Knutepunkt

The annual Knutepunkt conference, first held in 1997, has been a vital institution in establishing a Nordic role-playing identity, and in establishing the concept of "Nordic larp" as a unique approach. Though the conference started out strictly as a Live action role-playing ("larp" for short) event, it has since embraced role-playing games in a more general fashion. Today the conference still has an emphasis on larp, but programs devoted to traditional tabletop role-playing as well as newer arrivals such as freeform are common. 
A live action role-playing avant-garde movement, which pursues radical experimentation and the recognition of role-playing as a form of art, has been connected to the Knutepunkt conferences. The scope of the Knutepunkt conference has expanded rather rapidly over the last few years with participants showing up from numerous non-Scandinavian countries. Since about 2003 Knutepunkt has seen participants from the United States, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Russia, Estonia, Belarus, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Austria, among others. 
Name.
"Knutepunkt" is Norwegian for "meeting point" or "knot point" as it can be directly translated as, and locally the term is translated into Swedish "Knutpunkt", Danish "Knudepunkt" and Finnish "Solmukohta". The name of the convention refers to the point where two pieces of rope or string joins in a knot, and varies with the organizing country.
History.
The organising country changes each year in this order: Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
Publications.
Since 2001 the Knutepunkt conferences have been accompanied by books on larp theory,
with the exception of the 2002 conference in Stockholm.
Video documentation.
In 2011 the Knutepunkt conference was documented in a number of videos now published on the Knudepunkt 2011 Vimeo Channel.
External links.
Knutepunkt at the Nordic Larp Wiki