Charlanna Beresford’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events…
On July 21, 1990, nine months after the dismantlement of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters and an all-star cast performed The Wall at the Potzdamer Platz in Berlin. The performance was watched by a live audience of 250,000 and an estimated half-billion people on television. Inspired by these events, an international team of artists working with the Cybernetic Art Research Project (CARP) bring a unique vision and live performance of The Wall to Second Life. CARP the Wall takes place on Saturday, May 24 at 2 PM and again on Sunday, May 25 at 1 PM. Lighting is very important to this event and all facelights are strictly prohibited. In Havens Paradise(click here to teleport)
All proceeds from CARP the Wall will be part of the Relay for Life of Second Life and benefit the American Cancer Society. The Relay for Life continues until July 19th, for more information and to bette identify legitimate RFL events like CARP the Wall, visit ACS Island (click here to teleport)
Also this week: Conference on teaching languages in Second Life, SL Ballet performance, mixed reality Beethoven concert and discussions on Sara Paretsky's VI Warshawski. All that and more after the jump...
(All times in SLT, "Second Life Time"-- i.e., Pacific Standard)
Thursday, May 22
2 AM – Digital
Animation Expose
This mixed reality event takes place at the University of
Hertfordshire in RL and SL and showcases the best student films from the
current academic year. The Digital
Animation Expose also includes presentations from leading professionals in the
animation, film and games industries. More
information on this full day event is available at the UH Second Life Amphitheatre. In Uni of Herts (click here to
teleport).
If you interested in blogging and the why, how and what
to do, then this workshop is for you. Participants will learn the nuts and bolts of
setting up a blog, how to do it, what NOT to do, and what to expect from
his/her blog. There are many
opportunities for audience participation including reviews of blogs of those in
the workshop. In Cookie (click here to teleport).
7 PM – Host
& Hostess Training
Recreational Employment Agency (REC) is offering a
Host/Hostess training class for those who are thinking about becoming a
Host/Hostess or those who already are and would like to become a more valuable
employee. Participants will learn how
to post events, add VIPs, as well as basic working knowledge of how to run a
successful event. There is a 150L charge for this course. In Andraca (click here to teleport).
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Friday, May 23
9 AM – Exhibit
Designers Meeting
Every Friday, there is a brainstorming and discussion
session around prototyping exhibit design in Second Life hosted by The Tech Virtual Museum of
Innovation. In The Tech (click here to teleport).
10 AM – SLanguages
2008
SLanguages 2008 is a 24 hour multilingual conference taking place in Second
Life to celebrate and investigate the use of virtual worlds for language
education. The events will cover
methodologies, teaching tools and experiences. Visit the conference
website for a full schedule and more information on the event. In EduNation II (click here to
teleport).
5 PM – Memorial
Day Weekend Bash for Relay For Life
From 5 PM on Friday, May 23 until 9 PM on Monday, May 26,
the Haute Couture sim is hosting an entire weekend of special shopping, dancing
and music (live and dj) events to benefit the American Cancer Society’s Relay For
Life. All proceeds from the yard sale,
tip jars, Raiders Store will go 100% to RFL. Notecards with complete event information are available on-site. In Haute Couture (click here to
teleport).
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Saturday, May 24
6:30 AM – Clothing
Design Using Graphics Templates
This course by NCI will show you how to design your own
clothing in Second Life using Avatar UV maps. This class will teach
participants to move beyond the appearance sliders and create Second Life
fashions with precisely-placed hems, necklines and accents using your own
custom designed textures. This is not
an entry level class and be sure to read
this information on prerequisites and requirements. In Fisherman’s Cove (click here to
teleport).
11 AM - Shotei
Hanevuah in SL Israel
To celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday, the band Shotei Hanevuah (Fools of Prophecy) will be
playing in SL Israel. The band's music was a fusion
of reggae, dub, hip hop and dance spiced with an eastern Mediterranean flavor,
with lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Though the band disbanded in 2007, this reunion
performance of four former members of the band, featuring a rich range of
musical styles and lyrical content, testifies to the beautiful cultural and
spiritual variety that makes up today's Israel. In Israel (click
here to teleport).
3 PM - Show
off Your Creations Contest
This contest sponsored by the SL Learning Centre is an
opportunity to show off some of your interesting and unique builds. Registration
is required and must be completed 30 minutes prior to the start. Full rules are available at the event, but entries
may not be larger than 10m and have more than 50 prims. Prizes
will be awarded to the top three entries. In Agape Enchanted (click here to
teleport).
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Sunday, May 25
12 PM - Premiere of The Monad
Machiniplex
is presenting the in-world
premiere of The Monad by filmmaker Sam Goldwater. Goldwater delivers a powerful and moving film
about identies in virtual worlds and real life. Following the screening there will be a
Q&A session with the director and a general discussion on digital
filmmaking. In HatHead (click here to teleport).
4 PM – SL
Ballet Performs Phylogeny
Phylogeny
is a new original ballet that is a collaboration between the Second Life Ballet and Indiana University/Purdue
University, Indianapolis (IUPUI). It is the beginning of time. We see beings fly and soar in the air. We see
another set of beings crawl and tumble on the ground. They are not animals, but
humans. Then, as their dance and the mysterious music continues, those in the
air become dragons, and those on the ground become bears. Who has evolved from
whom? A different view of who was first
and phylogeny -- the development of the species. In IBM (click here to teleport).
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Monday, May 26
12 AM – Guide
to Preferences
This class by the Academy of Second Learning offers a
guide to the settings within Preferences in your SL viewer. Participants will
have the opportunity to learn what all those settings mean and how to adjust
them to personalize their SL experience. Specifically, this class
discusses the universal buttons in the Preference window, together with the
contents of the General and the Input & Camera tabs. This is the first of a
series of four stand-alone classes that cover all of the settings in the
Preferences window. In Eson (click here to teleport).
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Tuesday, May 27
8 AM – Jeremy
Denk at WGBH
This mixed
reality event features a live performance by classical pianist Jeremy Denk; he will perform Ludwig Van
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op. 53, Waldstein. Sponsored
by WGBH 89.7, a non-commercial public radio
station in Boston, MA, the performance will be a live concert on the radio and will
simultaneously take place live in their virtual Fraser Performance Studio in
Second Life. After the hour-long live
performance, Jeremy Denk will have a live Q&A with SL attendees. In
Brightonia (click here
to teleport).
This session is designed to help educators just getting
started in Second Life with the basics. It is being simultaneously
presented at the National
Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Conference in RL, in SL at Avgi Isle, and streamed here.
There will also be several
demonstrations following the presentation; among the demonstrations is one from
a music academy, an accounting course, a hotel management course, team-building
demo, and more. In Avgi (click here to teleport).
3:00 – Bohdi
Congrejo at Cuddler’s Cove
Bodhi Congrejo is a veteran SL performer who plays a limited
number of times in-world. Bodhi plays a
mix of originals and select covers and draws audiences in with heartfelt lyrics
and relaxing melodious scores. In Glen
Island Beach (click
here to teleport).
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Wednesday, May 28
6 PM - Book
Discussion – Hard Time by Sara
Paretsky
Sara
Paretsky's incomparable character V I Warshawski returns in Hard Time. For those not familiar with VI Warshawski, she
is among the first, and is perhaps the most compelling, of female private investigators of contemporary fiction. Come share your thoughts about this book, character and author.
In Info Island (click here to
teleport).
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submitting event notices below.
SUBMITTING EVENTS FOR COVERAGE IN New World Notes
Every Thursday morning, NWN highlights events for the upcoming weekend into next Wednesday. If you'd like an event to be considered, send the description and event link to Charlanna Beresford via IM or e-mail her at [email protected]. You can also contact Lanna through her Facebook profile, where she's listed as "Charlanna Beresford".
Main guidelines:
1 - Events for the coming week must be received by
Tuesday Noon SLT.
2 - Include all the relevant info-- day, time, and especially the SLURL to the event location.
3 - Please send related graphics such as screenshots or photo of the event site, if available.
4 - Events with artistic, cultural, scientific, political, creative, and/or educational value preferred.
5 - Events sponsored or promoted by real world corporations are welcome, as long they serve and entertain the Second Life community, and/or foster Resident-made content (live music, builds, scripting, fashion, games, etc.) Events that merely promote the company or organization's Second Life presence are not generally appropriate; you may instead consider advertising your event or service on New World Notes.
6 - Mature-rated events are permissible, but listing descriptions should be PG-13. Political and religious events are encouraged, though those of an extreme or non-inclusive variety are rarely included.
7 - Bonus consideration given to game-related or machinima events, and for events with "I've never seen that in SL before" value.
Cybernetic Art Research Project - CARP
CApture RolePlay - CARP
eehhhmmm... Protip for anyone new who wants to start something in SL: Do a search for your itended name, it might already be taken, and it might be taken by someone or something you do NOT want to directly be associated with :D
On The Monad event: Is it anything to do at all with HalfLife? Seeing as a picture of one of HL2's main characters is used here? If so, I'm soooo there, huge Half Life fan here ^.^
Posted by: Darkfoxx | Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 11:18 AM