If you harbor any doubts about the creative talent among Second Life members, be sure to visit SB6L, Second Life’s sixth birthday celebration, this weekend. Even if you harbor no doubts and just want a good time, stop in this weekend. The exhibits will remain in place through July 6, 2009, but the performances and other events end on June 30.

Last night’s events had both DJs spinning music and live concerts. The picture to the right is DJ GoSpeed Racer (in the blue shirt) leading an enthusiastic group of dancers doing the bunny hop. Other DJs included Cataplexia Numbers, Ghostwall Schwarz, and Deede Debs. The live music, which featured a range of music including country-western, included performers Bosco Constantine, Gregg Huet, and Ichie Kamachi. They all enthralled enthusiastic audiences.

One oddball event last night was “Ask The Omni Prim”, in which avatars seeking wisdom – sort of – knelt respectfully before the Omni Prim and asked questions.

You can get a calendar of upcoming events here and a list of exhbits and their coordinates here.

Dallier’s Hope, a meteor 600 light years from Earth and said to have been discovered in theyear 2499, is the location of Second Life’s 6th anniversary celebration, "The Future of Virtual Worlds". It consists of 20 regions of exhibits and a wide range of events from June 23 to June 30, 2009, including dancing, storytelling, panel discussions, opera, and even a marching band. You can read the full schedule of events here.

The best way to begin is to get a special HUD at The Paradox, the official entry point to the festivities. There are five landing points at The Paradox. One landing point is slurl.com/secondlife/SL6B%20The%20Paradox151/128/188. You can find other Paradox landing points as well as other teleport coordinates at Linden Lab’s SL6B wiki page wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL6B. When you wear the HUD, it appears in the lower left of your screen with arrows for going to the next or previous SL6B location.

 

An alternate way of getting around is the tram, a 35 minute tour of the exhibit. The tram however lacks one very important feature: a tour narrative describing what you’re passing. Still, it can be useful as a general survey to see what’s there. Look for green triangles. Clicking one of these will rez an instance of the tram for you.

 Android Stage

One of the opening day events was dancing on Android Stage, pictured here. DJ LilTank Thibedeau was positioned high above the stage, spinning music while avatars danced on the circular stage, located at slurl.com/secondlife/SL6B%20Android/128/128/29.

Exhibits cover a wide range of interests, with titles such as Women of Second Life, The Lost Avatars of Zion, Social Metaverse, The Future of Media in Virtual Worlds, Global Online Hockey Association, The Future of Being Human, and America. You can get a complete list of events with their dates and locations here.

SL6B events will be held through June 30, 2009 and the exhibits will remain in place until July 6, 2009. Be sure to visit, and to allow plenty of time. There’sa lot to see.