Mia Farrow to Discuss Darfur in Second Life
Posted Tuesday, December 5th, 2006, at 12:46 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
Bill Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Creative Media sends news that his firm is bringing actress Mia Farrow to the virtual world of Second Life this Friday at 9am SL time (noon Eastern), to discuss the worsening situation in Darfur and Chad. The event is being put on in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and produced by in collaboration with Infinite Vision Media. It will also replicate in SL a photography exhibition which projected images of the Darfur crisis onto the walls of the holocaust museum (as pictured above), which is great if you live someplace in which visiting the museum is inconvenient or impossible. If you have a Second Life account, you can teleport directly.
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I don’t see any connection to Better World Island’s virtual Camp Darfur? Is this true?
There doesn’t appear to be, no.
There’s a link from Camp Darfur in Second Life to the Committee’s space and some of the same people have been behind the scenes at both initiatives. We have offered up the Camp Darfur space for streaming overflow if the LCM event is full.
Also, from 12/24 through the twelve days of Christmas Camp Darfur’s Gabriel Stauring (featured in the iACT videos) will return to Chad and Darfur’s border to speak directly with the refugees in two weeks of live videoblogs streamed live inworld every day at Camp Darfur. We are creating a communication chain so that the camps will have opportunities to keep us updated on their immediate situation for the long term as a direct way to protect those in the line of fire in Darfur.
Keep in mind that right now as we speak there are camps and villages under attack. The violence is stepping up, not slowing down. Invite your friends to Friday’s event and let’s fill 10 sims!
This sounds great - here’s a related idea that involves the Holocaust Museum and Darfur - “Being a refugee” - http://abolition2.blogspot.com/
I hope that ‘bringing’ Mia Farrow helps but I have sincere doubts about the effectiveness of such an event within SecondLife as opposed to television. I’m not being skeptical, just trying to be realistic - real people are dieing, and with that in mind I wonder if time invested in bringing Mia Farrow to SecondLife could be spent better in other ways. Just accept that as a concern, I accept that it’s happening.
Point 2 - If awareness is the issue, that’s fine - but what is the greater goal? When you get people aware of such a thing, they typically want to do something. So communicating that before the event might be helpful.
Camp Darfur should be used for warming events prior to the main event, etc. It’s apparent that there’s some cooperation there, as there should be, and I hope it is reciprocated.
As for my concerns, well - there’s nothing more that I can do than wait and see, so I’ll wait and see.
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