Start: 04/17/2009 08:00
End: 04/17/2009 09:00
Description
Based on an exercise from South American Nicolas Nunez' ritual theatre, this is a one-hour physical ritual that is a great way to start the day or perhaps a good "quiet time" to also process other activities. There are six ten-minute physical meditations that take up the hour.
Who
Johanna MacDonald is a professional actor, dancer and performance artist, originally from Canada and living and working in Helsinki. Most of her stage experience is from physical theatre, butoh dance, mask and commedia dell' Arte, and improvised/devised theatre. She runs workshops on different physical approaches to theatre, all of which basically work on the performer's awareness of his or her own body, and developing the freedom to improvise without tension.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 13:00
Description
A new workshop in Anna Karin's series of drama workshops. This time it's all about different ways of using monologues as techniques in larps. Exploring the monologue as a method - allowing the inner drama to speak, in 15 minute scenarios.
Who
Anna-Karin Linder studies theatre and has created the larps The Last Supper and Club Felis and was a director at A Nice Evening with the Family. She is a forceful advocates for greater use of meta techniques in larps. And she will be you DJ at the party at this year's Knutepunkt.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 11:00
Description
This year the Knutepunkt book articles were made available online before the festival, to give attendants the opportunity to read and digest before coming to Knutepunkt. The editors also chose a less academic profile for the book, to make it more accessible to the general Knutepunkt public. We would like to invite you to join the editors for a chat about the book and its contents, with the hope of sparking some debate and inspiring next year's editors.
Who
Matthijs Holter is this year's editor of the Knutepunkt book. He is the writer of the Norwegian tabletop game "Draug" and is also the host of an annual small indie roleplaying convention in his own home. The last year he has been working on the use of roleplaying as a learning incentive in the class room.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 10:00
Description
This is a 4 part Game which could be seen as 1 whole story played by 4 different player groups or as a workshop in gameflow in different LarpForms. The Workshop will reach for a common ground on gameflow from Erlend's mix of experience from Fantasy larps, Historic larps, Political larps, ArtHouselarps, Pervasive larps and Freeform. Examples of composition will also include experience from other mediums such as music (Erlend plays saxophone and piano), film (he has directed 3 documentary films), and dance/performance.
Who
Erlend Eidsem Hansen has organised more than 20 larps the last 20 years, and taken part in over 200 games. He is also one of the founders of Knutepunkt. Erlend has recently finished an art project with Norwegian/Isreali choreographer Mia Habib. Currently he is working as a director/producer in the national childrens channel in Norway. Erlend Eidsem has recently finished the editing process of his documentary Exil, never mind reality. He believes that character driven docmentary films have more in common with larps than the most often inspired material from feature films of fiction. Erlend is anarchist of nature, but will here focus on pacing, structure and scripts, leaving the larphacker discussions for other fora.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 11:00
Description
This Crash Course in Using Light Equipment is primarily for those who will use the light equipment in the colour box when running games in the box.
Who
Daniel Windsvold has both played and organized larps. He is Master of Lights at the student society in Trondheim, Norway. He also works with light as a freelancer.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 11:00
Description
We would like to present Czech (and mention Slovakian) larps, their history, present and future of the most popular events and organizations in our country. We also want to talk about new and interesting projects like Czech-Slovak national larp conference, politics-based larps, larpedia, chamber larps movement, opening larps for general public etc.
Let´s come and see that we play more than just boffer battles. Themes we use are more colourful than fantasy and sci-fi and our players are not kids only.
Who
Jana Jevická, age 24, studies theatre faculty of The Janáček´s University of music and performing art in Brno, Czech Republic. She is focused on drama in education, non-professional theatre and pedagogical aspects of larp. She is a member of civic association Court of Moravia, where she is responsible for fund-raising, project management and creating a pedagogical methodology for certain larps.
Tomáš Kopeček, age 30, lives in Brno, Czech Republic. He has been larping as player, organizer and theorist since mid 90's. He is focused on new ways and uses of larp phenomena. He has Ph.D. in Computer Science and for last three years he was working on projects combining computer simulations and live role-playing at few Czech universities.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 12:00
Description
Torstein will share his knowledge and experience about the financial sides of organizing LARPs. What works, what doesn't, and why?
Who
Torstein Utne is the organizer of several LARPs, Beer-lover, computer-geek and loudmouth. His qualifications include a total lack of economical sense and education. On the other hand he's never organized a LARP that has run a deficit and has helped several businesses turn around a profit, so he must be doing something right.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description:
Under my Skin is a live form game in the Jeepform tradition. You play people in a social circle who begin falling in love with friends who are not their partners. The game deals with the fallout of these decisions and explores the issues facing the characters in their own psyches and primary relationships.
Who
Emily Care Boss, is an independent role playing game designer from the USA. She is author of Under my Skin, a jeep influence game about infidelity and faith, as well as two other tabletop role playing games Breaking the Ice and Shooting the Moon with a romance theme.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 11:00
Description
The pseudo-historical village of Cinderhill was built for Dragonbane, and now is a monument over its success and failings. Without any activities for soon 3 years, a small group of Finns and Swedes are trying to save this enormous resource for the Scandinavia larp-movement and needs your help. Meet up, discuss the future of Cinderhill, get a presentation of the place as it stands to day and what plans exist. Helpers, builders, larpers, organizers, youth workers etc. are all invited to see what is happening with one of our Pan-Scandinavian gems.
Who
Morgan Jarl is a physical theatre practitioner and teacher, with his roots in the Scandinavian larp community. Educated in England and USA he have been the artistic driving force behind 2 theatre companies, 30 odd theatre productions and 15 odd larps. He makes his living from teaching courses in non-verbal communication and characterization.
Start: 04/17/2009 10:00
End: 04/17/2009 12:00
Description
Hey, mainstream larp in Italy is quite similar to the rest of the world (you know, Vampire larps, boffer larps and the like), so you smart KP-goers don't need more than five minutes about it. After those five minutes (OK, ten minutes if you're particularly interested), I'll talk about those Italian larps which (maybe unknowingly) are quite different from the mass. The general idea is to give you some basic info about the historical development of these weird phenomena, with practical examples from a number of interesting, experimental, moving, outrageous larps from different scenes across our funny boot-shaped peninsula. I expect questions and discussion. Come as you are. Italian prog rock and cantuccini will be freely distributed. Cantuccini are a kind of biscuits.
Who
Andrea Castellani is 33 year old. He passed smoothly from pretend play to murder mystery games, then to the "Flying Circus" tradition of Italian theatre-style larp, and finally he elaborated his own "Karstic Style" of larping (see this year's Knutebook). He lives in Prosecco (near Trieste) and Milan, and he works in zoology, science communication and history of science.
Start: 04/17/2009 11:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
Doubt is a freeform/jeepform role-playing game for four players about the semantics of relationships and about infidelity. Doubt is about temptation, the importance to love and be loved. About constant choosing. About living with one person, and at the same time dreaming of others. Doubt ties into the story-now movement, where players create their own story collaboratively using parameters and material provided by the game. The game is played out on two simultaneous scenes that reflect on each other, two parallel interconnecting stories if you well. Jeepform games closely resemble mini-larps, but focus more on story-telling and story immersion than character immersion. As an example, each player will play at least two characters in Doubt and meta techniques are used to "step out of the diegetic story" to comment on it. Expect to be moved, to play close to home and the unexpected.
Who
Tobias is a jeepform evangelist Scandinavian in the US. He is obsessed with meta techniques and somehow returning back to Sweden.
Start: 04/17/2009 11:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
The setting is the finest pub in Heaven, also called Fønix Caelus. This is a game where everybody get to play angels. The time is just before Creation. God has just announced that he plans to create the universe and the humans. Not everybody thought this a good thing. One of the greatest subjects of conversation is the big quarrel between the Archangel Lucifer Morningstar, who has questioned the Lord's decision, and the Archangel Michael, who defends His Word. But even though it has been quarrelling, the angels meet at the pub Fønix Caelus to relax, drink wine and eat waffles. Even the Holy Ghost might drop by.
Who
Danel Morlandstrø is a young larp-organizer from Bergen, Norway.
Start: 04/17/2009 11:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
Charles Nielsen & Sindre Titlestad Westgård shares their experience from children- and youthLARPs in Denmark and Norway as an introduction to a workshop designed to share knowledge, goals and ethical issues. The workshop will make room for a lot of issues regarding rules, responsibilities, startup, empowerment and so on through it's open design based on the café dialogue method.
Who
Charels Bo Nielsen - started larping at the age 11 and is still a young guy who recently left the ranks of teenagers. At the age of 15 he started organizing larps for young people.
Sindre Titlestad Westgård – Organizes a continuous storyline youthLARP with 17 runs so far. Has pedagogical background, and runs a firm (Tidsreiser/Timetravels) working with LARP as a red line in events and teaching.
Start: 04/17/2009 11:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
A two part workshop in spatial design, interior architecture and scenography for Larps. Part 1 will be held on Friday and part 2 on Saturday.
Who
Despite her never-ending love for tiki bars, pink lawn flamingoes, glittering wallpaper and shiny objects in general, Ingebjørg Berg Holm has managed to get a master degree in spatial design and is working as an interior architect. As a LARPs organizer, she has stumbled around in the field of scenography, armed with a staple gun, gaffa tape and lots and lots of cotton fabric.
Start: 04/17/2009 12:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
Many things are still unsaid about how to design larps. For example, we still don't agree on what a "plot" is, or how to make a good one. In this panel we invite some larpwrights with interesting opinions to share and debate their perspective on good larp design, and perhaps reveal a secret ninja trick or two in the process.
Who
An ancient Panclou proverb states that "every time Eirik Fatland invents a theory about larp, a mime in New York explodes". When not killing mimes, he works as an information architect and social media consultant in Oslo.
Start: 04/17/2009 12:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
Sometimes parts of a larp can be downright dull. Everybody is just milling about waiting for something to happen. In this workshop we will explore how we can strengthen our ability to create interesting scenes on the spot and without fear.
Who
Peter Sigurdson Lunga has completed a bachelor in Drama and Theatre-Communication. He is an aspiring theatre director and dramaturge and tutor of improvisation and theatre sports. He is a founding member of the improvisational theatre company “Teater Liksom”. He recently directed the play: "The Goat: or, Who is Sylvia?"
Start: 04/17/2009 12:00
End: 04/17/2009 14:00
Description
Do you want to produce a larp but don’t know where to start? Have you made larps before, but your production always seems to fail due to “unforeseen events”? Then this is the lecture for you. The aim is to give a rough outline of how to produce a larp, including the most important tasks, when and how to do them. In addition, we will look at some of the most common pitfalls are and how you can take them into account in your planning.
Who
Kåre M. Kjær has been organizing larps since 2002, always with a focus on the production aspect and how to optimize and minimize it. He holds an engineering degree within industrial management and works as a project manager in a software company, and like to use his knowledge and experience from both of these in a larp context to improve the degree of professionalism in both his own work and the work of others.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 16:00
Description
Creating larps that blur the line between life and game have special
design considerations. This lecture charts the area of pervasive larps
and gives concrete guidelines how to make them work.
Who
Jaakko Stenros is a game researcher at the University of Tampere Game Research Lab. For the past few years he has been specializing in pervasive games and is writing a book on the subject with Markus Montola. He has role-played for 20 years, and has written on the subject in numerous places for over a decade.
Markus Montola is a game researcher and a doctoral candiate in University of Tampere, Finnland. He is writing his thesis on role-playing and pervasive gaming. During the last 20 years he has tried out most of the various forms of roleplaying and is a regular writer for Roolipelaaja magazine.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 16:00
Description
A workshop/discussion on how we create a world that is easily playable for participants. What things can we actually play on and how is a culture made alive? What things do we need to know to portray a different culture in a believable way? How can a player immerse themselves into a world and how is it facilitated by the organizer?
Who
Morgan Jarl is a physical theatre practitioner and teacher, with his roots in the Scandinavian larp community. Educated in England and USA he have been the artistic driving force behind 2 theatre companies, 30 odd theatre productions and 15 odd larps. He makes his living from teaching courses in non-verbal communication and characterization.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
"A Night in the Box" is a two-part journey into free/jeep form black box larping. The two larps are connected through method only - there is no requirement to participate in both.
"A Place for Me to Rest" (Nattro 120mg) is a dream play wherein we follow the dreams of a young girl in an insane asylum, either dreaming or dying. The scenario makes extensive use of monologues - it is the only method of communication between characters during the game. " A Place for Me to Rest" is a black box remake of the Swedish free form/larp hybrid "Innan Hösten" (Before Autumn) by Martin Brodén and Tova Gerge. No costume or equipment requirements. Original larpwrights: Martin Brodén, Petter Karlsson and Emma Öhrström.
Who
Martin Brodén is a long-time jeeper obsessed with finding a narrativistic fusion of traditional larping and free form roleplaying. Petter Karlsson is a young god who just finished organising the Swedish larp/free form-convention Prolog 2009. Maria Ljung is a even younger god who has been a long time coming.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
After having residents in town fallen victim to an unexplained mental disease all rights and wrongs shuffle. As victims of this plague mumble things they would never say, enchant songs they have never known and die twitching in the third day – aid comes when religion and law unite to create a lethal weapon against diabolic forces.
Who
Osher El-Netanyani has been larping in Israel since 1993, organizing since 1997. He'd love to see you in his game.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 16:00
Description
Does live-action role-playing have anything to do with democracy? It is believed that activities – any activities – done together in non-profit groups, such as clubs and associations, contribute to democracy. This is one of the reasons for supporting youth organizations, at least for the Swedish State. It has been said that interactive activities such as role-playing games and live-action role-playing create a context that is less hierarchic, and thus more democratic, than that reproduced in traditional, so called passive, art. It is also believed that role-playing can be used as a pedagogical tool for teaching, for example democracy. Is this true? Are these aims even contradictory? Are they true in all cases or are there differences between different kinds of role-playing games? Are there important differences between the Nordic countries? Are these important from a democracy perspective, or for the development of live-action role-playing as a cultural context?
Who
Tobias Harding has been a role-player and live-action role-player since he was thirteen years, currently working in a research project studying democracy as a practice in non-profit organizations. In this context I hope to study how organizing live-action role-playing, a relatively new activity, has developed into an increasingly well-ordered and institutional activity, and how democracy has been interpreted, and re-interpreted, in the context of this new form of culture and in the organizations that has developed within it.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 16:00
Description
What scholarly ideas about communication can be brought to bear on understanding RPG play as a special kind of language use, and what implications do those ideas have for play, design, and further research? This presentation explores those questions, extending the observations from the Knutepunkt 09 book chapter, "The Ironical Rhetoric of the Real in RPGs." It invites discussion of the criteria for defining an RPG research agenda.
Who
Bill White is an associate professor of communication arts & sciences at the Altoona campus of the Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches courses in public speaking and mass media. He is also the designer of the forthcoming small-press tabletop RPG "Ganakagok." He is interested in the scholarly exploration of role-playing as language use and social interaction.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 16:00
Description
Claus Raasted and Anders Berner have collaborated with photographer Christina Molbech to produce a photo book showing off great larp photos from 2008. Claus will present the book and also talk about his next larp Vaterland, also rumored to become a very photogenic event.
Who
Claus Raasted is not only a horrible person. He's also firebrand who believes we need to fight for our community if we don't want to end up without it.
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
An educational roleplaying game, where the participants play European leaders between 1884 and 1940 who try to get as much out of Africa as possible. The activities vary from roleplaying over board game to school assignments (yes, you have to do the assignments to participate).
Who
Malik Hyltoft and other teachers from Østerskov Efterskole
Start: 04/17/2009 15:00
End: 04/17/2009 16:00
Description
This is a taste of the the Solgløtt games held by annual Solgløtt larp group. This is an humerous outdoor competition where roleplaying is an essential part of the experience.
Who
Solgløtt is a larp organization from the Southernmost part of Norway.
Start: 04/17/2009 16:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
A workshop exploring different categories of rituals: from ecstatic Dionysian to classic Greek tragedy.
Please note that this workshop has been moved to later in the afternoon compared to the preliminary programme.
Who
Mike Pohjola is an author, poet, screenwriter, larpwright and a RPG designer. He has created larps for several arts festivals in different countries. He is now involved with the Company P in the creating of ground breaking pervasive entertainment.
Start: 04/17/2009 16:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
Putepunkt is a laidback larp workshop on pillows («pute» in Norwegian) about the creative parts of making larps. You can exchange ideas and experiences on how to make the larp of your dreams come to life, how to create and maintain a larp community and how to have great fun in the prosess.
Who
Solgløtt is a larp organization from the Southernmost part of Norway.
Start: 04/17/2009 16:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
In October 2008 some 40 people gathered in the Kamensky forest outside Minsk, Belarus, to arrange and participate in the larp "1943". This larp was the product of one and a half year of work, which started at Knudepunkt 2007, "How can larp change the world?" This lecture will be a presentation of this work. For those of you who have read the Knutepunkt article "Larp in Kamensky forest" this will be the opportunity to hear the Belarusian verison of the story.
Who
Alexander and Aliona - trainers and coordinators from from educational NGO who use larp as an educational tool for working with different target groups in their organisation. In 2008 they organised historical larp 1943, in Belarus, as part of a project about civic and historical education.
Anita Myhre Andersen - is a Norwegian teacher at "Rudolf Steinerskolen" in Bergen.
She also works with larps for children in "Tidsreiser", larps for the human rights house: "Raftohuset" and with her master degree of middle age history. She has been working with larps since 1995 and has among other things been involved in the production of "1942" (in Bergen, 2000) and "1943" (in Belarus, 2008).
Start: 04/17/2009 16:00
End: 04/17/2009 18:00
Description
Elge Larsson's annual Knutepunkt lecture will as usual explore some key issues both on how and why we larp, the lives we live and the realities we find ourselves in
Who
Elge Larsson is a kind of academic scholar with a wide interest in most form of humanistic studies. A translator by profession and larper by interest, he is part of Interacting Arts, a group of arts producers and theorists, based in Stockholm, Sweden
Start: 04/17/2009 19:00
Description
The traditional party.
Dresscode: Show Your True Colour tonight!
It isn't necessary to sign up for this event
Who
You. Me. Everybody.
DJ - Anna Karin will play "Art vs Trash"
VJ - Erlend will show images from our collective subconsciousness
Master of Lights - Daniel will make the room as colourful as yourselves
Special guests - Miss Intoxica and Empress Devillina. They are: The Fleshoticas!
And Our Master of Ceremonies will be our favorite struggling artist Lars, who has picked up a few tricks in Hollywood!
Start: 04/17/2009 21:00
What
Tribal hang-out for your basic needs. With atmosphere, without alcohol.
Who
Hosted by noiade Hanne Grasmo and her fellow tribe members.
There is no need to sign up in advance.
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