Hi everyone,
I had a meeting today with Tami, the MOTAT events-organiser, and Andrew McCartney, who works at MOTAT and has been larping for a few years now.
As the gala finale event for their inaugural Time Traveller’s Day Out (discussed in this thread), they’re keen to run “The Great Exhibition” for a combined player set of experienced larpers and the MOTAT-going public. There will be a certain number of spaces for experienced larpers, and some reserved for new people. The idea would be to “sell tickets” to the Great Exhibition during the event to recruit non-larpers to the game. They would also like us to provide a number of experienced larper volunteers who can play characters from Great Exhibition during the day to help sell it to the public and to provide people for the public to interact with. They also want to give us a stand where we can promote nzLARPS and the community’s upcoming events.
This is a fantastic opporunity for the larping community to forge a good relationship with MOTAT, and to get some great exposure and publicity amidst the public. We’re looking for volunteers to (and you can do more than one of these!)
a) Come along in steampunk/time traveller costumes to boost numbers at MOTAT’s event
b) Come along as part of the Great Exhibition promotion team to play a character for the public during the day and convince new people to come along and play Great Ex in the evening (we need about ten)
c) Help man the nzLARPS stall and talk about our fantastic community and upcoming events to the public.
We are getting final confirmation on whether the Great Exhibition can go ahead tomorrow. In the meantime, it’d be great to get an indication of who would be interested in coming along to support MOTAT and nzLARPS in any of the above capacities!
The event is on June 12th.
