WEDNESDAY 1 July @ 7pm: Tales of Tuscany

Can't get away? Come on vacation in July with the WOI Storytellers! Tonight explore Tuscany with Derry as she reads several stories of the glory of that spectacular part of Italy. Pour a nice glass of red wine, kick back, and pretend you are away at a sunny villa in Tuscany.

TUESDAY 30 June @ 6pm: WOI Storytellers at SL6B

Tonight join Caledonia Skytower and Derry McMahon with stories at the SecondLife 6th Birthday celebration. We'll be in the WOI booth, so come on over and set a spell. Stories will include "The Lady or the Tiger" and "The Song of the Queen Bee".

WOI LIBRARY EVENTS for June 28 - July 5

All read live in Voice. All times SLT.

Sunday, June 30 @ 6pm - Fine Irish Stories with Cunningham Docherty & Derry McMahon at the SL6B.

Monday, June 29 @ 7pm - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Part 3) with Lilia Quinnell

Tuesday, June 30 @ 6pm - Stories to Delight with Derry McMahon & Caledonia Skytower at the SL6B
@ 7pm - Gyro Muggins with Tom Godwin's The Cold Equation

Wednesday, July 1 @ 7pm - Traveler's Tales of Tuscany with Derry McMahon

Thursday, July 2 @ 7pm - The Boyhood of Fionn with Shandon Loring

Monday, July 6 @ 7pm - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Part 4) with Lilia Quinnell

Other Story Events Presented by WOI Storytellers around the Grid to benefit Project Children:

also @ 6pm - Jungle Pajama Party - Stories of the Creatures of the Jungle with Caledonia Skytower at Magicland

Stories all read Live in VOICE. IM the Storytellers for Landmarks to readings not taking place at the WOI Library, OR at the Library click on the Celtic Cross Window Ornament or the Large Green Leather Book by the Librarian's desk for a notecard with this schedule and embedded landmarks.

SUNDAY 28 June @ 6pm - WOI Storytellers at the SL6B

Join Cunningham Docherty and Derry McMahon at the SecondLife 6th Birthday party for stories at the West of Ireland exhibit! Stories will include "The Stolen Child" and "Fair Trembling and Brown", both classics!

THURSDAY, 25 June @ 7pm

THE PHYNODDERREE:

A TALE OF FAIRY LOVE

"Ah, Phynodderree! His was the wizard hand that toiled at the midnight witching hour. You may hear his voice on the desert hill, where the mountain winds have power. ’Tis a wild lament for his buried love, and his long-lost fairy bower."
We start this evening with a look at popular notions concerning the Sidhe race, the Fae folk. Then a tale of secret, forbidden, fairy love. Bring tissues!

WEDNESDAY, 24 June @ 7pm Did You See That? Fae Stories

Derry McMahon brings more stories of fairies, elves, leprechauns, sprites, wood nymphs and more! The little people are running amok over the West of Ireland! Wear your wings and join them!

MONDAY, 22 June @ 7pm - Follow the Yellow Brick Road...

Join Lilia Quinnell for part two of Frank L. Baum's classic "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Last week we met Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow...tonight they start their journey to Oz. Let's all go!

Thursday June 18th at 7pm

Compiled from Ireland's abundant reserve of true ghost stories, this richly varied collection of legendary and ancestral phantoms, uncanny forewarnings of death, and a host of other unearthly experiences is drawn from the memories of ordinary Irish folk scattered throughout the isle.

WEDNESDAY, June 17 @ 7pm - Fairy Stories with Derry McMahon

Join Derry for more stories of the 'wee folk', leprechauns, fairies, wood nymphs, sprites, and all manner of flightly lil creatures. Who knows which ones will pop in tonight. Wear wings and join us for a bit of escape from the real world.

TUESDAY, 16 June @ 10am Bloomsday!

Join Scaipthe Flanagan and Derry McMahon as the West of Ireland Library celebrates Bloomsday! Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin, Ireland and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.

WOI LIBRARY EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF June 15 - 21

All read live in Voice. All times SLT.

Monday, June 15 @ 7pm - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Lilia Quinnell

Tuesday, June 16 @ 11am - Bloomsday readings from James Joyce's Ulysses with Derry McMahon & Scaipthe Flanagan
@ 7pm - Gyro Muggins with more stories from Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

Wednesday, June 17 @ 7pm - Fairies, Leprechauns, and Elves with Derry McMahon

Thursday, June 18 @ 7pm - Fine Irish Haunts & Ghost Tales with Shandon Loring

Friday, June 19 beginning at 6pm - WE DANCE!


Other Story Events Presented by WOI Storytellers around the Grid to benefit Project Children:

Wednesday, June 17 @ 6pm - Tales of Ancient Greece with Shandon Loring at To Limani

Saturday, June 20 @ 11am - Myths and Legends of Ireland with Shandon Loring at the S.S. Galaxy


Stories all read Live in VOICE. IM the Storytellers for Landmarks to readings not taking place at the WOI Library, OR at the Library click on the Celtic Cross Window Ornament or the Large Green Leather Book by the Librarian's desk for a notecard with this schedule and embedded landmarks.

SUNDAY, June 14 @ 5:00pm - Afsaneh Metaluna with Stories of Magic!

Join our guest storyteller for fascinating stories of Magic from around the world. Afsaneh's stories tonight will be an eclectic mix:

Three Butterflies and the Faery Harp (Welsh)

The Golden Eggs (Irish)

Ma Liang and the Magic Brush (Chinese)

SUNDAY, 14 June @ 2pm - Meet the author: Parker Jannick

Parker will be here to read excerpts and answer questions about her new novel "Through God's Mercy"... As a missionary to the country of Zardania, Samantha Neilson finds herself an unwilling heroine in the midst of turmoil and the second most wanted person in the county. Her faith in God is greatly shaken and all she wants to do is retreat to her grandmother’s home in Virginia. Journey with Samantha as she struggles to return to the United States while unknowingly growing deeper in the restoration of the country she has lived in for two years, and find the faith she thought she lost.

SUNDAY, 14 June @ 4.30pm Fairy Stories in Nantucket

Join Elder Priestman and Derry McMahon for lovely stories of leprechauns, sprites and fairies. We'll be on the beach in Nantucket, in voice, so join us.

SUNDAY, 14 June @ 1pm Bloomsday!! ( a little early)

Join Shandon Loring, Derry McMahon & Elder Priestman as the West of Ireland Library celebrates (a bit early) Bloomsday! Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin, Ireland and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend. (Another performance is scheduled for Tuesday at 10am slt)

THURSDAY June 11 @ 7pm - Shandon Loring and Leprechaun Stories and New Exhibit Opening!

Join Shandon for two great stories of leprechauns, the fascinating 'wee folk' of Ireland. We will open our new exhibit on leprechauns during this session, so you will be able to learn more about these fascinating creatures.

THE LEPRECHAUN OF ARDMORE TOWER:The Leprechaun--that flash from elf-land--was perched comfortably upon the west window ledge, high up in Ardmore Tower. He is only six inches high, and harder to catch than a will-o'-the-wisp; if one ever could succeed in catching him!

THE FAIRY FINDER (the red leprechaun) The crone of every village has plenty of stories to make her hearers wonder how fortunes have been arrived at by extraordinary short outs; and as it has been laid down as an axiom, "That there never was a fool who had not a greater fool to admire him," so there never was an old woman who told such stories without plenty of listeners.

MONDAY, June 8 at 7pm: "The Tale of Despereaux" concludes

When last we left our hero he had embraced his quest to save the Princess Pea, and had just had some soup too! We pick up just prior to where we left off last week ('cause who wouldn't enjoy that chapter on soup again?) and accompany Despereaux in to the "deep downs" of the castle dungeon. What will happen there? Will he save the Princess? Will Roscuro get the revenge he seeks? What will become of Miggery Sow? And we've not seen the last of Botticelli Remorso either. Come and find out how it all turns out, and enjoy a few other choice "bonus features" penned by author Kate DiCamillo as well.

Stories read live in Voice.

WOI LIBRARY EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF June 8 - 14

All read live in Voice. All times SLT.

Monday, June 8 @ 7pm - Conclusion: Tales of Despereaux with Caledonia Skytower

Tuesday, June 9 @ 7pm - Gyro Muggins with more stories from Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

Wednesday, June 10 @ 6:30pm - Afsaneh Metaluna with stories of magic from around the world.
@ 8pm - Part II: Time Machine by H.G. Wells with Lilia Quinnell

Thursday, June 11 @ 7pm - More delightful Irish Stories with Shandon Loring

Friday, June 12 beginning at 6pm - WE DANCE!

Sunday, June 14 @ 1pm - Bloomsday readings from James Joyce's Ulysses with WOI Storytellers.
@ 2pm - Meet the author Parker Janick - talking about and reading from her new RL book.


Other Story Events Presented by WOI Storytellers around the Grid to benefit Project Children:

Saturday, June 13 @ 11am - Myths and Legends of Ireland with Shandon Loring at the S.S. Galaxy

Sunday, June 14 @ 4:30pm - Fairy Stories with Elder Priestman and Derry McMahon at Mystic Beach Fire Circle in SLNew England

Stories all read Live in VOICE. IM the Storytellers for Landmarks to readings not taking place at the WOI Library, OR at the Library click on the Celtic Cross Window Ornament or the Large Green Leather Book by the Librarian's desk for a notecard with this schedule and embedded landmarks.

SUNDAY, June 7 at 6pm at Magicland: "Adventures from Peter Pan"

Join Caledonia at the Golden Horseshoe in Magicland Park as she tells of adventures of the boy who wouldn't grow up. Beginning with his teaching the Darling children to fly, and continuing his epic duel with Captain Hook aboard the "Jolly Roger." Come a early and enjoy the new Surfin' Parade now featured at Magicland throughout the summer.

Stories read live in Voice. Donations benefit Project Children.

WEDNESDAY, 3 June @ 7pm The Time Machine with Lilia Quinnell

H.G.Wells had been subjected to the cruelty of class prejudices of his day. He saw what we would call a glass ceiling being placed over his hopes and dreams, regardless of his level of talent.

In The Time Machine Wells creates two sub-species of the future and calling them the Eloi and the Morlocks, and found a voice for his feelings about the extent of the unadmitted prejudice in England and what this was doing to people. He did not romanticize either the upper classes, the Eloi, or the lower classes, the Morlocks. He simply showed them slowly moving away from each other and becoming two ENTIRELY different species. There is a sadness about all this.

Though Wells doesn't preach, there is a sadness in the story.Join Storyteller Lilia Quinnell for Wells' classic examination of the dangers and possibilities of the future. Read live in Voice.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 at 6pm: "Ancient Tales" at To Limani

Shandon Loring and Caledonia Skytower will be in the Greek Seaport "To Limani" with Ancient Tales to share: Caledonia with the tale of a semi-barbaric princess' dilemna, and Shandon with a tale of the Centaur Chiron and his teaching of the Pelion. Stories told live in Voice. Donations benefit Project Children.

TUESDAY June 2nd @ 7pm Gyro Muggins with Dandelion Wine

Gyro will be doing several of the stories from the semi-autobiographical novel Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury:
Lime-Vanilla Ice Cream

Then Someday

The Wax Witch

So join us!