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Looking at RFL of SL 2018

Posted on March 7, 2018March 16, 2020 by Inara Pey

The 2018 Relay for Life season is approaching, and with it comes a change in how RFL of SL is structured and operates – including a new RFL website: Project Relay Refresh.

Under the new structure, RFL is being co-ordinated by a core team of five people, lead by American Cancer Society staff partner, Stingray9798 Raymaker. Four of these individuals each take responsibility for a key aspect of bringing together the core RFL of SL events (e.g. the Kick-off weekend and the Relay Weekend):

Nuala Maracas – fund-raising and sponsorship
MamaP (Beerbaum) – connecting people and community-focused activities (on-boarding new RFL participants, managing campsite registrations, organising a cancer survivor recognition/celebration/campaign, etc. )
Alter, Random (Padar) Darrow – building the experience (building infrastructure, scripting, design mission materials, etc.)
Nikki Mathieson – producing events (writing PR, help plan events, co-ordinate / organise event schedules, etc.).

Volunteers are being asked to offer their services via the Relay Task List for as many of the tasks associated with these core activities as they feel comfortable with applying for. There is apparently no restricting on volunteering for tasks in different key areas (e.g. volunteering for tasks in fund-raising / sponsorship and in producing events, for example.

Some Key Dates For Events

Note: this list not intended to be an exhaustive list of FRL-related events; rather it is a list of those known to be forthcoming in the next few months.

Core Events

RFL of SL 2018 Kick-off: Saturday, April 7th, 2018.
RFL of SL Relay Weekend: Saturday, July 14th – Sunday July 15th, 2018.
RFL of SL Wrap Party: Saturday July 28th, 2018.

Fantasy Faire

Thursday, April 19th – Sunday, April 29th, 2018.
Merchant / Store registration form.
Fantasy Faire website.

Sci-Fi Expo

Saturday, May 12th – Sunday, May 20th, 2018.
General Guidelines and Registration Guidelines (read both).
Sci-Fi Expo website.

Home and Garden Expo

Saturday, May 19th – Saturday, June 2nd.
Exhibitor application information & form.
Home and Garden Expo website.

Mysteries, aliens, poems and creatures

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Inara Pey

It’s time to highlight another week of storytelling in Voice by the staff and volunteers at the Seanchai Library. As always, all times SLT, and events are held at the Library’s home at Holly Kai Park, unless otherwise indicated.

Sunday, March 4th, 13:30: Tea-Time Mysteries: Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout’s corpulent, fastidious, eccentric, prescriptivist, sedentary – yet gifted with a razor-sharp mind – armchair detective, Nero Wolfe, is the focus of a new Tea-Time series for Sundays.

The subject of 33 novels and 39 novellas and short stories written by Stout between 1934 and 1975, Wolfe is for many, as familiar a character as Sherlock Holmes, not just because of Stout’s original writings, but because of the numerous film, TV and radio spin-offs they encouraged, together with the lesser writings of others focusing on Wolfe and his confidante / leg-man / secretary / chauffeur Archie Goodwin.

This week, Seanchai present In Bad Taste.

Monday, March 5th 19:00: Sentenced to Prism

Prism is a planet with a uniquely crystalline environment and which supports both silicon and carbon-based life forms. It is a planet where even the tiniest creatures are living jewels.

For some time, the Company has been illegally exploiting Prism, but now all contact has been lost with the research team there, leaving the Company with a problem. Any attempt to launch a rescue mission will draw unwanted attention both to Prism and to the Company’s activities. Something else must done; so they call on the talents of Evan Orgell.

A smart, self-confident and successful problem-solver, Orgell has access to the best equipment available within the Commonwealth. Unfortunately, and as Orgell discovers, Prism is a harsh and hard place – a lot harder than his state-of-the-art environment suit. When that succumbs to the local flora/fauna, Orgell finds himself exposed to the hostile environment and fighting for his survival without any protection, dependent upon little more than his wits.

Then help arrives from an unexpected quarter: a sentient life-form native to Prism calling itself A Surface of Fine Azure-Tinted Reflection With Pyroxin Dendritic Inclusions – which Orgell decides to call “Azure”.

Join Gyro Muggins as he reads a standalone story from Alan Dean Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth series.

Tuesday, March 6th 19:00: Irish Poets and Wonders

With Caledonia Skytower.

Wednesday, March 7th 19:00: Beyond the Veil

With Shandon Loring. Also presented in Kitely (hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29).

Thursday, March 8th

19:00: Creatures of Mist

With Shandon Loring. Also presented in Kitely (hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29).

21:00 Seanchai late Night

Contemporary sci-fi with Finn Zeddmore.

Please check with the Seanchai Library’s blog for updates and for additions or changes to the week’s schedule.

This Weekend in Second Life Dance

Posted on March 3, 2018February 3, 2024 by R.

Hi there. R. Crap Mariner, your Dance Correspondent.

I’ll be posting dance performance schedules, similar to Inara’s posts about Seanchai Library readings. We’ll start with the weekend events for now.

Let’s get started, here’s the events that I had on the calendar as of press time…

(All times SLT)

FRIDAY MARCH 2

6:00PM – ELYSIUM CABARET

Elysium Cabaret – Welcome to the Weekend!

If it’s Friday, it’s Elysium Cabaret! Fancy some imagination? In The Empire Room at Copperhead Road, every Friday at 6pm SLT the dynamic performers of Elysium Cabaret take the stage to bring you a solid hour of entertainment! Featuring elaborate sets and choreography sequenced to an eclectic genre of music, Elysium Cabaret offers something for everyone. Grab your friends and get their early because the sim fills. Come celebrate Friday! Welcome to the weekend!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Copperhead%20Road/74/64/2754

10:00PM – GUERILLA BURLESQUE

Guerilla Burlesque Revue show on the main stage!

One sensational hour of fast-paced original, live dance entertainment, the best of its kind on the grid. Dancers Guerilla Burlesque develop fresh dance interpretations of hit songs, build stage sets, choreograph animations, and costume avatars to provide you with an innovated live performance experience.

Doors open at 9 pm for the 10 pm show! Arrive early and invite your friends!

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Idle%20Rogue/107/189/33

SATURDAY MARCH 3

1:00PM – DEBAUCHE

This coming Saturday the 3rd March with curtains raising at 1pm SLT Debauche are so proud and honoured to be returning to Ville de Coeur.

We always receive such a great and warm-hearted welcome here, the theatre is stunning and so are the local community.

Please come and share with us the delights of Debauche in glorious surroundings as we do our very best to entertain you.

Please dress semi or full formal though please try to keep those scripts low

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aquitaine%20Coeur%20Nord/125/16/23

3:00PM – CENTRE STAGE

Ryan Sawyer and his group return to the stage.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nope/31/13/3006

3:00PM – GYPSY ROSE BURLESQUE

Grand opening of the Gypsy Rose Burlesque.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SkyBeam%20Stowaway/23/40/2000

6:00PM – WHYMSEE NOIR

Join us on Saturday, March 3, 2018, starting at 6 pm SLT, for Let’s Dance: Animals! I’ve got an animals-themed song set, I’ll make us a nice open playpen, and we’ll get all animalistic together! Come dressed in neko, furry, an animal avatar, or come as you are (bits and pieces covered, please!)…this animal show is all choreographed and designed with YOU in mind…’cause at the end of the day, we can’t do it without you!

For the Let’s Dance show, we trade in our sets for MORE dancing and LESS wait time between songs! There will be lots of wiggling, dancing, physics, and a little dazzle thrown in for good measure! Dance along with us or have a seat in our comfy chairs, we like it when you watch! No naked avatars, just dancing. Come to the show and see what all the fuss is about!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whymsee/96/192/3286

7:00PM – PARAMOUNT GRAND THEATRE

Spring Into March! Paramount Grand Theatre’s brand new show for March. Come join us for an evening of classy but sassy entertainment as we the Paramount Players dance for you, March 3rd & 10th at 7pm SLT.

The Players are bringing the Irish, the Scottish, the Leprechauns and the Celts to Paramount. Maybe even some American marching may make an appearance!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hell%20Lust/77/83/22

SUNDAY MARCH 4

So, there’s a lot going on at noon…

12:00PM – SPIRIT LIGHT DANCE COMPANY

Spirit Light Dance Company Presents Showcase 2018

Once a year we encourage members of the company to stretch their wings and present a piece of their own work. Each entrant must choose their music, create the set, get it in a rezzer and on the stage. They either make or source their costumes for their dance. They run the dance HUD and often the mover as well, or if an operator is needed they must train the operator. In all cases they are encouraged and mentored by senior members of the company. This is not a competition but rather an opportunity to strive for personal excellence–to be the best that they can be.

We invite you to join this full cast presentation of 11 outstanding examples of choreographic skill and creative spirit.

We recommended that you arrive early to secure a seat and to cache the sets and the animations.

Please keep your scripts to 50 or below.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20I/120/82/3602

12:00PM – DESIRE ARTS

Sunday, February at 12pm SLT

Desire Arts Dancers doing their “after hours” show, but today we do it for a Sunday matinée! We bring you the performance quality at our Saturday shows, with more skin… little less costume. Some acts do contain adult content.

Also, Presentations of a controversial nature (including those involving sex, politics and/or religion) will be presented separately from the Dance Program.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hell%20Lust/174/78/21

12:00PM – KIKI’S BURLESQUE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LORII%20CAPRONI%20ISLAND/106/174/24

12:00PM – OASIS DANCERS/DEBAUCHE

Debauche would like to invite you all to the Debauche home theatre to come and enjoy, to witness two of the very best dance troupes in Second Life sharing the stage in a combined show.

Last weekend both troupes shared the stage at the Oasis home theater. Had fantastic support and plaudits. Was truly a magnificent show.

Now its time of Debauche to return the favour, to extend our hospitality in what will surely be simply another wonderful show for everybody to enjoy.

Sunday 4th March, 12pm SLT, please come smart, smart casual with low scripts

Lets Rock this weekend.

Debauche xxxx

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Champion%20Isle/71/126/2001

Usually, I see notices for Phoenix at 5PM on Saturday, Club Image at 6AM on Sunday, and Winds of the Sahara at 5PM on Sunday… oh well.

That’s why you should check with the Dance Queens event calendar for updates and additions to the weekend’s schedule, as well as the many events that happen during the week. Or, you can check out my experimental in-world floor calendar.

VWBPE 2018: schedule, keynotes and Above the Book

Posted on February 28, 2018March 16, 2020 by Inara Pey

The 2018 Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education (VWBPE) conference will be taking place between Thursday, March 15th and Saturday March 17th, 2018 inclusive. A grass-roots community event focusing on education in immersive virtual environments, VWBPE attracts 2200-3500 educational professionals from around the world each year.

The theme for the 2018 conference is VRevolutions, with the organisers noting:

VWBPE is an ecosystem of digital spaces. While the conference is hosted in Second Life, our conference features a variety of virtual and digital spaces. To present at VRevolutions, think outside the virtual space and consider how multiple available technologies and devices redefine what it means to work, create, and learn “virtually”. The VRevolution is about doing what scares you, what excites you, breaking and creating new paradigms.

At VRevolutions, VWBPE welcomes the multifaceted communities that contribute to and expand best practices in digital and virtual spaces to support practice, creation, and learning. Regardless of the community you represent, your proposal should consider how it contributes and expands the knowledge base for innovative and revolutionary change through the increasingly complex landscape of digital technology.

The 2018 event calendar has now been published, outlining the full range of events, both at the conference itself and in the days leading up to it / following it. Displayed in posterboard format by default (shown below), the calendar view can be switched easily to agenda, month or stream via drop-down selection Individual events can also easily be added to a number of personal calendars – Google, Outlook, Apple, depending on personal preference – making it even easier for attendees to track the events and activities they particularly want to attend at this year’s conference.

*Stay up-to-speed with VWBPE 2018 activities through the conference calendar & add events of interest to your own calendar with ease – click the image to visit the calendar*

As with recent years, the conference will be primarily focus on the 8 core VWBPE regions in Second Life, although a number of related social events will also be taking place elsewhere – sett the VWBPE calendar for the specifics on individual event locations / URLs.

Keynote Speakers

The Keynote speakers for VWBPE 2018 are:

Dr. Mark Childs, TEL Designer, Open University, UK: his PhD was awarded in 2010 for his thesis Learners’ Experience of Presence in Virtual Worlds. Mark was the manager of the Theatron³ project from 2007 to 2009 which developed 20 ancient theatres in Second Life for performance and learning and has co-written and co-edited four books on learning in virtual worlds. He will be presenting Identity, literacy, immersion and presence; joining together the building blocks of virtual world learning on the morning of Thursday, March 15th, 2018.
Bryan Alexander, Education Futurist: a prolific speaker and consultant, Bryan publishes books, chapters, and articles. He created the Future of Education Observatory, including the monthly FTTE trends analysis, an on-line book club, and a weekly video-conference discussion. He has been teaching and exploring virtual worlds since the early 1990s. He will be presenting The VRevolution calls for a new digital literacy on the morning of Friday, March 16th, 2018.

Above The Book

VWBPE 2018 will again feature a special Above The Book event. Introduced in 2017, this is an invitation-only event limited to around 30 attendees who will have the opportunity to have their questions put directly to a special guest who “has been noteworthy and have, in one way or another, helped build a legacy in virtual environments: for educators, researchers, advocacy groups, communities of practice, content creators.“

The Above the Book guest for 2018 will be Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg.

Those wishing to attend the event must complete and submit the Above the Book application form, no later than Sunday, March 4th, 2018.

Volunteers Still Sought

There are still some volunteer slots left. If you would life to help run this year’s VWBPE, please consider hopping over to the volunteer sign-up page and completing the form there.

*VWBPE 2018 regions, Second Life – click to see full size version*

About VWBPE

VWBPE is a global grass-roots community event focusing on education in immersive virtual environments which attracts over 2,000 educational professionals from around the world each year, who participate in 150-200 on-line presentations including theoretical research, application of best practices, virtual world tours, hands-on workshops, discussion panels, machinima presentations, and poster exhibits.

In the context of the conference, a “virtual world” is an on-line community through which users can interact with one another and use and create ideas irrespective of time and space. As such, typical examples include Second Life, OpenSimulator, Unity, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, and so on, as well as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest or any virtual environments characterised by an open social presence and in which the direction of the platform’s evolution is manifest in the community.

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Mystery, fantasy, myths and a little touch of poetry

Posted on February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 by Inara Pey

Sunday, February 25th

13:30: Tea-Time Mysteries: Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout’s corpulent, fastidious, eccentric, prescriptivist, sedentary – yet gifted with a razor-sharp mind – armchair detective, Nero Wolfe, is the focus of a new Tea-Time series for Sundays.

This week, Seanchai present In Bad Taste.

18:00: The Not-Just-Anybody Family

When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust.

Meanwhile Pap, the children’s grandfather, sits in disgrace in the city jail. He was arrested for disturbing the peace after his pick-up truck accidentally dumped 2,147 beer and soda cans on Spring Street.

With their mother away on the rodeo circuit, it’s up to Maggie and Vern to find a way to rescue Pap and Junior. How will they solve their family problems?

Join Caledonia Skytower at the Golden Horsehoe for this Magicland Storytime reading of this Betsy Byars classic.

Monday, February 26th 19:00: Sentenced to Prism

Prism is a planet with a uniquely crystalline environment and which supports both silicon and carbon-based life forms. It is a planet where even the tiniest creatures are living jewels.

Join Gyro Muggins as he reads a standalone story from Alan Dean Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth series.

Tuesday, February 27th 19:00: Merlin’s Dragon

Long ago, at the dawn of Merlin’s world, a strange little creature named Basil appeared. Part lizard, part bat, his eyes glow with a mysterious light.

When Basil discovers a threat to his world and to Merlin, he begins an epic journey that takes him from the Great Tree of Avalon to the outermost edges of the spirit realm. But his boldest journey will be to face his own deepest fears. And only if he survives can he save Merlin – and find his future.

So reads the cover description for The Dragon of Avalon, part of T.A. Barron’s Merlin Saga series, a trilogy of stories within the series charting Basil’s rise from humble beginnings to the greatest dragon of all time, loyal to Merlin and protector of Avalon.

Join Faerie Maven-Pralou as she delves in Barron’s magical realm.

Wednesday, February 28th 19:00: Poetry This Year

Caledonia Skytower, shares the poems students have chosen for recitation in the programme she coordinates in real life.

Thursday, March 1st, 19:00: Monsters and Myths: Sirens

With Shandon Loring. Also presented in Kitely (hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29).

Please check with the Seanchai Library’s blog for updates and for additions or changes to the week’s schedule.

The featured charity for January / February 2018 is Reach Out and Read, giving young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into paediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together.

This Weekend in Second Life Dance

Posted on February 23, 2018February 3, 2024 by R.

Hi there. R. Crap Mariner, your Dance Correspondent.

I’ll be posting dance performance schedules, similar to Inara’s posts about Seanchai Library readings. We’ll start with the weekend events for now.

Let’s get started…

(All times SLT)

Friday February 23

3:00PM – Lady Garden Cabaret

Once again the Minxettes of The Lady Garden Cabaret bring you a show dedicated entirely to the theme of the wonderful “Enchanted” event! This round we pay homage to the love story of “Beauty and the Beast”… Prepare to ‘be our guest’ and wander this poor provincial town fraught with Handsome Gastons and swooning maidens until you are the guest of the Beasts castle!! His staff of wonderful characters will awaken and enlighten you! We have some of the very finest choreographers on the grid, so don’t miss this event Friday, February 23rd at 3PM SLT, a new time!

**First established in March 2011, LGC has been a permanent star on the sky of virtual entertainment and stands for burlesque, neo-burlesque and overall fantastic dance entertainment Vegas style. Get yourself comfortable in our charming little cabaret house, as The Minxettes take you through the night with their amazing set designs and fully choreographed numbers, all inspired and executed by our most talented dancers… You’ll encounter a wide array of musical styles and virtual flavours, in 3 words: “5 star entertainment!”

NO dress code

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pegasoi/142/109/2222