Mine-o-Polis is an alternative board game created by Beyond Extraction that invites players to explore Toronto as a centre of extractive power. Play as a junior mining firm seeking to stake, extract, lobby, and accumulate its way to extractive success from the mines to the markets. Unearthing Toronto’s role as a global of mining finance, Mine-o-Polis invites players to participate in extractive practices to raise to the surface how capital flows, how extraction is valued, and who benefits or is harmed by these processes. Play extraction against extraction.

This spring, we’re inviting the Beyond Extraction community to playtest the pilot version of Mine-o-Polis at an in-person workshop in downtown Toronto. Join us on Sunday, April 12 at CONTACT Gallery to learn about how the city’s landmark institutions—from the Toronto Stock Exchange to banks and universities—uphold Canadian extractivism. Be among the first to play Mine-o-Polis while enjoying a catered lunch and connecting with a community of activists and researchers around the ways extractive politics can be made visible and resisted through the power of play. 

Registration is FREE but limited. Please register on Eventbrite to attend.