Chestnut Rau’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events…
On February 27th beginning at 3:30 pm SLT, the Erie Isle Roleplay Community will host the Second Life premiere of the award-winning documentary "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown" , a chronicle of the life and work of science fiction author HP Lovecraft. This film won Best Documentary at the 2008 Comic Con International and features interviews with top horror writers and filmmakers such as John Carpenter, Neil Gaiman, Guillermo del Toro, S.T. Joshi, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Andrew Migliore, Robert M. Price, Peter Straub, and Stuart Gordon.
Plans for this special event include a screening of the movie, a live Q&A session with the filmmakers, a Lovecraft themed costume contest, and more. The public is invited as the filmmakers, Wyrd Studios creative partners Frank H. Woodward, James B. Myers, and William Janczewski join the Erie Isle characters and their guests in-world for the evening. In Erie Isle. [SLurl teleport at this link]
Also after the break: Virtual Haiti Fundraising Ball, Music to Honor Sojourner's Legacy, SF Bay Area Musicians Jam at The Pocket and much much more
(All event times in SLT, "Second Life Time"-- i.e., Pacific Standard)
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Thursday 2/25
2:30pm - Mayo Clinic Cardiologist Speaks
Dr. Margaret Lloyd is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic with an appointment in cardiac diseases. In SL she is known as MedSci Ellisson and today she will talk about Atrial Fibrillation, the most common abnormal heart rhythm. This talk will be presented simultaneously in Voice and text chat at The Sojourner Auditorium. In Virtual Ability Island. [SLurl teleport at this link]
6pm - SLCC: Build a Low Prim bedroom
Do you need low prim bedroom furniture for your Linden Home? Why not learn to build it yourself? The Easy Low Prim Bedroom series is perfect for those new to building or with a small plot with limited prims. Class 3 finishes the series with the bedset, consisting of the bedframe, mattress, bedcover and two pillows with sleep scripts for a total 5 prims. Class size is limited to arrive early to secure your spot. In Learning Pond. [SLurl teleport at this link]
7pm - Celtic Myths and Legends with Shandon Loring
Tonight Shandon will share with you excerpts from 'The Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Legend: A Definitive Sourcebook of Magic, Vision, and Lore' in which authors John and Caitlin Matthews have compiled one of the most comprehensive collections of Celtic lore ever, drawing from every known source from the Celts' well-known classics, to neglected sources and forgotten archives. Their fresh translations and lucid commentary make this an essential text for anyone who has ever felt drawn to the Celtic spirit. Stories read in voice. In West of Ireland. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Friday 2/26
All Weekend - Haiti Relief Benefit Events
In tandem
with Virtual Haiti Relief, Nonprofit Commons will host a Haitian
cultural festival February 26-28th to raise donations for
Hope for Haiti Now. Events
on Friday February 26th will include exhibitions, speakers, a
rebuilding challenge and a virtual goods auction. Live music will be
featured around the clock beginning at 5am Saturday 2/27
and run straight through to 10pm on Sunday 2/28. A charity
ball (black tie) will be hosted by Preferred Family Healthcare from
7-10pm on Saturday 2/27. Go here for more detailed information about the events this weekend. In Nonprofit Commons [SLurl teleport at this link]
Noon - Builders Brewery Class: Programming and Placing Sits in Furniture
This is a basic beginners guide to using a sit target/animator script to put sits into furniture. You must know how to link prims, and know what a root prim is to take this class. You must be able also to edit linked prims and know how to add things to the contents of a prim by dragging onto the contents tab of the Build menu. In Builders Brewery. [SLurl teleport at this link]
4pm - Open Mic at The Lyrical Cafe Poetry Lounge
If you are a poet or love to listen to the spoken word, you are invited to come join us at the Lyrical Cafe Poetry Lounge. You can bring a poem and read your work to a live audience or you can listen to those brave enough to bare their poetic souls. The Lyrical Cafe Poetry Lounge has Open Mic for all, every Tuesday and Friday night at 4pm SL time. In Peaceful Dreams. [SLurl teleport at this link]
6pm to Midnight - SF Bay Area Musicians Jam Live at The Pocket
The Pocket always brings the very best musicians together for a long evening of live music and today when you get there you are in for a special treat. San Francisco area musicians Automatic Quandry and his RL band, Blues Heron, demarco Spatula, Ted Higgins, Pato Milo, ZeroOne Paz and other special guests will perform. With this line up and the wonderful crowd that packs the Pocket, you really do not want to miss this night of amazing music. In Freestar Bay Isle. [SLurl teleport at this link]
10pm - Tyrehl Byk's Particle Phantasmagoria
This event is for all those who love particle effects! You will experience 24 minutes of custom designed particle effects synchronized to a variety of contemporary and classic music. Custom Camera controls bring you right to the stage and give everyone the best view. Please be prompt. There is limited seating at the event. Touch the Teleport sign at the Landing Zone to go to the theater. In Disturbed Fear. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Saturday 2/27
10am - Oxbridge Class: SL Photography
Learn how to take great pictures in Second Life. This class covers all
the essential basics, including: lighting, composition, primary
windlight settings, and tips for getting the best out of your SL
photographs in graphics programs. This class will be held at the Caledon Oxbridge Lecture Hall, between the "Cathedral" and the "Hall of Avatar Motion". In Caledon Oxbridge. [SLurl teleport at this link]
2:30pm - John Stuart Mill on The Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual
This is a talk on Chapter IV of On Liberty--on the limits of the authority of society over the individual. New arguments, new people, new insights. Please ask Rjoammpm Dragppme for tp if you get lost, as the actual event is on a private parcel. NOTE: This is an "Adult" sim; there is no dress code, but common courtesy is required and tolerance of avatars with unusual appearances is expected. In Philosophy Island. [SLurl teleport at this link]
4:30pm - Grace McDunnough Sings Live at The Sojourners Dream
Grace McDunnough will help raise funds to support Soujourner's dream of bringing the experience of walking through a brain impacted by a stroke to SL. Listen to Grace blend guitar and voice into a ray of sunshine that will wash over you and lift your spirits. In The Soujourners Dream. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Sunday 2/28
11am to 12:30pm - NCI Class: Textures and Water Effects
This class is a smorgasbord of information in which you will learn building, texturing and scripting tips enabling you to create streams, fountains, pools and other watery builds. This class includes a freebie pack with everything you need to get started working with water effects. You should know the basics of building and scripting to get the most out of this experience. In Fishermans Cove. [SLurl teleport at this link]
Noon and 3pm - Machinima Artists Guild Awards
In October 2009, the Members of the Machimina Artist Guild presented the M.A.G. Award, recognizing films in five caregories: Art, Fun, Love, Drama, and Newbie. L$370,000 was given in prize money to 15 lucky winners. As part of a special showing, the winners of the 2009 M.A.G. Awards will be screened today at the Bayjou Theater with opening events at noon and 3:00 p.m. The event will be hosted by Blondin Linden at the Bayjou Theater courtesy of Linden Lab with the Bay City Alliance. In Bay City Rollers. [SLurl teleport at this link]
Noon - For the Love of McQueen Fashion Event
Unconventional fashion designer Alexander McQueen who dressed everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Lady GaGa recently died. The SL fashion world will pay tribute to his genius in an epic fashion show today on the Golden shopping sim. The show will be hosted by Angie Mornington of Fabulous Fashion and staged on a build realized by Babyhoney Bailey based on Rusch Raymaker's inspiration for the show. Machinimaist TommyLee Nightfire will be creating a film documenting the creations and show. More than 38 top designers will be participating and you can read more about them here.
For the Love of McQueen will benefit Keep a Child Alive which is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Don't miss this spectacular event! In GOL. [SLurl teleport at this link]
1pm - Off the Shelf Hosts Author Peter May
Peter May, author of The China Thrillers and The Enzo Files will be the guest on Off the Shelf, a radio/podcast show hosted by Kghia Gherardi and Simeon Beresford. The show focuses on interviews with authors, poets, publishers, editors, librarians, literary venue hosts, and other bookish people, both within Second Life and outside. Off the Shelf is produced by Kghia Gherardi, Simeon Beresford and Radio Riel. It can be heard on Radio Riel and the podcasts can be downloaded here and from from iTunes. Today Peter May will talk about his award winning novels and his newest work Virtually Dead, which is set in Second Life. In Awen. [SLurl teleport at this link]
4pm to 6pm - The Closing Party at the Sojourners Dream
The Sojourner was a visionary who saw Second Life as a powerful source of learning and experience. One of her visions was the creation of an immersive walk through brain that would show the effects of a stroke. She had started to lay the ground work for this project prior to her untimely death. Dream Travelers, under the direction of Golda Stein and Dorie Bernstein, have vowed to make her dream a reality. This fundraiser will support making Sojourner's Dream come true. T1 Radio will be broadcasting and Dorie Bernstein will be presenting the Brain, the past, present and future. In Soujourners Dream. [SLurl teleport at this link]
5pm to 9pm - Live Music to Benefit Wounded Warriors
Frets Nirvana, US Military Veterans Group in Second Life and Symbiotic Productions have come together to stage month benefit concerts on Patriot Island to benefit the non-profit organization Wound Warriors. Today the first concert in the series will be held and will feature some of Second Life's most popular musicians Frets Nirvana, Von Johin, Blue4U Nowicka and PonDman Hallan. The line up is great and the music is going to be bluesy and home grown with a hefty dose of classic tunes to get you off your feet and dancing. In Patriot Island. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Monday 3/1
Ongoing - No Texture Art Challenge at Erato Caerleon
Erato of Caerleon is hosting an exhibit that features the work of 32 artists whose challenge was to create artwork using no textures. Sculpties, scripts, bumpiness and color were permitted. Come out and see the amazing creations by artists such as Dale Innis, Corcosman Voom, FreeWee Ling, Josina Burgess, Miso Susanowa and many other names art lovers will recognise. The entries are situated along a path through a jungle created by the very talented soror Nishi. In Erato of Caerleon. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Tuesday 3/2
3:30pm - Thinkers: My Friends Are Strangers
On social networking sites like Avatars United it is not uncommon to receive friend requests from people you have never heard of. So what do friends mean in this context? Come and discuss with Extropia. All welcome. In Pennyroyal. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Wednesday3/3
4pm to 7pm - A Full Evening of Live Music at Nitida Ridge
Starting off three hours of great music is Shamanes who joins the SL audience from Argentina. They are a versatile band whose main genre is Latin pop but who are known to swing into rock, blues, and jazz. At 5pm the fun and fantastic JellyJellyJelly Benelli sings her folksy brand of blues, which include her beautiful original music and some familiar cover songs. Finally at 6pm, guitarist Maontian Gilruth will delight you with his guitar work and his treatment of obscure and well known cover songs, peppered by his own original songs. In Nitida Ridge. [SLurl teleport at this link]
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Event Submission 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 screen shots 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.
If you'd like an event to be considered, send the description and event information via email to Chestnut Rau at [email protected]. Or contact her in-world via IM.
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