Thank you, to everyone, who helped make our Five Elements
Festival such a fun and memorable experience. Celebrating five years of
operations in SL with such wonderful people made the godai matsuri one of my
happiest experiences in this virtual world.
Over the next few blog posts, I will try to recapture some of the
memories of our festival and share the images with those who were not able to
join us.
- Aisya
Part I: Planning the Festival
While I had a few general ideas for how to celebrate the
completion of our fifth year in SL, we started formally planning the festival
as a group right after the moon viewing festival.
Over the next two months, we gathered in smaller groups to
hash out the details of the different performances, events and the makeup of
what we affectionately called “Godai Matsuri Machi” or our Five Elements
Festival Town – a fun space of food and games.
Other than working with the carpenters to build the Festival
Town, I really enjoyed helping to produce some of the performances, especially
the finale show “Elements of Shinmachi.” But more on that show will come in a
few weeks. The most fun I had planning outside of performances was the creation
of our advertising image.
We tried to capture the essence of each of the five elements
in our festival ad. From left to right, the ladies featured in the image are:
hikikomi kamuro Raven Moon for earth, tomesode shinzo Hamayu for water,
Okamisan Aisya (me ^_^) for void, tomesode shinzo Tsuyu for fire and finally
oiran Kaminari for wind. We’ll have to do something similar in the future,
since it was really fun.
Next week, I’ll post about the first few days of the
festival which focused on earth and water.
