Charlanna Beresford’s
weekly round-up of SL events…
On Saturday, June 14 at 6:30 PM, put on your best formal wear and head to this fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Phoenix Fisseux will treat the audience to a performance of Broadway songs at this premiere fundraising event for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in Second Life. Admission is free but donations are encouraged. All proceeds will go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fund-raising and grant-making organization. In Broadway Live Island (click here to teleport).
Also this week: Stand-up comedy from Pakistan, Edward Castranova on How Online Gaming Will Change Reality, and the SL Women's Chamber of Commerce. All that and more after the jump...
Thursday, June 12
5 AM – Audio
Streaming 101
This useful class will give step by step instructions and
assistance on how to stream your own audio into Second Life for Windows users. It includes an overview of audio streaming as
well as installation of the software (Winamp or Shoutcast) needed to stream
audio into Second Life. Class notes are available at the Café to pick
up before class. This class is also offered Thursday, June 12
at 4 PM; Friday, June 13 at 5 AM and 4 PM. In Cannon (click
here to teleport).
This all-day party runs from 8 AM to 10 PM and offers a
full line-up of DJs and dancing to celebrate Playboy’s first anniversary in
Second Life. In Playboy (click here to teleport).
A chat forum for RL parents. This week’s topic will center on positive reinforcement as an important part of behavior
management. Come share and help each
other find out about some useful strategies. In Sawrey (click here to teleport).
Unexpected Detours
is 3 original one-act plays including, The
Truth is Out There by Marin Mielziner and Upo Choche and directed by Blaze
Petrov, What Happens on the Way to Las
Vegas Stays on the Way to Las Vegas by Allie Tomsen and directed by Neighbor
Criss, and Teardrops on Roses by
Elyse Flanagan and directed by Paggles Whitman. Also on
Friday, June 13 at 6 PM. In Itsari (click here to teleport).
Every year the Made
In Brunel design show showcases major projects by final year students in Brunel University’s School of Engineering with
an RL exhibition at the Business Design Centre, London. In addition to the London exhibition,
students from the MA Branding and Strategy, Product Design and the Multi Media
courses will also be exhibiting their work in Second Life. On June 12 and 13, the virtual space will be
linked with the London exhibition with an opportunity to meet many of the new designers. In Nuggy (click here to teleport).
9 PM – Exploring
Futuristics
This event is an introduction to Futuristics, the use of
history and trends to forecast future trends. Futuristics can be applied to global politics,
technology, society, and many aspects of our world. Come to learn how this may be useful for
you. In Avgi (click here to
teleport).
***
Friday, June 13
Talk to machinima director Jim Gustavson about his new
film The Future is Hear and learn
about the basics of machinima. In Language Lab (click here to
teleport).
12 PM – RockPianoman
Pienaar at Ain’t Misbehavin’
RockPianoman Pienaar has over 10,000 songs from the 60’s,
70’s and 80’s in his collection of sheet music. Come listen as he skillfully plays your old favorites or try to
stump him and request a song he doesn’t
know. In Casba (click here to teleport).
Earlier this week, Hamlet wrote about Orionalation
Carver, Pakistan's first and only stand-up comic. Here’s your chance to see his full-hour long
comedy set. In Collins (click here to teleport).
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Saturday, June 14
The International Spaceflight Museum
celebrates the anniversaries of Spaceport Alpha and Spaceport Bravo with a
talented line-up of musicians from 1 PM until after 8 PM. They're also
kicking off the eBay auctions for the Saturn V, its gantry and its crawler. In
Spaceport Bravo (click here to
teleport).
Modovia has built an amazing venue specifically for this
fashion show. It was created to reflect
the beauty of Italy and to showcase the amazing work of Jador designer
Ziamela Loon. In Ali Baba (click here to teleport).
Participants in this intermediate to advanced building
class will learn how to create a relaxing hammock with couples poses included. In addition to build the hammock, a number of
additional creating and texturing ideas will be covered. In Fermi (click here to teleport).
7 PM – Can
Can presented by Moulin Rouge Revue
Come see the Moulin Rouge Revue dancers kick it up to the
Moulin Rouge Medley in traditional Can Can attire. In Moulin Rouge (click here to
teleport).
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Sunday, June 15
8 AM – Poetry,
A Celebration of Life
If you are a poet, a writer or just in love with the
spoken word, come join this open mic poetry recital. There
is no theme, so simply dust off your best verses and share your poetry. This
will be a voice event, although you do not have to speak in order to participate.
In Avgi (click here to teleport).
2 PM – Primtionary
This game is the SL version of Pictionary. Rather than drawing a sketch of something, participants
build it with prims. A willing builder
will be given a word to build and everyone else has to guess what it is. The
person who guesses correctly gets to go next and wins 25L$. This is usually a
lot of fun and helps improve building skills at the same time. In Asim Zahra (click here to
teleport).
6 PM – Father’s
Day Formal Dance at Tropical Bliss
Don’t forget that it is Father’s Day! Celebrate the special men in your life with
this Father’s Day formal. In Tropical Bliss (click here to
teleport).
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Monday, June 16
9 AM – Sailing
Tour of Etopia
Come explore Etopia by boat with Windy Schor, a wind
educator from RL EnergyTeachers.org.
Singles and pairs will sail around this
two-sim island, enjoying great views, beautiful sea-side mountains, wind
turbines, and examples of ecologically-minded living. Open topics may include aquaculture, wind
power, sailing, transportation, and photography. Sailboats will be provided. In Etopia Prime (click here to
teleport).
11 AM – Bloomsday
Celebration
Bloomsday
is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to
celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the
events in his classic novel Ulysses, all of which
took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. Join us for readings by Cunningham Docherty. In West of Ireland (click here to
teleport).
7 PM – Tuna
Oddfellow’s Odd Ball
The Odd
Ball is one of the more remarkable events in Second Life with master
magician Tuna Oddfellow
and his beautiful assistant Shava Suntzu. Put on your wildest avatars and
your craziest costumes and send reality on a holiday at this ever evolving
event. If you have never been to the Odd
Ball, words won’t truly describe it. IM
Tuna Oddfellow or Shava Suntzu for a TP In Research Center (click here to
teleport).
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Tuesday, June 17
7:45 AM – Serious Business in 3D: How Online
Games Will Change Reality
Hanno
Tietgens and Edward
Castronova will speak on the power
of virtual worlds to change society as part of the Games & Beyond open
lecture series. As more people spend
more time in their virtual lives, there will be consequences for the real world
- economic, professional, political, and social. Virtual worlds are not
changing humanity, but they are changing the environment in which humanity
operates. In Campus Hamburg (click
here to teleport).
10:30 AM – Emotional
Support
Every Tuesday, Sensoor Emotional Support (The Netherlands
Telephone Emergency Service) provides support to any person suffering from
loneliness, depression, emotional distress or other personal problems. Free of
charge. In Hauwai (click here to teleport).
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Wednesday, June 18
12 PM – SL
Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Women business owners are encouraged to share their voice
in this open meeting of the SL Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Please come to share the challenges you’ve
faced in doing business in SL, causes close to your heart, as well as identify
the sort of services you'd like to see the Chamber deliver (services, speakers,
workshops, etc.). In Etopia Prime (click here to
teleport).
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Join Lanna’s group
on Eventful.com to stay up to date on what's happening in SL-- info on
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.
Suggestion: Put all this in a public google calendar.
Posted by: Ann Otoole | Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 10:58 AM
I have had this event list as a Google Calendar feed for several months - Rik Riel kindly set it up a while back. It works well -- at least once a week it conveniently clues me in to some of the best "artistic, cultural, scientific, political, creative, and/or educational" events around.
It's a very easy process to add it:
Go to your Google Calendar if you have one http://www.google.com/calendar/render# Then click Settings ... the "Calendars" tab ... then click the "Add calendar" button on bottom.
Search for "Rik's Second Life Event Picks"
Click OK. Done. If checked, all of Lanna's current event picks will now show up on your main calendar. You can toggle them on and off with one click.
On clicking an event you will see a What, When, Where, and Description right from your calendar,
Suggestion for Lanna: add a Slurl to each Google Calendar event description when possible. As it is now, the "map" link to the right of the "Where" field mistakenly tries to locate Second Life on a Google Map. A Slurl teleport link would help users avoid cutting and pasting, and that would be a beautiful thing.
Until Linden Labs gets with Google to integrate the Second Life map with Google Maps (an intriguing concept -- see this GTA IV google map: http://grandtheftauto.ign.com/maps/1/Liberty-City-Map ), Slurls are the only way to get directly from a web page to the virtual world location.
Seamless integration with Google Maps would make the virtual world that much more accessible to web users, and I think it would drive some serious traffic to SL.
thanks, Lanna, for your labor of love :)
Posted by: Via | Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 04:00 PM
LL has long posted their inworld office hours on GCal: http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/lindenlab.com/embed?src=publicevents%40lindenlab.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
They also may be creating a "Public Events" GCal feed as well, which I would really appreciate: http://www.massively.com/2008/06/17/linden-public-events-calendar-announced-then-pulled/
Posted by: Viajero Pugilist | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 03:41 AM
Arrggh, here are the above links in a usable form:
Linden office hours calendar: http://tinyurl.com/49dx4e
Post on "Public Events" calendar feed: http://tinyurl.com/6pufjd
Posted by: Viajero Pugilist | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 07:37 PM