April 16th-19th 2009, at Haraldvangen, Norway
Newsletter from March 30, 2009
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
-Homer Simpson
Dear readers!
We are frequently updating the web-pages with information, and hope that you remember to check in on it from time to time. Feel free to use the blog or leave comments, we appreciate the response.
This newsletter contains the following information:
1. A Week In Norway - Programme
2. Practical information and requests
3. KP09 Programme information
All the best!
Love from the KP09 committee
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1. *A Week In Norway - Programme*
The programme for AWIN is now published on the web-site, and AWIN participants are free to sign up. Note that events normally have a limited number of seats and the sign-up will close when the maximum number is reached.
2. *Practical information and requests*
2.1. *Alcohol*
Please be aware that Haraldvangen has got a license for selling alcohol. This means that we must follow a few basic rules, or risk that Haralvangen looses its license. We will bring more details on the alcohol policy in the next newsletter.
2.2. *Arrival and departure at Oslo Airport (Gardermoen)*
If you are landing at Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) on Thursday 16th or leaving on Sunday 19th, /please let us know when/. This might have consequences for when the buses are set up to leave.
3. *KP09 Programme information*
3.1. *Are you organizing a larp this year?*
During Knutepunkt we want to organize a one hour panel with presentations of upcomming larps. Are you in the process of making a larp which the Knutepunkt crowd should know about? Do you want participants from other countries to sign up for your larp? Even if your larp is fully booked it can be interesting for the rest of us to hear abour the project, so give us notice even if this is the case. To sign up your larp for this panel send an email to torkjetil@gmail.com
3.2. *The programme*
We have now more than 70 programme items scheduled for Knutepunkt! You can find an overview of the programme and a presentation of all the programme items at our wepbage now. Within a week it will also be possible to sign up in advance to individual programme items. The different programme items will have different numbers of maximum participant depending on the room and capacity as indicated by the programme facilitator. At Knutepunkt itself there will be a wall displaying the entire programme where you can manually change which programme items to participate in.
3.3. *Opening Night*
The programme starts on Thursday with an opening seremony and right after that for the official Knutepunkt 2009 opening game written by Martin Svahn and Jonas Nilsson from Frispel. Everyone will get the chance to play this game in groups of 10. The School Trip is a game about a class reunion where 10 people from the old class meets 15 year after their last year at school. They meet to catch up on what has happened since they saw each other last. But as expected they have all changed substantially from whom they were as kids. However, they share the memory of a traumatic event which happened during a school trip to London 15 years ago. And this past event caches up with them in unexpected ways on this fateful day of the reunion. After the game has concluded, Johanna Koljonnen will host "The Larp Show with Joc". A diverse range of guest will try to answer the fundamental question – Larp: What matters? We expect that the audience will be of great help in finding the answer(s) to this existential question.