Steve Emecz's Blog: Musings of a Sherlockian Publisher - Posts Tagged "save-undershaw"

The point of Sherlock Holmes Week (31st July - 5th August) Sherlock Holmes Week was to keep Save Undershaw [please visit and click 'like'] in front of the Sherlock Holmes fans around the world - and create a vehicle for fans to organise their own events. By The Fans, For The Fans was the mantra and the Holmes fans around the world responded brilliantly.

We had lots of help from the main franchises (BBC Sherlock, Big Finish etc) the #1 fan site Sherlockology , the societies around the world and the podcasts www.bakerstreetbabes.com and www.ihearofsherlock.com.

Over 30 events were held in the week from small gatherings in local pubs in places as far flung as the Phillipines (apparently the first ever get together of Holmes fans in the country's history) to Thailand, Canada to Finland.

Some highlights for me were the jaw droppingly good event in New York where a major museum gave Holmes fans the run of the place, and two hours, to find which of the artifacts in the museum had been replace by a fake. Genius. That event sold out very fast.

The French society organised a beautiful train trip and visit to a stately home and there was even a real-time online Holmes mystery collaboration between 8 Holmes groups.

The finale to the week was the live deduction and mentalism display by Joe Riggs aka 'The Real Sherlock Holmes' using the new Vokle video broadcast system. The 55 people that saw it live (and hundreds since) were treated to a quite amazing event - I still have no idea how on earth he did what he did.
http://www.vokle.com/events/70997-joe...


The most important thing from the week was that it made hundreds of key Holmes people around the world aware of Save Undershaw (www.facebook.com/saveundershaw) which will become vital in the coming months as the Undershaw team begin the fundraising to preserve this important part of the Sherlock Holmes legacy. After all, without Undershaw, there would be no Sherlock Holmes.....

Fans can support the cause by getting hold of the book Sherlock's Home - The Empty House which includes contributions from many Holmes writers and actors including Mark Gatiss and Stephen Fry.Sherlock's Home: The Empty House

I'd be very interested in comments - especially from those that took part in the week.

Forty young designers entered the 2012 Sherlock Holmes Fashion Awards as part of Sherlock Holmes Week and created designs for six of the BBC Sherlock characters. The winners are announced today by Catwalk Queen one of the world’s top fashion blogs - with the judge, BBC Sherlock costume designer herself Sarah Arthur.

The competition is part of the awareness for the Save Undershaw campaign - please join the BBC crew and thousands of others to help preserve Conan Doyle’s home.https://www.facebook.com/saveundershaw

Click here for all the winners - Catwalk Queen http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2012/08/th...

The winner for best Sherlock outfit was Amy with her design ‘the all seeing eye’

It's day 4 on the first Kickstarter project for the Save Undershaw campaign - we started with a modest project to translate the book 'Sherlock's Home: The Empty House' which raises awareness and funds, into 5 languages.

The first objective of the campaign was to get the interest of translators and we already have nine that have stepped forward which is great.

We're just over 10% into the funding with two of the ten corporate advert slots pledged - brilliant advertising opportunity when you think about it. For £100 the company concerned will get their details in front of thousands of Holmes fans. Bargain.

You can support the project from as little as £1 and higher pledges get rewards such as copies of the books.

Click HERE for the project details.

Sherlock's Home: The Empty House

“Project Two, to One, Be: Sherlock Holmes and a House of Light, Shadows and Views edited by Carrie Carlson & Lynn Gale. John Gibson has written the introduction, and the foreword is by Laurie R King. There follow nearly 140 pages of essays, long and short, enhanced by photographs and original artwork, some of it, like Riley Stark’s cover design, outstanding. Ms Carlson notes: ‘Not all of our contributors are professionals in their chosen medium, and many of the writers are non-native English Speakers, and yet they all speak from the heart.” All the royalties from the book go to the Undershaw campaign. Believe me, it’s worth while.”

Two, To One, Be is available from all good bookstores including Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository .