LARPing is a great way to get exercise, build friendships, and improve social and communication skills including problem-solving and the art of negotiation.

You’ll use creativity, imagination, and strategy for story writing, world-building, and character creation and development (including costume and prop design and construction).

Students will work together to create a world, build a storyline, and create characters complete with a backstory and costume. The class will end with a LARP in which students will act as characters who advance the storyline and to which friends, family, and PHS members will be invited.

$10 supplies fee covers basic costume and prop construction materials such as glue, tape, thread, pins, etc.

Students will want to source materials for costumes and props to enhance their own characters and the world we build together.

Students will spend some time at home working on fleshing out their characters and the storylines and hunting for materials to build costumes and props as well finishing work on those.

The storyline will be built out via Google Docs which students may choose to work on individually or together outside of class.

Our final LARP will happen in the Fellowship Hall on the last day of class.

Minimum Student Date: Fri 25 Aug 2023 — This course will be cancelled if the minimum number of students have not registered by Aug 25.
Registration Cancellation Deadline: Fri 25 Aug 2023 — Registration cancellations must be made by Aug 25 to avoid paying tuition.
Payment Due Date: Sat 26 Aug 2023 — Please plan to pay your tuition for this course on Aug 26.
Registration Deadline: Thu 14 Sep 2023 — Late registrations will be accepted through Sep 14, if space is available. Tuition will be due immediately upon registration.

Image: A young LARPer’s cape billows in the wind as they walk away while LARPing at Silverwood Park in Saint Anthony Village, Minnesota, USA. 2016. Photo by Nic Rosenau. All rights reserved. Used with permission.