Sherlock Holmes Week 2012 - A Review
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.
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.
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