The Dickens Project will celebrate its fifth year in Second
Life on Linden Endowment for the Arts Region 7 in an expanded edition of the
annual event that features "something for almost everyone." Staged on
a full region this year for the very first time, the traditional 10 day event
that began in 2012 as a celebration of the Dickens Centennial will be open to
residents for five weeks, beginning November 25th and closing December 30th, on
LEA 7 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
The celebration will feature live music, weekly DJ sessions,
stage performances by Guerilla Burlesque, and Misfit Dance & Performance
Art in addition to Seanchai's traditional spoken word presentations from the
canon of author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) centered on, but not limited to,
his novella A Christmas Carol.
Carriage and balloon tours, skating, sledding and a few surprises are
among the other features planned for LEA 7. The Community Virtual Library has
designed an interactive information center on the times and work of Charles
Dickens which can also be explored.
"Every year we learn something new," said Seanchai
Lead Caledonia Skytower of the event that began as a regular session at the
spoken word library, "... something fresh from the text, and something new
in how we present it." Last year's
Project was held on a half region parcel sponsored by Kultivate Magazine, the
largest amount of space and prims Seanchai Library had presented on to
date. "The Story Tours were a big
hit," Skytower continues, "Our vision has always been too guide our
audiences 'in the steps of Ebeneezer Scrooge' using Dickens words framed by a
themed environment, like walking through a live picture book." She quickly adds of the LEA 7 build being
created by herself and Aoife Lorefield, "We are evoking, celebrating a
work of fiction. This is an inspirational build, not a documentary one."
The 2017 Edition will include multiple presentations of A
Christmas Carol in a variety of adaptations, in sections and in its
entirety, and at different times to make the live readings accessible to
residents from different parts of the globe. Other works from within the author’s
vast canon are featured in the weeks leading up to "Carol Week"
(December 11-17), which climaxes in a marathon “Big Read” presentation of A
Christmas Carol performed by a relay team of Seanchai staff and
storytelling friends, scheduled for Sunday, December 17th. Seanchai Library has made the event schedule in-progress
available on their website http://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/p/the-dickens-project-sl.html
In 1843 Charles Dickens prefaced his about-to-be classic
tale with these words: “I have
endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which
shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with
the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish
to lay it.” He began the novella in
October, completed it in less than six weeks. It went on to become the most
successful book of the 1843 holiday season, selling six thousand copies by
Christmas and continuing to be popular into the new year.
Seanchai
Library (Shawn-a-kee, which means "Storyteller"
in Irish.) was
founded in March of 2008 in Second Life. Thousands of stories, and hundreds of
authors later, the program remains dedicated to promoting the power of stories
to transform and inspire through live voice presentations: "We bring
stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life."
More information and links will be available closer to
opening day.
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