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Nordic Larp Talks – Back in Finland
On Wednesday, April 10th at 19:00 EET (20:00 CET) as part of the programme A Week in Finland for the larp conference Solmukohta, we are happy to announce that Nordic Larp Talks is back in Finland! The talks will be live at Paidia at Nokia Arena in Tampere and our ambition is as usual to…
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Nordic Larp Talks Copenhagen 2023
Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the tradition of Nordic Larp. Nordic Larp Talks Copenhagen 2023 was held on the 17th at Valby Kulturhus during A Week in Copenhagen prior to Knudepunkt 2023. Speakers
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The Wisdom of the Community – Juhana Pettersson
In 22 years, the Knudepunkt community has published 29 books that together form the greatest collection of larp writing in the world. This talk explores that legacy, the current situation of the KP book and its future. Juhana Pettersson is a Finnish writer, novelist and roleplaying game and larp designer, who has edited two Knudepunkt…
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The Great Larp Swindle – Steve Deutsch & Larson Kasper
You also hate having to decide if you’d rather talk to wonderful people or listen to amazing talks instead of playing a 5 hour larp during KP? What if we just spent the whole weekend playing larps instead? This is the idea we had 12 years ago when organising our first IFOL. Steve Deutsch is…
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Learning to love the larp – Burnout culture in larp organisation – Sandy Bailly
Organizer burnout is an issue in our larp community, but have we stopped to think about how it might not be an individual, but a cultural problem we’re facing here? In this talk, Sandy Bailly will touch on the issue of burnout culture in larp organization, and she will equally argue how we already have…
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Age and why it should be praised – Inge Mette Petersen
We tend to forget that age is not just decay and ruin – it is also experience, knowledge and courage. In this short talk I will give some examples on how and why my own age and experience has been important in how I have evolved as a player and why this is important to…
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We’re Here, We’re Queer and We’re Ready to Feel Good – Eva Wei
Not all queer narratives have to be about death, despair or being hidden away from the public eye. In her talk, Eva Wei will delve into the things she learned while organising Perfect Match, a feel good-larp about a reality dating show for disaster queers. Eva Wei is a Swedish lawyer, sword fighter and larpwright.…
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Aesthetics of Randomness – Kaisa Kangas
The international larp scene has gone more and more to the direction where players are in control of their character’s fate and story arc. In her talk, Kaisa Kangas argues that this does not always lead to the best larp experience. She talks about the aesthetics that random outcomes can bring to larp, drawing on…
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Designing the Apocalypse – Avoiding that Big Plot crushes the character’s journey – Janusz Maxe
Most large starts with an interesting setting. A vampire court, spaceship at the edge of the galaxy, a village in a time and place that is very different from ours. But then we go “What should happen during this larp?” and thus add the plot. That in itself is all fine, but when the plot…
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A Full House Trumps a Dance Card – Anni Tolvanen
Have you ever found yourself running from one in-game meeting, pre-negotiated scene, and secret ritual to another, feeling like there’s no time to larp in this larp? You may be suffering from a Full Dance Card Syndrome! In this talk, Anni Tolvanen addresses the impact of dance card larping on participant experience and demonstrates why…