Past the flashing arcade game lights and the hum of pinball machines, a large back room tucked away at Realms Arcade transforms into a different kind of space every few weeks on a Sunday night.
Tables are stacked with magazines, stickers and enough glue to stock up a small craft store. For four hours, the arcade becomes a creative hideaway — an all-ages collage night where you don’t have to call yourself an artist to belong.
At the center of it all is Simon Schabot, who started the event after noticing a lack of public creative spaces in Boise that don’t require money, experience or an existing social circle to enter…