Nordic Larp

Month: July 2013

  • New Larp Festival in Palestina

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    New Larp Festival in Palestina

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    Johannes Axner

    Beit Byout is the first larp festival in Palestine! It will be held in Ramallah from Thursday, October 3 to Saturday October 5, 2013.

    This is what the organizers have to say:

    The Festival
    Beit Byout will be a festival with a number of larps from Palestine and the Nordic countries. In addition there will be some workshops that can help you explore how to play or make larps.

    Who can join?
    We welcome all Palestinian, Nordic, Belarussian and Czech larpers. If you want to join, fill in the Sign-up form.
    If you have never larped before, this can be your first larp!

    Week in Palestine
    Before the festival there will be a possibility for visitors from abroad to spend some days in Jerusalem, Ramallah and sourrounding areas. We will organize some tours and you will have time to explore on your own.

    Organizers
    Beit Byout is organized by a group af Palestinian and Nordic larpers and The Peace and Freedom Youth Forum in cooperation with the Norwegian organization Fantasiforbundet.

    First rounds of sign-up closes on Friday July 26 2013. Read more at their website:
    http://www.beit-byout.blogspot.com/p/festival.html

  • Nordic Style Battlestar Galactica Larp in the US

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    Nordic Style Battlestar Galactica Larp in the US

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    Johannes Axner

    American larpwrite Shoshana Kessock has written a report from a Battlestar Galactica larp she took part in writing and organizing at a recent convention. Here is a small excerpt from the text:

    Tales of the Rising Star was an ambitious idea inspired by the amazing work done by the Monitor Celestra team overseas and fantastic full-immersion games like PST Productions Terrorwerks. The notion was trying to design a convention game inside the confines of a ballroom setting that would harken to the Celestra’s immersive atmosphere through prop-building and a focus on more freeform roleplaying styles. Players would get the chance to play one of five groups of characters aboard the Rising Star, a medical ship in the Colonial Fleet, as it escapes from the devastating nuclear attack on the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Officers, Marines, Engineers, Medical Officers, Scientists and Civilians would work together to keep the ship from being destroyed as they dodged Cylon ships, tricky jumps, and of course internal pressure as they try to decide if they’ll join the ragtag fleet of Commander Adama or go their own way.

    Read the whole report here:
    http://shoshanakessock.com/2013/07/11/so-say-we-all-dexcon-2013-gets-some-bsg/