December 2007 Archives
The Caledon Library announces two gala events to mark the opening of its newest branch, the H.G. Wells. Memorial Branch Library in Caledon Wellsian. A masked street party on January 5 will celebrate the opening of the Library and its inaugural exhibit on the New Orleans Carnival.
Voyages to Imagination: A Carnival Masquerade
The roadway along the northern shore of Caledon Wellsian will be host to a festival of masking, mumming, music,and dance from 12 noon to 6 pm SLT on January 5th, 2008, a date traditionally observed as the festival of Twelfth Night.
Marking the end of the Christmas season and the start of the Carnival season, Twelfth Night, the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany in the Christian liturgical calendar, has traditionally been a time of merriment and mischief-making befitting the brief and topsy-turvy reign of the Lord of Misrule. The Library is pleased to invite all of Caledon's citizens and friends to our Twelfth Night festivities; a most hearty invitation is extended to those for whom Caledon is yet unknown, that they might discover the pleasures of this fabled land.
Masking is most courteously and heartily encouraged for this event Appropriately festive music will be supplied by the able music conjurers of Radio Riel, and an assortment of seasonal refreshments will be offered. Opportunities will be offered for public dancing, as well as more private forms of entertainment, equally traditional in this season of misrule and upending, as the spirits move.
"Butterfly of Winter": Visitors to the New Orleans Carnival.
An exhibit at the H.G. Wells Memorial Branch Library, Caledon Wellsian
Twelfth Night Through Easter Sunday, Two Thousand and Eight.
"Carnival is a butterfly of winter whose last real flight of Mardi Gras forever ends his glory.." (PerryYoung, The Mystick Krewe)
In the years following the American Civil War, moods of reconciliation and discovery swept the country. Writers of "local color" fiction and travel narratives filled the periodical press with stories of exotic climes and distinctive cultural practices that deepened and complicated the fragile spirit of national unity.
No city in the United States was more exotic and distinctive than New Orleans and no moment better demonstrated her distinctiveness than the Carnival season, nestled in the Christian liturgical calendar between the Christmas feast culminating in Twelfth Night and the onset of Lent as Ash Wednesday dawned. The climax of Carnival was Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) celebrated across the Gulf Coast, but with particular fervor and intention in the Crescent City.
To celebrate the opening of the newest branch of The Caledon Library, an exhibit will be mounted in the H. G. Wells Memorial Library in Caledon Wellsian, beginning on January 5. This exhibit, curated by Mr. Rudolfo Woodget, will highlight the distinctive features of the New Orleans Carnival in the nineteenth century, as reported by visitors to the city. Illustrative material from periodicals of the era will be augmented by a collection of texts
from visitors, and opened up to the understanding of visitors to the exhibit by Mr. Woodget's own knowledge of the Carnival in later years.
Visitors to the exhibit may anticipate learning sundry colorful facts about the origins of the New Orleans Carnival, its masquerade balls and secret societies, including accounts of masked revelers on Mardi Gras, of scandalous intrigues, and of the rumored infatuation of a Russian Grand Duke and an American show-girl.
The H.G. Wells Memorial Branch of the Caledon Library will house a collection of materials with the theme of travel, adventure, and exploration, whether across the geography of the spinning globe, or that of the unbounded lands of the imagination.. Readers are invited to come investigate the 19th century's notions of the Art of Going, in accounts of journeys both real and imaginary.
The building housing the Wells Memorial Library has been designed for The Caledon Library by Miss Serra Anansi, noted architect and designer, and founder of Winterfell, a darkly mythic region with special ties to the Independent State of Caledon. Miss Serra's remarkable building celebrates the expansive curiosity of Mr. Wells' most imaginative voyages of imagination and offers a warm and comfortable space for telling and re-telling stories at voyage's end.
Gentlebeings, Your Servant
JJ Drinkwater
Voyages to Imagination: A Carnival Masquerade
The roadway along the northern shore of Caledon Wellsian will be host to a festival of masking, mumming, music,and dance from 12 noon to 6 pm SLT on January 5th, 2008, a date traditionally observed as the festival of Twelfth Night.
Marking the end of the Christmas season and the start of the Carnival season, Twelfth Night, the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany in the Christian liturgical calendar, has traditionally been a time of merriment and mischief-making befitting the brief and topsy-turvy reign of the Lord of Misrule. The Library is pleased to invite all of Caledon's citizens and friends to our Twelfth Night festivities; a most hearty invitation is extended to those for whom Caledon is yet unknown, that they might discover the pleasures of this fabled land.
Masking is most courteously and heartily encouraged for this event Appropriately festive music will be supplied by the able music conjurers of Radio Riel, and an assortment of seasonal refreshments will be offered. Opportunities will be offered for public dancing, as well as more private forms of entertainment, equally traditional in this season of misrule and upending, as the spirits move.
"Butterfly of Winter": Visitors to the New Orleans Carnival.
An exhibit at the H.G. Wells Memorial Branch Library, Caledon Wellsian
Twelfth Night Through Easter Sunday, Two Thousand and Eight.
"Carnival is a butterfly of winter whose last real flight of Mardi Gras forever ends his glory.." (PerryYoung, The Mystick Krewe)
In the years following the American Civil War, moods of reconciliation and discovery swept the country. Writers of "local color" fiction and travel narratives filled the periodical press with stories of exotic climes and distinctive cultural practices that deepened and complicated the fragile spirit of national unity.
No city in the United States was more exotic and distinctive than New Orleans and no moment better demonstrated her distinctiveness than the Carnival season, nestled in the Christian liturgical calendar between the Christmas feast culminating in Twelfth Night and the onset of Lent as Ash Wednesday dawned. The climax of Carnival was Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) celebrated across the Gulf Coast, but with particular fervor and intention in the Crescent City.
To celebrate the opening of the newest branch of The Caledon Library, an exhibit will be mounted in the H. G. Wells Memorial Library in Caledon Wellsian, beginning on January 5. This exhibit, curated by Mr. Rudolfo Woodget, will highlight the distinctive features of the New Orleans Carnival in the nineteenth century, as reported by visitors to the city. Illustrative material from periodicals of the era will be augmented by a collection of texts
from visitors, and opened up to the understanding of visitors to the exhibit by Mr. Woodget's own knowledge of the Carnival in later years.
Visitors to the exhibit may anticipate learning sundry colorful facts about the origins of the New Orleans Carnival, its masquerade balls and secret societies, including accounts of masked revelers on Mardi Gras, of scandalous intrigues, and of the rumored infatuation of a Russian Grand Duke and an American show-girl.
The H.G. Wells Memorial Branch of the Caledon Library will house a collection of materials with the theme of travel, adventure, and exploration, whether across the geography of the spinning globe, or that of the unbounded lands of the imagination.. Readers are invited to come investigate the 19th century's notions of the Art of Going, in accounts of journeys both real and imaginary.
The building housing the Wells Memorial Library has been designed for The Caledon Library by Miss Serra Anansi, noted architect and designer, and founder of Winterfell, a darkly mythic region with special ties to the Independent State of Caledon. Miss Serra's remarkable building celebrates the expansive curiosity of Mr. Wells' most imaginative voyages of imagination and offers a warm and comfortable space for telling and re-telling stories at voyage's end.
Gentlebeings, Your Servant
JJ Drinkwater
One of the main tributary streams that flows into the broad, sweeping
river of Caledon Culture, is the literary genre, visual aesthetic, and
technogeekistologickal sensibility of Steampunk. The Caledon library
has, these last some several months, been diligently researching and
preparing the materials for a collection dedicated to this beloved and
absorbing subject.
Curators Alice Burgess and Turing Weyland have sought out works and references, both authoritative and extraordinary, to inform, enlighten, and delight the serious seeker after knowledge and the debonair dilettante alike. One fruit of their labours, a list of reference links on this topic, is to be seen in the Caledon Library Reading Room, in VictoriaCity, under the Direction of Reference Curator Miss Teofila Matova. Further indications of this immense undertaking may be seen, here, on Mr Weyland's Page-Flake, Chock full o' Steam. Visitors to Caledon may look to see the collection installed on the 4th floor of the Whitehorn Library, in Caledon VictoriaCity, early in the coming year.
In the meantime, we are proud to present the Aetheric Musings upon all things Boiler-Powered, Intricately-Cogged, Brass-Plated, Diverse, and Appealingly Over-Engineered , of Curator Turing Weyland: The Steampunk Lexicon
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Curators Alice Burgess and Turing Weyland have sought out works and references, both authoritative and extraordinary, to inform, enlighten, and delight the serious seeker after knowledge and the debonair dilettante alike. One fruit of their labours, a list of reference links on this topic, is to be seen in the Caledon Library Reading Room, in VictoriaCity, under the Direction of Reference Curator Miss Teofila Matova. Further indications of this immense undertaking may be seen, here, on Mr Weyland's Page-Flake, Chock full o' Steam. Visitors to Caledon may look to see the collection installed on the 4th floor of the Whitehorn Library, in Caledon VictoriaCity, early in the coming year.
In the meantime, we are proud to present the Aetheric Musings upon all things Boiler-Powered, Intricately-Cogged, Brass-Plated, Diverse, and Appealingly Over-Engineered , of Curator Turing Weyland: The Steampunk Lexicon
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
In Fields of Frost and Snow
Story Session at the Falling Anvil Public House
Monday, December the 10th
5-8 pm SLT
Story Session at the Falling Anvil Public House
Monday, December the 10th
5-8 pm SLT
Snow crunches under booted feet, and the wind bites sharp, no matter how closely we muffle ourselves up against the cold. But light glimmers through the dark, as stars sprinkle the frosty sky, and lamplight beckons from festively decked windows. We keep the season's harsh realities at bay with shared cheer, and welcome its austere beauty...and gather 'round the fire to beguile the long winter nights with tales.
The Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, the Storytelling Guild of Second Life, and the Caledon Library invite you to a story session at the Falling Anvil Public House, in Caledon Tamrannoch. All tales of winter, its sports and pastimes, its lore and legends, its pangs and its pleasures, are heartily welcomed.
Falling Anvil Public House
Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Caledon Library Book discussion
Sun, December 9, 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 December is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Much quoted, much published, much adapted, much parodied and much loved, Charles Dickens tale of holiday cheer, self-examination, and miserliness redeemed has in some ways become synonymous with Christmas during the reign of Victoria.
Larded like a Christmas roast with elements of the macabre, the tale has more than a little in it of Dickens' love of telling ghost stories. It is also an unapologetic sermon on the virtues and vices Dickens saw about him in London.
Although many retellings bowdlerize it as a sweet and uplifting tale of mean-spiritedness defeated by generosity and loneliness banished by a change of heart, the satire and social critique of the original retain their keen edge. Come reexamine this eternally popular tale in good company at the Caledon Library. All Fans and Detractors of Dickens, Misers, Nephews, Overburdened Clerks, Moralizing Ghosts, Ukulele Players and Literary Schmoozers are welcome, whether they have read the tale or not.
Copies of the Work may be had at the library, or found at the following Aetheric Locale
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54cc/
Broadcast of the work!!
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 work, 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
Thursday 12/6 6pm SLT / 2am GMT
Friday 12/7 6pm SLT / 2am GMT
Saturday 12/8 6pm SLT / 2am GMT
AND, for those who wish to simply plunge themselves into the world so ably depicted by Mr Dickens...
Saturday 12/8 - Sunday 12/9
The work in its entirety
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: Book of the Month On The Air: A Christmas Carol
Sun, December 9, 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 December is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Much quoted, much published, much adapted, much parodied and much loved, Charles Dickens tale of holiday cheer, self-examination, and miserliness redeemed has in some ways become synonymous with Christmas during the reign of Victoria.
Larded like a Christmas roast with elements of the macabre, the tale has more than a little in it of Dickens' love of telling ghost stories. It is also an unapologetic sermon on the virtues and vices Dickens saw about him in London.
Although many retellings bowdlerize it as a sweet and uplifting tale of mean-spiritedness defeated by generosity and loneliness banished by a change of heart, the satire and social critique of the original retain their keen edge. Come reexamine this eternally popular tale in good company at the Caledon Library. All Fans and Detractors of Dickens, Misers, Nephews, Overburdened Clerks, Moralizing Ghosts, Ukulele Players and Literary Schmoozers are welcome, whether they have read the tale or not.
Copies of the Work may be had at the library, or found at the following Aetheric Locale
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54cc/
Broadcast of the work!!
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 work, 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
Thursday 12/6 6pm SLT / 2am GMT
Friday 12/7 6pm SLT / 2am GMT
Saturday 12/8 6pm SLT / 2am GMT
AND, for those who wish to simply plunge themselves into the world so ably depicted by Mr Dickens...
Saturday 12/8 - Sunday 12/9
The work in its entirety
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: Book of the Month On The Air: A Christmas Carol