PRESS RELEASE
Issue: Immediate Release
Kill Date: November 3, 2024
Media Contact:
Caledonia Skytower, Seanchai Library
caledoniaskytower@gmail.com
Seanchai Library’s Bradbury Project Returns
Second
Life – Seanchai
Library is proud to announce the return of The Bradbury Project, which first
came to residents in 2023 in a limited parcel debut. The Bradbury Project focuses on the work of American
author and screenwriter, Ray Bradbury, and features his short story “The
Halloween Tree.” This year’s full-region experience will open on October 5th
and remain open through November 3rd. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradbury%20Project/197/32/41
The Bradbury Project is patterned
after the popular Dickens Project and follows the path of eight boys on an
adventure to save the life of their friend on Halloween Night. Thanks to the
continued support of Linden Lab, this newest Seanchai Project has moved to a
full region this year, with the terrain level inspired by Bradbury’s fictional
Green Town, Illinois thought to be inspired by Bradbury’s own Illinois
childhood home of Waukegan.
The Green Town canon encompasses
stories and novellas including Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion
Wine, Farewell Summer and The Halloween Tree. The time
settings vary from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. The Library’s creative
team has chosen to take inspiration from the 1950s for this year’s project.
While exploring the edge of town, the notorious ravine, and the grounds of the
mysterious Mr. Moundshroud’s house, visitors may encounter the opportunity for
a “trick or treat” teleport which will send them to a surprise location.
Guided by the mysterious Mr.
Moundshroud, the boy protagonists travel through time and space, learning about
different cultures, and how each views and deals with death. The locations on
their travels are described through a series of skybox vignettes which guests
at The Halloween Tree story tour series will “fly” through just as the boys
in the story do. There are over a dozen vignettes, and only those attending the
story tours will see them all, and in context. Access to selected locations
will be made available for general exploration after the story tours have
experienced them. Creator info, online reference and destination recommendations
will be available at most major vignettes.
The Bradbury Project will present
Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree live on stream in three one-hour sessions,
twice weekly, featuring two different casts of voice performers: Sundays at
1:30pm slt - October 13, 20, and 27; Tuesdays at 7pm slt - October 15, 22, and
29 Additional readings from other works by Bradbury will also be presented.
Music and dancing will be
contributed to The Bradbury Project by eClipse Club & Resort, presenting different
dance parties between October 21-27th. See the Seanchai Special
Projects Calendar for specific times, dates, and for additional events and
updates as they occur. Note: not all events presented by the Library this
October are associated directly with this project.
More specific information on The
Bradbury Project is available on the Seanchai Library website. All tips from
events will be donated to Reading is Fundamental.
As
with all recent Seanchai Library special projects, this project features an
experience-based teleport system and an experience to manage environmental
effects. Please accept the “Caledonian Studios” and “Quantum Products” experiences when
they are offered.
Seanchai Library would like to thank
Linden Lab for their support of this project.
All times listed are SLT/ Pacific.
About the
Seanchai Library
Seanchai Library (pronounced Shawn-a-kee, which means "Storyteller" in Irish Gaelic.) was founded in March of 2008 in Second Life. 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 and other virtual worlds." http://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/
About Ray
Bradbury
Ray
Bradbury was an American author, screenwriter, and among the most
celebrated 20th-century writers. He worked in a variety of genres including
fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
He wrote many works and is widely
known by the general public for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950)
and The Illustrated Man (1951). For more information on his
life and work, visit raybradbury.com.
About
Seanchai Special Projects
Special projects produced by members
of Seanchai Library date as far back as 2008 and its first special adaptations
of A Christmas Carol, Dracula, and War of The Worlds. In
2012 The Dickens Project made its first appearance on the Second Life grid,
inviting residents to “walk in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge.” The Dickens
Project has grown and expanded from its initial 900m parcel to two full
regions, supported by Linden Labs and featuring a variety of performing
communities in Second Life. Other immersive literature projects have included
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Agatha
Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Nile, Murder
at The Vicarage, and Evil Under the Sun. Projects on the Kitely grid
have included F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and John
Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. The Library creates experiences of all
kinds to inspire individuals to engage with great literature.
“We call them ‘project’ because
every other name we think of is either too complicated or too silly.” ~
Caledonia Skytower, Seanchai Lead Staff.
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