Winter Festival Begins Today - Pick up Your Tour HUDS!
Friday, December 15th, 2006 at 11:37 AM by: Jeska LindenWe had many great submissions to participate in the Third Annual Second Life Winter Festival (read the initial announcement). We’ve chosen the participants for the event and created a set of Tour HUDS with the locations/events inside. Visit Chalet Linden in Wengen to pick up both Winter Festival Tour HUDs and your free official Second Life Winter Festival 2006 T-shirt!
There are two different HUDS, one for the first half of the event and one for the second. (Big thanks to Forseti Svarog for volunteering to set up the HUD system.) The folder also includes a copy of the HUD kiosk in case you want to place one on your own land. When you click the kiosk, a folder named “Winter Festival 2006 HUD & Tshirt” will appear in your Inventory. Right click on either of the HUDs and it will appear in the top right of your screen. Then click on any of the pictures to read more. Once you find what you want to visit, click the right hand button for the landmark.
Remember: The Winter Festival begins today - Friday, December 15 - and runs until December 22!
Keep reading for the full schedule of events…
Below is a full listing of the Winter Festival Events, click the link to go directly to the SLurl and visit the location. Or, for easier use, pick up the HUD in Wengen.
Third Annual Second Life Winter Festival Schedule of Events
Festival Begins Friday, December15 and runs until December 22!
Formal Skiing
Dec15, 3-6PM PST
Skiing, dancing, prizes, Santa and more! Formal dress code. For details, contact the Nakiska Ski Club group
Formal Winter Concert
Dec15, 5PM PST
Extraordinary composer Kurt Bestor provides the music for this formal event. For more info on Kurt, visit KurtBestor.com [http://www.kurtBestor.com]
Xmas Trivia
Dec15, 8:30PM PST
The event is a Xmas Trivia Contest. Highest score wins L$250! Thank you.
Fruitcake Pass
Dec16, 5-6PM PST
Play free games at the Fruitcake Diner and compete to win! Created by Rifkin Habsburg.
Krissling Kristmas
Dec16, 12-2pm PST
Symphony of Lights, Sleigh Ride with Santa, Christmas Ornament Building Contest and more! Note this is a PG Region.
Live Holiday Music
Dec17, 6-9PM PST
Join us for an evening of live music, holiday style. Celebrate & sing along with your Second Life friends!
Xmas Wonderland
Dec17, 1PM PST
Sleigh rides, snowflake rides, Santa photos, live DJ, ice skating, prizes and more!
Christmas Ball
Dec19, 1-5PM PST
Formal ball features DJ playing Christmas, swing, jazz & other swanky hits. Prizes for best dressed!
Caribbean Xmas
Dec19, 8PM PST
Caribbean Christmas Celebration at the lovely Boiled Shrimp! Dancing, Reggae music, prizes and more.
Custom Santa Photo!
Dec20, 7:30-10:30AM PST
Free custom Santa photos created while you wait, takes about 5 min. each. Also ice skating & snow angels to enjoy.
SL Saturnalia
Dec20, 4PM PST
Celebrate Saturnalia, the ancient Roman version of Christmas, by participating in Silly Combat for fun & prizes!
Menorah Lighting
Dec20, 5PM PST
A little light dispels a lot of darkness. Join us for a menorah lighting celebration, food and more!
NBC Sessions
Dec20, 6:30PM PST
Special guests Robert Randolph and O.A.R. play live in the holiday-decorated Peacock Room
Snowball Fight
Dec21, 10AM-5PM PST
Grid wide Resident vs. Linden snowball event - see list of locations (coming soon) near the Wengen Chalet! Watch this blog for more information 
Meet Santa Claus!
Dec21, 6-8PM PST
Calling all Naughty & Nice Residents! Get your Wish List ready for the 2nd annual visit with Santa.
Holidaypaloza
Dec22, 7-10:30PM PST
Join DJ’s Nexeus, Naydee, & BCreative as they present different styles of music to celebrate the holidays!
Xmas Party
Dec22, 8-11PM PST
Skiing, skating, prizes for best dressed and more! Contact Nakiska Ski Club group for info.
All Day Skate
Dec22, 9AM-12PM PST
At the Winter Wonderland, join us for an all day skating event. Also Wonderland will hold many other events throughout the Winter Festival, visit for more info.
Ongoing Events:
Several Residents have created extravagent locations to enjoy throughout the Winter Festival – below is the list of those who submitted ongoing spaces:
Grim Xmas
Have a Grim Christmas in Sleepy Hollow! Ice skating, trivia events, parades and more, all in the “Grim” tradition.
Demersal Expo
A full winter sim with artistic and festive builds. Runs throughout the Festival.
Santa Sleigh
Free mountain sleigh rides for up to seven people - runs through the entire Winter Festival!
Snowman Building Contest
Snowman building contest, submit photo to Jay Karlfeldt by 12am PST on 12/20. Prizes for best snowmen!
Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland! Rides, skating, steam engine, more! Events throughout the Festival.
Winter Skate
Scenic Ice Skating Pond with Ice sculpures, free stuff and more! Runs throughout the Festival!
December 15th, 2006 at 11:52 AM
Beings? Is that what we are now?
December 15th, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Is the festival on the TG too?
December 15th, 2006 at 12:30 PM
I think you typoed “Begins” in the headline…
December 15th, 2006 at 12:34 PM
Hehe, yeah type mistake
December 15th, 2006 at 12:34 PM
Oh dear, typos galore! You also just mailed December’s “Second Opinion” under the subject line “The Second Opinion: September 2006″
** It occurs that “Winter Festival Beings” could be a December celebration for polar bears?
December 15th, 2006 at 12:38 PM
For any newcomers, once you pick up your HUD, you’ll be able to find it in your Inventory.
Oh, wait…..
NVM, just search for the places listed above and head overthere yourself.
Oh, wait again…..
crap
December 15th, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Thanx Lex! That’s been fixed. Altho “Winter Festival Beings” does have a nice ring to it too.
Andy, I just noticed that, I’ll let Jeska know right now. Thx also!
December 15th, 2006 at 1:08 PM
Eep -sorry about the blog typo. I type faster than I can keep up sometimes
December 15th, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Paul! These events are only for the MG, but the good news is I just checked with Blue — aviatin’ admin of the Teen Grid — and he says yes, there will be Winter Festivities on TG! Watch out for his announce soon.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:50 PM
Fantastic Torley, that is great news for us Teen Grid Residents.
I really hate being always left in the dark cold corner of Second Life and being treated as if we Teens were immature objects instead of real human beings with feelings like adults are, down with Ageism!
December 15th, 2006 at 2:09 PM
Yes, down with ageism! More “adults” need to see the world with fresh eyes, it’s too easy to become jaded and lose the driving vitality and spark that comes with enjoying life!
Tangent, but connected: I’m reminded of holiday movies where an elderly couple sit together on a bench while it snows, hand-in-hand, and go “We felt like teenagers in love again”!
December 15th, 2006 at 2:19 PM
will there be any events on the TG?
December 15th, 2006 at 3:04 PM
Bah! Humbug! Ebenezer Scrooge was right all along!
December 15th, 2006 at 4:18 PM
Hmmmm, speaking of humbug - ‘Winter Festival’ - right Jes?
So how come the Linden Ski Lifts in Wengen and Vos arent running? Oh, and the Linden Snowboard scripts are broken? It’s not giving a very good impression to all the noobs hanging about in Wengen you know…
December 15th, 2006 at 5:07 PM
Funny, you post this on your blog yet refuse to host any sims for the festival
Good Show!!
December 15th, 2006 at 7:59 PM
For anyone confused about how the HUDs work, just go to Wengen, and click on the sign.
A folder called “Winter Festival 2006 HUD & Tshirt” will appear in your inventory.
Right click on either of the HUDs (there are two different ones because there are 24 places/events to see) and it will appear in the top right of your screen.
You can click on the pictures and read the description. If something interests you, click the right hand button for the landmark.
December 15th, 2006 at 10:04 PM
This sounds wonderful!
coco
December 16th, 2006 at 12:32 AM
We had a fab Xmas party at Nakiska Yesterday (Fri 15th). The HUD brought lots of ‘beings’ to see Santa and his little helper who came all the way from NZ (thanks Jay Karlfeldt for that) and gave is snowballs and lollipops. Fireworks enlivened the evening and skiing was going on apace and dancing until we all fell exhausted into the hot tub at the clubhouse. Fabulous afternoon/evening - here’s thanks to Jeska for setting up the Festival and also all who came to Nakiska and made iour first Xmas Party go with a swing and a bang! Thanks also to my tolereant neighbours!
Esse Bellman hosts a similar ‘bash’ on next Friday - 22nd.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
December 16th, 2006 at 7:08 AM
[...] The Winter Festival began yesterday. It runs Dec. 15-22 in SL. For full details, see the Linden blog post on the Winter Festival. You can also pick up the Festival packet with t-shirt and Tour HUDs (more on this in a minute) at many locations around SL, including: [...]
December 16th, 2006 at 7:59 AM
I’m a “noob” still tentative to leave Help Island. This holiday thread makes me anxious to join the party! Ho, ho, ho!
December 16th, 2006 at 9:30 AM
I just wanted to add Grim Xmas has trivia (all answers can be found on the sim), you could win 20k Lindens, we also have a parade
December 16th, 2006 at 11:17 AM
Forseti - thanks for the directions! I’ll add the steps to the original post.
Freya - great to hear the event went well.
Enjoy the Winter Festival everyone - don’t forget to pick up your tshirt and HUDs
December 16th, 2006 at 2:38 PM
Thanks Forseti, between the lag, the stray gunfire, the fact that the sign isn’t in fact IN the Chalet and someone plonking a “Never Forget” World Trade Center model in front of the sign, it was a little tricky to figure out.
December 16th, 2006 at 7:49 PM
Hi, Everybody. The Snowman competition is in full swing until midnight 20 December PST. We forgot to say there is a L$1000 prize for the best snowman. Send your pictures to me. I am displaying them in the Skating Rink at Ayas 167,225,117 (http://slurl.com/secondlife/ayas/167/225/117/) , come along and have a look.
If you are having problems with the sign at the Chalet there is another at Te Whare Huka Village (Ayas 90, 161, 140) (http://slurl.com/secondlife/ayas/90/161/140/) and at Seefeld Haven (Seefeld 179, 64, 135)(http://slurl.com/secondlife/seefeld/179/64/135/).
December 17th, 2006 at 9:46 PM
Well it actually sounds like a blast. I’m actually kinda excited about the festivities and am sure they’ll be fun.. Halloween was a blast this year with pleanty of things to do. I know i’ve been a bit aggressive and overly to the point in other areas but kudos for bringing out some christmas and holiday fun. Best wishes to all the resies and lindens, and i’m offering my home to the lindens during the grid wide snowball fight. lord knows you’ll need a safe haven.. lol. tc. happy holidays
December 18th, 2006 at 11:35 AM
[...] While mostly, these events can be cheesy, and are throwbacks to the Mentor Events ran by Helpers and Volunteers in Beta, this particular festival can be a lot of fun. They posted about it on the Linden Blog and it goes from the 15th to the 22nd, a full week. Be sure to swing by as Linden’s often show up cause if you aren’t there, you can’t get your snowball hits in [...]
December 18th, 2006 at 10:54 PM
[...] The winter festival in Second Life has always been one of my favorite events of the year, with a wonderful combination of winter wonderland, festivity, and art. This year Linden Lab did not have the ability to centralize the expo around Wengen and Zermatt (two snow sims) as in years past, so I threw together two TourHUDs for people to find the event and art locations submitted to LL. You can pick them up here — HUD 1 has some of the ongoing exhibits, and HUD 2 has some events still to-happen. ESC created the TourHUDs earlier this year for GSD&M who was generous enough to open source it for the community, thus allowing me to use it to good end in this case (so thank you). [...]
December 21st, 2006 at 1:01 AM
The Winner of the Snowman Competition is Lillee Rochefort. She has been sent the prize of L$1000.
Thank you to all competitors. It looks like Easter Egg rolling will be the next one or possible Sweetheart Rolling on the 14 February
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 AM
Hehe … Thanks for the snowballfight-event! Was great fun =)
Theo
December 28th, 2006 at 7:41 AM
Winterfest was a terrific idea. What fun! But it was over Dec 22 and today it is still listed as an upcoming event …..can we do it all again next week?
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:50 PM
[...] visitando los sitios propuestos en este Third Annual Second Life Winter Festival. En este post se listaban una serie de sitios aceptados para este festival, además estaba la SLurl [...]
March 15th, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Seems to me like i arrived in one of George A. Romano films “Night Of The Living Dead” people seem happy to let lindens do as they please regardless of the cost to their integrity, I Would like to congratulate Lindens for their amazing brainwashing exercise they call Second Life.I too was a zombie sleeping walking to the Linden tune.No longer !!!
Wake up people !!!!!
Space Wide Awake Rockett.