The Cultural Fair

[wise_maiden]

Who: Everyone! Or as close to that as possible, please. \o/
What: The Cultural Fair
When: April 25th-26th, though the earlier set-up days (22nd, 23rd, and keeping everything dry on the 24th) are also encouraged to help get a feel for it
Where: All around the town square
Summary: Also here.
Rating: ... is this a thing?

Note: Booths can be labeled as separate comments! Just put [booth name] or something in the subject line so people can find top level comments easier. Work was probably started for it on the 22nd-23rd for labor purposes, sheltering things from the weather on the 24th, and the actual Fair is on the 25th-26th, so using any of those dates and figuring out where your characters are helping would be good. CHARACTERS ARE WELCOME TO TAG THE LOG FOR INTERACTING WITH OTHERS, NOT JUST BOOTHS, SO FEEL FREE TO TAG IN! Also a character who might not know what's going on is welcome to walk by and question it! And so forth.

I'll leave the descriptions up to you all as there probably isn't much that is too uniform about the displays, as everyone is encouraged to be creative about it. Think of it as something on a much smaller scale than the festival from a year ago, definitely, but how hard the characters worked isn't something I could define for each of you. That said there are plenty of unique sights, so enjoy browsing! Thank you!

(Also, please add your name tags!)

Comments

[markofthebrave]

[A shadow flickers over her face briefly.]

I'm sure that the Fire Nation has some. And the Northern Water Tribe might have had something like that too, but it didn't come up when we were there.

[truthin_bones]

Is the Northern Tribe very different from your own?

[markofthebrave]

They're very different in that, until recently, they weren't affected by the war. [She'd rather not talk about how bereft her Tribe was in comparison, so she keeps going.] And their culture is different in a few key ways as well - their government is much more centralized and they're far more patriarchal. They still believed in arranged marriages and there was a whole practice of bending they didn't teach to women.

[Until she got there, that is. Katara: Wrecking Stupid Cultures One Dumb Tradition At a Time.]

[truthin_bones]

[As an anthropologist, she tries to be as culturally relativistic as possible. As a woman, however, she can sympathize with Katara's opinion.]

Given the geographic difference, that is... not very surprising. [Especially if there was little interaction between the two groups. However!] You did not mention a war.

[markofthebrave]

We weren't talking about history. [She shook her head.] It's a long story.

[And were cultural fairs really the place to talk about genocide? She didn't think so. =/]