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

[channingchanningchanning]

"Of course." The amount of confusion in his voice has not lessened at all. He doesn't know a book that contains an extinct bird, and he still thinks that a living bird would be way more fun.

"But that's not a proper chase, if it cannot run."

[lovedramamoron]

"...I think you're kind of missing the point here. This isn't the kind of hunt where you chase anything."

[channingchanningchanning]

"But that is how hunts work." He's absolutely certain that that's the definition. "You chase something."

[lovedramamoron]

Well, this is the kind of hunt where you find something instead. No chasing involved.

[channingchanningchanning]

But that is boring! The chase is the most fun part of hunting, not the finding.

[lovedramamoron]

No way! The finding is the best part. Just chasing is boring.

[channingchanningchanning]

Chasing is exciting, finding is just the necessary boring part.

[lovedramamoron]

Figuring out how to find something is much more interesting that just chasing after someone.

[channingchanningchanning]

It's boring, slow and you're not really doing anything. The only thing to look forawrd is the proper hunt at the end [And boy can he get excited about that one.]

[lovedramamoron]

The boring part is just chasing after something. Where's the mental challenge in that?

[channingchanningchanning]

Where's the physical challenge in finding?

[lovedramamoron]

You can still run after things, even if you're using your brain.

[channingchanningchanning]

Of course.

[He never disagreed with that.]

And your nose, and your eyes, and everything!

[You need all of those even when your legs are busy.]