Events

CURRENT EVENTS

The Macondo Dance Connect project is a mixed reality performance project created in collaboration with Cabula 6, ZoomLab/Kidz Connect and the dance organization Tanzquartier Wien and will involve bringing kids together from the Macondo refugee community using dance, mapping, storytelling and Second Life.

The objective of the Macondo Dance Connect project is to re-connect youth from the refugee community to their native cultures by allowing them to creatively explore their own history and current living-circumstances and neighbourhood , while allowing them to discover the nature of cultural identity through creative collaboration in virtual space.

The show is saturday, 16 may at 12:00 GMT+1, and will be broadcast live online and within Teen Second Life.

Click here to go to the Macondo Dance Connect page
Click here to go to the live broadcast

UPCOMING EVENTS

Kidz Connect is excited to be a part of the upcoming Hudson Year Festivals, which will celebrate the 400-year-old bond between the Dutch and Americans that started with Henry Hudson’s discovery of New York in 1609. There will be a series of events in both New York and Amsterdam in August and September 2009.
Kidz Connect will be part of a project called “The Island” which will be an adventure game that takes place simultaneously in the real and virtual world, connecting students in New York and Amsterdam through collaborative gameplay while imbuing historical narratives of New York’s Dutch origins with shared, meaningful experiences as they unravel the mysteries of the game together.

PAST EVENTS

This past summer’s shows were presented live in Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the Waag Society’s Creative Learning Lab at the Pakhuis de Zwijger and in Tampa, Florida, at the Patel Conservatory at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Performances were viewable via a live video stream as well as within Teen Second Life.
To watch the archived performances, go to our Videos page.

The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and the Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning (ARVEL) hosted the Second Life Educators (SLED) Mixer which was part of the Second Life Community Convention ‘08.