Karneval Is Koming!

Will your grid participate?

Pangea grid is gaining a reputation for art events, and also for its 'hands across the hypergrid' approach to social events, like RL festivals. Why do it? Grid owner Marlon says it nicely.

Marlon Wayne: carnival is a good thing to bring grids and people together.

In a big way, Pangea goes in for Carnival Cologne style ...or as they call it  Köln or, if you don't do umlauts, Koeln. It's a city that does a straight week of crazy days - a sort of teutonic Rio or New Orleans - with the highlight being Rose Monday, March 3 this year. Costumes, a lot of drinking, candy, more drinking, a parade and dancing, and some more drinking, are the main features of the day.

So as far as the Pangea event goes, what's the deadline, and how complex can the vehicles be?

Marlon Wayne: February 27 is the last day to give your vehicle so it can be added to the parade. The vehicles can be up to about 100 prims, ours are mostly about 40

From all corners of Opensim, grids can send Marlon a decorated vehicle of some sort (don't need to script it to run, they do that on the sim) and then all the different floats, busses, trucks and strange craft parade around virtual Koeln in a long procession. It's a way to show off your grid, your creativity, and your place in the giant tapestry of hypergrid places. 

Lampithaler Artist: Last year there were 10 grids from outside, and 23 floats, small and big, including Soul Grid, AMV, Adult Life Grid,  Neverworld, Moonrose Grid, HG Safari, Mare Grid, Pangea grid of course, and there was a Cornflakes Week vehicle provided by Jupiter.

Why does Carnival even exist? Well, about 300 years after the death of Christ,  the Catholic Church decided that the festival of Easter needed some sort of run-up event to make it more special. Why not impose on the faithful 40 days of fasting and praying?  So, no animal based foods - from steak to cheese and eggs, it was all a big no-no - basically a month of being a vegan. Fish are OK though - so ...

 Anyway, that meant that for 40 days before Easter, your meat pantry needs to be empty.  How to do get rid of all the goodies? Well, as date of Lent looms, you're probably going to want to turn a necessity into a party. Call it Carnival. Latin, run through the medieval mangle, Carne is meat, and the 'val' part comes from the verb levare, to remove or put away. Luckily all that Christianity nicely fitted into what pagan people had been doing for millenia, in the spring, having a knees-up to celebrate the survival of yet another winter.

Pagan or Christian, or not sure either way, everyboy is invited to participate in the Pangea Carnival event !

HG Address: pangeagrid.de:8002:Koeln