Serena Midsummer Dream Event

SERENA EVENT TEAM

Ty Silvercloud, sales manager & business liaison, advertising& media, landscape designer, builder

Vita Theas, Serena Arts Center curator, artist and screator

Bella (belleallure), sales and advertising manager

Lucinda Collins (lucindae), sales manager, sim designer

Viktor Savior, fashion show organizer, blogger team, artist, stylist, judge for photocontest, advertising

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SERENA MIDSUMMER ART EXPO AREA

SPONSORED by TWO MOON GARDENS

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/210/84/25

Full article about Art opening and all story-telling read in my previous blog -> https://taraaers.blogspot.com/2023/07/serena-midsummer-dreams-art.html

Art stylists from UNITY art&fashion team brought their artistic vision and amazing style skills with theme "Midsummer Dreams".

αbbιe (galateana)

Dido Foxtail

Girasol Paxlapis-Savior (giraslomx)

ђęįdį şąɭţƴ (heidi.salty)

Hyaecinte

LolaNippo

ObiAi

Stormy Spires

Sylver Emerald Darkwolf (sylver.vendetta)

Tara Paxlapis-Savior (taraaers)

Theta Starlight

Viktor Savior

WELCOME TO VISIT SERENA MIDSUMMER ART EXPO

and get this experience to walk over all islands and enjoy the beautiful art!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SERENA%20HUB/165/192/2503

Artist's list for Midsummer Art expo at Serena

Place for Midsummer Dream Art exposition was build by Lucinda Collins (lucindae) with help Bella (belleallure) from Serena Team. They created dreamy fantasy surrounding with many special lovely details, related to ancient greek culture, as refference to Shakespear's play. Everything is in harmony, living, breathing and illuminating. Sure, every dream has some magic, so there you feel yourself in a lovely beautiful dream, feel yourself in safe and protected with Light God's power. You are ready to start your adventure over Midsummer Dream...

This Golden Flower by FANTASY ILLUMINATION is beuatiful

and has aspecial animation for sitting. Just try!

Art exposition has a big composition consists of connected islands. The main island has landpoint, stage, advertising and info boards, place for sitting and ancient decor. You definetly may take selfie here! If you look at ground you may notice a path markeredby big white arrows. This is a way we will follow to ger acquaintance with all artists whose artworks arelocated on 18 islands around.

Building concept belong to Luci and this is an awesome work!

Let's start our walk and explore all art island where art stylists stood at opening day

with their amazing story-telling.

Summer Night by Deyanira Yalin

I could not hold myself to take photos with some of artworks. They were really made with dreamy magic and I feel a connection with my appearance, my image, my state of soul..

The cranes' spring dance by Prins

Kind by Hannah Starlight

Elvion 3 by Dante Helios

Spring yellow flowers by Maggie Starr

3D sculpture

Body Water Midsummer Dreams by Dreams Barry Richez

On background: Art by Jaminda Lygon-Moon

3D sculpture

Coral Reef - Bahamas by Terra Merhyem

Tarais posing at Spring wildflowers mulit by Maggie Starr

Every island has a special pose stand (cliak and sit on pink roses on ground) with 130 modeling runway poses from PINK MOON. You can feel yourself as real fashion model being beautuful and elegant with smooth movements. Creator Hanne Kenin is experienced fashion stylist and she knows What models need on runway. These poses are perfect for photography and selfie, has normal and mirror options, many nice reverse poses, as expression ones as well.

In my walk I use SWEET AS HONEY pose set.

Tara wears:

ARKONA Astara gown with cape and headpiece, Maitreya, HUD

mainstore inworld:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Upolu/54/192/24

FIND THE FISH The Sun body/face tattoo and halo, BOM, Lel Evox

mainstore inworld:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Upolu/54/192/24

SLAVIA Nerdanel jewelry set:crown and earrings, Alisa nails and rings

mainstore inworld:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fashion%20Boulevard/102/241/21

FANTASY ILLUMINATION Bubble Nebula Stars

mainstore inworld:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Creative%20Muses/65/124/3002

PINK MOON poses, Sweet as Honey set

mainstore inworld:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Smooch/47/66/2002

All these items you may find at Serena Midsummer Dream Boutique, Serena Plaza

Full article about Art opening and all story-telling read in my previous blog -> https://taraaers.blogspot.com/2023/07/serena-midsummer-dreams-art.html

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SERENA MIDSUMMER PHOTO CONTEST

JULY14th at 12 PM SLT

SPONSORED by WHAT NEXT, TWO MOON GARDENS and SERENA ESTATES

*****ALL SPONSORS WITH GIFTS*****

-> WHAT NEXT http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hodgepodge/89/95/34

-> TWO MOON GARDENS http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/210/84/25

-> SERENA ESTATES OFFICE http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SERENA%20HUB/109/128/25

-> GOOD FAIRY http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kiniski/96/13/2752

-> DREAMVISION http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DreamVision/196/51/2504

We are very glad to announce the photo-contest "Midsummer dream at Serena" that will be presented during the Festival we have from July 8th to 16th with Awarding Party on July, 14th.

Any kind of photos taken in Serena Estates is allowed: digital art or images edited with graphic programs. as long as they are intellectual property of the participant and follow SL TOS and our guidelines.

Please, take 2 mins of your time and help us to find the Winners!

Visit Serena Plaza and clock all your favorite works.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SERENA%20HUB/41/196/24

13 ENTRIES and 3 WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN!

AND THE WINNERS ARE.....

Join us for Awarding party!

*****AWARDING PARTY*****

Bella, Ty Silvercloud and Viktor Savior on stage

Ty Silvercloud: Hello everyone and welcome to the Serena Midsummer Dreams Photo Contest 2023! On behalf of Serena Estates, Serena Arts Cntr and Unity Art I'd like to thank you all for the amazing entries you've made. All are beautiful photographs and I'm sure the the voters and the jurors have had a hard time picking the winners. I would also like to thank our sponsors for this event. Bunnie Badger, owner of Two Moon Gardens, Winter Thorn, owner of What Next, Aldaida, owner of [Good Fairy], and WJ Alex aka coglilattimo, owner of DreamVision and Serena Estates. They have provided some truely generous prizes for our contestants.

DJ Dreams (barry.richez)

Bella (belleallure): Hello everyone and thank you so much for being here with us today for our photo contest reward ceremony with awesome DJ Dreams (barry.richez) who will be with us all along feeling latino tonight. I'm Bella, a Serena sales manager and a strong admirer of any type of Arts and creativity in Second Life, I became Vita's assistant in Serena Arts Center few months back and enjoyed my participation since them with all the Artists i meet and work with for all those amazing projects we set together. Vita Theas is the Director and Curator of the Serena Arts Ctr and she's been working actively to promote Art in all its. We'd like to thank all our participants for shooting on Serena sims and show their talent with those stunning photographs you could see on the plaza this week. Their skills and creativity made a real success with all the people that came and voted for them here or on our Flickr page. Our Jury had the difficult task to vote following some technical criteria , such as the color palette chosen by the photographer, the overall balance and structure of the photo in itself , the emotions it conveys and the creativity it shows. We are thrilled to present the distinguished panel of judges who evaluated the captivating entries in our photo contest. These esteemed judges have been carefully selected for their deep knowledge, artistic sensibilities, and dedication to the craft of photography. With their varied perspectives, they brought a breadth of insights to the evaluation process, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of the submitted photographs. We are immensely grateful they are helping us recognize and celebrate the outstanding talent within SL photography community.

So now it's time to discover our three winners i know it's what what you are all waiting for.

Orpheus and Tara Paxlapis-Savior

The first photograph that attracted most of our audience and judge votes is actually one of the first that entered the contest and this little dragon is so cute we couldn't resist.

1st place - TARA PAXLAPIS-SAVIOR (taraaers)

The second prize is all about Art and ateliers where all those Artists prepare their stunning creations, workshop in the evening , those quiet hours when thoughts and inspiration cross an Artist mind.

2nd place - ORPHEUS PAXLAPIS-SAVIOR (orpheusofdarkness)

And our third prize is for our last entry but not the least, a princess in the mist that emphasizes Midsummer Dreams atmosphere and deepest thoughts.

3rd place - POOKA (lavender.crisp) and MELANIE (princessemelanie)

Thank you to all of you for joining this contes or voting for those gorgeous photographs!

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There is always nice weather in Serena....

Tara walks at Photo contest area and votes for her favorite photos.

Tara at Serena Plaza wearing Teresa gown with flexi by BELLE MODE

Virgencita handbag by TARA and Kamee jewelry set (earring and rings) by SLAVIA.

Virgencita handbag by TARA. Special design based on RLpainting "Virgencita" by Viktor Savior. Original painting is in Mexican Museum of Art. Handbag decorated with red roses (symbol of Mexican Virgin Mary) and has holding animationfor R and L hands from PINK MOON.

Kamee jewelry set, earrings and ring. New vintage style release from SLAVIA jewelry. 100% original high quality mesh and textures, unrigged, modify, low prims. The best choice for runway styling or special outfits, becouse you may adjust all SLAVIA jewelry as you want. Big texture HUD for your personal styling. You will look very elegant, perfect and beautiful with SLAVIA jewelry!

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