 30 seconds to review the event from the point of view of an observer. Story presentations continue as long as there are interesting stories to present.

The game concludes with the 12 minute video Hate: Part II which presents a montage of dark-hearted, hateful still images. Warning: this video contains graphic, violent, and disturbing images. Young people under 14 or senstive people should either avoid this video, or watch it with someone who can help them understand the meaning of these images.

The group is divide into speakers and musicians. The speakers examine and then select a topic from the deck of topic cards. Each speaker is to recall or invent a 2 minute story related to this topic. Speakers should avoid their familiar stories and find new and uncertain stories that may be affected by the music and the audience.

One person, designated as the host, has the job of cueing the next pair of performers, and alerting each speaker when their two minutes are up. Speakers present their topics one after the other, without break or interrupton.

Musicians accompany speakers by inventing a rhythm on the Zoundz to match the story being told. Each of the Zoundz's sculptures triggers one of three prerecorded rhythms of a type specific to that sculpture. For example there is a strings sculpture, a percussion sculpture, a bass, and so on.

Lift a sculpture from a site and its rhythm fades away. Brush a sculpture over a site and a single beat is played. Continuously add, remove, or replace sculptures in any fashion to create a sound scape for your speaker's story.

When speakers and musicians listen to each other something new and unexpected can be created.

Pieces:
Speakers select a topic from a deck of 56 topic cards, whose topics include:

Being naked; A love story; Happy childhood event; Something you stole; Your worst outfit; A story about birth or creation.

Each speaker is to speak for 120 seconds on the selected topic saying, or acting, in any way they want.

Each musician, in turn, will play a toy rhythm machine called a Zoundz, which plays 1 to 3 simultaneous rhythms depending on which of 7 sculptures you place on each of 3 electrically sensitive sites. Musicians are shown the Zoundz and taught how it works immediately before the game.

Concept: How is the speaker influenced by the musician, or the musician by the speaker? How are you influenced as a listener? What will you remember?