It’s time to kick-off another week of fabulous story-telling in voice, brought to our virtual lives by the staff and volunteers at the Seanchai Library. As always, all times SLT, and all events in Second Life are held at the Seanchai Library’s home at Bradley University. Locations for events in InWorldz and Kitely are given within the write-ups for those events.
Sunday, June 21st 13:30: A Midsummer Celebration
Dress in white or summer colours, adorn yourself with flowers and join the staff and volunteers of Seanchai Library to celebrate Midsummer’s Eve with stories, dance and music.
“The solstice itself has remained a special moment of the annual cycle of the year since Neolithic times. The concentration of the observance is not on the day as we reckon it, commencing at midnight or at dawn, as it is customary for cultures following lunar calendars to place the beginning of the day on the previous eve at dusk at the moment when the Sun has set. In some countries still, Midsummer’s Eve is the greatest festival of the year, comparable only with Walpurgis Night, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve.” – from the Seanchai blog.
Monday June 22nd, 19:00: Science-Fiction Shorts
Gyro Muggins reads Isaac Asimov’s 1966 science-fiction story The Billiard Ball, can anti-gravity be created and controlled? Could it even be used to kill someone during a simple game of billiards?
Tuesday June 23rd, The Great Gatsby, Part 5
Caledonia Skytower, Corwyn Allen and Kaydan Oconnell continue reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnificent 1925 novel.
In 1922, Nick Carraway arrives in New York to learn about the bond business. He rents a small cottage in West Egg, home of the newly-rich, only to discover the owner of the huge Gothic mansion next door, the deeply mysterious Jay Gatsby, is prone to throwing lavish parties every weekend, to which in seems everyone comes. Everyone it seems, except Nick’s cousin Daisy, who is married to Tom Buchanan. Together they live across the bay in the more fashion East Egg, where the “old money” resides.
Following a visit with them, Nick is slowly drawn into their world, both discovering Tom Buchanan has a mistress who lives in the Valley of Ashes, an industrial area lying between the Eggs and New York city, and finding himself increasingly attracted to the Buchanan’s friend, the beautiful, if cynically minded, Jordan Baker.
Then, one Saturday, Nick finds himself invited to one of Jay Gatsby’s great parties, and is thus drawn into an increasingly deep well of infatuation, lust, and tragedy, witnessing first hand a darker side of the so-called American Dream.
Wednesday June 24th 19:00: The Tail of Emily Windsnap Part 2
Faerie Maven-Pralou reads from the first volume in Liz Kesseler’s series about a young girl who, having always lived on a boat but having been kept away from the water by her mother, finally gets to have swimming lessons. With them comes a remarkable discovery that leads her into another world…
Thursday June 25th
19:00: Scottish Myths and Legends
With Shandon Loring.
21:00 Seanchai Late Night
With Finn Zeddmore.
Saturday June 27th 12:00 noon Seanchai Inworldz: X Minus One
Join Cale and Shandon as they read selected scripts from the NBC half-hour radio series X Munus One, originally broadcast between April 24th, 1955 and January 9th, 1958. this week: How-2, first broadcast in 1956, written by Clifford D. Simak, and Ray Bradbury’s Marionettes, Inc. (from his short story of the same name), first broadcast in 1955.
(https://inworldz/region/Sendalonde/217/144/28)
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Please check with the Seanchai Library SL’s blog for updates and for additions or changes to the week’s schedule. The featured charity for June / July is the The Xerces Society, at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programmes.
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