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Cameron Waltz ([personal profile] enveloped) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2018-09-30 08:15 pm

OPEN / "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!

who: Cameron Waltz and you!
what: "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
when: Today!
where: Riverside Community Centre.
warnings: None predicted.

Open invitation on the network!



The community center is normally a modest building, albeit one with a spectacular riverfront view. Tonight, it's putting on the ritz. Multicolored lanterns hang on either side of the sidewalk leading up to the front of the building, and music of all kinds, depending on what time it is, pours out of the open doors and into the street. Local vendors have set up small carts to show off their wares and offer small trinkets and fresh food for sale, displaying their local pride.

Inside, things have been completely redecorated for the event. It's a modern open concept gallery, with blank walls for artwork and written word, empty pedestals to display objects, and plenty of tables with chairs. Some pieces are already on display, from paintings to exotic foods. Small crowds gather around people telling stories or showing off their special skills and talents.

That music plays live from the small main stage overlooking a dance floor, both of which can be cleared for demonstrations of everything from dance to martial arts. Anything physical that requires that little bit of extra room.

Musicians are free to write their names for a time-slot on the stage, and can choose to be accompanied by the onsite pianist and guitarist, bring their own instruments or backup, or perform solo.

All throughout the room are food and drink stations, where staff serves wine, beer, limited spirits, and soft drinks. The exotic foods are on display here, from which the guests can help themselves. If you can imagine it, someone has managed to cook it.
At the far end of the building is an outdoor patio overlooking the river, with seating and torches to light the area through the night. Most displays of magic take place out there, where practitioners can go all-out casting their most extravagant spells.

The crowd ebbs and flows, gathering to socialize during lulls and splitting off to see new events and installations as they come in. Other than opening and closing statements by Cameron Waltz, there's very little structure.

Casual and relaxed, the focus is on learning, generating conversation, and meeting new people. It's an organized free-for-all, a mini festival dedicated to the celebration of the cultures and backgrounds of everyone in Riverview. And in a city made up of a thousand universes worth of people, there's more than enough to see.

[Characters can bring pieces with them as they arrive, and simply set themselves up around the room. Contributions aren't limited to art, anything goes! Feel free to play random observer/staff/performer NPCs. The party goes until midnight, have fun!]
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 010)

i'm sorry for simon templar, a life

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-03 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
There's much to be said for a beautiful, artistic woman. He means to talk to her before she makes her way out onto the patio, but the backdrop out there is just as appropriate.

There's yet another display of magic in mid-exhibition, and Simon finds himself distracted. It seems to be a show of defensive abilities--armors, glowing shields. It's fascinating and somewhat terrifying, if he looks at what they're doing as real. It's so much more comfortable to pretend it's a special effects display. So much more comfortable, and getting progressively harder to do.

When he finds Hawke, it's just in time to see her summon her own armor. He's glad he wasn't taking a drink--nothing more inelegant than choking on liquor when you're trying to make a good first impression. He takes a sip of his cocktail to clear his head before he steps into her orbit.

"It certainly got my attention. I was going to compliment you on your work inside, but perhaps I'd be better served in asking about the nature of the rest of your spells."
indigobird: (47)

never be sorry

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-03 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Hawke looks up, not having expected someone to reply to her. And yes, sorry Simon, for a moment she thinks you're Cam and almost says as much... until she remembers that Cam had a beard. And she's pretty sure he didn't shave it between now and when she saw him, like, fifteen minutes ago. Huh... Must be twins or something. (No, she doesn't know about the face!twin phenomenon, you might get to be the lucky SOB who has to explain that to her, Simon).

"Well, feel free to flatter me in any number of ways," she says with a little laugh, letting her armor dissipate. "I'm certainly open to answering questions about either." She's more used to having to explain her magic, but she refuses to let herself gravitate towards that only. After deciding to take the leap and show off her artwork, she's not going to chicken out about it now.
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 044)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-04 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Were your models from this world, or your own?"

It seems like a good place to start. A server starts to walk past, laden with glasses of champagne, and Simon motions for them to pause so he can takes one glass and raise his eyebrow at Hawke, an unspoken offering of another.
indigobird: (19)

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-04 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"From mine. Well, one of them is here but he's from Thedas as well." Hawke pauses when she sees the champagne server. She nods at Simon's offering, taking the flute with a murmured "thanks" before taking a sip. Mmm. Not bad.

The server kindly takes her empty glass before departing. As she disappears, Hawke continues, "The grumpy blond one to be exact."
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 004)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Simon keeps his own glass, nursing its contents. He's been too free with the beverages here tonight, though his tolerance is mercifully high. He'll keep himself to a single, slowly-consumed glass of bubbly for now.

"I keep hearing that it's not terribly uncommon to find people from one's own world here. I've yet to have the pleasure myself."
indigobird: (46)

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-06 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pleasure might not always be the word, depending on who you get from home." Cullen annoys her sometimes, but honestly, it could be a lot worse. At least Meredith isn't here. "But that could change. Have you been here long?"
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 049)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-07 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not at all. Only lately arrived, actually."

He says it casually, as though he's not still reeling from all of this. He hides it well, possibly too well, but more than once in the past couple of days he's had to retreat to somewhere quiet to just breathe and keep from panicking. "Yourself?"
indigobird: (49)

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-08 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Newcomer, then. How are you finding the place? Is it much different from your world?" Even if the quarantine is overall better than her world, Relm struggled to adjust in the beginning. It was a huge change, and she's certain she's not alone in that. "This will be my fifth month here. I arrived in... June? I think that's what the month was called. The calendar here is a little different."
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 010)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-09 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
"Strangely enough, the calendar matches up with my world's rather tidily." Which is a mildly disorienting fact on its own. When everything else is so different, why should something so mundane be the same? "It's... quite different. Magic, for example--it's never been anything but a story to me."
indigobird: (31)

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-10 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"One less thing to have to manage and figure out, at least." Look at her, being all optimistic and positive. Don't get used to it. "No magic where you're from? Well, your world might be better off honestly. It solves some problems, but also creates a lot of them." At least in Thedas. Maybe other worlds handle magic and its users a lot better. This place certainly does.

Also she realizes she's been prattling on and has no idea who this guy even is. "I'm Hawke, by the way."
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 007)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-18 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Simon Templar." He bows, positively courtly. "I'm unsurprised to find magic comes with its own sets of issues. Humanity has always been particularly good at inventing trouble for itself."
indigobird: (59)

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-19 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Hawke's brow raises for a moment at the name. Templar. If he hadn't just said - and by his reaction proved - that magic is unfamiliar to him, her guard would be up. All things considered, she's willing to chalk it up to a horrible coincidence. She bows her head in return (she's not bowing in this dress, sorry). "I'd argue it's what humans do best, really. Well that and fucking things up spectacularly."
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 014)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-22 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
A small, ironic laugh. One part politeness and one part bitter irony. He deals almost exclusively with those humans both inventing trouble and fucking things up, though on a grander scale than individuals should be able to. The wealthy, the powerful, those who are both. Turning the tables back on those who tried to tip them.

"Does that happen often here? I imagine being in comparatively close and limited quarters makes things resonate more broadly here."
indigobird: (45)

[personal profile] indigobird 2018-10-22 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
She knows that laugh. It sounds different coming from each person, but she'd know that tone anywhere. Hawke is practically bosom buddies with the feeling, and Simon's hardly the first person she's come across who's dealt with the worst of humanity and its collective actions one too many times. Herself included.

"So far I've seen nothing overly, spectacularly bad, outside the stupid cultists. Luckily they were dealt with."