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Wind in the Willows Listening Parties
Inaugural party and broadcast!
Chapter 1: The River Bank
Saturday, Jan 10th
10am-11am SLT
Tinyville Library, Caledon Tanglewood
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tanglewood/23/214/23/
Come as a character from Kenneth Grahame's novel, The Wind in the Willows, and join us as we listen to, and discuss, a new chapter each month of the adventures of the shy but loyal Mole, the poetical Water Rat, the brave Otter, the gruff but kindly Mr. Badger, the vainglorious Toad, and all the other creatures of wood, stream, and field who populate this much-loved story.
This week, the story begins as Mole, tired of his Spring Cleaning, makes a break for it and meets the Water Rat...and The River...and finds that there's nothing so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Big People may join us in Tinyville, or repose in comfort at the Oxbridge Library in Caledon Oxbridge
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/196/96/24
Those who can't be with us in-world are invited to tune in at http://music.radioriel.org
This is a year-long series, the second Saturday of each month, 2009. Sponsored by the Caledon Library and Rachelville, and produced by Radio Riel
Schedule
And, on the very next day.....
(so you see, they do not actually meet after all. This time)
Caledon Library Book Discussion and Listening Party
Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2009
1-3pm SLT
HG Wells Memorial Library, Caledon Wellsian
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Wellsian/235/239/31
Or tune in at http://music.radioriel.org
This month we peer into the future to consider the poetry of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay's passionate outpourings are rather heightened than constrained by her precise poetic diction. Add to this a strikingly natural and unabashedly frank poetical voice (her works reflect the spirit of nonconformity that pervaded her Greenwich Village milieu) and you have poetry that has been both inspiration and solace for four generations of enthusiastic readers.
Millay is justly celebrated for her ability to combine modernist attitudes with traditional forms, creating a unique American poetry. From a biographical sketch on the Poetry Foundations site:
A reviewer for the London Morning Post wrote, "Without discarding the forms of an older convention, she speaks the thoughts of a new age." American poet and critic Allen Tate also pointed out in the New Republic that Millay used a nineteenth-century vocabulary to convey twentieth-century emotion: "She has been from the beginning the one poet of our time who has successfully stood athwart two ages." And Patricia A. Klemans commented in the Colby Library Quarterly that Millay achieved universality "by interweaving the woman's experience with classical myth, traditional love literature, and nature."
This event will be the second of our "interactively DJ'd" Poetry Discussions. With the kind cooperation of Radio Riel DJ (and Millay enthusiast) Gabrielle Riel, we will listen to recordings of the poems, discuss them, and then listen to them a second (or, who knows, even a third time.)
Wind in the Willows Listening Parties
Inaugural party and broadcast!
Chapter 1: The River Bank
Saturday, Jan 10th
10am-11am SLT
Tinyville Library, Caledon Tanglewood
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Come as a character from Kenneth Grahame's novel, The Wind in the Willows, and join us as we listen to, and discuss, a new chapter each month of the adventures of the shy but loyal Mole, the poetical Water Rat, the brave Otter, the gruff but kindly Mr. Badger, the vainglorious Toad, and all the other creatures of wood, stream, and field who populate this much-loved story.
This week, the story begins as Mole, tired of his Spring Cleaning, makes a break for it and meets the Water Rat...and The River...and finds that there's nothing so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Big People may join us in Tinyville, or repose in comfort at the Oxbridge Library in Caledon Oxbridge
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Those who can't be with us in-world are invited to tune in at http://music.radioriel.org
This is a year-long series, the second Saturday of each month, 2009. Sponsored by the Caledon Library and Rachelville, and produced by Radio Riel
Schedule
- Jan 10: The River Bank
- Feb 14: The Open Road
- March 14: The Wild Wood
- April 11: Mr. Badger
- May 9: Dulce Domum
- June 13: Mr. Toad
- July 11: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Aug 8: Toad's Adventures
- Sept 12: Wayfarers All
- Oct 10: The Further Adventures of Toad
- Nov 14: Like Summer Tempests came his Tears
- Dec 12: The Return of Ulysses
- Jan 9, 2010: All Day Programming of the entire book
And, on the very next day.....
(so you see, they do not actually meet after all. This time)
Caledon Library Book Discussion and Listening Party
Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sunday, Jan 11th, 2009
1-3pm SLT
HG Wells Memorial Library, Caledon Wellsian
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Or tune in at http://music.radioriel.org
This month we peer into the future to consider the poetry of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay's passionate outpourings are rather heightened than constrained by her precise poetic diction. Add to this a strikingly natural and unabashedly frank poetical voice (her works reflect the spirit of nonconformity that pervaded her Greenwich Village milieu) and you have poetry that has been both inspiration and solace for four generations of enthusiastic readers.
Millay is justly celebrated for her ability to combine modernist attitudes with traditional forms, creating a unique American poetry. From a biographical sketch on the Poetry Foundations site:
A reviewer for the London Morning Post wrote, "Without discarding the forms of an older convention, she speaks the thoughts of a new age." American poet and critic Allen Tate also pointed out in the New Republic that Millay used a nineteenth-century vocabulary to convey twentieth-century emotion: "She has been from the beginning the one poet of our time who has successfully stood athwart two ages." And Patricia A. Klemans commented in the Colby Library Quarterly that Millay achieved universality "by interweaving the woman's experience with classical myth, traditional love literature, and nature."
This event will be the second of our "interactively DJ'd" Poetry Discussions. With the kind cooperation of Radio Riel DJ (and Millay enthusiast) Gabrielle Riel, we will listen to recordings of the poems, discuss them, and then listen to them a second (or, who knows, even a third time.)
Continue reading Mr Toad meets Edna St Vincent MIllay.
Listening Party & Book Discussion - The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Sun, August 10, 1pm - 4pm
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/30/180/23
"The Tempest" gives all the storm warnings for hackneyed predictability, with its motley crew of stock character types and situations: the exiled nobleman, the airy spirit, the twisted brutish villain, the stainless young lovers, a shipwreck and a dessert isle. But in the Bard's hands it suffers a sea change... into something rich and strange. Come and enjoy the company of fellow enthusiasts to hear a recording of the entire play, accompanied by discussion of whatever strikes us as we listen... or join us in spirit by tuning in at http://music.radioriel.org.
All lovers of Shakespeare's plays, and likewise all brutes, dupes, dukes, vagrant spirits, drunken butlers, and lovelorn youths are welcome to join us, whether they are familiar with the play or not.
The listening party and book discussion begins the festivities for the third month of Shakespeare Summer, sponsored by the Caledon Library and produced by Radio Riel. The week will feature themed music programing on Radio's Riel's main stream at http://music.radioriel.org and will conclude on Saturday August 16th with a Grand Ball on the enchanted Isle of Winterfell Libris.
gentlebeings, your servant
JJD
Sun, August 10, 1pm - 4pm
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that does fade"
"The Tempest" gives all the storm warnings for hackneyed predictability, with its motley crew of stock character types and situations: the exiled nobleman, the airy spirit, the twisted brutish villain, the stainless young lovers, a shipwreck and a dessert isle. But in the Bard's hands it suffers a sea change... into something rich and strange. Come and enjoy the company of fellow enthusiasts to hear a recording of the entire play, accompanied by discussion of whatever strikes us as we listen... or join us in spirit by tuning in at http://music.radioriel.org.
All lovers of Shakespeare's plays, and likewise all brutes, dupes, dukes, vagrant spirits, drunken butlers, and lovelorn youths are welcome to join us, whether they are familiar with the play or not.
The listening party and book discussion begins the festivities for the third month of Shakespeare Summer, sponsored by the Caledon Library and produced by Radio Riel. The week will feature themed music programing on Radio's Riel's main stream at http://music.radioriel.org and will conclude on Saturday August 16th with a Grand Ball on the enchanted Isle of Winterfell Libris.
gentlebeings, your servant
JJD
Caledon Library Book Discussion
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Sunday, June 15th , 2 - 4pm slt
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/30/180/23
Considered the most varied and original of The Bard's early comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is discovered anew by each generation, as its multiplicity of interpretations and productions shows. The play's fantastical wordplay and imagery is a gorgeous wrapper for a layered tale of the changeable nature of attachment & desire "momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream," which ends, as all good Elizabethan comedies must, with a wedding…but this one is a triple wedding, accompanied by the comic "Play within a play" of Pyramus & Thisbe.
Peopled by such memorable characters as Bottom the Weaver, Titania the proud and impulsive queen of the fairies, and Puck (or Robin Goodfellow), the play transports us to a realm at once as strange and as familiar as a dream.
All lovers of Shakespeare and of fairy lore are invited to join us, as are all Amazon Queens, Sportive Dukes, Star-Crossed Lovers, Sprites, Merry Wanderers of the Night, Talking Walls and Diffident Lions, whether they have read the play or not
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon Victoria City... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.
This Discussion is part of the "Shakespeare Summer", produced by Radio Riel, with the kind assistance of the Foundation for Rich Content. The Dream will continue on June 21st, with a Gala Midsummer Night's Dream Ball, in the Enchanted sim of Hoy, 6-8pm slt. See the Radio Riel blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for more information.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Sunday, June 15th , 2 - 4pm slt
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Considered the most varied and original of The Bard's early comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is discovered anew by each generation, as its multiplicity of interpretations and productions shows. The play's fantastical wordplay and imagery is a gorgeous wrapper for a layered tale of the changeable nature of attachment & desire "momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream," which ends, as all good Elizabethan comedies must, with a wedding…but this one is a triple wedding, accompanied by the comic "Play within a play" of Pyramus & Thisbe.
Peopled by such memorable characters as Bottom the Weaver, Titania the proud and impulsive queen of the fairies, and Puck (or Robin Goodfellow), the play transports us to a realm at once as strange and as familiar as a dream.
All lovers of Shakespeare and of fairy lore are invited to join us, as are all Amazon Queens, Sportive Dukes, Star-Crossed Lovers, Sprites, Merry Wanderers of the Night, Talking Walls and Diffident Lions, whether they have read the play or not
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon Victoria City... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.
This Discussion is part of the "Shakespeare Summer", produced by Radio Riel, with the kind assistance of the Foundation for Rich Content. The Dream will continue on June 21st, with a Gala Midsummer Night's Dream Ball, in the Enchanted sim of Hoy, 6-8pm slt. See the Radio Riel blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for more information.
March Book of the Month at the Caledon Library:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Sun, March 30th, 2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Possibly Kipling's best-known, and likely his most widely adapted, work, the Jungle Book is full of the author's nostalgia for the India he knew as a child -- a place which, if it never existed in the real world, existed so vividly in his imagination it has captivated generations of readers since. The work is also rich with allegory, and the sly, exuberant wit of Kipling's verse.
All Readers of Tales (Critterly and Otherwise) fans of Kipling, and literary schmoozers are welcome to join us, as are likewise all Subtle Panthers, Feral-Child Heros, Fearsome Tigers, Sly Snakes, and courageous Mongeese (Mongooses?) whether they have read the work or not -- and everyone is invited to attend in their Furred, Finned, Scaled, or Feathered best!
Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity,
or found online at
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.
The Caledon Library Book of the Month for January 2008 is The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe.
Published in 1794, Udolopho enjoyed considerable success in its day, but is better remembered for the satirical handling Jane Austen gave it in her Northanger Abbey. With its physically frail yet morally resolute heroine, scheming, brooding villain, gloomy castle and uncanny happenings,it is considered by some to be quite the quintessential Gothic Romance. Radcliffe's writing, too, is very much in the Gothic and Romantic modes, replete with overheated descriptive turns, and exuberant "word-paintings" of natural beauty, supernatural terror, and the reactions of the novel's canonical Sensitive Souls
Attendees are invited to come in their darkest and most dramatic dress. All Readers of 4-volume Novels, Dreamers, Persons of Exaggerated Sensibility, Gothicks, and Romanticks are invited to join us, as are likewise all Virtuous Maidens, Gloomy Evildoers, Dashing Younger Brothers, and Uncanny Phenomena, whether they have read the work or not.
The Discussion will be led by Alexx McLaglen, of Caledon. As a special treat, the Library's own Dame Kghia Gherardi will lead a Book Trivia Quiz (such as she is renowned for at the BookStacks book discussion group) on the Gothic Novel.
Our very good friends at Radio Riel are providing spine-tingling atmospheric music, leading up to and during the event. Tune in at http://music.radioriel.org and see their blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com for the sublime and alarming details!
Published in 1794, Udolopho enjoyed considerable success in its day, but is better remembered for the satirical handling Jane Austen gave it in her Northanger Abbey. With its physically frail yet morally resolute heroine, scheming, brooding villain, gloomy castle and uncanny happenings,it is considered by some to be quite the quintessential Gothic Romance. Radcliffe's writing, too, is very much in the Gothic and Romantic modes, replete with overheated descriptive turns, and exuberant "word-paintings" of natural beauty, supernatural terror, and the reactions of the novel's canonical Sensitive Souls
Attendees are invited to come in their darkest and most dramatic dress. All Readers of 4-volume Novels, Dreamers, Persons of Exaggerated Sensibility, Gothicks, and Romanticks are invited to join us, as are likewise all Virtuous Maidens, Gloomy Evildoers, Dashing Younger Brothers, and Uncanny Phenomena, whether they have read the work or not.
The Discussion will be led by Alexx McLaglen, of Caledon. As a special treat, the Library's own Dame Kghia Gherardi will lead a Book Trivia Quiz (such as she is renowned for at the BookStacks book discussion group) on the Gothic Novel.
Our very good friends at Radio Riel are providing spine-tingling atmospheric music, leading up to and during the event. Tune in at http://music.radioriel.org and see their blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com for the sublime and alarming details!
Book Discussion : The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
January 26th, 2008
12-2 PM SLT
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Caledon Library Book discussion and Mad Tea Party
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.
.
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
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.
.
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