Every year there is a nordic conference where people interested in nordic style live action roleplaying gather to have seminars, workshops, parties and catch up on what is happening in the nordic countries. Some germans, americans, russians and other nationalities have been known to show up, apart from the usual visitors from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. The conference moves between the four nordic countries, and changes it’s name every year to the local language.
The upcoming event is in Finland and is thus called “nodal point” in finnish: Solmukohta. The event will be held at a conference center outside Helsinki on the 4.-6. April 2008. What you can expect as an outsider to the scene is an event with an informal tone and lots of old friends meeting up, some mad parties and very interesting topics in the panels, seminars and workshops. This really is the place to find out about the events to go to and get to know the people behind them.
The event website can be found at solmukohta.org and introduces the event with these words:
Since the first event, Solmukohta has evolved into the main venue of cooperation between Nordic role-playing gamers. The panels, lectures and workshops are a goldmine for finding new ideas about gaming and game organizing, and for floating old ideas around - it is a wonder how many old ideas in one gaming culture are found to be a novelty in another.
If you are not familiar with games and roleplaying at all, expect to do some catching up or prepare to not understand every part of the conversations you end up in. If you are involved with some other artform or just curious and open minded, you will quickly become part of the social context.
nordicscene.org
A website that covers news and upcoming events on the nordic roleplaying scene in a way accessible to people outside it.
To be properly launched at Solmukohta 2008.
With nordicscene.org I would like to specifically solve three problems:
1) I often talk to people outside the live role-playing community about some of the events I’ve been to, and they think it all sounds wonderfully exciting and want to hear about the next thing coming up. These are people I meet at parties or other subculture happenings, who often have some skill or interest where some live role-playing events seem highly relevant to them. Theater people, writers, film makers.. list goes on and on. These people are not part of the roleplaying scene at all, and thus have a pretty hard time finding their way onto it without some very hands on guidance by people already on it. This rarely happens, since you talk to people, they find it interesting, but then you move on and have nowhere to point them for hooking into the scene. I want somewhere to point people where they can find out what events are coming up, what they can expect and how they can participate, written in a style that does not suppose you know everything about this already.
2) There is actually no website presenting the nordic style roleplaying a style that can be linked to for clarification to outsiders. This part is the least ambitious at the moment - I think that if the first problem can be solved and there is a need for more of a wikipedia style info center website about the nordic scene, this will follow if the site gets visitors and as people feel the need. The simple way to start this is to collect a few links and texts that make up some starting points if you want to explore.
3) News about what’s going on around the nordic scene are very scarce. When not at Knutpunkt, I have little or no idea what people are up to in the other nordic countries. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places, but I would like to try to make this website some sort of hub where editors from each country will post news items about the local scene. Still in a way that would be accessible to outsiders, though.
/Andie Nordgren
Andie Nordgren
Claus Raasted
Eirik Fatland
Mike Pohjola
Gabriel Widing
Bjarke Pedersen
Peter Andreasen
Mathias Kromann Rode
Anna Westerling
Martin Ericsson
Axel Löfving
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