Rik Riel's weekly round-up of upcoming SL events...
Today is one of my favorite holidays, El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), an ancient Mexican tradition celebrating the lives of loved ones who have passed through food, music and gift-giving. The San Diego-themed sim Diegoland is hosting several Day of the Dead activities today that you should check out. From 3PM, you can enjoy latin and salsa music at Cafe Diego (click here to teleport). Then at 6PM, Mexican scholar Ferugina Luna will give a talk in the Cafe on the history of this Mexican holiday. The festivities continue at Club Wicked (click here to teleport) where the Midnight Auer Jazz Quartet will perform live, streaming from a real gig in San Diego at 7PM. Jean Munro follows with classic and new jazz from 8PM.
Meanwhile, Koinonia sim is sponsoring a $L2000 Dia De Los Muertos Display Contest, with a party announcing the winners from 6-8PM today at Xenia (click to teleport).
Also Coming Up This Week: an aquatic environmental foundation takes the plunge into SL, neko-girls rock out, celebrating a famous Swedish scientist, a talk on grrl power in virtual worlds, a fundraiser for African AIDS relief, and the extreme sport of simboarding. All that, many more avatar adventures await you after the jump...
(All listings in SLT, i.e. Pacific Standard Time)
Thursday, November 1
5PM - Launch of Project AWARE
The Project AWARE Foundation showcases its
environmental work, introducing visitors to their effort to protect precious
aquatic resources. Underwater photographs from the Shell
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award 2007 will also be on display. At Dive World (click here to teleport.)
Indie rocker Linus Radford and his Faker band, an all-female neko brigade, perform at Idlemyth (click here to teleport).
7PM - Class on Creating Wirerim Glasses
Aiming for that studious look? Need to protect your eyes from
the glaring virtual sun? Learn how to make a
pair of wire-rimmed glasses or sunglasses.
At Mischief (click here to teleport.)
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Friday, November 2
8AM - Carl Linnaeus Exhibit Opening
The Swedish Institute launches a new exhibit about the famed Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus. To kick off the
exhibit there are a host of activities including a talk by Anders Backlund of the Biomedical Centre at Uppsala University on the relevance of Linnaeus today, an
18th century costume contest, a showing of the documentary “Expedition Linnaeus”, and a plant-building competition. At the Swedish Institute (click here to teleport.)
10AM - New Resident Q&A
Have questions about Second Life? Bob Bunderfeld has got answers. Bob is happy to address all your burning questions related to Second Life, no
matter how weird, strange, or basic. At Slate (click here to teleport.)
12PM - Elizabethan Autumn Customs
God ye good den! Come discuss the festivities of the Elizabethan times, including divination and folk magic, Catholic and Protestant traditions (Saint's days, processions, etc.) and secular holidays such as
the celebration of The Queen's Accession. At Rennaissance Island (click here to teleport.)
5PM - Prim Animation Class
If you have ever wanted to animate prims -- i.e. flapping wings, a simple
door, or a full stop motion animation sequence -- this is the
class for you. Students will learn how to use the helpful puppeteer software that allows users to move prims without having to learn to script. At Technical User Interfacing (Click here to teleport.)
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Saturday, November 3
6:30AM - Clothing Creation Using Graphic Templates
Connor Whitman
teaches a course in designing your own clothing using Avatar UV maps. In order to benefit from this class, you will need a graphics editing software that can open PhotoShop
documents and saving to the Targa file format
with alpha transparency. Avatar clothing templates available here. At Fisherman's Cove (click here to teleport.)
7AM-6PM - "Step It Up" Environmental Festival
Discussions, presentations and live music to encourage avatars everywhere to do more to save the planet from environmental destruction. Check the full schedule for events being held at the Center for Water Studies (click here to teleport), Etopia Ecovillage (click here to teleport) and Commonwealth Island (click here to teleport).
Cybergrrl Oh leads an exploration of virtual worlds as an empowerment platform for women, discussing the rewards and challenges of women as mothers and entrepreneurs active in SL. At the Diversionarium (click here to teleport.)
2:30-9PM - Canada Post Music Festival
A live six hour music festival to launch the
Maple Grove sim, featuring an all-star lineup of Second Life talent, including
DJ Cybster,
Grace McDunnough, Montian (Monti) Gilruth, JueL Resistance,
Rosedrop Rust, Shiger Seattle and
Louis Volare
. At Solar (click here to teleport.)
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Sunday, November 4
Fundraiser to Fight AIDS and Poverty in Africa
A two-day fundraiser for Africa relief featuring several musical acts, a huge art
exhibit and silent auction. All donations and proceeds will go to the ONE Campaign and other charities. At Africa (click here to teleport.)
11AM - Speed Dating for Charity
Speed dating is about making new friends and maybe finding a partner to
share your time in-world with. Meet a possible special someone and support a charity that protects the wild mustangs in
Montana.
At Frolic (click here to teleport.)
1PM - eLab City Discussion
Professor Dinzeo discusses the "eLab City" project, a live-work-play community
in SL developed to study virtual consumption. At Howelson (click here to teleport.)
4PM - SLSBA Simboarding Half-pipe Open
Come try your skill at the official Simboarding
Half-Pipe Open. "Simboarding" is a unique SL-only sport combining skateboarding and snowboarding.
At Blue Horizon (click here to teleport.)
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