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A Victorian Miscellany At Christmas

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Join us today, Wednes­day 14th Decem­ber, for a day of music from the Vic­to­ri­an era (and some­times a lit­tle beyond). The pro­gramme will include pop­u­lar songs and bal­lads famil­iar to those of us who fre­quent the music-halls, and the occa­sion­al sea­son­al per­for­mance.

In addi­tion we shall be enjoy­ing some of the mar­vel­lous musi­cal con­fec­tions of Sir Arthur Sul­li­van and Mr Lionel Mon­ck­ton; and, from time to time, we shall regale you with the sounds of the lat­est in Mechan­i­cal Instru­men­ta­tion, includ­ing the famous Carousel Steam-Organ. We will also hear some music from the Band-stand at the Gar­dens of the Crys­tal Palace, Syden­ham.

In addi­tion, do lis­ten-in to “Where Have You Been?” at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, and “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am.

We guar­an­tee that a most enjoy­able time is to be had by all.

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Visit our friends at The Dickens Project, SL

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Our friends and val­ued spon­sors Sean­chai Library are proud to present The Dick­ens Project 2022 Edi­tion. This Sec­ond Life win­ter hol­i­day tra­di­tion invites guests to walk in the steps of Ebenez­er Scrooge in an envi­ron­ment inspired, in part, by Charles Dick­ens’ 1843 novel­la “A Christ­mas Car­ol.” An invit­ed com­mu­ni­ty of Sec­ond Life groups and orga­ni­za­tions are pre­sent­ing a vari­ety of music events, dance per­for­mances, as well as sto­ry pre­sen­ta­tions. Oth­er Project fea­tures include skat­ing, sled­ding, a bal­loon ride, a horse cart tour, and plen­ty of pho­to oppor­tu­ni­ties. The Dick­ens Project regions are open until the end of the day on Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 3rd.

The 2022 Edi­tion fea­tures an Expe­ri­ence-based tele­port sys­tem. Please accept the “Cale­don­ian Stu­dios” Expe­ri­ence in the Wel­come Area to ful­ly explore The Project. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

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Visit Winter Wonderland at Chestnut Hills, SL

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You’re invit­ed to vis­it “Win­ter Won­der­land” at the Chest­nut Hills region — home of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — in Sec­ond Life. Open from now until the end of the year, Win­ter Won­der­land, cre­at­ed by Hon­ey Heart and Sil­lve, is a region-wide win­ter island set in a lake and nes­tled with­in an Alpine moun­tain range. With a calm, relax­ing sea­son­al atmos­phere and plen­ty of places to sim­ply hang out and enjoy the scenery, Win­ter Won­der­land fea­tures an exten­sive sleigh ride around the estate and numer­ous sea­son­al hous­es and cot­tages of dif­fer­ing styles, each with their own exquis­ite dec­o­ra­tion and atmos­phere. There’s also ice-skat­ing, horse-rid­ing, events and oth­er activ­i­ties.

Vis­it Chest­nut Hills in Sec­ond Life, any time this month. Don’t miss it!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/103/220/2544

Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 7

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On Dec 11, 15, 18 and 22, we’re rebroad­cast­ing anoth­er episode in our twice-month­ly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time (8pm and mid­night in the UK), and anoth­er episode is broad­cast every two weeks.

Episode 7 cov­ers the Court Cards of the Minor Arcana.  We dis­cuss the sig­nif­i­cance and func­tion of the Court Cards in the four suits and dif­fer­ent ways of think­ing about them.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sell­ers.

Dreams of India — A Travels With Jack Adventure

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Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: Dreams of India - anoth­er adven­ture from the Trav­els with Jack series.

This adven­ture con­sists  of four half-hour episodes, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fri­day Decem­ber 9, 16, 23 and 30.

 

DREAMS OF INDIA:
A TRAVELS WITH JACK  ADVENTURE

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Where Have You Been? visits The Temple of the Divine Feminine

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In this episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” we vis­it The Tem­ple of the Divine Fem­i­nine, on SLEA Region 2. It’s the cre­ation of 20 women artists and cre­ators coor­di­nat­ed by KismaK­SR Res­i­dent, and occu­pies a full region  — a very full region — with mes­sages cel­e­brat­ing fem­i­nine pow­er, cre­ativ­i­ty, and voic­es, includ­ing some impor­tant focal issues.

The instal­la­tion is divid­ed into four major themed areas arranged like a med­i­cine wheel. Each area has an entry gallery, a space for invo­ca­tion, and the tem­ple itself. Each of these four areas aligns with the four ele­ments — air, fire, water, and earth — and are laid out along the major axes of the com­pass.

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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 6

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It’s  time for anoth­er episode in our twice-month­ly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time (8pm and mid­night in the UK), and a dif­fer­ent episode is aired every two weeks.

Episode 6 cov­ers Part Two of the sig­nif­i­cance of num­bers in the Minor Arcana.  We present qual­i­ties and key­words asso­ci­at­ed with the num­bers six through 10.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sell­ers.

Hits In Hi-Fi

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Today — Sat­ur­day 26th Novem­ber — we’ll take a nos­tal­gic jour­ney back to the 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl and home stereo was new and excit­ing­ly futur­is­tic… with Hits In Hi-Fi.

In the ear­ly days of stereo, a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of albums were released that were designed espe­cial­ly to show off the won­ders of this new way of pre­sent­ing musi­cal enter­tain­ment. Sounds “ping-ponged” across the stereo sound­stage; instru­ments appeared hard on one side and then hard on the oth­er… and there were a lot of space ref­er­ences, bloops and bleeps start­ing and end­ing the pieces — and once the Moog Syn­the­sis­er became avail­able, that was includ­ed in the mix too.Con­tin­ue read­ing→

Anthems In Eden: The Journey from Folk into Rock

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Today in our Fea­tured Music we  look at the pro­gres­sion from folk into rock in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s. In addi­tion, at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, in the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You” Been?, where we dis­cov­er things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we vis­it “Mon­sters, Demons, & Chess” by Monique Beebe (Kon­dor Art Cen­ter). Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

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The Magic of The Musical: “Musicals for the Win!”

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The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal explores the blend­ing of music and dra­ma — fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry, and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. Learn more about some of your favorite shows and com­posers as we cue the orches­tra, and the over­ture begins.

This show is now avail­able on Mix­cloud

This mon­th’s episode fea­tures musi­cals that have been  hon­ored with the Pul­tiz­er Prize for Dra­ma.  The Dra­ma cat­e­go­ry of this pres­ti­gious award rec­og­nizes a dis­tin­guished play by an Amer­i­can author, prefer­ably orig­i­nal in its source and deal­ing with Amer­i­can life. It is an impres­sive list that includes every­thing from Gersh­win to Steven Sond­heim, to Lin-Manuel Miran­da.  The list fas­ci­nates as much for what is miss­ing from it as the shows that were hon­ored.

Today Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the list with a few side trips. Join us today: Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 19th at 2pm pacif­ic at the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio The­ater on Chest­nut Hills, or tune in to lis­ten on-the-air, for The Mag­ic Of The Musi­cal:

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/124/89/3804