Upcoming Library Events!
Renaissance Island
Sat Dec 19th at noon is the 3rd Recorder Series of Thom Dowd’s
students. Come watch them play in SL as they have a big screen that you can also
watch in RL. Music is 16th century.
Sun Dec 20th at 8AM is a Christmas Concert at the Globe
Thom Dowd and students will entertain us with Yule Tide music.
Dec 20th at noon in Lagswells Manor Masquerade Ball
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn will be present at the ball. Come enjoy the
great music streamed by Thom Dowdand meet the court nobility.
Titles are being purchased for Lord
and Ladies for this dance as a fund raiser.
5000L for a Earl /Countess, 2500L Baron / Baroness and 1200L for
Lord and Lady , 750L Knighthood Sir / Dame. The titles will last for
3 months.
How often do you get to walk around the environment of a novel you are
reading or might read?
Sunday, Dec. 20th is your last chance to walk and talk with novelist,
Dana Paxson in real life, who is Jeddin Leval in SL. He’s invited
people to join him in a tour of the underground city he built in SL
which mirrors the enormous underground city in his novel ~ DESCENDING
ROAD. On the tour he’ll tell us about the events and characters in
his novel.
DESCENDING ROAD is a work in progress with multiple story threads.
It’s being added to as time goes on. Join us for a wonderful tour and
an introduction to a good story.
http://slurl.com/secondlife.com/Info%20Island/210/94/33places you at
the Sci -fi & Fantasy Portal at ground level. Nearby are three tall
notice boards with information about our programs. You’ll find
information related to a specific program on both sides of each
board. Click on the note-giver cube at the base of a board to receive
note card summaries and landmarks that go into your Inventory for easy
reference.
Free story download: http://danapaxsonstudio.com/DR&20Latest/DR.zip
Landmark to start of tour: http://Palm%20Breezes/112/93/46
Internet Use for Older Adults
Friday, December 18, 2009
5 am and 1 pm SLT
The Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/56/169/23
Older Adults increasingly need and want to use computers and the Internet to stay in touch with friends and family, to keep up with current events, and for entertainment. This presentation will focus on what interests and concerns older adults may have in using computer technology and how loved ones and educators might address those concerns.
Bathshbea Darkfold, PhD candidate in anthropology at SUNY-Buffalo, will be our presenter.
Alexandrian Free Library: (Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead, New Toulouse, New Babbage, Amatsu Shima, West of Ireland, Steeltopia, Deadwood, Al Andalus & Constantinople) Library Events for December 16 through 22, 2009
Continuing Exhibits:
Caledon Library: From Oxcarts to Gondolas: the travel albums of Isabella Stewart Gardner
2009-07-14 to 2010-01-03
HG Wells Memorial Library, Caledon Wellsian,
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Wellsian/225/236/23
Deadwood Memorial Library – Drawn From the Past: Deadwood Role-play Characters Inspired by Real History
2009-09-26 – 2009-12-31
Deadwood Memorial Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Phoenix%20pass/124/148/651/
Les Chroniques de la Fee Verte: An Exhibit by Elric Anatine.
2009-11-01 – 2010-01-01
Toussaint L’Ouverture Community Library Second Floor
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/64/87/34
West of Ireland – Newgrange
2009-11-10 – 2009-12-31
West of Ireland Library & Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
Taking Flight: The Wright Brothers & Beyond
2009-12-01 – 2010-2-1
Jules Verne Wharf, Caledon Mayfair
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Mayfair/31/168/23
Social Dance – An exhibit at the Whitehorn Library curated by Mis Leslie Weston
December 15 – Wed, March 17, 2010
Whitehorn Library, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/55/202/23
Events of the Week:
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WEST OF IRELAND LIBRARY
Rosslyn Guardian & Derry McMahon & Santa!
Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM SLT
Where: West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
Santa is coming!! Join us in the WOI for a visit with Santa. Derry will read “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, Rosslyn will share a story on the Solstice, and Santa will be here! Bring your list, make sure you know if you were naughty or nice, and come have some fun with us. All stories in voice.
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WEST OF IRELAND LIBRARY
Shandon Loring with two great Christmas Mysteries!
Thursday, 17 December, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM SLT
Where: West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
The Three Travellers
A mystery before the First Christmas, featuring three characters from the original. The Wise Men are headed West, and stop at an oasis for the night.
Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose. All stories in voice.
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WINTERFELL LIBRARY
Yule Bonfire in Winterfell
Saturday, 19 December, 2009
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM SLT
Winterfell Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Winterfell/82/231/24
Come celebrate the dark nights of Yule and the bright fires of friendship and community, with dance, music, and jollity around the bonfire.
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WEST OF IRELAND LIBRARY
A Christmas Carol with the WOI Storytellers
Sunday, 20 December, 2009
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM SLT
Where: West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
The West of Ireland Library (WOI) Storytellers will reprise their holiday presentation, for a second year, of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol in live voice at the West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center with donations benefiting the real life charity Project Children.
The 2009 presentation of the Dicken’s Classic will feature an all new “immersive” setting: A London street scene created by Aoife Lorefield complete with gas street lamps, glowing shop windows, and Scrooge & Marley’s counting house.
The performance will feature a mix of familiar WOI voices, guests, and friends from the WOI community. WOI Seanchai (Chief Storyteller) Shandon Loring will reprise his role as “Ebeneezer Scrooge”, the cold-hearted, tight fisted, greedy man, who despises all things which promote happiness. Elder Priestman will once more lend his warmth to the story as “Bob Cratchit,” Scrooge’s underpaid clerk and father of Tiny Tim. The rest of the ensemble includes popular WOI DJ Spyot Demina as Scrooge’s nephew Fred; storyteller and well known eccentric “dragoness” Elegia Underwood as the Ghost of Christmas Past; the role of the Ghost of Christmas Present will be shared by SL Poet Corwyn Allen, and popular musician Duncan Bagley (each doing a single performance); Aoife Lorefield will voice Marley’s Ghost. Underwood will also narrate the section of the story involving the silent Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. WOI Librarian Derry McMahon and Storyteller Caledonia Skytower will provide additional narration and play multiple small roles throughout.
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AETHER SALON
Shanghaied!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM SLT
Steelhead Shanghai
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead%20Shanghai/124/39/48
You awaken in the dark. The smell of the sea fills your nose. Where are you? Wait – there was the night out with friends… and then the – oh dear, and after that the… hmm. You can’t remember much more. But you are absolutely not where you had been. You’re on a ship – headed – where, exactly? You’ve been shanghaied!
This month, the Aether Salon will take a field trip to the exotic and beautiful Steelhead Shanghai. Once there, hosts TotalLunar Eclipse, Riven Homewood, and Elegia Underwood will regale us with tales of the region.
Adventure, danger, and mystery await you at the next Aether Salon. Join us on December 20.
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WEST OF IRELAND LIBRARY
Newgrange / Solstice Presentation
Sunday, 20 December, 2009
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM SLT
Where: West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
Join Aoife Lorefield and Derry McMahon and the Virtual Pioneers (a group of social studies teachers in RL), as they explore the Winter Solstice and Newgrange. Informational readings, fictional stories, and a tour of the Newgrange build in the West of Ireland will be included. All stories in voice.
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STEELHEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Steelhead Christmas Story Festival pt 2
Monday, 21 December, 2009
6:00 PM to 7:00PM SLT
Steelhead Public Library
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steelhead/125/208/25
We still have room for a few readers. Please contact Riven Homewood if you would like to read. We would like to have stories and poems from a wide variety of winter holiday traditions, including but not limited to, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Solstice.
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WEST OF IRELAND LIBRARY
More “Secrets from a Christmas Box” with Caledonia Skytower
Monday, 21 December, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM SLT
Where: West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
Caledonia continues reading selected chapters from a new novel by first-time author Steven Hornby.
Desperate to find his missing brother before Christmas, Larry, along with his girlfriend Debbie, a newcomer to the world of the “Tree Dwellers” Splint, and Larry’s companion Tinsel, break the laws of the ‘Tree-Elders’ and escape down the tree and away into the house, to look for clues.
Away from the safety of the tree and in an unfamiliar world, the Dwellers stumble upon a dark and sinister secret that threatens their entire world. Can Larry and the group make it back to the tree in time to warn the others, and finally uncover the truth behind the ‘Secrets of a Christmas Box’? Read in Voice and benefiting Project Children.
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WEST OF IRELAND LIBRARY
Holiday Open Mic with Aoife Lorefield
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM SLT
Where: West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center
http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/157/29
Have you written a nice holiday story or poem? Do you have a favorite holiday story or poem? Bring them along. Read them aloud, or hand the story over to Aoife and ask her to read. All in voice.