randomdebris
Newbie
Calling all Portland Area Alliance Folks and others willing to travel,
My wife, Judy, and I have a favor to ask of you. In order to raise funds for our youngest son William’s preschool, we are planning to run a LARP-like event for small children. In order to do this, we need 12 or more people in fantasy costume to help us staff the event and man small stations scattered about Gabriel Park in SW Portland. We were hoping that since you all have easy access to costumes, and many have characters you are comfortable playing, you would consider sharing your talents with us.
The scheduled date/time is: Sunday, 10 July 2011, 9am - 1pm
What we are doing is called a Journey. It is an event often done at Waldorf schools for Halloween or Christmas, and could be described as trick or treating through Mother Goose’s neighborhood. The children and their parents will be guided along a preset path by an older child in costume. There will be stations set up along the path where the children encounter and interact with fantasy/fairy tale personalities going about their magical daily lives. The group will stay at each station for a few minutes to watch and/or interact with the character and receive a small trinket or favor. Then they’ll be guided along the path to the next station. The goal is for the Journey to be magical, and perhaps a bit mysterious, but not scary.
If you decide to help us, this is what you can expect. You will spend about 5 minutes interacting with each group. While the group is at your station you might chat with the children as your character, sing a song to them, ask them to sing a song to you, ask them to answer a riddle, ask them help you with your chores, do a magic trick for them, silently lead them to a hidden glade where treasure awaits, or do some other interesting, magical thing. (We’ve already got a general idea of what the stations will be, but please feel free to share your ideas and preferences with us) At the end of each encounter you’ll give each child a small gift which we will provide to you. Most of your time will probably be spent relaxing and waiting for groups to show up to your station.
We expect to send four groups of six children (and their parents) through the Journey, spaced 20 minutes between groups. Each group should take about an hour to complete their Journey, so it should take about 2 hours for all four groups to pass through.
In exchange for helping us, you can earn 30 gobbies from Alliance Oregon (10 for setup, 10 for manning a station for 2 hours, and 10 for tear down), lunch afterwards (likely pizza), and the love and adoration of 24 little kids and their families.
If this sounds like something you would like to help out with, or if you have any questions, please respond here or PM me.
Thanks so much for reading all of this, and I hope we can count you in!
Doug C (aka Chicken Leg Jack)
Judy O (aka Matilija Brown)
P.S. A big thank you to Cymryc for providing the gobbies!
Edit: Changed some of the 'this is tentative' language to 'this is scheduled', and added in the date info.
My wife, Judy, and I have a favor to ask of you. In order to raise funds for our youngest son William’s preschool, we are planning to run a LARP-like event for small children. In order to do this, we need 12 or more people in fantasy costume to help us staff the event and man small stations scattered about Gabriel Park in SW Portland. We were hoping that since you all have easy access to costumes, and many have characters you are comfortable playing, you would consider sharing your talents with us.
The scheduled date/time is: Sunday, 10 July 2011, 9am - 1pm
What we are doing is called a Journey. It is an event often done at Waldorf schools for Halloween or Christmas, and could be described as trick or treating through Mother Goose’s neighborhood. The children and their parents will be guided along a preset path by an older child in costume. There will be stations set up along the path where the children encounter and interact with fantasy/fairy tale personalities going about their magical daily lives. The group will stay at each station for a few minutes to watch and/or interact with the character and receive a small trinket or favor. Then they’ll be guided along the path to the next station. The goal is for the Journey to be magical, and perhaps a bit mysterious, but not scary.
If you decide to help us, this is what you can expect. You will spend about 5 minutes interacting with each group. While the group is at your station you might chat with the children as your character, sing a song to them, ask them to sing a song to you, ask them to answer a riddle, ask them help you with your chores, do a magic trick for them, silently lead them to a hidden glade where treasure awaits, or do some other interesting, magical thing. (We’ve already got a general idea of what the stations will be, but please feel free to share your ideas and preferences with us) At the end of each encounter you’ll give each child a small gift which we will provide to you. Most of your time will probably be spent relaxing and waiting for groups to show up to your station.
We expect to send four groups of six children (and their parents) through the Journey, spaced 20 minutes between groups. Each group should take about an hour to complete their Journey, so it should take about 2 hours for all four groups to pass through.
In exchange for helping us, you can earn 30 gobbies from Alliance Oregon (10 for setup, 10 for manning a station for 2 hours, and 10 for tear down), lunch afterwards (likely pizza), and the love and adoration of 24 little kids and their families.
If this sounds like something you would like to help out with, or if you have any questions, please respond here or PM me.
Thanks so much for reading all of this, and I hope we can count you in!
Doug C (aka Chicken Leg Jack)
Judy O (aka Matilija Brown)
P.S. A big thank you to Cymryc for providing the gobbies!
Edit: Changed some of the 'this is tentative' language to 'this is scheduled', and added in the date info.
