Rik Riel's weekly round-up of upcoming SL events...
One of my favorite things to do in Second Life is catch a live musical performance by an artist I probably would never get to see perform in the real world. There's just something wonderful about having front row seats for a dozen different concerts available to you at almost any time of day. And your avatar doesn't smell like beer and cigarettes afterwards!
The list of new musicians from around the world putting on concerts in SL continues to grow every month. This week, you've got quite an international selection, with Swedish pianist Ross LeShelle, Japanese blues musician Umanosuke Runo, Irish fiddler Slip Stringfellow and Canadian singer Montian Gilruth. Check out the details on all these concerts after the jump.
Also Coming Up This Week: creating an inclusive Islamic community in SL, raising lindens for toys for tots, a Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter swings into town, Orange asks "Are you your avatar?", a chat with the man behind SL voicechat, robotic soccer, the world's largest chess library, and a new book for virtual entrepreneurs launches. All that and lots more music coming up this week...
(All listings in SLT, i.e. Pacific Standard Time)
Thursday, November 15
3PM - Basic Building Class
It's easy to get started building in Second Life, using tools available to every avatar. This class will focus on creating a simple candle that burns as a way of teaching basic building principles. At Zugspitze (click here to teleport.)
5-8PM - Marine Toys for Tots Fundraiser Party
The Phoenix Rising Gallery Group hosts a Marine Toys
For Tots Foundation Fundraiser Party. Come and enjoy the
dancing and art and help us start off the season of giving by helping
needy children experience the joys of the season through the
Toys for Tots program. At Coconut Grove (click here to teleport.)
6PM - Black American Arts Festival Featuring Jazz Artist Russell Gunn
The
Black American Arts Festival features on stage Grammy-nominated jazz artist Russell Gunn. An accomplished trumpeter, fluegelhornist and composer, Gunn is a critically-acclaimed
contemporary musician in the African-American tradition. At Delia (click here to teleport.)
7PM - Canadian Artist Montian Gilruth in Concert
Catch Montreal-based singer/songwriter performs original songs on guitar at Imperfects (click here to teleport.)
Nancy Blake's pub hosts traditional Irish and
Celtic music played live by Slip Stringfellow. The multi-talented Slip plays the fiddle,
flute, and guitar (though probably not all at the same time). At West of Ireland (click here to teleport.)
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Friday, November 16
Orange Island will host a series of discussions with Second Life residents and community leaders on the nature of identity and avatars. Panels will address such topics as non-human avatars, avatars as personas, and avatars as personal brands. Speakers joining us on these panels include: Ordinal
Malaprop, Torley Linden, Celebrity Trollop, Michi Lumin, and Forseti Svarog. Leading in to the Identity Summit, Orange Island is hosting an Avatar Showcase on the plaza. At Orange 1 (click here to teleport.)
1AM - Learn Scripting from Scratch
The
LSL scripting language is the foundational programming language that
makes all the cool stuff happen in Second Life. Students at this class
will learn how to create a script, and look over what each
part of the basic script does as a foundation to creating bigger and
better things. By the end of the class participants will have made a
working notecard giver. At Travitown (click here to teleport.)
7AM-7PM - Fundraiser for UK Charity Children in Need
Taff's Bar and Euphoria are holding a marathon 12 hour event to raise
money for the BBC Charity Children in Need. Live music and Live DJs
throughout the day, with al money raised will go
to helping disadvantaged children in the United Kingdom. At Cymru (click here to teleport.)
12PM - Talk with Rob Seaver, CEO of Vivox
Meet Rob Seaver, CEO of Vivox (the technology behind SL voicechat).
Among other things, they'll be testing Vivox' technical tweak to permit voice to cross
inter-sim boundaries.
At Dr Dobbs Island Amphitheatre (click here to teleport.)
3PM - Opening of Cleveland Public Library
The Cleveland Public Library opens their new sim featuring
playable, life-size chess sets and an exhibit of historical chess sets owned by the library. Cleveland Public Library is the third largest
public research library in the United States and the largest
repository of chess-related items in the world. Other activities include live
music by Picker Apogee at 5pm and Nad Gough at 7pm, and a costume contest for the best chess-related costume at
6pm. At Info Island International (click here to teleport.)
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Saturday, November 17
5AM-8AM - WPI Savage Robotic Soccer Simulcast
Savage Soccer is an annual robotics event hosted by Worchester Polytechnic Institute in which teams of students create a robot that is
able to compete in a game designed by the event staff. Simulcast at SolidWorks World (click here to teleport.)
Models will walk the catwalk wearing everything from arabic dresses to ball gowns, belly dance silks and casual clothes, with arabic music streaming. Jazz diva Paisley Beebe will be performing right after the fashion show. At Sea of Intrigue (click here to teleport.)
1-3PM - Discussion on Islamic Law and SL Community
Michel Manen of The Al-Andalus Caliphate Project will
discuss his efforts to build an inclusive Islamic community in Second
Life, based on authentic Islamic principles of political participation, separation of powers, justice and the rule of
law. All
views are welcome, and tolerance and civility are strictly enforced. At Extropia Core (click here to teleport.)
5PM - Amy Freelunch Exhibition Opening Reception
Catch Amy FreeLunch's new exhibit of watercolors based on scenes in Second Life and Habbo Hotel. Through January 17, 2008 at the Library Gallery on Info Island (click here to teleport.)
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Sunday, November 18
5AM - Japanese Blues by Umanosuke Runo
Come groove to the blues Japanese-style performed by singer/ guitarist Umanosuke Runo at Delchdork (click here to teleport.) Umanosuke seems to have a loyal fan-base both in Japan at in-world, so be sure and bring your babbler HUD.
Swedish pianist Ross LeShelle will be tickling the ivories in the Second Sweden forest, providing a
relaxing mix of jazz, lounge and swedish folk music. At Second Sweden (click here to teleport.)
12-3PM - Book Launch Party for The
Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life
Looking to get rich in the virtual world? GreeterDan Godel, the author of The
Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life, is holding a book launch party and giving away special gifts to the
first 50 people to show up. At dAlliez (click here to teleport.)
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