We
are very happy to invite you to the opening festivities of the Antiochia sim – home of the Antiochia Community of Citizens (or, in
its Greek form, "Agora Polis
Antiochia").
Antiochia is the virtual platform for a
number of organisations and individuals whose main aim is to extend the
boundaries of information, communication, and education across both virtual and
real words. It aims to become a Knowledge Community spanning Real and
SecondLife, by focusing on the key values of Education, Citizenship,
Creativity, and Diversity.
Antiochia’s
main sponsor is the Antiochia Scholarships Trust, a Canadian non-profit
organization helping students from the Greater Middle East to realize their
dream of pursuing their university studies in Canada. For more information on AST,
please visit its website at: http://home.antiochiatrust.org
. Antiochia’s Chief Architect is
SecondLife’s Alexia Carnell, owner
of the Time Machine Design Studio and
Store and its Landscaper is SL’s Butterfli
Summers. The Terraforming and some of the buildings were done by Bagheera Kristan.
The
sim itself is creatively modeled after the ancient city of Antiochia on the
Orontes (today in Southern Turkey), a multicultural, tolerant and creative city
with Phoenician roots, Greek origins, then Roman and Byzantine high points. We
have tried to reflect this cultural diversity in our buildings, attractions,
and the 44 Information Points you will find throughout the sim. A good starting
point is Antiochia’s Info Center,
located in the Nymphaeum Plaza, with
the following slurl:
The
Opening Festivities will last the entire day of Sunday, January 11, 2015, from 10 am slt to 10 pm slt, so people
from all time zones can attend one or more events at times convenient for them.
You will find a detailed list of all events and their venues' Landmarks below.
We
have planned for you a variety of informative, educational, and entertaining
events. One of AST’s Middle East students will briefly talk about his
dream of studying in Canada; a European expert in leading-edge network science
will give the Inaugural AST Lecture;
and we will have a panel discussion with questions and answers from the public
on Ten Years of Virtual Governance in
SecondLife.
The
musical events will cover everything from rock, pop, folk, blues, and country
to Spanish guitar and even a much-anticipated classical piano concert that will
open our entire day, at 10 am slt.
Please
feel free to visit the sim and to join our group, Agora Polis Antiochia, so as to stay informed of our future
activities and events. You can contact Antiochia’s Project Manager, Alex
Olteanu, either in-world by IM-ing his avatar, AlexOlteanu Unplugged, or by e-mail, at alex@antiochiatrust.org; or the Project Administrator, by IM-ing his
SL avatar, Brent Ivory.
We
hope that you are just as excited as we are by the events we have planned for
you and that you will be able to attend with your friends sometime during this
day.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends on Sunday,
January 11, 2015, for Antiochia's Opening
Festivities.
The Antiochia Team
Antiochia’s Opening Festivities Schedule & Venues
Sunday, January 11, 10 am slt to 10 pm slt
Morning: Nymphaeum
Plaza & Info Center
10 - 11 am: Sandia Beaumont, Classical piano
11 - 11:30 am: An AST Student's Story: Georges Kabalan
11:30 am - 12 pm:
Inaugural Remarks: Quaestor Hax & Team
12 - 1 pm: Maximillion Kleene, Folk / pop
Afternoon: AST Square
in Acropolis Fortress
1 -2 pm: Inaugural AST
Lecture: David Orban: Infrastructures and Superstructures: The
interactive components of our lives
2 - 3 pm: Joaquin Gustav, Spanish guitar
3 -5 pm: Discussion
panel: A decade of real governance in a virtual space. Speakers: Gwyneth
Llewelyn, Stephen Xootfly
Evening: Forum
Valentis
5 - 7 pm: DJ Wally: Country Mix
7 - 8 pm: Komuso Tokugawa: Rock
8 - 9 pm: Gweeb: Blues
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