HIE: spettacolo e comunità

 Che significato ha per te la parola HIE? Probabilmente hai letto qualcosa a proposito, ma forse non ti sei soffermato sul suo vero significato. HIE sta per Hypergrid International Expo ossia l'Esposizione Internazionale dell'Ipergrid. Ipergrid non è facilmente traducibile in italiano, ma si riferisce alla possibilità di viaggiare tra un mondo virtuale all'altro. Questa peculiarità propria di opensim apre enorme possibilità di confrontarsi con culture e società diverse della nostra e di conseguenza ampliare i nostri orizzonti. 

Quando e dove

HIE non ci limita all'uso della sola lingua inglese ma permette a ciascuno di esprimersi nella propria lingua. La prossima edizione, si terrà dal 19 al 21 aprile su Craft grid, e avrà presentazioni in tedesco, francese, portoghese e italiano. Ogni presentazione verrà accompagnato da 'sottotitoli' in tutte le altre lingue, compreso l'inglese (non vogliamo escludere nessuno!) in modo che tutti possano seguire il messaggio di questi interessanti relazioni. 

Sunday at HIE 2023: Spanish Session

 Crossing continents with our last session, we were delighted to have with us Victoria Logan, Nazirah Avro, and Tosha Tyran. This Spanish Session gave lovers of languages the chance to sample four different accents, and three different windows onto the world as seen through Spanish-speaker's eyes.

From pure virtual art, to a personal testimony, to a RL monument made into mesh, it was a whirlwind of emotions.

Xirana Oximoxi was the Moderator for this session. Xirana is a writer with an extraordinary talent also for illustrations. She has published several books for children, and also has this really beautiful and moving blog full of her art - please do not miss it. Xirana lives in Catalonia, while Victoria is in Argentina, and Nazirah in Venezuela. As you can imagine, getting everyone to the event on time, with so many time zones involves, was something of a challenge! But Xirana's calm and kind demeanor and her good sense of fun got us through the trickiest bits of the planning and execution of the event!  Virtual worlds pulling our global community together all on one stage!

Saturday at HIE 2023: German session.

 The first session of the 2023 Edition of the Hypergrid International Expo began with a ... well let's not deny it, a few teething problems!

 Lots of moving parts, to this complicated machine called HIE. 

But within minutes of getting started the event was already attracting a nice mix of audience both inworld, on Craft Grid, and on our YouTube channel, where the event is streamed Live. That's where you will find the archive of presentations, in the weeks following this event, so it's worth Subscribing to the channel so you will not miss out. Please Comment, Like and Share, too of course!

The program for the first session began with greeting in five languages - just to get you in the mood!

It was followed by the German session, introduced by Loru Destiny of ArtDestiny grid, a place full of paintings, 3d art, magnificent Star Trek regions and beautiful Fantasy landscapes, great music events also (Moses Rae is resident there) and of course, Loru Destiny's marvelous freebie 'shops' - she is a fantastic designer of original clothes for opensim, and has been for many years; she began with system clothes and now makes rigged mesh that everyone can enjoy. 

Loru Destiny

Loru is the organizer of Openim's "Modenschau: or Fashion Show events, featuring original creators of clothes in Opensim like herself, check out her youtube channel, it includes vids of her events and some very good tutorials!

New Promo Video for HIE

 If you are planning on attending the Hypergrid International Expo, save the date! October 6-8, 2023

n 6 October, from 11am SLT, there is an opening party on craft-world.org:8002:HIE 4  in this custom made dance platform by Nyx Breen.
Musical guests include Zoree Jupiter, and DJ Arianna Nightfire for some unbeatable international tunes.

Then on Saturday 7 October and Sunday 8 October, the main event will be happening - starting from 9am SLT (that's 6pm in Paris) so show up early and tp your friends. 

Here's a promo film for the event made by James Atlloud. This is the official HIE Expo Youtube channel, so don't forget to subscribe, as the conference will be broadcast Live on this channel, and it is where the four language sessions will be archived. What do you think?