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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!]
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[personal profile] volitaunt 2018-10-20 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Poe spots Jim in his wheelchair, next to a small table, and makes his way over to say hello with a non-alcoholic beverage in hand. It's been a long year seesawing on and off the teetotaler wagon, but he's been on board it again for about two months now. It got easier to avoid booze after he quietly hit bottom and Finn pulled him out. It got easier to avoid booze when he thought of not drinking as a little reminder of home.

He didn't do it there because he always had to be ready to jump in the cockpit. With the disasters that happen here, there's no reason it should be any different. ]


Hey. How are you feeling? Better now that you're out of the hospital?

[ He's not going to ask whether or not Jim should even be up, because he would be losing his mind by now if it were him.

Poe looks over the photos, enjoying the shots of the city caught in motion, and lingering over the plants and creatures, even if he's seen most of them in real life by now. ]


Didn't know you were artistic.
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[personal profile] winscenario 2018-10-21 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jim shifts on the table, seeing Poe approaching and smiling up at him. Fear not, friend, he still very much remembers how you and John wrecked his baby the shuttle, however he's had some time to sit on it and he's not as upset now. Still a little upset, but, you know. He'll live, and also get his shuttle back. ]

It's a definite improvement. Although having to sit in bed at home isn't that much better.

[ The one thing that makes it better is being surrounded by his things, and thus being free to entertain himself with whatever he wanted to. Getting to leave the house, however, is even better than that. ]

I like photography. [ He shrugs. ] I like to draw, too. Play the guitar, sing... there's more to me than meets he eye.