THE DICKENS PROJECT SL 2016
Opens December 10th
Water Haven, Second
Life – The 2016 Edition of Seanchai Library's annual celebration of English
literary giant Charles Dickens, The Dickens Project, will open in Second Life
on Saturday, December 10th with over 20 hours of live events of all kinds,
spanning eight days, to benefit Team
Diabetes in Second Life. This year's Project is sponsored by Kultivate
Magazine and will take place on Kultivate's headquarter region, Water Haven.
The Dickens Project is in its fourth year, featuring live
presentations of Dickens’ A Christmas
Carol along with other works by
the author. The different staves (i.e. chapters) of Charles Dickens'
"ghostly little book" will be presented at different times of day
during the week, December 12-16, to make the live readings accessible to
residents from all over the globe.
New features this year will include the "Eight Days of
Dickens" mini-hunt, and expanded music events. Kultivate Magazine has
opened up their half-region event space so that this year, more than ever,
visitors can "walk in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge." Dedicated areas for Christmas Past and Yet to
Come, designed and built by Caledonia Skytower
and Aoife Lorefield respectively, compliment the central market square
"Present" area.
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| The Christmas Past Skating Pond |
"We think of Charles Dickens and his work in the past tense, under the colossus of 'greatest novelist of the Victorian era,'" said Caledonia Skytower of Seanchai Library, "The elements that make A Christmas Carol timeless and compelling played a part in earning him that title." Seanchai Chief Storyteller, Shandon Loring, added of Dickens' 1843 work, "It has never fallen out of favor, never been out of print. It has been endlessly adapted. Its publication came at a time when the English were re-examining how they celebrated the holiday and what it meant. A lot of what we think of today as "traditional" to the holiday can trace its genesis back through this work."
Also new this year is a Resource
Center created by the Community
Virtual Library at their home on Bradley
University Resource
Center
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| The Dickens Project Welcome Area with "Teleportals" |
The finale is scheduled for Sunday, December 18th, a marathon “Big Read” presentation of A Christmas Carol performed in relay style: "all the words of every stave presented in one session by a cast of voices." That presentation will be preceded by musician Wald Schridde, presenting traditional ballads and dance tunes from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The schedule is currently available on a special page of
Seanchai Library's website - seanchailibrary.com. Times and dates are subject to change. Check details at the webpage and at The
Dickens Project itself (once the festival opens) for the most up to date event
information. Events are free to all Second Life Residents, and donations will
be accepted for Team
Diabetes in Second Life.
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