October 31st 6 PM SLT
November FUNdraising for Community Virtual Library!
The kick off starts Halloween night, October 31st at 6 PM at the Jazz Cat on Info Island International. Join us for a Ghoul Gala! Dress your ghoulish avatar in tux or formal gown and join DJ Tanya Sideways in creepy celebration! We'll decorate and have a few surprises for you too! Bring Linden dollars! All donations will go directly to CVL, Tanya is even donating her tips for the cause! Please come and help raise money to keep the library in SL!
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Scary Stories from the Senachai Storytellers!
Sunday, 31 October, 2010
2:00pm – 3:00pm SLT
Where: Haunted Fruit Islands http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fig/60/174/501
Join the Senchai Storytellers and Crap Mariner (fresh from their DRAC attack) in Spooky Fruit Islands for more great ghosty, ghouly, spooky, scary stories.
Contact: Derry McMahon
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Autumnal Poetry with Aoife Lorefield
Monday 1 November, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library on Info Island International
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
Aoife shares lovely poems of the season, with a special nod to Mary Oliver. Presented Live in Voice.
Contact: Derry McMahon
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PS…Poe! More tales from Poe
Tuesday 2 November, 2010
7:00pm - 8:30pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library on Info Island International
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
Ok, so we had more Poe that we wanted to share! “The Tell-Tale Heart” with Caledonia Skytower and Derry McMahon, and “The Cask of Amontillado” with Shandon Loring will be among those offered tonight.
Contact: Derry McMahon
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CVL Hot Topic Discussion
Teens in SL
November 3rd at 6 PM SLT
Please join us on Info Island for our monthly Hot Topic Discussion. This month: Teens in SL! Changes are coming, will we be ready?
Contact: Hypatia Dejavu
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/106/124/34
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Rosslyn Guardian Brings Stories!
Wednesday, 3 November, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library on Info Island International
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
Rosslyn always brings fine stories to share with us, and we are thrilled to have her return to the Seanchai Library.
Contact: Derry McMahon
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Genealogy Research Center Meeting
November 4th at 5 PM SLT
Genealogy Research Center - Info Island
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/161/209/33
Exhibt: October 1-31st Cemetery Research for Genealogists
Visit the cemetery at the GRC on Info Island and touch the gravestones for links to resources on: Cemetery Research; Mapping and Surveying Cemeteries; Locating Graves; Gravestone Photography;
Gravestone Rubbings and Transcriptions; Cemetery Iconography; Gravestone Repair; and Second Life Memorial Areas.
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/161/209/33
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CVL Coexist Discussion Group
November 4th at 6 PM SLT
Peace Park - Info Island
Contact: Serenity Swain
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/163/171/34
God, Jehovah, Allah, Bhagwaan, Yahweh, Holy Father, Christ, or simply higher power. What is your relationship with God? All are welcome to this discussion of personal thoughts and feelings on religion in our lives.
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“Rip Van Winkle” with Shandon Loring
Thursday, 4 November, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library on Info Island International
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. "As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard long rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine..." Join us as Shandon reads this marvelous classic from Washington Irving. Followed by stories from Little People - Ron Quinn
Tales of little people living in and around the haunting hills of the Catskill Mountains.
Preview at http://bit.ly/aSt3NC
Preview at http://bit.ly/9tnTym
Contact: Derry McMahon
Virtual Ability
Activism 101: "I wanna change the world!"
presented by Sister Abeyante
Saturday, October 30, 7 pm SLT
The Sojourner Auditorium
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/54/170/23
What is activism? Why might you want to be an activist (and when shouldn't you be)?
Learn how to create change and influence the "powers that be" (corporate, political, community, family, even interpersonal!). Sister Abeyante will offer specific tips for effective activism. She has been an activist most of her life and will offer examples and "tried and true" ideas. Join us for this one-hour learning opportunity.
Presented in text with optional voice transcription.
Sister Abeyante is a (RL) Sister of the Divine Savior (Salvatorian Sister). Her mission is social justice, and she’s been an activist almost all her life. She is deaf and uses American Sign Language, with English as her second language.
Alexandrian Free Library: (Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Toulouse, New Babbage, Amatsu Shima, West of Ireland, Deadwood & Al Andalus) Library Events for October 27 through November 2, 2010.
Continuing Exhibits:
Caledon Library: "Bookbinding and What It Might Lead To" A Book Arts exhibit curated by Incunable Sorbet
Sat 2010-04-03 - Tue 2010-10-31
Where: Whitehorn Library, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/55/202/23
Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Ghosts of New Orleans
Fri 2010-10-15 - Thu 2010-12-16
Where: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Community Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/54/79/30
Seanchai Library: Samhain
Sun 2010-10-17 - Mon 2010-11-15
Where: Seanchai Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
New Exhibits:
R. F. Burton Library: A Gypsy of Society: an Introduction to Bohemian Life
Mon 2010-11-01 - Fri 2010-12-31
Where: R. F. Burton Library
http://slurl.com//secondlife/Babbage%20Canals/194/63/105
Events of the Week:
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CALEDON LIBRARY
Poetic Ponderings - Poem of the Month Discussion
Wednesday, 27 October, 2010
4:00pm - 5:00pm SLT
Where:Caledon Library, on the Hub in Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/160/117/23
A discussion of a new 19th century poem each month, led by Dame Kghia Gherardi. This month we discuss "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
2010
October: La Belle Dame Sans Merci - Keats
November: The Stolen Child - Yeats
December: Hap & Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy
2011
January: Mutability & Ozymandias - Shelley
February: The Soul Selects Her Own Society, After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes" & Wild Nights - Dickenson
March: If - Kipling
April: Jabberwocky & The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
May: Tamerlane - Poe
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SEANCHAI LIBRARY
"The Man Who Evolved" with Gyro Muggins
Wednesday, 27 October, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
The Man Who Evolved by Edmond Hamilton Reclusive scientist invites three old college friends to his isolated country laboratory to attend his experiment. Using concentrated cosmic rays he forces his own body to evolve along the path "intended" for Man. His three friends witness the horror as he attains "Man's Destiny." The story is a melodrama with the theme of "there are things with which Man must not tamper." Story in voice.
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SEANCHAI LIBRARY
The Fall of the House of Usher with Shandon Loring
Thursday, 21 October, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
A crumbling, haunted castle is the House of Usher. This is Edgar Allan Poe's finest literary example of "totality". We will also visit 'The Raven' and 'The Land of the Fay' this evening. As well as a few select POEms. Please join us for this curious volume of not-to-be forgotten lore presented in Live Voice by Shandon Loring.
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SEANCHAI LIBRARY
The Mansion and More with Shandon Loring
Thursday, 28 October, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
The mythic, haunting story of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion told in the gothic tale "The Black Widow Bride", performed by Shandon Loring. Followed by ghost stories from Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, and Kenneth Graham. It will haunt you forever if you miss this wonderful hour of ghostly tales! Stories in voice. Preview at http://bit.ly/9tnTym
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SEANCHAI LIBRARY
DRACULA!
Saturday, 30 October, 2010
7:00pm - 8:30pm SLT
Where: Blood Evolution Kingdom (Performance Site)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blood%20Evolution%20Kingdom/34/85/27The Library Storytellers present Irish author Bram Stoker’s traditional story of Dracula in open voice. Dracula will involve nine storytellers voicing fifteen characters from the classic tale. The cast includes:
Shandon Loring as Count Dracula
Crap Mariner as Jonathan Harker
Marian Dragovar as Lucy Westenra
Bear Silvershade as Dr. John Seward
Caledonia Skytower as Mina Murra-/Harker
Corwyn Allen & Elder Priestman as Abraham Van Helsing
Aoife Lorefield, Derry McMahon, and Gina Pralou, provide additional voices and narration.
“Our goal is to challenge the boundaries of the storytelling format, without crossing the line into a full theatrical production” said Storyteller Caledonia Skytower, whose RL career experience is in theatre production. “To that end we are not emphasizing correct dialects or accents, not blocking the presentation.” Readers will appear in single costumes, and stand in one position in a setting inspired by one of the many castles from the life of the legendary Vlad Dracula. A sound effects board, developed by Storyteller Shandon Loring, will enable the cast to utilize a discrete number of sound and music effects to enhance the story experience.
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R. F. BURTON LIBRARY
NEW EXHIBIT OPENS: A Gypsy of Society: an Introduction to Bohemian Life
Monday, 1 November, 2010
Where: R.F. Burton Library
http://slurl.com//secondlife/Babbage%20Canals/194/63/105
Vagabonds, Artists, Writers, Gypsies, Musicians. A life free from materialism, society’s rules. To live life as one pleases. This was bohemia. This alternative lifestyle became popular in the nineteenth century. Whether one actually practiced this unconventional way of life, its influence was felt in many aspects of society that resonate even to today. Join us at the Burton for an introduction to these nineteenth century hippies.
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SEANCHAI LIBRARY
Autumnal Poetry with Aoife Lorefield
Monday, 1 November, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library on Info Island International
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
Join Aoife for lovely poetry celebrating Autumn, featuring poems from Mary Oliver.
Presented Live in Voice.
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SEANCHAI LIBRARY
PS...Poe! More Poe tales at the Seanchai Library
Tuesday, 2 November, 2010
7:00pm - 8:00pm SLT
Where: Seanchai Library on Info Island International
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island%20International/88/98/33
Well, we just had so many Poe tales we didn't get to in October, we needed one more session. Join us tonight for "The Tell-Tale Heart" with Caledonia and Derry, "The Cask of Amontillado" with Shandon, and more. All in voice!
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