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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 024)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-18 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ A year. He could be trapped here for a year, wasting away in this tiny metropolis. Sure, there will be things for him to do, criminals whose lives he can cheerfully ruin, but a year in one place? He's not stayed that long anywhere since he was a boy. ]

Well. Happy Anniversary, I suppose. You'll have to treat yourself to something extravagant to mark the occasion.
bythehand: (oh is that what you think)

[personal profile] bythehand 2018-10-19 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Quarantine is suffering when you're thinking size or life goals. For Finn, given to narrow individualized focus and long strings of short-term goals, it's been easier to get his sea legs. And he's had a lot of help in keeping them, more or less. Not everyone gets to be that lucky.

Nicest place he's ever lived, anyway. ]


Thanks. I'm looking forward to extravagantly going to work. [ There's a gentle humor to it. Buried in there somewhere. Proceeds to send Simon the only fancy gilded invite to the Finn party probably. ] Let me know if you need anything, though. If you want. I won't mind. This place can be a lot.
pacifisticuffs: (Adam Rayner 009)

[personal profile] pacifisticuffs 2018-10-22 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Finn gets a small laugh out of him, a genuine one, which is the first in the past twenty-four-plus hours. Will probably be the only genuine laugh in at least a week, maybe for the entirety of this month, once Simon finds out how long the ghosts will last. ]

I appreciate that. I'm fairly proficient at getting my feet under me wherever I land, but this is rather more than I'm used to.

[ So much more, Finn, so much. ]
bythehand: (i mean sure if ur a loser)

[personal profile] bythehand 2018-10-24 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Finn's contribution to the arts and culture event was winning the arts and culture event by getting someone to laugh. It's not all the time that he manages that when he's actually trying, now that he thinks about it. Which is what happens when it's not all that often that he... tries it. Still, though.

Would definitely be lying to say he doesn't look pleased to get it either way. A true success. ]


It gets easier. Once you get past the part where you think maybe it can't. [ That's been his experience in most of his life pursuits? ] You'll probably be back on solid ground before you realize you made it.

[ Finn has known Simon for a couple of minutes and now has every faith in him to make it, assuming his new acquaintance doesn't turn out to be a murderer or a huge jerk. Not really the vibe he's getting, though. Instinct has to be good for something. ]