I’ve learned that a number of places are still open for the 10th anniversary Twilight Realms LARP event. If you never tried LARP or tried Twilight Realms out then this could be a good opportunity to see collective story telling in action. The Anniversary game promises a great story line and a plethora of fantastic characters to interact with.
On top of that the game will take place in an actual castle
Although Shared Creation focuses extensively on Internet based creativity there is a certain rightness in looking at the real world too. LARP seems to bridge the both the digital and the real.
LARP is consenual group story telling - everyone agrees to a framework of behaviour and uses it to take part in the telling of a story. Its part a very modern idea, part a very ancient idea. The bridge between digital and realworld comes in the way that concepts, stories and characters are often developed online and then played out live.
Twilight Realms is a group that does this. The world is build largely online, and then enacted at events.
Very creative, very modern, and very retro.