PORTAL VI – Live Action!

02-04.03.2018, 2, Vasil Sokolov str., Plovdiv, Bulgaria

02.03.2018, Friday

• 13.30 – 13.40 – Official opening. Presentation of the participants.
• 13.40 – 14.00 – Biochemistry and LARP: cultural differences through the prism of biochemistry – a provocative talk by George Vlaykov (Bulgaria).
• 14.00 – 17:30 – Urban Action: „Plovdiv Watch“ – urban game inspired by Sergei Lukyanenko’s “Watch” series – by Nikolay Nikolov and Aleko Palyov (Bulgaria)
• 18.00 – 19.00 – Make a LARP in 1 hour: workshop, by Terrible Creations, Croatia
• 19.30 – 21.30 – Chamber LARPs:
  1) Famiglia Bonifacio: The Evening Before, by Terrible Creations (Croatia). A game with story placed in Italian mobster family in the USA at the end of 1920’s.
  Number of players: 6
  2) Arrival at Tau Ceti, by Ivan Zalac (Croatia). A sci-fi chamber larp about humanity’s expansion beyond our solar system, and all the hope and issues – both technical and social – such an endeavor would face. Number of players: 5-12
• 22.00 – 24.00 – Bar Action: “Official” joint bar social visit in a designated bar, followed by free bar hitting

03.03.2018, Saturday

• 10.00 – 10.45 – Fight Action Panel
  Main Panelists: Ilina Konakchieva, George Vlaykov, Bulgaria
  The role of Conflict in LARP games. Forms of conflict. How to manage conflict. Dealing with consequences.
• 10.45 – 11.15 – Free Action Panel: Main Panelist: Ivan Zalac, Croatia
  Presentation of Croatian LARPs: Izgon: Ascendancy (a three-day pervasive urban fantasy city LARP), Noćne kronike („Night Chronicles“ –an ongoing Vampire LARP series using lightweight Nordic-style rules), Zemlja snova („Dreamland“ – fantasy larp series specifically designed to allow crossplay).
• 11.15 – 12.30 –  PR Action Panel
  Main Panelists: Daniel Andrei Fidelman (Israel), Miroslav Wranka, Ivan Zalac (Croatia)
  1) how to present LARP; 2) how to deal with the “civilians” we cross way with; 3) relations between organizers and participants/clients;
  Workshop: try it yourself!
• 12.30 – 13.30 – Lunch Break
• 13.30 – 15.00 – Academic Action Panel
  Angelina Ilieva, Bulgaria: LARP Culture: Between and Beyond
  Yaroslau Kot, Belarus: LARP as a social tool
• 15.00 – 16.30 –  Love Action Panel
  Main Panelists: Zofia Skowronska, Poland, Ivan Zalac, Croatia
  Love and Romance in LARP
• 16.30 – 17.15 – Continuity Action Panel
  Main Panelists: Ivan Zalac (Croatia),
  Continuity/development of characters in series, cross game characters/game travel
• 17.15 – 18.00 – Dinner break
• 18.00 – 20.00 – Drama Action Panel
  A workshop by: Nikola Boev, Bulgaria, and Dhionis Vangjeli, Albania
  LARP and artistic experience: performance
• 20.30 – 23.00 – Chamber LARPs
  1) Love Is Blue (Fabrizio Bonifacio), by Terrible Creations, Croatia. A psychological chamber thriller with elements of horror. Number of player: 6
  2) Star Wars: Endor, by Terrible Creations, Croatia The game is taking place in the Star Wars setting, at the end of the Return of the Jedi movie. Number of player: 6

04.03.2018, Sunday

• 11.00 – 12.30 – Craft Action Panel
  Main Panelists: Zofia Skowronska, Teodor Chehovic, Cvetomir Cvetkov, Nikolay Nikolov
  LARP and artistic experience: crafts
• 12.30 – 13.30 – Summary Panel
• 13.30 – Closing