Under the 8th sky

We are pleased to once again put a Palestinian larp on the programme - Under the 8th sky by Muhannad Shaaban, Dana Jafar, Shayma Joma, Layan Yaish and Mohammed Zagharna.

The larp is set in an Israeli prison where Palestinian detainees are held before October 7th, 2023. It depicts the reality faced by Palestinians in Israeli jails and highlights their harsh conditions.

Players encounter various challenges, such as unjust administrative detention, the imprisonment of pregnant women and minors, and life sentences. In this tense environment, players must identify "Asfour"—the occupation's secret agent among the detainees. What will happen to these inmates?

Players embody the detainees ' suffering and face daily challenges that replicate real-life prison experiences in a quest for justice and truth.

Embodied Alchemy

Larp creator: Adi 

Ah, Greetings my fellow master Alchemists! I bid you a warm welcome as I invite you to step into the grand alchemy laboratory, where we come together to transmute the sorrows and the suffering of the planet into a healing spell that restores peace, love and light at the very core of the Earth!

Your laboratory is your body and movement fuels the transmutation exactly as you move in the game the transmutation happens. All you need to do is move! Or not. Depending on what is your assignment!

(if player feels like doing breakdance and are able to do it safely, for the intents and purpose of the game would be as equally acceptable as player's choice to spend the entire game laying in a shivasana (the corpse pose) and breathing deeply).

I invite you to come and play Embodied alchemy with me!

(Max 15 people, 1.5-2 hours long)

The Horga Dance

 We are happy to introduce The Holga Dance by Rosalind Göthberg and Eva Wei

“The Fiddler pulled the fiddle from its case and lifted the bow towards the dawning Sunday sun as the people of Horga got excited and forgot about God and the whole world…”

The Horga legend is a traditional Swedish folktale and a song about how the devil, disguised as a fiddler, got all the youth in the Horga village to dance themselves to death. This is a story about possession, virtue and sin, following your deepest desires and facing what you’ve done while being under the devil’s spell.

“…hold back your bow, you fiddler, before we dance away our life and soul and bones! But he will not stop his dance until we all have fallen down dead.”

Dance of the Bringers

First out in November we give you: Dance of the Bringers by Alex Brown

Dance of the Bringers is a non-verbal, movement larp, following the fate of magical spirits as guardians of a troubled ecosystem. The larp uses discussions on climate grief and joy to paint symbols onto fabric and stone props. The paintings in turn inspire somatic movement and dance to a soundtrack of tribal techno and dark electronica, realising the fate of the bringers in the Vjosë-Nartë delta, Albania.

This larp is inspired by the Albanian wildlife as well as migrant birds on passage through the Adriatic flyway, one of the most important wildlife corridors in Europe. It is written in solidarity with the ongoing protests against the ecological destruction of protected land, as part of a residency in April 2026 with Albanian Ornithological Society (@aos_alb).

Alex Brown is an artist, larp designer, and birder, living in Oslo.

Strings

We are happy to announce Strings by Nór Hernø.

What if you could change who you are?

Awakening in a liminal space between past and present, you find yourself holding your string of life.

Around you, echoes of your past flicker into being as flashbacks draw you back to the moments that shaped who you have become. Now, in this space between what was and what could be, you must decide: Will you accept what life has made you, or alter your string to begin anew?

Bed of Reeds

We are looking forward to have Pihla Lehtinen run the larp Bed of Reeds

A woman has begun to wear the skin of a pike and is slipping away from the world of humans. Her loved ones gather for a ritual to force her into her old form so they can coerce her to stay. Yes, this is a trans-allegory.

This folk horror fable about the loved ones of a shapesifter explores the friction between cultural norms and transitions that transgress them. The shapesifter is played by the designer and is influenced by her own life as a trans woman.

Will contain ecofeminism: like all stories of beasts and men, this is a story about violent control. May contain a happy ending in the form of letting the shapesifter go.

Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency.

content notes: weight of cultural norms, allegorical transfobia, violence towards non-human animals,
hooks.

Be a Grenselandet hero!

Grenselandet takes place thanks to volunteers who are willing to put in time to make this happen. A lot of people contribute by running larps, others by practical organising. If you want to give us a hand with the practical part, now is your chance!

Here are some of the ways you can help:

Station Manager: A station manager helps with the practical stuff at one of the venues. They may play the larp running in that venue if there is space and there is nothing practical that needs to be done.

Party: Helping with the party means rigging up and down and making the party venue nice. If you do this, you cannot play a larp Saturday 17-21.

Cleaning: Helping cleaning up means meeting up at the HQ the day after and help with cleaning and transporting our stuff to the storage. It usually takes about one hour. Afterwards, we go to Cafe Sara where everyone usually meets up Sunday, and cleaning helpers gets free food.

Other: Other can be something you have an idea for yourself. Do you want to make some nice decorations? Play a DJ set? Have other ideas for something nice? Let us know!

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