The Dickens Project - Press Release
Issue: Immediate Release
Kill Date: January 5th, 2025
Media Contact:
Caledonia Skytower, Seanchai Library
The
2024 Edition of The Dickens Project
Opens
December 6th
Second Life – Seanchai Library is pleased to announce the opening of The Dickens Project 2024 Edition. This Second Life winter holiday tradition invites guests to walk in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge in an environment inspired by Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol.” An invited community of Second Life residents, groups, and organizations will present a variety of music events, performances, tours, and story presentations. Other features include skating, sledding, a balloon ride, a horse cart tour, and a wealth of photo opportunities. The Dickens Project regions will open on Friday, December 6th, and close at the end of the day on Sunday, January 5th.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Dickens Project uses several experience-based systems including Caledonian Studios, Quantum Products, and MetaHarpers Interactive Theater for teleportation and to enhance guests interaction. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401
"Our focus this year has not been on creating lots of new features, especially on the heels of debuting The Bradbury Project in full region form" said Caledonia Skytower of
Seanchai Library. "Instead we focused not just on refreshing the content we have, but on improving the tools we provide for our guests to explore and imagine.” Seanchai Library has presented Dickens’ work since it's founding in 2008 in Second Life, with the seeds of what is currently known as “the project”
starting in 2012.
New Personal Audio and Map HUDs will assist guests in connecting the words of Dickens' novella with the created environment and sorting through the many "Points of Interest" on the two region project. The audio hud was developed by Shandon Loring, and the map hud was developed by Arrehn Oberlander. Both will be available at the Welcome Center and various locations around the Project. The Map HUD required accepting the Caledonian Studios SL Experience which is also used for the regions' teleportal system.
Also new this year are three Feature Markers to help guests discover points of engagement including task animations (such as such as baking a pie, or chopping wood); pose-assisted photo opportunities; and sitting or posed animations for one or more avatars (such as sitting in a shop drinking tea and cakes together).
The Dickens Open Art Show returns this year. Second Life artists and photographers are invited and encouraged to display their work inspired by The Dickens Project, Victorian Christmas, or Winter Beauty. Information on the Call to Artists can be found on the Seanchai Library website in a dedicated page, or at the Dickens Project Welcome Area. The Dickens Art Gallery will feature an exhibition by Hermes Kondor from opening through the first weeks of this year's project entitled "Visions of Dickens' World."
The Dickens performing community is back in force this year, including opening weekend performances by Angelicus Boy Choir, the opening celebration of the Hermes Kondor art show, and a reading presentation by Poet Klannex Northmead from Dickens' "Little Dorrit."
These are all in addition to the live story reading programs which Seanchai Library is known for. The popular "Carol Week" will begin on Friday, December 20th with a section of Dickens' novella presented live each day in a "Story Tour" presentation to the sites on the estate inspired by the story.
The Dickens Project was created for Seanchai Library by Da5id Abbot, Dawn Greymyst, Dagmar Kohime, Gloriana Maertens, Stevie Basevi-Morane, Iniry Vaher, and Caledonia Skytower.
Seanchai Library is grateful to Linden Labs and Patch Linden, our 2023 Region Sponsors.
Specific information and schedule details for The Dickens Project will be available in Second Life and through the Seanchai Library website. All tips from Seanchai specific events will be donated to Reading is Fundamental.
(Note: Seanchai Library is not an official representative of Reading is Fundamental)
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 Seanchai 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 addition to The
Dickens Project, 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 Bradbury Project debuted this October as the newest Seanchai
Project created 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 goofy.” ~
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