November 2007 Archives
Please join us for the exhibit opening, Sunday, December 2, 3:00 - 6:00 pm SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/45/209/23
Please Sir, May I Have Some More:
Students and Teachers Digest Dickens
Announcing an exhibit of K-12 student- and teacher-created materials related to the works of Charles Dickens, to be held simultaneously on the main and teen grids in Second Life.
Students worldwide share the experience of reading Dickens at some point during their school careers. The primary goal of this exhibit is to bring together a variety of works representing student impressions of Dickens. We hope the final product will offer a unique perspective on a common student experience and serve as a resource for educators and students in Second Life.
In this exhibit, librarians Alice Burgess and Lydia Bracken leave the comfort of the Victorian Age and travel to the future to explore the continued relevance of the works of Mr. Dickens for students in the 21st century. The main grid exhibit, hosted in Caledon at the Whitehorn Memorial Library, will also include Second Life objects created specifically for the exhibit by Teen Second Life residents. The teen grid site, Eye4You Alliance Island, will include Victorian-themed objects and clothing from builders in Caledon. By bringing objects between the two locations, we hope to promote learning and understanding between residents of the two grids. Caledon residents will be able to see for themselves the talent of the teen grid. And teen grid residents, who will eventually move to the main grid, will have an opportunity to become familiar with the rich world of Caledon.
This is the first time an exhibit has been held simultaneously in the teen and adult worlds in Second Life.
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Eye4You Alliance Island, Teen Grid, SL
December 2007 & January 2008
Eye4You Alliance Island is sponsored by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. Visit our website: http://eye4youalliance.youthtech.info/.
The exhibit is sponsored on the Main Grid by The Caledon Library. The Library serves the Independent State of Caledon, a neo-Victorian and Steampunk nation. We maintain a collection of primary and secondary materials from and about the real and imagined 19th century, for the use of residents and other interested parties. We also host exhibits, book talks, lectures, and the occasional donnybrook. The Caledon library is a branch of the Alexandrian Free Library of Lovelace, Caledon, and Abitibi.
Christmas in Caledon!
November 23, 2007 by primperfect
Christmas is a-coming - and Prim Perfect is preparing to help you celebrate with a bumper edition due out on December 15th, and packed with goodies, prizes and competitions - as well as places to go and events to attend over the holiday season!
And the exciting news is that our Sim of the Month is going to be … well, rather a lot of sims, actually, as we shall be celebrating Christmas in the lovely 19th Century steampunkVictorian Independent Republic of Caledon.
The Caledon sims are one of the longest established groups of roleplaying sims with a coherent identity. Their style, elegance and friendliness are all famed across the grid, a lot of it down to the man they call the Guvnah, Desmond Shang, whose vision has created, fuelled and driven Caledon.
It’s also notoriously difficult to buy land on Caledon - and there’s a long waiting list for new residents, so popular are the sims. So that makes it all the more exciting that this month’s competition is to win a home on the exciting new sim of Caledon Morgaine - so new that it doesn’t even appear yet on the map!
As always, the star competition in the magazine carries a month’s free rental of this exciting home - but there’s more too! The Guvnah has said that, if the winner of the competition wishes too, after the month is over, she or he will be able to remain in their new home, simply paying tier. That is truly a memorable star prize!
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Over the next few days, we’ll be telling you about some of the goodies we have lined up for you for Christmas - but to start, there’s an opportunity to win a prize from the Prim Perfect treasure cupboard (and publication) for the best Christmas poem and short story we receive before December 6th. There will be two categories - one for stories and poems related to Caledon - and one for the rest of the grid!
So get writing - and send your entries to primperfect@gmail.com byDecember 6th 2007.
posted with permission from the Prim Perfect Blog
The gentle beings of Radio Riel have, in cooperation with Your Humble Library, initiated a series of programmes of music, appropriate for Caledon's quotidian pursuits. From the Library may be heard on The Radio Riel Aetheric Stream, on week-days, from along about midnight, until three in the afternoon, SLT
This series is the brain-child in particular of the justly celebrated Elrik Merlin, Laird Brideswell. The Learned Laird provides most enlightening commentary on his choices, examples of which may be seen Here, Here, and Here.
Sun, November 18, 2:00 - 4pm SLT
Whitehorn Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/35/180/23
The Caledon Library's Books of the Month for November are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carrol
These works are both well-loved children's classics, and masterpieces of literary absurdity. They have been turned into sugary animations, and lovingly explored and mined by critics, philosophers, legal theorists and logicians. The result of a mysterious synergy between The Liddell sisters, Ina, Alice and Edith, and a brilliant and odd mathematician, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, these works have a dreamlike weave of sense and nonsense that invites the reader to fall down a rabbit hole, partake in a mad tea, and play croquet with a queen.
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In celebration of these works, the Caledon Library invites you to Take Tea with the maddest of the mad: the Librarians and the Literary Enthusiasts of Caledon. Costumes are heartily encouraged: March Hares, Cheshire Cats, Knaves of Hearts, Flamingos, Hedgehogs, Chess Pieces, and all manner of characters from the Works of Lewis Carroll are most cordially invited.
Copies of the Works may be had at the library, or found at the following Aetheric Locales
Alice in Wonderland
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/0/3/19033/19033-h/19033-h.htm
Through the Looking Glass
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/lglass18h.htm
For those who should prefer listening to reading, our very good friends at Radio Riel (may their tribe increase) will be broadcasting Librivox Recordings of the two works, the entirely of this week. The bulk of the week, Listening Parties will be held at the Radio Riel Offices, in Caledon Penzance.
All times are Second Life Time, the which is Pacific Time.
In Serial Format, on the main Radio Riel Aetheric Stream: http://music.radioriel.org
Mon, November 12, 6 - 7pm
Alice in Wonderland - Chapters 1 - 4
Running Time: 51 minutes
Tue, November 13, 6 - 7pm
Alice in Wonderland - Chapters 5 - 8
Running Time: 57 minutes
Wed, November 14, 6 - 7pm
Alice in Wonderland - Chapters 9 - 12 (09 "The Mock Turtle's Story, 10
"The Lobster Quadrille, 09 (11) "Who Stole the Tarts", 10 (12)
"Alice's Evidence")
Running Time: 37 minutes
Thu, November 15, 6 - 7pm
Through the Looking Glass - Chapters 1 - 3
Running Time: 1 Hour
Fri, November 16, 6 - 7pm
Through the Looking Glass - Chapters 4 - 6
Running Time: 1 Hour
Sat, November 17, 6 - 7pm
Through the Looking Glass - Chapters 7 - 12
Running Time: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes
The which announcement may also be seen here:
http://radioriel.blogspot.com/2007/11/alice-in-wonderland-and-through-looking.html
AND, for those who wish to simply plunge themselves into Wonderland and linger there
Sun, November 18, 8am - 2pm
Both works in their entirety
Running Time: 6 Hours
On the Radio Riel Aetheric Stream maintained by Laird Brideswell:
http://snow.slserver.com:9012/stream.m3u
OR
http://music2.radioriel.org/
The which announcement may also be seen here: http://radioriel.blogspot.com/2007/11/alices-long-weekend-on-brideswell.html
At the Caledon Library's Vannevar Bush Reading Garden, Caledon
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon/87/91/23
Hard Headed Cecil Publishing Group announces the much anticipated launch of There Ain't Nothin' Like a Dame, the book by 1wuz Gray. This tome commemorates the heroic efforts of its subject, Lapin Paris (created Dame Lapin by Her Lyonesse, the Vicereine of Caledon) in her capacity as captain of Team Caledon in the Second Life Relay for Life (which said team placed 9th in overall team amounts raised -- more than 1.3 million Lindens -- on behalf of the American Cancer Society, the entire event having raised more than 32 million Lindens) and contains many good wishes and congratulations to our wonderful new Dame.
The author felt moved to express his deep admiration of the former Ms Paris and felt that including as many people as possible in the project was appropriate. THiNC books were the perfect medium and the otter set to with furvor. Here then is the result, presented for the pleasure and edification of the good folk of Caledon
The volume will be on display in the Caledon Library's Vannevar Bush reading Garden for four days, and free copies will be available to visitors.