Eva Szarzynski
Eva Szarzynski
Antoine Laurent
Antoine Laurent

With 10 years' experience in coordinating Parisian projects that count in the world of games: 

- l'R de Jeux, France's largest open-air toy library, on the emblematic Place de la République;

- Ludomouv', mobile toy libraries which, in fine weather, criss-cross the capital's parks, quays, squares and gardens.

Eva Szarzynski co-founded the Bingo! association to put her experience of playing in public spaces to good use and develop outdoor play facilities throughout France!

Her taste for play stems from her family environment and from summer camps! Her fondest memories include :
- a 1,000-piece aquatic-themed puzzle put together with 10 hands by his parents, brother and sister. All accompanied by the song "Belle-île-en-Mer" playing on a loop!
- happy games of Rummikub, Scrabble and the infernal Excellence on long winter evenings
- great rounds of Loups-garous de Thiercelieux, frenzied games of Kamelot and 6 qui prend!
- his first board game purchase: Les Aventuriers du Rail, in 2004.

After a few years of nomadism around the world, always with a game in her bag, she decided to go back to school in 2012 and discovered by chance the existence of Cholet's Licence professionnelle en métiers du Jeu et du Jouet.

That's how her passion became her professional activity!
Spreading the culture of play everywhere (especially in public spaces) and for everyone is her leitmotiv.

She's delighted to act as a spokesperson for all the audiences she meets throughout the year, offering both contemporary and classic board games in her various play areas.

In a small village in Vendée, his father introduces him to the games of his childhood: Long Cours and Formule 1. This marks the beginning of his passion for gaming. Much later, during his archaeology studies in Paris, Antoine is finally able to quench his thirst for games by discovering board game bars.

In 2013, by a happy coincidence, he steps into the world of toy libraries (ludothèques) and realizes the incredible impact of games and toys on individual development. He never leaves this universe.

In 2015, he joins the team of the association À l'Adresse du Jeu on the R de Jeux project in Paris the largest outdoor toy library in France. It is love at first sight for outdoor gaming spaces. An extraordinary place of diversity where the game librarian turns a curious passerby into a player, and where children and adults alike discover gaming culture.

For the past 10 years, Antoine has been promoting this culture in the Paris region through the association's projects. He later becomes project manager for the Paris sector. He coordinates the R de Jeux setups and the Ludomouv’s that roam all the neighborhoods of Paris, and supports projects to create gaming spaces (children's streets, outdoor toy libraries...). He also initiates partnerships with museums to bring games into these cultural institutions. This latest initiative allows him to reconnect with his other passion: the museum world and archaeology.

Through these various spaces, nearly 200,000 players discover or rediscover the gaming world each year. And as many explanations of Nom d’un RenardTrio, and many others.

Antoine still manages to save some of his voice to introduce new games to his children and to play with his partner and friends, from casual games to expert-level ones.