News & Events: June 2008 Archives
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.