The Spring Equinox Festival on March 16th, 2013, was held simultaneously in both Ottawa and Portland. It started at 18:00 EDST in Ottawa with a Suishi Feast and continued at 19:00 EDST/16:00 PDST with storytelling via Skype. We overcame the technical difficulties with skyping together two separate parties reasonably quickly and shared two stories across the continent:
- Eric shared The Parable of Gaia's Grandchild
- Ben shared a Batfolk origin story from his planned webcomic Flight in a Cage
After the Skype call broke up, the Portland group had some other stories:
- Brandon shared his story about a cat
- Shelley shared a story from her own life
- Sequoia and Ted's son Shogi (or was it Max?) shared their story about things falling over and breaking
- Steve (Ben's father) talked about the history of the giant nautilus, and shared a story about an acorn written and illustrated by Abigail (Ben's sister)