WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARY
Seanchai ("Storyteller" in Irish) Library celebrates the Celtic tradition of stories told around the hearth or in the pub to friends, family, and welcomed strangers. Seanchai Libraries bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
THURSDAY October 10th at 6pm: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
TUESDAY, October 8th - Two Sessions: Music & Stories
@ NOON - Russell Eponym, Live at The Glen
Join us as Russell returns for his weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond. Live on Stream.
@ 9PM - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore
Finn Zeddmore presents contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy from a variety of sources. What adventure will Finn take us on tonight? Part 1 of "The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea" by Naomi Krittzer. Live in Voice.
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MONDAY, October 7th at 7pm: STELLA with Gyro Muggins
Gyro is back with more Science Fiction adventures from his endless library.
'Stella' by Ted White (40 mins)
A childless couple find a baby literally on their doorstep. It's the perfect baby, quiet, healthy looking but something's wrong.
Gyro Muggins presents, live in Voice at Seanchai's Main Library on Nowhereville.
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SUNDAY, October 6th at 1:30pm: RAY'S TALES at The Bradbury Project
Caledonia Skytower presents short stories from the works of Ray Bradbury including stories from Dandelion Wine and The October Country live on stream in the Green Town Park at The Bradbury Project.
Ray Bradbury was an American author, screenwriter, and among the most celebrated 20th-century writers. He worked in a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. He wrote many works and is widely known by the general public for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951). For more information on his life and work, visit raybradbury.com.
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OPEN NOW: the 2024 Edition of The Bradbury Project
It's back!
The newest Seanchai special project celebrates the work of American author Ray Bradbury. It follows the path of eight boys on an adventure to save the life of their friend on Halloween Night. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, they travel through time and space, learning about different cultures, and how each views and deals with death.
Thanks to continuing support from Linden Lab, this year's Bradbury Project will be on its own dedicated region, with content at terrain level and in skyboxes.
Events and activities at The Bradbury Project include:- Presentation of stories from the canon of Ray Bradbury, including "The Halloween
tree." - Dance Parties courtesy of eClipse Club & Resort
- Plenty of photo ops and things to explore (clickies!)
- Interactive Bradbury Library - Moundshroud's House
- Other surprises that you can find when you explore.
- Check out the Play Park
SATURDAY October 5th at 12pm: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES - whirlwind edition
Experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes...and the stuff of nightmares.
The title is reference to a quote spoken by one of the witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
THURSDAY October 3rd at 9pm: RUSSIAN DOLLHOUSE
"The brave step forward and embrace the night"
RUSSIAN DOLLHOUSE
Trick-or-Treat Terror by Jason Parent
THURSDAY October 3rd at 7pm: THE NIGHT KINGS and THE NIGHT HEIRS
THURSDAY October 3rd at 6pm: BLUR IN THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE
THURSDAY September 26th at 9pm: THE RAVENING MONSTER - Late Night Horror
THURSDAY September 26th at 7pm: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR SORROW IN THE KINGDOM OF THE COLD
- followed at 9pm by The Ravening Monster -
COMING in October: the 2024 Edition of The Bradbury Project
It's back, coming this October!
The newest Seanchai special project celebrates the work of American author Ray Bradbury. It follows the path of eight boys on an adventure to save the life of their friend on Halloween Night. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, they travel through time and space, learning about different cultures, and how each views and deals with death.
Thanks to continuing support from Linden Lab, this year's Bradbury Project will be on its own dedicated region, with content at terrain level and in skyboxes.
Tentative opening day - Friday, October 4th.
Events and activities at The Bradbury Project include:
- Presentation of stories from the canon of Ray Bradbury, including "The Halloween
tree." - Dance Parties courtesy of eClipse Club & Resort
- Plenty of photo ops and things to explore (clickies!)
- Interactive Bradbury Library - Moundshroud's House
- Other surprises that you can find when you explore.
- Check out the Play Park
THURSDAY, August 29th @ 9pm: WEYR SEARCH Concludes
Weyr Search features a young woman named Lessa being recruited to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, thus becoming a dragonrider, and the leader of a Weyr community on the fictional planet Pern. Dragonrider features the growth of Lessa's queen dragon, Ramoth, and their training together.
Analog editor John W. Campbell asked “to see dragons fighting Thread,” Pern's menace from space, and he also suggested time travel. In response, McCaffrey wrote a third story titled “Crack Dust, Black Dust”, which was not published separately, but provided crucial material for the novel.
Finn Zeddmore concludes Anne McCaffrey's story tonight (we really mean it this time) as part of Seanchai Late Night - Live in Voice.
TUESDAY, August 27th at 7pm: MARY POPPINS Concludes
It's been 60 years since Disney's industry changing motion picture was created. The Disney Company is celebrating, and so are we. P.L. Travers' "practically perfect" nanny and her tales were first published in 1934. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed.
Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series, concluding tonight. Presented on Stream.
Tonight:
- Full Moon
- Christmas Shopping
- West Wind
THURSDAY, August 22nd @ 9pm: WEYR SEARCH Concludes
Weyr Search features a young woman named Lessa being recruited to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, thus becoming a dragonrider, and the leader of a Weyr community on the fictional planet Pern. Dragonrider features the growth of Lessa's queen dragon, Ramoth, and their training together.
Analog editor John W. Campbell asked “to see dragons fighting Thread,” Pern's menace from space, and he also suggested time travel. In response, McCaffrey wrote a third story titled “Crack Dust, Black Dust”, which was not published separately, but provided crucial material for the novel.
Finn Zeddmore concludes Anne McCaffrey's story tonight, as part of Seanchai Late Night - Live in Voice.
TUESDAY, August 20th at 7pm: MARY POPPINS Continues
Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series through out the month of August, continuing tonight. Presented on Stream.
Tonight:
- The Bird Woman
- Mrs. Corry
- John and Barbara's Story
THURSDAY, August 15th at 9pm; WEYR SEARCH Begins!
Two components of Dragonflight were award-winning novellas published by Analog science fiction magazine. The first segment, Weyr Search, illustrated by John Schoenherr, had been the cover story for the October 1967 issue. The second segment, Dragonrider, appeared in two parts, beginning in December 1967.
Weyr Search features a young woman named Lessa being recruited to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, thus becoming a dragonrider, and the leader of a Weyr community on the fictional planet Pern. Dragonrider features the growth of Lessa's queen dragon, Ramoth, and their training together.
Analog editor John W. Campbell asked “to
see dragons fighting Thread,” Pern's menace from space, and he also suggested
time travel. In response, McCaffrey wrote a third story titled “Crack Dust,
Black Dust”, which was not published separately, but provided crucial material
for the novel.
Finn Zeddmore presents Anne McCaffrey's story in two parts, beginning tonight, as part of Seanchai Late Night - Live in Voice.
TUESDAY, August 13th: Music! and Mary Continues . . .
@ Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live at The Glen!
Join us today for Russell's weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond. Presented on Stream.
@ 7PM: MARY POPPINS Continues
First published in 1934, from the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. The Disney Company is celebrating, and so are we. Caledonia presents the original Mary Poppins adventures from the eight book series through out the month of August, continuing tonight. Presented on Stream.
TUESDAY, August 6th at 7pm: Mary Poppins at Seanchai Library
Fifty years ago The Walt Disney Company created a film that would be considered one of the master works of the films made during Disney's lifetime - full of technical innovation, scenic splendor, music, and soul. It won five Academy Awards.
Sixteen years ago Caledonia Skytower read Mary Poppins as the second book series she presented at the then very young West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center - these many years and stories later, Seanchai Library.
First published in 1934, from the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed.
It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!THURSDAY August 1st at 7pm: Adventures of BATMAN!
Book: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE JOKER
Editor: Martin Greenberg
Authors: Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Masks
William F. Nolan - Daddy's Girl
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SUNDAY, June 30th @1:30pm: Even More SUNDAY with DAMON RUNYON
We conclude this special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower presenting stories from the Runyonesque Canon at "Get Lost In Stories" - Seanchai Library's showcase contribution at SL21B.
While the musical Guys & Dolls is based on the short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," it is common for derivative works based on an author's canon to pull from more than one piece even when the backbone of the plot is drawn from a single story. This is especially true of canons that are primarily short fiction, like Damon Runyon's. Both of today's stories contain lore and characters than were woven into the legendary musical production.
TODAY: Blood Pressure, and A Piece of Pie, live on stream at SL21B.
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THURSDAY, June 27th at 7pm: CONTEMPORARY SCI-FI with Finn!
Finn Zeddmore is all set to take us on another contemporary Science Fiction-Fantasy adventure, taken from a wide variety of short story sources. Where will she take us this time? Only one way to find out!
TONIGHT: "Annie Without Crow" by Michael Swanwick & "Our Father" by K. J. Khan.
Join us on Seanchai Library's Story Floor for this week's new journey, presented live in Voice.
Image: A wall made of books. Lots of old books in a bookstore or library. Photographer: Martin Vorel - https://martinvorel.com Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
TUESDAY, June 25th @ 7pm: Our Newbery Adventure Concludes
@ 7pm: Caledonia concludes Dave Eggers' The Eyes & The Impossible.
Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance.
But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world.
Both Sessions are Live on Stream
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