A Solstice Experience; larp and fundraiser

Campfire Convention with artist and larp designer Nina Runa Essendrop and Psychotherapist Jonathan Goldsmith are inviting you to come and celebrate the summer solstice.

Nina and Jonathan have created a unique, magical, experience to celebrate the upcoming solstice. By weaving the interdisciplinary tools they both possess you will be taken on a profoundly moving, touching, beautiful and magical journey: 'A Solstice Experience'.

what is a 'solstice experience'?
“A Solstice Experience” is a physical, immersive larp about the sensations we get from movements, touch and senses. It's a chance to be in community with one another, to be part of something bigger, to celebrate and to share knowledge. It's a game about what it is to experience life in a human body.

Larp is originally an acronym for Live Action Role Playing, but today it’s used as a name in itself. It refers to an interactive game where people immerse themselves in fictional circumstances to explore other ways of perceiving, behaving or experiencing.

This larp is unique in that there are both players and an audience. The players will be given specific roles and fictional identities to explore, and the audience, while given some basic instructions, will essentially be playing themselves.

The larp will explore what happens when these two groups engage with one another.

Both the player group and audience will be taken through a experiential workshop, tailored for your group in which everything you need to know will be explained to you. You will have ample time to learn and practice the mechanics of the game.

When you sign up you can choose to be in one of two roles: a 'player' or an 'audience member'. Both roles will offer a chance to participate and for you to have a full, rich and meaningful experience.

what happens in the player role?
The players will play ancient solstice consciousnesses, naturally curious and gentle, that have been given human form for the first time. They don’t understand rational logic instead they experience the world through poetic images and sensations.

Being in a human body is a totally new experience for these beings and they want to carefully explore the nuanced ways that humans move through the world using their senses; they want to experience 'being' in a human body.

If you are a player you have to be there by 6pm.

what happens in the audience role?
As the audience you will be given the role to help prepare the physical space for the solstice consciousnesses.

You are then invited into these wonderful beings curious world, and can interact with them if you so choose. You can help them use their newly found bodies by showing them movements or describing sensory information. The interactions will be slow and careful and as audience members you can make your own choice in how much you take part in the larp or just observe. The choice is yours.

www.humanexperience.events