Be a Grenselandet hero!

Grenselandet takes place thanks to volunteers who are willing to put in time to make this happen. A lot of people contribute by running larps, others by practical organising. If you want to give us a hand with the practical part, now is your chance!

Here are some of the ways you can help:

Station Manager: A station manager helps with the practical stuff at one of the venues. They may play the larp running in that venue if there is space and there is nothing practical that needs to be done.

Party: Helping with the party means rigging up and down and making the party venue nice. If you do this, you cannot play a larp Saturday 17-21.

Cleaning: Helping cleaning up means meeting up at the HQ the day after and help with cleaning and transporting our stuff to the storage. It usually takes about one hour. Afterwards, we go to Cafe Sara where everyone usually meets up Sunday, and cleaning helpers gets free food.

Other: Other can be something you have an idea for yourself. Do you want to make some nice decorations? Play a DJ set? Have other ideas for something nice? Let us know!

To sign up, please fill in this form.

Faerie - A Blackbox Fairytale

We are happy to announce our next programme item for Grenselandet 2026!

Faerie by Halfdan Keller Justesen

Faerie by August Malmström

Faerie is a tale about four mortals, who enter the realm of the Fae. They are torn apart and caught up inthe eternal dance of the four seasonal courts. As the humans are vastly outnumbered, and unable to find their way out, they become the play things of the Fae. Will their tragic prophecies be fulfilled or will the mortals find a way to circumvent their fate?

Panopticon

First larp out in October is Panopticon by Nor Hernø

 

In the Panopticon prison, you live under constant surveillance until a glitch disrupts the system, offering brief moments of freedom. Seizing these outages, you can navigate between cells to reconnect with people from your past but must return before power is restored. In the end you will make one final decision that will determine your fate and potentially the fate of those around you.

NB.: Participation requires a level of physical mobility, as fast-paced movement is necessary during the larp, as well as being comfortable with heavy use of sound and light.

ESTRANGED

We hare pleased to give you our next programme update: ESTRANGED by Maya Hindsberg

"Mom, now you're being unreasonable, you're making me sad."
This is a story about how you get to the point where you have to make the choice about whether you want to cut ties with a parent or stay. Join us on the journey and experience the picture perfect moments, the nightmares, the good and bad days, when relationships are cut, when they aren't, and hear the words of the outside world when you make a decision that will have consequences. 

This is a scenario about love and grief, and the ambivalence and relief that comes with breaking of a relationship with your parent that is not healthy for you. You will play either parent or child in a pair, and find out which way your relationship will go. 

Created through Love

We are happy to present Created through Love by Nina Runa Essendrop

Children must learn how to navigate life. They dream about the future they want, they learn how to guard themselves from harm and they adapt to the norms of the people around them. These are precious things needed to safely grow, but at some point they might no longer serve us.

In ‘Created through Love’ the players are guided to physically explore how childhood dreams, defense mechanisms and group norms can become obstacles later in life and how to possibly find the courage to let go. The dreams, defense mechanisms and norms are represented by physical objects and each player creates their characters’ story through abstract interactions with the objects, the space and each other.

Where Love Happens

We are happy to announce the first larp from the programme for Grenselandet 2026; Where Love Happens by Kaisa Kangas, Essi Santala, Tonja Goldblatt, Helena Markku, Elena Rekola, Riina Tikkanen

“Do You believe epic love stories only happen on the silver screen? Think again! At Where Love Happens, we specialize in making Your romantic dreams come true. Powered by our advanced AI Aphrodite, our matchmaking process delivers a 99% success rate in finding Your One True Love.”
Where Love Happens is a comedy about romantic comedies and their clichés – you might call it a deconstruction of a romantic comedy. It studies the relationship between humans and objects by combining larp with puppetry. Participants will get to play together with human-sized Cupid puppets that are manipulated by professional puppeteers.  Participants will also use hand puppets to represent their characters in some scenes.

Participants play customers at the romantic consultation agency Where Love Happens that is run by two Cupids – magical creatures with special powers.

The characters are ordinary people who long for Hollywood-style romance. Humour is born out of the clash between reality and Hollywood-shaped dreams, expectations, and norms. The larp has a narrative arc where the characters move towards liberation from the romantic conventions Hollywood has fed them.

Since the larp deals with Hollywood tropes, it involves heteronormativity and LGBT tokenism. There is also soft mind control. You might not get to play a character that has the same gender or sexual orientation as yourself. There is potentially awkward content such as dating and relationship crises. Participants are expected to be comfortable with hugging and with touching each other’s hands and arms. Sex can be a topic in the larp, but players are not expected to play erotic scenes. Some scenes are played using puppets but the larp does not require any previous experience on puppetry.

Where Love Happens has been financially supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency.

Photo by Tuomas Puikkonen

Call for larps 2026

Want to run a larp at Grenselandet 2026?

We are pleased to open our call for larps for the festival on December 4th and 5th. Whether you have a ready-to-play and well tested larp, or just an idea in the making, we would love to hear from new and old larpmakers. Send us your pitch today, and hopefully you will run it at the festival in the Winter!

Grenselandet offer high quality venues, including professional black boxes, depending on the format and requirements of the larp. We also have some budget for props and a small fund for travel (reserved for larpmakers who would otherwise not be able to travel). All larpmakers with a larp on the programme may attend the festival free of charge.

The 1st call for larps closes on July 1st.

Submit your larp idea here!