Activities 2016

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Roleplaying games in Arts education: Their use in Art museums

We all are aware of the benefits of roleplaying games. Why no then use them for the education of Secondary students? Why not doing like in other European countries and taking them to museums?

 

In Spain it’s usual seeing a group made up for students that instead of appreciating the works of art in front of them, they prefer to talk about their things or check their mobile phones.

 

Through the analysis of the use of roleplaying games in European countries, or through Spanish teachers in other subjects I propose an educational method to use them in art museums and benefit the students on only in matter of their Arts education but in a global way both educational and personal.

 

Organiser: Janire Roldán

Type: Talk.

Duration: 45 minutes.

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Our most terrible shadows - Larp

It begun the Summer of 1816, during a dark night in which the storm was brewing over Villa Diodati, an imposing manor on the shores of Lake Lehman, in Switzerland. Lord Byron gathered his friends in the living room and proposed a challenge, writing the most terrifying story that could come out of their pens. Percy and Mary Shelley, Polidori, Claire Clairmont and Lord Byron retreated to their rooms to pour over the page their worst nightmares. Now, six years later, the poets gather again to reminisce about that tenebrous moment, writing like then, a new horror tale. It’s been six years of secrets between them, of deaths and curses and humiliations, of marcing towards madness.

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"Our most terrible shadows" is a larp inspired by the literary sessions in which Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, John Polidori and Claire Clairmont that sparked both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as Polidori’s Vampire. It’s based on the real dramatic events that they endured during the following years in which a curse seemingly befell them. This is a story of drama, death and supernatural horror. But it’s above all a story about poetry.

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Organisers: Ana López & Daniel P. Espinosa

Type: Larp

Duration: 3 hours

Participants: 6 players (3  male and 3 female spots)

It requires Victorian or Regency era costuming (No historical rigour required).

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Get the stick out of your ass!

From the creators of ´All of Mariano’s zombies’! From those responsible of ‘The Hunt for the Pink February’! From the evil minds that plotted ‘The Swedes Are Coming!’ This time they come to explain how, why and above everything else, through where.

 

Are you tired from roaming dark clubs dressed as a coffin maker asking to the Narrators whether the Prince has come? Have you figured already that every Cthulhoid larp is about performing a ritual in a haste during the last five minutes? Have you already found your inner self through an introspective journey during a Nordic psychodramatic immersive larp?

 

Very well: Now’s the time for the clowns.

 

Max&Cousin, experts in writing comedic larps and persecuted by a crime they didn't commit will give us the keys for comedic larping, why it’s existence is questioned and marginal, as well as how to make the most of your comedic characters, situations and plots. It includes unlicensed jokes. It doesn’t require your own stick.

 

(The organisers reserve their right to make jokes that aren’t funny at all during the talk. No laughs guaranteed).

 

Organisers: Max&Cousin are Daniel San José, Marcos Pastor and Arnold the rubber chicken.

Type: Talk.

Duration: 45 minutes.

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Combining Fantasy and Nordic Style

If we ask what’s Nordic-style larping about, most will say that’s about psychological and social themes. And crying. Other than some exceptions, the majoritary perception is that most Nordic-style larps don’t delve in that which created larping as such: fantasy. Which is to say our deepest geek essence. As we know, most traditional larps, focus, in general terms in fantasy themes: science fiction, fantasy, horror, etc. These themes or genres define us roleplayers in our hobby. They’re themes to dream and have fun. On its side, Nordic-style larping seeks emotional intensity, experimental techniques and going beyond. Very powerful tools.

 

Thus, why not working on combining both?

 

This talk will explore the need (and reality) of the union of fantasy + Nordicity.  In other words, of the evolution of traditional roleplaying. This is a path in which there’s progress being made which is something we’ll discuss. We’ll also talk about the use of artistic techniques in these combinations and we’ll use as an example larps that have already experimented with it all.  Because Nordic-style larping can also be used to dream and have fun. Because we want a Geek larp 2.0.

 

Organiser: Daniel P. Espinosa.

Type: Talk.

Duration: 1 hour.

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We’ll propose you how to develop a workshop that facilitates players expression/use of physical violence through their characters. The ide is having a tool of about thirty minutes that can be employed before larps that foresee the need of expressing/using violence and accomplishing that, on one side, players are capable of creating scenes that otherwise they’d haven’t dared to while at the same time keeping the participants safe.

 

It’s our goal during the workshop, to share with you the doubts we’ve had in its creation as well as gather your experiences to expand and improve it. Our ambition is, finally, creating a workshop that belongs to us all, to be used and modified as we want in the preparation of our roleplaying events.

 

Organiser: Álvaro Maestro.

Type: Workshop (includes roundtable).

Duration: 1 hour and a half.

Let’s make a physical violence workshop