Knutepunkt

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The annual Knutepunkt conference, first held in 1997, has been a vital institution in establishing a Nordic role-playing identity, and in establishing the concept of "Nordic larp" as a unique approach. Though the conference started out strictly as a larp event, it has since embraced role-playing games in a more genereal fashion. Today the conference still has an emphasis on larp, but programs devoted to traditional tabletop role-playing as well as newer arrivals such as freeform are common.

A live action role-playing avant-garde movement, which pursues radical experimentation and the recognition of role-playing as a form of art, has been connected to the Knutepunkt conferences. The scope of the Knutepunkt conference has expanded rather rapidly over the last few years with participants showing up from numerous non-Scandinavian countries. Since about 2003 Knutepunkt has seen participants from USA, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Estonia, Belarus, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, the Czech Republic, UK, Austria and others.

The next Knutepunkt - Knutpunkt 2010 - will be held in Sweden.

[edit] Etymology

Knutepunkt is Norwegian for "meeting point", and locally the term is translated into Swedish Knutpunkt, Danish Knudepunkt and Finnish Solmukohta. The name of the convention varies with the organizing country.

[edit] History

[edit] Publications

Since 2001 the Knutepunkt conferences have been accompanied by books on Larp Theory, with the exception of the 2002 conference in Stockholm.

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