Woodstock Anniversary

Woodstock Anniversary

The legendary Woodstock Festival took place in the summer of 1969. So we celebrate the 50th anniversary. Already last year we built up a big festival place next to a farm and celebrated the 49th anniversary with 2 wonderful events. The music of this time, the lifestyle of the time of the Hippies and Flower Childs and the free love work up to our time. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and many used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. Even though the song "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" was written years later, it describes the attitude to life of this unique time. Woodstock is one of the events that changed the world.

So we celebrate the anniversary again this year. And we built a very special venue for this festival again.  We set it up during last week next to the Realm of Shades. Of course there was the meadow with a very big stage. At the side of the stage there are lavender bushes. On the opposite side there is of course a cow farm. It was a lot of fun to build this up together with Misty. There is a Google Images Album with pictures of the preparation time, which show the festival place. And of course we were curious what our guests would say and how they would take up this theme.

The performances in the year 1969  took place between the 15th and the early morning of the 18th of August, we started our anniversary festival today, on the 16th of August. We asked our guests and friends "Are you also a flower child?" and invited them to come to this special event. Together with our friends and guests we wanted to go back to the time of hippies and flower power.

When we opened the festival at 4pm it was empty and the guests came slower than usual. Had we made a mistake with this topic? Or was it the time of vacation and the summer? Other events could also take place in SL at the same time. It is always hard to say.  But that didn't break the good mood on the meadow and we had a lot of fun from the beginning. DJ Valantine had put together a good set with Woodstock music and put us in a very good mood and put us back in time 50 years ago. And then more guests came and the meadow became fuller.

Then there were almost 50 guests in the end. But of these some new ones, who apparently felt attracted by the topic and also came with suitable outfits. So the number in the group got in again, we now have 946 sunshine rockers in our group. Of course we are especially happy about this increase in summer, and we are looking forward to the autumn season, where we know from experience that there are more visitors. At the end of the main event there were 35 visitors and friends together on our beautiful fairground.

We loaded our contest board with 1,000 L$ like usual. Because this time not quite so many guests came and took part in the contest, it remained with this jackpot. Maybe we can give a little more L$ at our 2nd event tomorrow. But let's be surprised, Dj Yuimetal will certainly put together a good set for us. Today it remained at least with the jackpot. The voting went very well too and 27 of the participants voted. We were able to say goodbye to the guests on time and payed out the winnings. So we finished the first Woodstock Anniversary main event and many of the guests left us.

Of course, that's just the beginning. Also today there was another after-party and we stayed together. Most of us put on shorter skirts and took off our tops. So you could watch some of the most beautiful girls dancing in SecondLife again and not only the tits wiggled sexy. DJ Valantine continued to entertain us for a while until we switched to the radio. It was a special evening at a beautiful place and we are already looking forward to tomorrow when we celebrate our 2nd event for the Woodstock anniversary on this festival place. 

And I don't write that much anymore. It is late. There is a Google Images Album again. You should really have a look inside. There are many pictures in it, and it is difficult to describe such a beautiful event in words. You have to see a lot. If you were there, maybe we caught you on a photo. If you missed it, there are really nice pictures. Maybe you want to use the space to take photos. We'll definitely delete it after the weekend, because it's very intense. Here is the landmark to our Sim, this weekend is the landing place at the top of the Woodstock Festival place. 

You can also share the pictures with us, we have a Sunshine Realm Flickr Group for the Sunshine Realm. Tomorrow at 4pm the 2nd event will take place. And if you'd like to read it later, but would like to stop by, here in the blog is the page "Upcoming Event" which we update regularly, and where you'll find information about the next events. So it's worth it to bookmark this page. There are always changing topics, some bring us back to history, others are in the present. It is a constant challenge for us to prepare one of our event locations. Sometimes we also build a new venue, like Woodstock's anniversary. 

And for our friends and guests it is the challenge to find the right clothes for such an event. Do you want to participate? Inform yourself and just come by. We are looking forward to seeing you!