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Sun, July 20 - Sat, July 26
Shakespeare Summer: Romeo and Juliet Explored In Music
Radio Riel: http://music.radioriel.org
July is the second month of Shakespeare Summer, on which the Caledon Library is proud to be collaborating with Radio Riel. This month, our play is Romeo & Juliet
For the week of July 20th-26th, Radio Riel’s “From The Library” programming
will feature music from, inspired by, based upon, thematically connected to, or providing
commentary and sidelights on, The Bard’s eternally popular play of the
impetuosities and tragedies of youthful love.
In-world, visit any Caledon Library location to listen. Out here in the depths of the Aether, tune your Aetheric Musical Gizmo (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc) to Radio Riel at http://music.radioriel.org
Visit Radio Riel at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for details of the programming
Programming & events this week lead up the the Romeo & Juliet Ball on July 26th, to be heralded further in these pages. For those who are already working on their Costumes, and RolePlay for the Ball, this resource may prove of use.
Gentlebeings, your servantJJD
Story Hour at the Caledon Library, with Rachel Pevensy
American Tales
July 5th 12-1pm slt
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/30/180/23
Come join us as Rachel tells stories, and sings songs, on an American theme with a focus on Westward movement, to celebrate the American Independance Day holiday.
Rachel Pevensy is a RL storyteller with a keen appreciation for all the ins and outs, challenges and rewards of her craft. Her blog may be found at http://www.storytellingadventures.blogspot.com
Story Hour will be broadcast live on Radio Riel. Join us at the Whitehorn, and turn on your music stream, or listen Aetherically at http://music.radioriel.org
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.
American Tales
July 5th 12-1pm slt
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/30/180/23
Come join us as Rachel tells stories, and sings songs, on an American theme with a focus on Westward movement, to celebrate the American Independance Day holiday.
Rachel Pevensy is a RL storyteller with a keen appreciation for all the ins and outs, challenges and rewards of her craft. Her blog may be found at http://www.storytellingadventures.blogspot.com
Story Hour will be broadcast live on Radio Riel. Join us at the Whitehorn, and turn on your music stream, or listen Aetherically at http://music.radioriel.org
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.
Grande Opening of the Toussaint L'Ouverture Library of New Toulouse
and
St. John the Baptist Feast Day Celebration
Thursday, June 26th
6-8 pm SLT
Toussaint L'Ouverture Library building, New Toulouse
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Join the citizens of New Toulouse to christen their new library on
(belated) St. John's Eve, the holiest day of the Voodoo calendar. A
celebration of growth and moving forward, we'll baptize the newest
addition to the New Toulouse neighborhood in gin and gumbo. After a brief ceremony, music and dancing will be provided in New Toulouse style!
I am in reciept of the following, which will, I believe, be of interest to the Savants, SteamPunks, Techno-Enthusiasts, and Right Good Technical Whizz Bangs of Caledon & Related Realms
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Mr. Troy McLuhan of Caledon Moors invites you to the Grand Opening of "Lord Rosse's Monster Telescopes" --- his most ambitious science exhibition in SL so far: An animated, audio-narrated, musical flying carpet tour of Lord Rosse's Monster Telescopes, including The Leviathan of Parsonstown --- the largest telescope of the 19th century.
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008
Time: 12:00 noon PDT (SL Time)
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Space%20Island/154/25/33
The opening may involve cutting giant ribbons, exploding cakes, an attack by alien monsters or the like. Mr. McLuhan might even be prevailed upon say a few words, as might builders who helped him!
More information on the whole of the undertaking and its impetus may be had at...http://www.troymcconaghy.com/monster-telescopes/
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
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.
Caledon Library Book Discussion
The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare
Led by Miss Serafina Puchkina of Caledon
Sat, May 31, 2 - 4pm sltThe Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare
Led by Miss Serafina Puchkina of Caledon
Saturday, May 31st, 2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Well known and regarded in its own day, de la Mare's fantastic tale of journey through a delicately exotic landscape has fallen into some obscurity. This is a shame, as there is an intrinsic pleasure of the author's dreamlike prose, written with a poet's sensibility, as well as in Dorothy Lathrop's vivid and sensuous illustrations.
The work is also of interest as one of the principal influences on J.R.R. Tolkien's "Middle Earth" books. We will be discussing the work as a Hero's Journey of the type explored by Joseph Campbell et al.
All lovers of Quests, fans of tales involving the Innocent and Magical Third Son, Persons Partial to the Poetical, and readers of Fantastic and Fanciful Fiction are invited to join us, whether they have read the work or not.
Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity,
or found online at
http://www.archive.org/stream
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, or Miss Serafina Puchkina.
Introducing the Caledon Library's Gardening Collection!
Sunday, May 18, 1 - 3 p.m. SLT
Robbiani Gardens, Caledon Morgaine
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Morgaine/207/107/22
Miss Kaye Robbiani and Mr. JJ Drinkwater invite you to a Garden Party, to view the newly created Gertrude Jekyll Gardening Collection for the Caledon Library.
Come explore the controversies and conventions of 19th century gardens and gardening, and enjoy the Gardens, both formal and natural, of the Robbiani-Lyle Estate in Caledon Morgaine.
At 2 p.m. Miss Robbiani will give a short garden tour and presentation on Fashions in 19th Century English Gardening, with some remarks on "The Great Garden Debate", the tensions between Landscape Designers, advocating a style in harmony with nature, and Architects, who, seeing the garden as an extension of the house, argued for a more formal, traditional design, with both sides claiming to represent the true English Garden.
We will also offer refreshments, good music and dancing, and good company!
Dress: Semi-formal, with Big Hats
gentlebeings, your servant
JJD
Sunday, May 18, 1 - 3 p.m. SLT
Robbiani Gardens, Caledon Morgaine
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Morgaine/207/107/22
Miss Kaye Robbiani and Mr. JJ Drinkwater invite you to a Garden Party, to view the newly created Gertrude Jekyll Gardening Collection for the Caledon Library.
Come explore the controversies and conventions of 19th century gardens and gardening, and enjoy the Gardens, both formal and natural, of the Robbiani-Lyle Estate in Caledon Morgaine.
At 2 p.m. Miss Robbiani will give a short garden tour and presentation on Fashions in 19th Century English Gardening, with some remarks on "The Great Garden Debate", the tensions between Landscape Designers, advocating a style in harmony with nature, and Architects, who, seeing the garden as an extension of the house, argued for a more formal, traditional design, with both sides claiming to represent the true English Garden.
We will also offer refreshments, good music and dancing, and good company!
Dress: Semi-formal, with Big Hats
gentlebeings, your servant
JJD
Story Hour at the Caledon Library, with Lehua Lamington
Hawaii's Epic Legends: Pele and Hi'iaka, Goddesses of Volcanoes and Healing
Sunday May 4th
12pm-1pm SLT
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VIctoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife
Lehua Lamington is a storyteller with deep roots in the culture of the Hawaiian Islands, and an equally deep love of the art of Telling. She will regale us with tales of Pele (the volatile and magnificent goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence) and Hi'iaka, the goddess of healing, Pele's beloved sister and, at times, rival.
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Lehua will tell her stories using SL Voice. Here is a quick remineder on how to enable Voice in SL (with thanks to librarian Corwin Howlett)
Gentlebeings, Your ServantSetting yourself up to hear voice chat is easy. First go to Edit menu, then choose Preferences, then the Voice Chat tab. Make sure the check mark is in the box marked Enable Voice Chat. (Sometimes it helps to "uncheck" it and "recheck" it.) Also choose "Hear Voice chat from camera position" although it usually works both ways. Click OK.
Now at the bottom right you will see a button that says Talk. Don't press this unless you really want everyone around to hear you. To the left of Talk is a button with chat bubbles and green lines. CLick on that.
A box labeled Active Speakers should show up. Everyone near you with voice enabled will display, and anyone actually speaking will be at the top. When they talk you should see a little green symbol by their name. From this screen, you can control the volume of individual speakers. If you are having trouble hearing a presenter, click on their name, then turn their volume up at the bottom. This will usually solve the problem.
If you are hearing a speaker you don't want to hear, then highlight their name on this list and turn them down or even click on the little speaker icon to mute them.
JJD
From
the Wise Men of Chelm to the Marx Brothers, every culture tells stories
of roistering pranksters, inspired fools, and sage dunderheads. Join
noted storyteller, Gilbert Sapwood, for an hour of tales of clowns and
counsellors, grave philosophers and witless numbskulls...and ask, with us, who is to
say which is really which? .
The session will be streamed live from the Great Lawn of the Jack & Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library, in Caledon VictoriaCity. Following the performance, Gilbert will answer questions regarding traditional tales and the art of storytelling, as time permits.
Story Hour Details
Sunday, April 6th, 2008,6 pm SLT.
Whitehorn Library Great Lawn, Caledon VictoriaCity.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/30/180/23
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.
This is a live audio stream storytelling performance, produced by Radio Riel. Media url address for SL (or listeners outside of SL) : http://music.radioriel.org
ABOUT THE STORYTELLER
Gilbert Sapwood is a storyteller, traveller and collector of tales. He tells stories from the British Isles, Ireland and from his Canadian home, stories from the Brothers Grimm, and tales from the folklore of the Good People, wherever they may be found. He is the founder of, and driving force behind, the Storytelling Guild of Second Life, and is committed to spreading the love of traditional storytelling in Second Life. If there is a fireside, pub or gathering that needs a story, he has one ready. Gil is available for private and public tellings, as short as required, or as long as a winter's night.
Join the "Storytelling Guild of Second Life" group for information on future events.
Sponsored by the Caledon Library, and produced by Radio Riel
For more information, see the Radio Riel blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/
For more on the traditions of Wise Fools and Foolish Wisdom, see
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/humorous.htm
The session will be streamed live from the Great Lawn of the Jack & Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library, in Caledon VictoriaCity. Following the performance, Gilbert will answer questions regarding traditional tales and the art of storytelling, as time permits.
Story Hour Details
Sunday, April 6th, 2008,6 pm SLT.
Whitehorn Library Great Lawn, Caledon VictoriaCity.
http://slurl.com/secondlife
NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.
Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.
This is a live audio stream storytelling performance, produced by Radio Riel. Media url address for SL (or listeners outside of SL) : http://music.radioriel.org
ABOUT THE STORYTELLER
Gilbert Sapwood is a storyteller, traveller and collector of tales. He tells stories from the British Isles, Ireland and from his Canadian home, stories from the Brothers Grimm, and tales from the folklore of the Good People, wherever they may be found. He is the founder of, and driving force behind, the Storytelling Guild of Second Life, and is committed to spreading the love of traditional storytelling in Second Life. If there is a fireside, pub or gathering that needs a story, he has one ready. Gil is available for private and public tellings, as short as required, or as long as a winter's night.
Join the "Storytelling Guild of Second Life" group for information on future events.
Sponsored by the Caledon Library, and produced by Radio Riel
For more information, see the Radio Riel blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/
For more on the traditions of Wise Fools and Foolish Wisdom, see
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk
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.