Arwenna Stardust’s Second Life Blog

The Second Life demons were playing with us on Friday evening but still an eclectic group met around a campfire on Koru and told some of our Second Life life stories. Unable to successfully record the audio stream, the event was largely ephemeral but those of us who were there had a wonderful time. Iphigenia illustrated hers with photos while I was able to pass around Arwenna’s story on a notecard while other, friends both old and new, delighted us with their thoughts. For many it was the first time we had shared stories in this kind of forum, in either life, and the sense of connection and community was strong. Even better was to discover later the truly global nature of the experience that we had helped to create.

It may have been a small beginning but roll on next year! And in the meantime keep the stories flowing.

Just had a very productive meeting about the International Storytelling Day. It’s on Friday May 16th and we will be having a storytelling circle at the Kiwi Educators meeting place on Koru. It will be at 8pm NZ time (thats May 16th 1am SLT/PDT) and we invite anyone to come along and tell part of their SL Life story. We will be using voice and we hope to record the stories, with your permission of course, and have them archived on Koru for other to hear at a later date.

We thought we would ask everyone to limit themselves to around 5 mins but if you know that you need longer then please let us know in good time. It would be very helpful if you would let us know if you would like to tell your story - then we can plan a programme - but we will keep it as informal as possible and you can just turn up on the evening if you prefer.

And don’t forget you are more than welcome to just come along and listen and enjoy the telling! Watch this blog for further details and feel free to comment here or to email or IM me (or Iphigenia Flores) to let us know if you are interested.

Just had a neat Kiwi Eds session on Koru tonight. Iphi came to talk to us about International Day for Sharing Life Stories and how we might play a role in Second Life. Those of us there thought it would be a great idea to use Koru for a two hour (perhaps) session. The day is on May 16th and we will use this blog posting to gather some of the ideas on what we might do - so if you have any ideas - please comment!

This is from the the blogsite that Iphi told us about:

“The Museum of the Person International Network (Brazil, Portugal, USA and Canada) and the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA) have announced Listen! – International Day for Sharing Life Stories, an international celebration of life stories to take place on May 16th 2008. They are launching the project website, www.ausculti.org to assist with information sharing and coordination of the campaign. The goal of the campaign is to gain broad recognition of May 16 as an annual day for sharing, listening to, and gathering the stories of people’s lives.”

We wondered whether it would be fun to have part (or all ) of the session on Second Life life stories - what do you think? And would you be prepared to share a story of your life (second or first?) let me know so that we can think about some planning!