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Charlanna Beresford’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events…
On Friday, December 5, from 4 to 10 PM Second Life Time, the creators of the popular 7Seas Fishing Game are sponsoring their second annual benefit for Child's Play, which provides toys and games to children's hospitals worldwide. During the event, the owners of 7Seas will donate all of their personal profits as well as match the first $500 US dollars spent by players. There will also be great music, contests and prizes throughout the event of the event at 7Seas Headquarters. Some of SL's favorite musicians and DJs will be on hand-- visit the 7Seas website for a full schedule. In Flotsam Beach (click here to teleport.)
(All times in SLT, "Second Life Time" - i.e., Pacific Standard)
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Thursday, December 4
6 PM - Sculptie Snowman at Rockcliffe University
Come learn how to make a cool sculptie snowman. Participants will receive necessary supplies and will be guided through the steps needed to make a snowman with a top hat! This is a beginning class with easy to follow instructions. Class repeats on Friday, December 5 at 4 PM. In Rockcliffe (click here to teleport.)
7 PM - Artist Talk at Artesmia
Misprint Thursday and Jeanni Nishi will discuss their collaborative
work at the Galerie de la Vie exhibition Cirque! You will have a
chance to ask questions about SL art and how they created such
wonderful and exciting interactive art for this show. They will also be
giving a tour of the gallery. In Artesmia (click here to teleport.)
Also this week: Mitch Wagner of Info Week at Soph's Saturday Salon, Club Crawl, nude avatar photography, Spork re-opening and more....
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Friday, December 5
All Day - Peace on Earth Gridwide Hunt
A number of emerging avatar apparel Designers have made
put their love and creative energy into making amazing gifts for you.
This gridwide hunt started on December 2 and goes right through until December 31. There are 350 gifts to be discovered - something for
everyone! Join the hunt now! Updates and all the missing links to the
chain will be posted on the Peace on Earth blog. To start the hunt head to iGems in the Amberdragon Realm click here to teleport).
11:45 AM - Success at Transmusicales Mixed Reality Music Festival
Success
play garage/punk rock style music and will be showcasing their talents
as part of the Rennes Transmusicales music festival. You can listen to
some of their music on MySpace
page. Second Life activities will be projected on to a Real Life
concert hall stage. Come along and enjoy the music and wave to the
humans on the other side of the screen. There is an avatar limit so
you'll need to register (click here to teleport).
5 PM - IVC Role Play Sim Tour
Interested in learning more about different roleplay sims? This session visits two different RP sims and meets with a
representative of that sim for a question and answer session.
This week will feature Port Luskan, a beautiful
medieval sim, and Dastrin for an RP Banquet. RP Mentors will be available on Dastrin and can answer any general RP
questions and students can practice roleplay for as long as they wish. There will be music
and a contest for the best formal for both males and females. In Insight Virtual College (click here to teleport.)
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Saturday, December 6
10:30 AM - Miss Virtual World 2009
Come see 19 international contestants competitors vie for Miss Virtual World. They will be appearing in over 40 never before seen couture dresses, with performances by Mankind Tracer, Jonas Lunasea, The Chang High Trinity Sisters, and more This event takes place in the four sim Patch Thibaud Auditorium. In Casablanca Boulevard (click here to teleport) and Patch Thibaud Auditorium (click here to teleport.)
11 AM - Making Photographic Art On Your Flatbed Scanner
Scarp Godenot has almost 30 years of experience in artistic and commercial photography. He will be in world and available to discuss how you can use your flatbed scanner to create unique artistic images. Scarp Godenot's Flower Worlds, a selection of work using this technique is currently on exhibit at the Chilbo Museum through December 28, 2008. In Chilbo (click here to teleport.)
12 PM - Mitch Wagner at Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon
Join Sophrosyne as she talks to Information Week's Mitch Wagner (also known as Mitch Wagner in SL), for a wide-ranging discussion of technology and its social impact, beginning with an analysis of America's new wired Presidency. Mitch is a leader of InformationWeek's social networking and community strategy. He writes about Apple, social media and Web 2.0. In addition to writing, Mitch podcasts, creates Internet videos, and is one of a team overseeing newsletters for InformationWeek. (Click here to teleport.)
12 PM - Party for the CRY America Charity Ahuva Heliosense is hosting a party benefiting CRY America. There will be contests and prizes and no need to prepare in advance as there will be boxes of stuff for sale that you will use to create a costume/persona. There will have prizes for prettiest, silliest, most creative, scariest, Science Fictioniest - and wahtever other categories Ahuva can think up. Boxes will be available for purchase for team or individuals. Come and join in the fun and support charity. At the Crown and Pearl (click here to teleport).
Photographer Seikatsu Koba examined her own attitudes about nudity in SL after noticing shyness among some avatars posing for pictures. The result is an exhibit that explores her own SL nudity. About the process of making the exhibit, Seikatsu says, "I experienced mixed feelings, and in every picture questioned how to present my nude avatar. I told myself that my avatar is just a collection of pixels, but because I have created a persona with her, my real self feels responsible for her Second Life image and reputation." The exhibit will be open until Jan 6, 2009 In Chindogu (click here to teleport.)
3 PM - Manx Wharton Exhibition Openings
The West of Ireland (WOI) Art Gallery is proud to host the works of the Amazing Manx Wharton.
Manx is an avatar of many skills... he's an artist, writer, musician,
studio owner and more. See below for upcoming events and live set list!
In West of Ireland (click here to teleport).
6:15PM - Missill at Transmusicales Mixed Reality Music Festival
Missil will be accompanied at this festival and so will play as the Missill Gang. You can check out their sound on MySpace.
They will be showcasing their talents as part of the Rennes
Transmusicales music festival. Second Life activities will be projected
on to a Real Life concert hall stage. Come along and enjoy the music
and wave to the humans on the other side of the screen. There is an
avatar limit so you'll need to register (click here to teleport).
7 PM - The Adventures of Filthy Fluno
The
Adventures of Filthy Fluno is a mixed reality mashup of art, music and
virtual culture. Filthy Fluno, who is in real life artist Jeffrey
Lipsky, interprets the people, places and events of the online world
through his art. come along to the opening and enjoy the souns of
Komuso Tokugawa's raucous singing, harping and guitar playing. You'll
also see Cylindrian Rutabaga who has been featured on MTV and in
Billboard Magazine for her soulful edgy music. Komuso shows are very
popular - it's a good idea to arrive early to ensure your place and be
prepared for a little lag. The event promised to be lots of fun. In
Artropolis (click here to teleport).
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Sunday, December 7
Do you love the SL music scene? Join the club crawl to visit 10 Clubs and see 10 DJs for 10 Hours of continuous partying to celebrate the music scene in unity! Starting at 9 AM with DJ Renanyoy Oh at Beach Club; 10 AM has DJ Silus
Kappler at Enigma; 11AM with DJ GaryN Ansome at House Divaz; 12 PM DJ
GW Raymaker at FAC; 1 PM with DJ Ace8 Clip at Drain; 2 PM with DJ
Asrael Hax at Stupid Qpit; 3 PM is TBA; 4 PM is at Club Sintetika; 5 PM
with DJ Jasminx saenz at Club Haze; and wraps up at 6 PM DJ 2ndthoughts
Brando.IM Bridgitte Boucher or Queen Coronet for a tp or landmarks available the The Underground Home Office in Crack Monkey Cove (click here to teleport.)
12 PM - Metaverse Week in Review
Come
along and join Malburns Writer and Tara Yeats as they review each week
in the metaverse. Watch the episode live as they give provide an
informal and interesting discussion on the week that has been. The
program has been running for over 18 months and is now streamed live in
multiple locations. To watch with active chat, www.metaverseweekinreview.com is best.
1 PM - Sine Wave Pub Quiz
Sine Wave have regularly scheduled quizzes that are held across the metaverse in a range of locations. Each quiz has three rounds - Music, Film, and General knowledge (also known as the How fast can you Google something?
round). You will need to be able to see streaming video and will hear
questions on the music stream. Open to all residents (and also
available on some Open Sim grids). You will submit your answers to a
bot standing next to the screen attired in white top hat and tails as
per the piture on the website. Select a Sim where you wish to play or head to Sine Waves home sim at Bell Curve Island (click here to teleport).
1 PM - Exhibit Opening: Metempsyche's Garden
Metempsyche's Garden is Alizarin Goldflake's latest Immersive Art creation. This exhibit explores mysterious metaphysics and reincarnation. As Alizarin describes it, "A fish is reborn as a mermaid, who is herself reborn as a human. The human is reborn as a winged spirit, who is finally reborn as a moth. The cycle repeats and overlaps and turns in on itself, capturing the evolution of life from the sea to the land to the air, with the lovely insect finally inheriting the earth." Metempsyche's Garden is situated in a beautiful landscape installation by Keith Extraordinaire. It is suggested to view with your Environment Settings on Midnight. In Sunfire (click here to teleport.)
6 PM - Komuso Tokugawa at Second Arts
SL blues overlord Komuso Tokugawa will be playing Second Arts and celebrating the Bay City Visions show. If you've never seen Komuso live, you're missing one of SL's top live performers! In Bay City Tanelorn (click here to teleport.)
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Monday, December 8
12 PM - Metanomics: The Book Show
Benjamin Duranske of the popular legal blog VirtuallyBlind.com takes a turn as guest host of Metanomics, interviewing authors of books about virtual world. Confirmed guests include: Mark Bell (Second Life For Dummies), Eddy Shah (Second World), Julian Dibbell (My Tiny Life; Play Money), and New World Notes' own Wagner James Au (The Making of Second Life; Second Life: The Official Guide). Hear the insights of the experts, and learn what to get your favorite avatar for the Holidays! This
event takes place in a variety of partner venues, please visit the Metanomics page for one of the
multiple SLurls.
5 PM - Grand Opening of Spork
Come celebrate the re-creation of the Spork main store on LVS Drive. Come party with ColoradoCowboy DJ'ing the night as well as some great free stuff. In LVS Drive (click here for teleport).
9 PM - Avilion Mist Live StoryTelling
Grab your tea, coffee or hot chocolate, make yourself comfortable and listen to Wolf of The Mist,
Caz Lobo as she reads live. Her reading includes short stories, fun
stories, sad stories, and some of her own work along with the continued
story, The Sight. Put your headset on and join the pack as this white wolf weaves her wolf magic for you. In Avilion Vale (click here to teleport).
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Tuesday, December 9
12 PM - Frogg Marlowe @ Blarney Stone
Dublin is known for supporting live music and for featuring an excellent mix of well-known artists and new artists. Frogg Marlowe
is bringing his original folk and blues to the Blarney this afternoon
and if you have not yet heard him, it's most definitely worth
teleporting to Dublin to catch the show. Frogg has been on MTV and his
music can be purchased in the real world on CD. (click here to teleport).
1 PM - Java FX SDK Launch: Live from Devoxx
Java
FX is Sun's next-generation framework for building fabulous-looking
client/server browser apps on the desktop and across the universe of
embedded and mobile devices. The Java FX SDK is out this week, and come
learn about this new app, live from Devoxx in Belgium: courtesy of
Sun's Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Sun's Client Software!
Interviewing Danny will be Jonathan Erickson, Editorial Director of Dr.
Dobb's Journal. In Sun Microsystems (click here to teleport).
2 PM - TB Andel Live @ Sternberg Blues Fabrik
I have been keeping my eyes out for TB Andel as I was told by one of his fellow Portugese country men that he's an electric ukelele wonder man who plays unique typical folk songs from Portugal. Others say, he
pays with a hand crafted Electric Ukulele bringing great clearity with
the love of music he brings to all listening. TB is a experienced and
professional musician playing around the world for the last 24 years
with his original music and also keeping Portuguese Tradition alive. If you like World Music, you are bound to enjoy the sounds of TB Andel. In Xenosaur (click here to teleport).
3:30 PM - Thinkers Lecture 2008
With
over 120 million digital cameras, 230 million mp3 players and a billion
PCs uploading written documents, audio recordings and video footage -
how do we find what is relevant and what we are looking for? Only a
minute amount of all of the information available is relevant to any
one person at any one time. As search engine and data mining comapnies
increase their ability to anticipate your needs and find meaningful
patterns in the information humanity accumulates, what are they
evolving into? In Support for Healing(click here to teleport).
4 PM - A Greenie's Life - Fun on a Gigantic Scale!
Visit
the Greenie sims, take a sightseeing tour with our wonderful hostess
and play memory or trivia with her. Hit the most cockroaches until 6pm
SLT and win Greenie Gear of your choice (copy or transfer versions
available as prizes). For more information IM Duda Poulot or Angelina
Rhode or join the Zero-G group. At Greenies Lawn Rezzable (click here to teleport).
7 PM - The Second Question Show
The Second Question! is a
fun, fast paced science-themed quiz show. Join hosts Pooky Amsterdam
and Hydra Shaftoe as they "take you on a one hour whirl of madness and
merrymaking" with the "best and the brightest of experience in SL &
beyond." In Spindrift (click here to teleport.)
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Wednesday, December 10
8 AM - Creative Writing
This workshop is for anyone who wants to write short stories or dabbles
in the field. It will cover methodology, expression and the creative
side of short story writing. The workshop also has a great deal of audience participation, and
hopefully you will learn how to sit down and actually write a coherent,
great short story and the in's and out's of getting it published. At the end of the workshop everyone who participated will write their best short story and we will create an e-book on SL from it and it is distributed all
over, with your name and copyright to your story. So come and learn how
to write a great short story! In Akamu Cove (click here to teleport.)
12-3PM - Karaoke @ ~O~ Lounge
'Tis
the season... which, of course, means that Christmas Carols will be on
the Karaoke menu. Come along and sing or listen to others. Have some
silly fun in the silly season. Your host is Canipanic Maslow. In Pride (click here to teleport.)
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The Wild Card!
Looking for fun and adventure? The Wild Card! highlights just the day, time and a SLurl for an event. The Wild Card! may be anything, but I’ll try to pick something that promises to fun, lively, or interesting.
Sunday, December 7 at 4 PM (click here to teleport).
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This week's list was co-written by Moggs Oceanlane.
Submitting events for coverage in New World Notes
Every Thursday, NWN highlights events for the upcoming weekend into next Wednesday. Please see the guidelines below for details on submitting events.
Guidelines:
- Events for the coming week must be received by Tuesday Noon SLT.
- Include all the relevant info &em; day, time, and especially the SLURL to the event location.
- Please send related graphics such as screenshots or photo of the event site, if available.
- Events with artistic, cultural, scientific, political, creative, and/or educational value preferred.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bonus consideration given to game-related or machinima events, and for events with "I've never seen that in SL before!" value.
If you'd like an event to be considered, send the description and event information via email to Charlanna Beresford. Or contact us in-world via IM or drop a folder or notecard in our inventories that contains your event information and images.
Email [email protected] or send an invitation to an event using this email address via Google Calendar. You may also submit events on Facebook to Charlanna Beresford.
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