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SL23B: your completely unofficial pocket guide to the celebrations

Posted on by Inara Pey
via Linden Lab

Second Life marks its 23rd anniversary in 2025, with a month of activity kicking-off on Thursday, June 19th through until Sunday, July 19th. Celebrations will be taking place across the Birthday regions in Second Life, and and with previous years includes live music, DJ sets, art, shopping (via the dedicated Shop and Hop event), exhibits by Linden Lab and – particularly – exhibits by Second Life residents and communities.

The following is intended to provide a general overview of the celebrations and provide calendars, SLurls and anything else that might be useful to you when visiting the regions.

SL23B Welcome Area

Theme

The theme for 2026 is The Golden Age of Hollywood, which the Lab describes thus:

Think classic cinema, red carpets, vintage glamour, and the magic of the silver screen. While the theme may inspire many builds and performances, exhibits are not required to follow the theme. We encourage you to share what makes your Second Life experience meaningful. Your interests. Your communities. Your creativity.
SL Birthday Calendar

The best way the stay abreast of all that’s going on is via the official calendar of events, which I’ve embedded below.

  • Use the Week / Month options, top right to change the calendar view.
  • Click on any given line item on any given day of festivities to view more information, including teleport SLurls.

Key Events

Shop and Hop

The SL23B Shop And Hop event is taking place across multiple regions, and features many creators and merchants. The best way to find out about this event is via the Shop and Hop Destination Guide entry and via the SL23B Shop and Hop Participating Merchants list.

SL23B Temple of the Funky Monkey Stage

Meet the Lindens

As per usual, SL23B will feature a series of events featuring various members of the Lab’s management team and those from front-line teams. The sessions will be a mix of live sessions at the celebrations events and pre-recorded sessions. They will take place per the schedule below.

Day (from 13:00 SLT) Participants
Monday June 22  Philip Rosedale – Founder and CTO
Tuesday June 23 The Product Team
Wednesday June 24 The Engineering Team
Thursday June 25 The Marketing and Growth Team
Friday June 26 The Second Life Studios Team

Meet the Lindens SLurl: Orpheum Theatre, plus Theatre #2 and Theatre #3.

If you cannot attend a session in person, you can watch it on the Second Life YouTube channel.

Entertainment and Performances

Live performers and DJs from across Second Life and around the globe are lined-up to perform  at SL23B. The complete schedule can be seen below.

 

The Welcome Area

Never been to an SLB event before? Try starting at the Welcome Area where you’ll find lots of help, things like the SL23B Golden Ticket booth (win up to LS 1,000,000), the SL23B Swaginator HUD, Premium and Premium Plus gifts, teleport portals and boards to key event areas, and more!

SL23B: The Tapestry of Time

The Tapestry of Time and Gift Area.

First presented in 2018, the region-wide Tapestry of Time presents visitor with a walk-through of Second Life’s history from 2003 through to the present day using images, text and videos. True, not everything has been recorded, but there’s enough within the region to be of interest to the historically minded.

within the Tapestry of Time can be found the SL23B Gift Area, offering gifts from the Birthday exhibitors and from merchants participating in the Shop & Hop event.

Exhibitor Regions

via Linden Lab – click for Exhibitor Showcase

As is common for SLB events, the mix of content is varied, and the representation of interests broad. Role-play groups, arts, communities, are represented across the nine regions open to exhibitors; some are static, others are interactive in nature.

  • Direct links to the exhibitor regions can be found in the SLurls lists at the end of this piece.
  • Information / SLurls for individual exhibitors can be found in the SL23B Exhibitor Showcase.

Note that teleport boards are available at the centre of all Exhibitor regions for easy of moving between them.

Adult Exhibitor Regions And Adult Shop and Hop

2025 sees the Adult content and groups exhibitor regions combined with the Adult Shop and Hop regions.  Once again, the celebrations include Adult content and groups, with exhibits at the event, with the Shop and Hop taking place across four dedicated regions separate to the main exhibitor regions. I’ve also included individual region SLurls at the end of this article.

Advice on a Better Experience

The SL23B regions can get exceptionally busy. To help ease the pain for you:

  • If you have a high draw distance, reduce it to  as low as is comfortable for your enjoyment.
  • Turn off shadows in your viewer if you usually have them enabled.
  • Go to Preferences → Graphics and reduce the slider Max # Non-Imposter Avatars to a minimum and dial-down your Complexity slider.
  • Remove texture-heavy HUDs to free-up more texture memory.
  • Remove unnecessary scripted attachments and dress lightly, avoiding accessories of high complexity.
SL23B: The Golden Palms

SLurls and Destination Guide Links

Core Event Region SLurls

General Rated Exhibitor Region SLurls

SLB Awesome SLB Beguile SLB Blissful SLB Breathtaking SLB Captivate
SLB Delightful SLB Electrify SLB Enchant SLB Fabulous SLB Glamorous SLB Incredible
SLB Marvelous SLB Outgoing SLB Sparkle SLB Spectacular SLB Stupendous

Adult Rated Regions

The Salty Saddle Saloon Events Stage: Smouldering Feisty Spicy Steamy
Exhibitor Regions: SLB Alluring SLB Daring SLB Euphoric SLB Irresistible
Shopping Regions: Buttercup Goldenrod Freesia Trillium
Peony Hibiscus

Web URLs

Meet the Lindens at SL23B: who and when

Posted on by Inara Pey
via Linden Lab

June 2026 will mark the 23rd anniversary of Second Life opening to public access – and as we’ve all come to expect, the month will mark the start of several weeks of events and celebrations running into July under the umbrella of the Second Life Birthday (SLB) otherwise know for this year as SL23B.

One of the most popular series of events at SLB are the daily Meet the Lindens sessions, and SL 23B will be no exception. During the course of the first full week of the celebrations, residents will have the chance to listen to members of various individuals and teams at Linden Lab as they provide updates and take questions.

The session will run from Monday, June 22nd through Friday, June 26th, each one commencing at 13:00 SLT at the Orpheum Theatre, with the schedule lining up as follows.

Day (from 13:00 SLT) Participants
Monday June 22  Philip Rosedale – Founder and CTO
Tuesday June 23 The Product Team
Wednesday June 24 The Engineering Team
Thursday June 25 The Marketing and Growth Team
Friday June 26 The Second Life Studios Team

If you wish to submit questions to the teams ahead of the even, there is still time to do so via the Meet the Lindens question form. Note that questions must be submitted before June 21st, 2026.

via Linden Lab

Theatre SLurls

Note that all SLurls will not be operational until the official “soft” and “hard” openings of the celebrations.

SL23B: volunteer applications now open

Posted on by Inara Pey
via Linden Lab

June 2026 will mark the 23rd anniversary of Second Life opening to public access – and as we’ve all come to expect, the month will mark the start of several weeks of events and celebrations running into July under the umbrella of the Second Life Birthday (SLB) otherwise know for this year as SL23B.

Dates and Theme

This year the SLB festivities will open on Friday, June 18th, 2026 and will run through until Sunday, July 19th, 2026. The theme for 2026 is The Golden Age of Hollywood, which the Lab describes thus:

Think classic cinema, red carpets, vintage glamour, and the magic of the silver screen. While the theme may inspire many builds and performances, exhibits are not required to follow the theme. We encourage you to share what makes your Second Life experience meaningful. Your interests. Your communities. Your creativity.

However, as has been the case over the last several birthday events, exhibitions are not confined to the theme itself, with the Lab additionally noting:

Every year, we celebrate because of the incredible Residents who bring this world to life. The birthday celebrations are an opportunity to showcase what inspires you and what keeps you coming back.

Volunteer Applications

On Tuesday, April 14th, 2026, Linden Lab announced that Volunteer applications have opened and remain so through until Monday, May 18th, 2026. As noted, exhibitor applications are now open. Key requirements for volunteers are noted below – however, for the full list of requirements, please refer the the exhibitor application form, via the link following these notes:

  • Volunteers are asked to commit to at least two hour shifts at a time, and to note that as SL23B spans 11 days, LL prioritise applicants who can participate across multiple days. Stage Crew are expected to contribute a minimum total of 8 hours.
  • Training sessions will be provided across multiple times. All volunteers are expected to complete a training session, regardless of whether they have been volunteers at previous Birthday events. Those failing to complete the required training will be removed from the Volunteer group.
  • These are volunteer positions, and as such, volunteers will not be paid. Additionally, volunteers cannot rez/wear tip jars or solicit for tips.
  • Stage Crew:
    • May not act as personal hosts for performers. You may only host if specifically scheduled as a Stage Host under the official guidelines.
    • Members should report any issues to their Stage Manager first. Stage Managers are responsible for assigning roles, tasks, and timing.
  • Greeters should report any issues in the Greeter group and a Mole or Coordinator will assist.

Volunteer Application Form.

Please note: All enquiries about hosting exhibitions, staging performances or volunteering at the event should be directed to Linden Lab, not this blog.

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SL23B: theme, exhibitor & performer applications now open

Posted on by Inara Pey
via Linden Lab

June 2026 will mark the 23rd anniversary of Second Life opening to public access – and as we’ve all come to expect, the month will mark the start of several weeks of events and celebrations running into July under the umbrella of the Second Life Birthday (SLB) otherwise know for this year as SL23B.

On Friday, March 27th, Linden Lab officially announced the dates and theme of this year’s festivities and opened applications for those wishing to create and host an exhibition within the SL23B event regions, and those wishing to perform on the event’s various stages and venues.

SL22B: The Observatory Stage

Dates and Theme

This year the SLB festivities will open on Friday, June 18th, 2026 and will run through until Sunday, July 19th, 2026. The theme for 2026 is The Golden Age of Hollywood, which the Lab describes thus:

Think classic cinema, red carpets, vintage glamour, and the magic of the silver screen. While the theme may inspire many builds and performances, exhibits are not required to follow the theme. We encourage you to share what makes your Second Life experience meaningful. Your interests. Your communities. Your creativity.

However, as has been the case over the last several birthday events, exhibitions are not confined to the theme itself, with the Lab additionally noting:

Every year, we celebrate because of the incredible Residents who bring this world to life. The birthday celebrations are an opportunity to showcase what inspires you and what keeps you coming back.
SL22B Adult: Odin’s Bar and Grill

Exhibitor Applications

As noted, exhibitor applications are now open. Key requirements for exhibitors are noted below – however, for the full list of requirements, please refer the the exhibitor application form, via the link following these notes:

  • Applications will be accepted through until Monday, May 18th, 2026.
  • There will be both General and Adult rated regions available to exhibitors.
  • Exhibits do not have to be in keeping with the The Golden Age of Hollywood theme, as noted above.
  • Exhibits must not be commercial in nature (e.g. no selling items, no tip jars or the solicitation of donations – this includes tip jars, etc., associated with any performers appearing within an exhibitor space), but gifts may be provided to SL23B visitors.
  • Exhibits must not have any large, purchased elements in their entirety. Combining elements from several different sources is allowed as long as your final display at SL23B is a unique build created by you and/or your building assistants.
  • Scripted agents (“bots”) are not allowed. Instead, use a welcome sign with a clickable giver script to offer up information or gift items. You may use a scripted mannequin if a representation of an avatar is needed.
  • Exhibits to be presented within the General rated regions of the event must be in accordance with the General Maturity Rating (e.g. no nudity –artistic or otherwise–, no Adult animations and/or gestures, furniture, etc, must not contain Adult poses / animations, etc.).
  • Adult exhibitions and content are restricted to the separate Adult rated event regions and must conform to the Second Life ToS and the Second Life Community Standards.
  • Performances, live music and / or DJ events cannot be hosted within any exhibitor space before Sunday, June 28th, 2026.

Exhibitor Application Form.

Please note: All enquiries about hosting exhibitions at SL23B should be directed to Linden Lab, not this blog.

SL22B: Astral Athenaeum

Performer Applications

Note: “performers” refers to: DJs, live musicians, singers, dance troupes, theatre groups, particle performers, lecturers, workshop hosts, and community storytellers, etc.

As noted above, performer applications are now open. Key requirements for performers are noted below – however, for the full list of requirements, please refer the the performer application form, via the link following these notes:

  • Applications will be accepted through until Monday, May 18th, 2026.
  • Submission of an application does not guarantee a performance slot.
  • Maturity ratings and requirements:
    • All performances with the G-rated estate regions must be in keeping with the Second Life General Maturity Rating (e.g. no nudity –artistic or otherwise–, no Adult animations and/or gestures, furniture, etc, must not contain Adult poses / animations, etc.).
    • Performers applying for slot on the event stage within the Adult rated region will be permitted more explicit lyrics and adult attire.
  • Set-up time, props and tip jars:
    • All performances are limited to one hour (including set-up time).
    • There is a 350 LI allowance for props and rezzable items for DJ and live music shows. A limited DJ set-up is allowed (e.g. spin table, speakers, small light emitters/effects) – but performers should not create set / backdrops that cover the entire stage.
    • Dance troupes or other performing groups requiring purpose-built stages might be permitted up to 1000 LI, as deemed appropriate by the Mole Coordinators.
    • Performers are asked to show up one hour in advance of their scheduled performance time in order to make sure everything is working and ready.
    • If you are more than 30 minutes late, the stage crew will call in a replacement to keep the event running on time.
  • DJs, live artists and people performing on the designated events stages are permitted to rez one low-prim tip jar. Donation kiosks are not allowed.
  • All performers are required to provide their own audio stream for SL23B. Please ensure your stream is active and tested during your pre-show setup window to avoid delays or disruptions.
  • The Second Life Voice feature will not be available on the stages. A limited number of performances at the auditorium stage will allow the voice feature if pre-planned.

Performer Application Form.

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