Brazil celebrates its first Narnia Day

Jonathon Svendsen — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:05:16 +0000

Website MundoNarnia contacted us with news that Brazil will be celebrating it’s first ever “Narnia Day.” They write:

With great joy fans of The Chronicles of Narnia are promoting for the first time their Narnia Day, a very special day for fans to get together and for the divulgation of the series written by C. S. Lewis.
The event is an initiative of Editor WMF Martins Fontes, that publishes The Chronicles of Narnia in Brazil and invited the fan site MundoNarnia.com to be responsible for the organization of audience in different Brazilian regions.

Besides events in schools, libraries, churches and internet, a major meeting is happening, from 1 to 5 p.m., at Saraiva MegaStore, a bookshop in Ibirapuera Shopping Center, in São Paulo – the biggest city in Latin America.

This event is celebrating The Chronicles of Narnia, paying homage to the author, C. S. Lewis, with a public reading of some parts of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, dance exhibitions (Escola Paulista de Dança), a music show with the Merrow Band, playing rock and Celtic music, a talk about the series with Gabriele Greggersen, a Narnia expert, and the distribution of gifts and Turkish delights at the end of the event. Entrance is free, but we ask the audience to bring in toys that are going to be given to a charity institution.

For other activities which are taking place on this September 12th, MundoNarnia.com is promoting a contest, the most creative enterprise being awarded.

This is a special achievement for this fan club, the partnership with the publishing house which publishes Narnia, making this event an official one. Fox Film do Brasil confirmed some of its members are going to be present at Narnia Day in São paulo and our expectations are that, for the next year we, MundoNarnia.com will do something together with Fox.
For further information and photos, access www.mundonarnia.com

Vicky Beeching to Perform, Speak on Lewis at Disney World’s ‘Narnia Day’

Paul Martin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:39 +0000

Christian artist Vicky Beeching is going to be performing some songs, but mostly, she says, speaking on C.S. Lewis for ‘Narnia Day.’ Part of their Homeschool Days.

Next week I am speaking at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. I’m singing a couple of songs too, but most of it will be me speaking about C S Lewis. They are holding a “Narnia Day” centered around the Prince Caspian exhibit they have there. Apparently there’s someone dressed up as Caspian, and some scenes from the movie rebuilt that you can walk around. So watch this space for a photo of me and Prince Caspian!

The day is for HomeSchoolers…so it will be fun to tell them about C S Lewis and what a hero he’s been to me. They also want me to tell stories about my time in Oxford and the different ways that C S Lewis ‘met’ me through the places he used to teach, live and hang out. Fun times!

Since Disney has dropped out of the future Narnia projects, I have wondered what they planned on doing with the “Journey into Narnia” attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World. But it seems they’re going to keep it around, at least through their events that will feature it.

If anyone goes, can you please submit a report about it?

Homeschool Days take place on January 12 and/or 13, 2009.

Thanks to Reggie for the link!

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