Saturday, September 12th marks the start of the 2015 Stand up 2 Cancer (SU2C) campaign in Second Life, and the venue schedules are shaping up nicely. I previewed this year’s campaign, at the end of August, so feel to treat this as a small update / teaser.
This year builds on the 2014 début event, which saw L$ 1.5 million raised over 4 days, and will see more than 150 performers, DJs and tribute bands perform at around 40 venues across Second Life in two weeks of music and fund-raising to assist the ground-breaking work of Stand Up 2 Cancer. Activities commence on Saturday, September 12th and run through until Sunday, September 27th, all brought together through the leadership of Still Braveheart, who pioneered the 2014 inaugural weekend.
The Dirty Grind over Jasmine’s Hollow will host multiple events across the 2 weeks of SU2C fund-raising
As I noted last time around, the focus this year is not only on a much broader time span for fund-raising, but it is also looking to support far more of SU2C’s work by splitting donations between SU2C’s activities in Canada, the UK and the USA. In addition, people will be able to donate directly to SU2C’s work in through three countries by following the special donation links available at all participating venues if they’d prefer to pay direct, rather than via in-world L$ donations.
Obviously, with so many performers and venues participating, listing them in a blog like this is impossible – so do please keep a track of the SU2C in SL event schedule on Google, and via Stills’ own blog, which will have daily events, times and LMs to venues as things get under-way, as well as all the very latest news. However, to help whet appetites, here is a small sampling of what is to come (note schedules subject to possible last minute change).
Saturday, September 12th: BS’s Bring a Friend and Stay Awhile
| 09:00 |
KeivnMThomas Carpool |
| 10:00 |
Manu Aurell |
| 11:00 |
wolfie Moonshadow |
| 12:00 noon |
LaidBack Celt |
| 13:00 |
Bandit Eddingham |
| 14:00 |
Leannan Wolfgang |
| 18:00 |
Erin & Satin |
Thursday, September 17th: Breakwaters New England Community
| 15:00 |
emptypockets88240 |
| 15:30 |
Bo Hayes |
| 16:00 |
Premium Composer |
| 16:30 |
Automatic Quandry |
| 17:00 |
Manu Aurell |
| 17:30 |
Luvofmusic |
| 18:00 |
Travis Overrland |
| 18:30 |
Glenn Bunjie |
| 19:00 |
MrMulti Write |
| 19:30 |
Ariangels Resident |
| 20:00 |
Dilah Halostar |
Monday, September 21st: RMS Titanic
| 16:00 |
Saxy and Romantic |
| 17:00 |
MusicMan Appletor |
So, do please keep an eye on Still’s blog for the full schedule of events, together with the Google calendar, and who knows – we might bump into one another at one of the venues! If so, do please say hello.
About Stand Up 2 Cancer
SU2C takes an innovative approach to ending cancer by focusing on forming “dream teams” of doctors and researchers who are directly involved in leading-edge cancer research and treatment, and then undertaking aggressive research programmes. 100% of all donations made through SU2C goes directly into funding cancer research and treatment and paying for these teams; none is lost to “administrative costs” or put aside for CEO or executive salaries, etc.
Such is the success of this approach that as of 2014, and in the USA alone, SU2C has raised over $261 million in seven years. This money has all be used in directly supporting 141 clinical trials of possible cancer treatments, involving 750 scientists and 5,000 cancer patients, and which have spanned 112 US institutions.
Related Links
- Second Life Stands Up 2 Cancer Google calender of events
- Still’s blog (for the most up-to-date SL SU2C event news and updates)
- SU2C Canada
- SU2C UK
- SU2C USA
- SU2C Germany Facebook page
- Second Life SU2C Team donation pages:
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 
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Inara covers the upcoming start of Stand Up to Cancer, a cancer fundraiser in Second Life:
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