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BOX Northern Larp Festival

A new larp festival for the UK! — and it happened on Saturday 3rd February 2024, in Sheffield. It was organized by Jon Fry, Hazel Dixon, Cara Packwood, Char Holdway, and Erin Marsh. Ever since we started The Smoke, we were hoping that someone in another part of the country would do something like this […]

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The Smoke 2024

The first weekend of January was The Smoke — the London chamber larp festival now back to its regular calendar slot. It was the seventh iteration, and the second that I wasn’t involved in organizing. It was great! 150 or so people, 40 or so 3- or 4-hour larps — the current organizers are doing […]

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Passionate Consequences

Last weekend was the 16th (or thereabouts) iteration of Consequences, a UK chamber larp festival that I’ve been to every time it’s run. The last one in-person was pre-pandemic (there were online versions inbetween), so this was a nice opportunity to see friends after a long gap. There were around 150 people in attendance, I […]

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Knutepunkt Magic Book Weekend

Last weekend was an online conference in support of the publication of the 2021 Knutepunkt book. Of course normally the book coincides with KP itself, and in recent years people have talked about its contents at the conference itself, or perhaps at the Nordic Larp talks that precede it. But this year, as Knutepunkt isn’t […]

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Fastaval – Trauma Ward

(So, yes, I’m so far behind on this blog now that it’s not even funny any more. But! Maybe writing about Fastaval, which has only just now happened, will inspire me to catch up a bit.) What is Fastaval? It’s a games convention that takes place in Denmark, every year over the Easter long weekend. […]

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Tallinn Larp Festival

This was the third running of this delightful friendly larp festival (I also went last year), and it was at a new venue: a dance studio complex in the heart of the Estonian capital. There were 17 larps running, and I think about 50 participants – as well as locals, people had come from Italy, […]

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Knutpunkt

The end of the winter brought Knutpunkt, the Swedish leg of the annual Nordic larp conference, held in Lund. This was my first ‘repeat’ – the first KP that I attended was the previous Swedish run, in 2014 – and also the first time that I attended ‘A Week in’, the programme of events that […]

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A weekend in Belgium

This is still January, but we’re getting a bit closer. I got the Eurostar to Brussels and had a lovely weekend with friends! Kessel Run IX The ninth in a series of day-long house cons run in Kessel-Lo, Leuven – but the first that I had made it to. It was great to see good […]

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The Smoke 2018

Last year was the first year of The Smoke: London’s International Larp Festival, which I wrote about here. And this year was the second year! And again I was one of the organizers (together with Dominika Kovacova, Jamie Harper, Jost L Hansen, Karolina Soɫtys, Laura Wood, Michael Such, and with the wonderful help of Jim […]

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Kaleidoscopic Consequences

This year was the eleventh edition of Consequences, the UK’s national chamber larp convention. As ever, it was a lot of fun! One innovation this year was a support programme for new attenders – to help them find their feet, learn the unwritten social conventions, meet other newcomers, and so on. I was very keen […]