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[Edward Schreiber]

Here is something I noticed - not sure the contact is still possible  
but this is an interesting adaptation.
For information - and possible connections - even though it's past.

Ed


This weekend only: Get introduced to a new form of performance!
Freeform Roleplaying Workshops w/Tobias Wrigstad
Host:
East Side Institute
Type:
Education - Workshop
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 10:00am
End Time:
Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 5:00pm
Location:
East Side Institute
Street:
920 Broadway, 14th Floor (between 20th and 21st Street)
City/Town:
New York, NY

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Phone:
7188440283
Email:
esbenwi at gmail.com
Description
Please take a minute to read through this invitation and to seriously  
consider joining me for a few hours this weekend.

As many of you know, I (Esben Wilstrup) have been playing and  
directing freeform roleplaying games for many years and I would love  
to introduce this specific form of performance to the development  
community (including our educators, therapists, actors, and  
organizational consultants), because I believe it might help broaden  
and advance our practice of performance in all our endavours.

This weekend (only), the Swedish freeform playwright and director  
TOBIAS WRIGSTAD is visiting the East Side Institute, and has offered  
to to run a number of roleplaying workshops for us! I have played  
several of his games and deeply respect his work and his courage to  
constantly challenge the norms for this type of performance - much  
like the Castillo Theatre does it.

As participant in these workshops you will be introduced to freeform  
roleplaying by playing one of Tobias' games together with the other  
participants followed by a conversation about the experience and how  
we can build with it in the community (See below for more info on  
freeform roleplaying).

The workshops will take place at the East Side Institute at the  
following times:
Saturday
10.00-2.00pm Roleplaying Workshop 1
4.00-7.00pm Roleplaying Workshop 2
Sunday:
10.00-1.00pm Roleplaying Workshop 3
Want to do this but can't make these times? Please let me know, and  
I'll see if we can change the times to fit your needs. Also, Tobias  
will also be at the Institute's Philm event Friday at 7-9pm and he's  
eager to hear more about our work. I really want to you to get a  
chance to experience this!

NB: Please RVSP to me as soon as possible by email or phone, even if  
you can't make it! And please forward it to anyone you think might be  
interested!

I really hope to see you in one of these workshops!

Well met,
Esben (718-844-0283)

FREEFORM ROLEPLAYING is a form of role-playing reminiscent of improv  
theatre. Players take on one or more roles in the collaborative  
telling of a story, that is acted out as on a stage, often guided by  
a set of rules tailored to the story at hand. The goal of freeform  
roleplaying is to tell stories or explore the potential or danger in  
situations. Stories are generally not comical in nature, and  
sometimes intentionally "close to home." The scene evolves through  
scenarios performed at conventions written by community members or  
collaboratively created by groups of players and new tools and  
techniques for story telling are actively researched in a similar  
fashion.
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