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Anna-Karin Linder, new Editor in Chief at inlajv.seinlajv.se is a Swedish online magazine on larp. They have appointed a new editor in chief, Anna-Karin Linder, and again started publishing high quality texts at a steady pace after a short hiatus.
If you want to read interesting articles about all aspects of larp written in Swedish we highly recommend checking them out.
Read more about the news in Swedish over at inlajv.se:
http://inlajv.se/visa/47/nagra-ord-fran-chefredaktoren
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Europa brinner! (Europe burns!) is a larp campaign that takes place in Sweden before and during World War II, with espionage, betrayal and treason as main elements. The larps will be as realistic as possible, with some elements of fiction.
The first installment is called 1938 – Pyrande glöd (Smoldering Glow)
The Organizers are:
Emma Feldmanis – Main organizer and campaign writer
Marie Schöld – Intrigue organizer
Svend Lindblom – Intrigue and security organizer.
Europe burns is produced in collaboration with SIT (Svedala Interactive Theatre and Role Association)
Where: The larps is held in the amazing 1800s Director villa in Brunnsparken, Ronneby and it continues for one evening.
When: April 20, 2013.
Cost: 150 SEK (approximately 18 Euro or 24 USD).
Language: The game will be played in Swedish.
Read more on the website:
http://sit-lajv.se/Flagrantis/
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Petter Karlsson has produced a video report from the third instalment of the larp Monitor Celestra.
Read more on Petters blog:
http://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-battlestar-galactica-larp/
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After runs in Norway, the Netherlands and USA time has come to run Mad About the Boy in Sweden. The organisers had this to say:
In a world were all men have died reproduction is totally dependent on sperm banks. The government in the Nordic countries have decided to start an insemination program. To choose the future parents the have created a Parent Selection Program. It is during these tests that the larp is played. On the second day the last man on earth runs in to the site and everything changes.
The game is played twice in a week, once with an all female cast, and one with mixed gender. Both of them during the last week of June.
Where: Outside of Västerås, Sweden
When: June 24th-27th 2013 – Mixed gender run, open to people of all genders who want to play women. June 27th-30th 2013 – All-female runm open to people who identify as women.
Cost: The participation fee is 1200 SEK. There is a concessional price of 900 SEK for students, freelancers and unemployed people.
Language: The larp will be played in English.
Sign-up opens: March 15th 2013 at 16.00.
More info on the homepage:
http://mad-about-the-boy-larp.blogspot.no/
Discuss upcoming larps in the Nordic Larp Forum:
http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=16
Read about the larp and previous runs on the Nordic Larp Wiki:
http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Mad_About_the_Boy
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Krigshjärta (Heart of War) is a Swedish low fantasy larp campaign centered around a large scale conflict. Though it is combat heavy, it’s quite different from American style combat heavy fantasy larps. Check out their campaign trailer here:
Read more on their website (in Swedish):
http://krigshjarta.com/
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Lindängens Riksinternat (State boarding school of Lindängen) is a Swedish larp set at a boarding school. The inspiration for the larp comes partly from the book Ondskan by Jan Guillou, of which also has been made film, and partly from the intensely hierarchical bullying structures that have been reported in Swedish media to figure at these boarding schools.
The organisers has this to say about the larp:
We strive to make a larp based on this hazing and its structures, on the friendship one can still find in such a situation, and how easily good people can find themselves being part of and reinforcing an oppressive system.
Before the larp, we will run a weekend with mandatory workshops, where we create characters, groups, classroom hierarchies and other relations.
Content of the larp:
- Bullying and victimisation
- Lessons and school life
- Unspoken rules with inconsistent punishment
- Larping 24 hours per day
- Emotional play with noticeable consequences
- Role- and relationship-building in workshops
Where: Olsängsgåden, Blekinge, south of Sweden
When: October 16-20, 2013
Cost: Not finalised, but less than 1000 SEK (120 Euro or 160 USD)
Language: The larp will be played in Swedish
Read more on the larp website:
http://lindangen.wordpress.com/
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Yggdrasil is a Swedish larp set in the universe of Harry Potter. The organisers has this to say:
The larp is set at the Nordic magic school Yggdrasil. During four days you will experience a magic world built on strong sense of belonging but also with threats and excitement where it’s tough to know who is friend or foe.
It’s a fantasy larp with neither very high or low demands on the players. It’s set in a school environment with possibilities for university level magic studies.
We’ve held one larp in the same campaign world before, in November 2012 which was very successful and now we’re trying again.
Where: Near Stockholm, Sweden. Participants will be transported from Stockholm by bus.
When: June 13-16, 2013
Cost: 500-700 SEK (approximately 60-85 Euro or 80-110 USD), not set yet. Price includes transport to and from the venue from Stockholm, food and lodging.
Language: The game will be played in Swedish
Read more about the larp on the website:
http://yggdrasillajv.webs.com/
You can also check out their Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/yggdrasillajv/
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The Swedish Nordic larp convention Prolog was held the past weekend and documentation can be found on their website:
http://lajvkonvent.se/om-prolog/prolog-2013/
It’s mostly in Swedish, but we hope it will be useful and interesting for those of our readers who can understand it.
You can also discuss Prolog in the Nordic Larp Forum:
http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
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The Price of the Bride is nordic style larp organized in Sweden 9-12 May:
Brudpris is a larp in Swedish that focuses on honor culture and patriarchal structures in a world inspired by swedish 19th century village life. The people of Mo believe that women possess a dangerous but necessary force – the force of life. But for the force to be life giving and not destructive for the Mo, it must be quelled and contained. As a man that is your purpose in life, to control that force, and to give a holy promise to do so by taking responsibility for a woman. To fail is to not have any honor and putting your whole people in danger.
With Brudpris we want to explore a fictive honor system that feels real. We are looking for tight, close culture oriented play. The game will be in Swedish, but we welcome Swedish speaking participants from other contries as well.
Dates:
9 – 12 may
Price:
900 SEK full price / 600 SEK students/unemployed
Place:
Moriaberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Website (in Swedish):
http://brudpris.wordpress.com
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The Norwegian organization Fantasiforbundet is holding a week long event for young larp designers. It will be held in Oslo during the week leading up to the 2013 Knutepunkt conference and is eligible for participants born after October 1st 1982 and live in (or hold citizenship from) Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Belarus and Palestine.
Want to take a hands-on crash course on larp design and meet new friends from all over the world? Join the Larp Exchange Academy!
From 12th to 18th of April 2013, Fantasiforbundet is hosting a new event on learning about game design. The week before Knutepunkt, the most important conference on Nordic Larp, we invite 40 young larp designers to Oslo to work together intensively for six days on making and running larps together! We will even cover the travel costs.
Read more and sign up here:
http://www.larpacademy.org/
Read more about Knutepunk at the Nordic Larp Wiki:
http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt