-The Saminaka Treasure Hunt is on now till June 22. It is uniquely Saminakan! Start at our round Katamba Exhibit Hall, and touch the instruction box to get and wear a fabulous calabash--you too can gracefully traverse the sim while balancing a head load! The hunt is the offspring of our Nigerian animal exhibit--look at the slideshow, then hunt down our animals. If they have an orange nearby, click it. It will deliver a prize. Twenty oranges? (Watch them accumulate in your calabash) Return to the animal exhibit and click the empty bowl--its script will determine if you got it all, then hand over a Grand Prize.
-Saminaka and Sunrise Mansion are partnering to bring you a totally new experience, beginning this Saturday, June 13. Poignant, empathy-inducing, disturbing yet soothing at times, it is part of Remembrance for the Ancestors, an international RL event that is dedicated to the memories of those who took the Middle Passage. Saminaka features the experience as these ancestors left Africa's shore, while Sunrise Mansion shows their arrival.
On Saminaka, receive your African identity, biography and clothes only to be stripped of them as you walk through the Door of No Return, the ancestral egungun masquerades weeping on the shore. Hear the accounts of those who lived through or observed the experience, read brief facts about the slave trade and see some of the castles and sites of departure.
At Sunrise Mansion, receive your slave name, clothes and biography and learn about Ibo Wharf, where Nigeria's Ibo people preferred to walk in th
e water in suicide, believing reincarnation would take them home. See the gracious environment based on Metoyer Plantation, once home to Marie Coin-Coin (Kwan-Kwan), an Akan/Ashanti beloved of a Frenchman who built the plantation for her and their children. View the exhibits of those who remember the ancestors through visuals or other means. See the graves of those who perished on foreign shores
At 9 am SLT, be at Sunrise Mansion. Oliha Yiwama will pray for the ancestors and offer libations. Oliha is a RL babalawo, native doctor, drummer and chief who has spent over a decade studying Yoruba and Edo religion. Let him comfort you through this cathartic experience. If you want to get a sense of the trip from Africa to America first, come to Saminaka at about 8 or 8:15 am SLT this Saturday, so you can arrive at Sunrise on time.
Soon to be announced: Acuminious Watanabe, counselor whose Baobab Academy sessions on SL relationships are a perennial favorite, will conduct a session relating to the intergenerational trauma of the Middle Passage sometime next week. Don't miss it! Understanding the past and looking to the future can make the present a place of stability, a staging ground for growth and greatness.
-Saminaka and Sunrise Mansion are partnering to bring you a totally new experience, beginning this Saturday, June 13. Poignant, empathy-inducing, disturbing yet soothing at times, it is part of Remembrance for the Ancestors, an international RL event that is dedicated to the memories of those who took the Middle Passage. Saminaka features the experience as these ancestors left Africa's shore, while Sunrise Mansion shows their arrival.
On Saminaka, receive your African identity, biography and clothes only to be stripped of them as you walk through the Door of No Return, the ancestral egungun masquerades weeping on the shore. Hear the accounts of those who lived through or observed the experience, read brief facts about the slave trade and see some of the castles and sites of departure.
At Sunrise Mansion, receive your slave name, clothes and biography and learn about Ibo Wharf, where Nigeria's Ibo people preferred to walk in th
e water in suicide, believing reincarnation would take them home. See the gracious environment based on Metoyer Plantation, once home to Marie Coin-Coin (Kwan-Kwan), an Akan/Ashanti beloved of a Frenchman who built the plantation for her and their children. View the exhibits of those who remember the ancestors through visuals or other means. See the graves of those who perished on foreign shoresAt 9 am SLT, be at Sunrise Mansion. Oliha Yiwama will pray for the ancestors and offer libations. Oliha is a RL babalawo, native doctor, drummer and chief who has spent over a decade studying Yoruba and Edo religion. Let him comfort you through this cathartic experience. If you want to get a sense of the trip from Africa to America first, come to Saminaka at about 8 or 8:15 am SLT this Saturday, so you can arrive at Sunrise on time.
Soon to be announced: Acuminious Watanabe, counselor whose Baobab Academy sessions on SL relationships are a perennial favorite, will conduct a session relating to the intergenerational trauma of the Middle Passage sometime next week. Don't miss it! Understanding the past and looking to the future can make the present a place of stability, a staging ground for growth and greatness.
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