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Mo Holkar

Mo Holkar is a British larp designer and organizer. He is part of the Larps on Location design collective, and was formerly an organizer of The Smoke and of The Game Kitchen. He is a member of the editorial board of nordiclarp.org.

https://www.holkar.net

Documentation

Bringing Larp to the Larpers

2023-11-01 0 Mo Holkar Katrine Wind Sandy Bailly

Katrine Wind has worked with local producers to re-run Daemon in different countries. In this presentation she shares her experiences together with some of the collaborators: Sandy Bailly who is the producer of the Belgian run and Mo Holkar who…

Techniques

Larping Before the Larp: The Magic of Preparatory Scenes

2021-11-01 0 Mo Holkar

How short facilitated scenes larped during workshops can enhance play.

Solmukohta 2020

Inner Tension

2020-12-03 0 Mo Holkar Monica Hjort Traxl

Thinking about internal identities can be a way to quickly and easily generate internal tension.

Opinion

Larp and Prejudice: Expressing, Erasing, Exploring, and the Fun Tax

2020-06-08 0 Mo Holkar

Designers of larps with a real-world setting face questions about how to deal with prejudice. This article looks at three possible approaches.

Techniques

The Blue Ribbon Collective

2017-03-10 0 Mo Holkar

For Knutepunkt 2017, we held a workshop for people who wanted to avoid or limit their drinking, which included optional blue ribbon pins to signal sobriety.

Research

High on Larp: Alcohol at Larp Events

2017-03-09 2 Mo Holkar

We conducted an online survey about experiences with and attitudes towards alcohol at larps and at larp-related events, receiving over 1000 responses.

Opinion

History, Herstory and Theirstory: Representation of Gender and Class in Larps with a Historical Setting

2017-02-16 0 Mo Holkar

History can be an amazing source of settings for larp! Here are some ways to make sure you're doing justice to the underprivileged of the past and of today.

Opinion

What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?

2017-02-03 0 Mo Holkar Monica Hjort Traxl

Should larp techniques for representing sexual activity be sexy themselves? Might they be more sexy than we sometimes realize? What impact does this have?

Documentation

Real Men – Defining Gender Identities

2016-11-30 0 Mo Holkar

Take your mind back, I don’t know when Sometime when it always seemed To be just us and them Girls that wore pink And boys that wore blue Boys that always grew up better men Than me and youJoe Jackson,…

Techniques

Workshop Practice, in Practice – A Functional Workshop Structure Method

2016-04-20 0 Mo Holkar

The pre-game workshop tradition in Nordic larp is mostly oral, with little written material. People take part in workshops as players, then borrow and develop ideas from those experiences to construct workshops for their own larps. So I thought it…

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