Curiouser and curiouser [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: May 26th-June 2nd
Characters:OPEN
Note: Like all welcome mingles, this is a SoL free-for-all mingle meant to get new characters involved by centering around something relevant to them. Without further ado, please welcome Rune Vollan!

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The weather is beautiful, approaching twenty and mostly sunny, and it's just perfect for the literature festival that takes part in Mossgate every year. A full week - or rather, 8 days - fully packed of all kinds of literary activities and events awaits.

It starts on Sunday with festivities on the Greens that involve all kinds of local groups putting things on the stage set up near the bandstand - choirs, orchestras, theatre groups, dance groups, and more, both professional and high quality amateur productions. Food stalls are littered around the area, and various booths sell, inform about, or simply exhibit various literature related things. There's also a storytelling tent set up near the ruins catering to children during the day and to adults in the evening and half through the night.

Then all throughout the week there are all kinds of things offerend around Mossgate council. Local artists of all walks, ranging from paper artists to dollmakers, from painters to theatre groups and from singers to circus troupes have been offered all kinds of unusual places to bring literature to new backgrounds. There might be a Shakespearean play on the ruins, or an art exhibition on the pleasure pier, a concert in the zoo or a storytime in the Mayor's office (for all the little ones).

There are also Drag Queen Story Hours at the library, bars and pubs and bookstore offer readings of established as well as young up-and-coming authors, and Tarwich town hall has been turned into an interactive exhibition on Shakespeare.

The Manor House, of course, offers something very specifically themed on the Saturday of the festival. As it was the setting of the world famous book "Ann in the Curious Garden" and the sequel "Between the Mirrors", it always has an Ann-themed day during the literature festival. Every artist, no matter what their art be, who wishes to contribute is welcome and put up art or put on a performace in the Manor gardens or the open-to-the-public parts of the house itself. So there is a children's ballet performing in stork costumes, a magician performing themed tricks, there's many artworks ranging from small children's drawings to artful adult paintings hung up in the manor corridors, and much more. And, as every year, the hunt for the dodo is on: Somewhere in the grounds and public areas of the house, a stuffed dodo has been hidden. Whoever finds it will get a free years pass to the zoo.


[note: Ann in the Curious Garden is an expy of Alice in Wonderland. Think along the lines of storks instead of flamingos, and such. Just so different enough.]

Comments

/wagers some AUing in the mix

[iamnotgod]

"It looks sort of like cat ears," Walter adds, with some note of bafflement.

"Not with whiskers, though; just the ears, and shape of the face."

At which point someone else tells him to shush, despite Walter thinking he'd been quiet. He shrinks, but looks to Felicity on his other side.

"It's an appropriate theme, though. But it looks more suited for Saturday."

Due to Ann's cat friend - or "friend" as the case could be argued - being a rather popular motif.

[ineffablytartan]

Felicity ignores the sushing, taking another sip from her wine glass as she considers the props again. She can just about make out something but it could just be her glasses. "I suppose there's nothing wrong with drawing a theme through the week. Or perhaps it becomes relevant later."

[iamnotgod]

"That does make sense."

Walter settles in again, glancing in the direction the shushing came from before putting his attention back on the play.

"Still, it doesn't strike me as... particularly period-accurate? Though I'm only basing that off of what I know," he admits.

[ineffablytartan]

"Oh, goodness, no. Not at all!" Felicity gives a small laugh, shaking her head. "Anything but. But it's a play, I suppose, anything goes. Especially judging by the young lady's hairstyle. That's completely off, they didn't have buns like that until a good twenty years later. And that hat is completely out! Those dyes are modern - you can tell by the vibrancy, they wouldn't have been able to get anything that rich on her income back then, and it's too neat for a second hand - well, it would have to be third hand for her - item." She would quite happily continue like this, if she wasn't interrupted by another motion to be quiet by their neighbour. Felicity glares at them, but she does at least fall silent - for the moment.

[iamnotgod]

Walter smiles, glad to share in the notion of complaint at a time like this - though the shushing is expected, as well.

"They are having fun, clearly. As long as it's not mocking, it'll hold."

That is, he won't file a complaint.

[ineffablytartan]

"Exactly. I suppose you can't expect them to have every detail spot on. Although they could have asked us at the museum." Felicity pauses for a moment, thoughtfully. "Perhaps I should suggest it to them later. They could have asked the university as well."

[iamnotgod]

"There is still time, not to mention there's always next year," Walter says.

Even if it seems so far away...

[ineffablytartan]

With all the strange things that have been happening lately, Felicity wouldn't even count on next year. Still, better to prepare for it, than be off guard when it does happen. "I guess I will say something to them later, then." She agrees with a nod. "Who knows what will happen between now and next year."

[iamnotgod]

A piece of what is probably popcorn falls just short of being on Walter's head - but that's as much bad aim as Walter's reflexes at work.

"Of course," he says, then turns back to watching the play.

The pattern proves persistent on other castmembers' clothes, though, and he'll point it out quietly to Felicity when it reappears.