Sunday, November 29, 2009

MONDAY, November 30 @ 7pm: Sudden Death Storytelling!!!

No! No! it will be fun. An hour of improvisational storytelling. Come with ideas and be ready to participate. Storytellers Caledonia Skytower & Marian Dragovar will ask audience members for specific ideas: "The name of a Holiday" "Your favorite fruit" etc and from these clues will create a short story. It might be good, it might go down in flames, but it will be great fun no matter what. Come prepared to laugh.

The hysteria presented in Voice.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

THANKSGIVING DAY SPECIAL: "Alice's Restaurant Massacree": at 11am

"This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.

"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in it's around the back Just a half a mile from the railroad track You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant"

('cceptin' Alice). . . and thus a folk legend began.

Join WOI Seanchai Shandon Loring for this
anti-establishment folks classic. Then join the WOI crowd
Friday at 6pm in the Glen for an Alice's Restaurant themed
Friday Night Special.

Read in Voice. Participation in local text chat encouraged.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

WEDNESDAY 25 Nov @ 7pm: Marian with More Mythic Beasts!


Join lovely Marian Dragovar with more tales of the strange and wonderful beasts of ancient myths. Did they exist? Might they still exist? Maybe we can figure that out tonight while listening to Marian. Bring a friend just in case the beasts need befriending. Stories read live in voice. Interested in exploring more about mythical beasts? Try these . . . www.mythicalrealm.com/ www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/ www.mythcreatures.co.uk/beasts/beasts.asp

Sunday, November 22, 2009

MONDAY, November 23rd at 7:00pm: Two final stories from Kenneth Grahame's "Dream Days"

Two last stories from the 19th Century master of whimsy Kenneth Grahame from his collection Dream Days. Caledonia will present A Saga of the Seas: what happens when a young man is banished to the nursery with only the sponge bath and a towel to contemplate of any interest? where can his imagination take him in his exile? And appropriately ending with A Departure: the fate of childhood possessions as they pass from one child to the next. Stories will be read in voice.

For resources on Kenneth Grahame:
www.online-literature.com/grahame/
www.readprint.com/author-42/Kenneth-Grahame-books
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/kenneth-grahame/
www.bookrags.com/Kenneth_Grahame

Next week, Marian and Caledonia will present "Sudden Death Storytelling"

SUNDAY, November 22 at 4:00pm in the Atlantis Amphitheatre in the Fruit Islands: "More Mer Stories"

Join Caledonia, Marian, and special guest Dubhna Rhiadra for more tales and poems of those inhabitants of the murky deep. The stories will take place in the marvelous Atlantis Amphitheatre which is underwater in the Citrus Abyss in the Fruit Islands. Put on your fins, you mer-avatars, your fishy familiar pets and come on down to the deep. Ah Heck! Just come on down no matter what!

Read in Voice and Benefiting Project Children.

For more resources on Mermaid, Merrows, and Merfolk in general, visit:

www.isidore-of-seville.com/mermaids/
members.cox.net/mermaid31/merhist.htm
/mythara.wikidot.com/merfolk
www.pibburns.com/legendan.htm

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

WEDNESDAY 25 Nov @ 7pm: Marian Dragovar with Tales of Mythic Beasts

Join lovely Marian Dragovar with her tales of the strange and wonderful beasts of ancient myths. Did they exist? Might they still exist? Maybe we can figure that out tonight while listening to Marian. Bring a friend just in case the beasts need befriending.

Stories read live in voice.

Interested in exploring more about mythical beasts? Try these . . .
www.mythicalrealm.com/
www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/
www.mythcreatures.co.uk/beasts/beasts.asp

Monday, November 16, 2009

TUESDAY 17 November @ 7pm: Enchanted Cat Tales with Derry McMahon

Who better to provide cat stories, than one who owns too many cats??

Join Derry for two stories: "The Marvelous Dog and the Wonderful Cat" and "The Little Persian Princess". They are enchanting and delightful. Come in cat avi, neko, or just with ears or a tail.
Stories told live in voice.

Find out more about the author of "The Marvelous Dog and the Wonderful Cat" at:
www.coolbeat.biz/item/021/the-firelight-fairy-book.htm


Explore some fun sites about Cats at:
www.articlesbase.com/pets-articles/the-marvelous-cat-species-1341325.html
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/why-we-love-cats-and-dogs/introduction/4538/

Saturday, November 14, 2009

MONDAY, November 16 @ 7pm: "The Magic Ring" and "Its Walls Were As of Jasper"

More from Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days collected stories:

The Magic Ring . . . what lies in store for two young boys when parents carelessly do not keep a promise?: "Grown-up people really ought to be more careful. Among themselves it may seem but a small thing to give their word and take back their word. For them there are so many compensations. Life lies at their feet, a party-coloured india-rubber ball; they may kick it this way or kick it that, it turns up blue, yellow, or green, but always coloured and glistening."

Its Walls Were As Of Jasper . . . an adventure in imagination:
"In the long winter evenings, when we had the picture-books out on the floor, and sprawled together over them with elbows deep in the hearth-rug, the first business to be gone through was the process of allotment. All the characters in the pictures had to be assigned and dealt out among us, according to seniority, as far as they would go. When once that had been satisfactorily completed, the story was allowed to proceed;"

Read in Voice. Bring a friend and share the adventure!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

SATURDAY, November 14 at 11am at the S.S. Galaxy: More Childhood Adventures from the Pen of author Kenneth Grahame

Shandon is on vacation! But we can't allow the S.S. Galaxy to sail on for another week without a single story! Criminal! Unheard of! So Caledonia has volunteered to swim the shark infested waters of Sagitaria to read in our Seanchai's stead from the works of 19th Century author Kenneth Grahame, best known for the classic The Wind in the Willows. She'll be reading from two books of collected short stories written by Grahame: The Golden Age and Dream Days.

The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895. Algernon Charles Swindburne writing in the Daily Chronicle of the time, called it "one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise" — the book has come to be regarded as a classic in its genre.

Grahame's reminiscences, in The Golden Age and in the later Dream Days (1898), were notable for their conception "of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult 'Olympians' who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young" — a theme later explored by J.M. Barrie and other authors.

Read in Voice. Scroll down to the Post for Monday, November 9 for links with more information about author Kenneth Grahame.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

WEDNESDAY, 11 Nov @ 7pm: Crap Mariner and 100 Word Stories


Join us as Crap tells about 100 Word Stories and offers some of his best. Maybe we can give it a try! Want a preview? http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/

Monday, November 9, 2009

TUESDAY, 10 Nov @ 7pm: New exhibit on Newgrange Opens

Join Aoife Lorefield and Derry McMahon at the opening of the new exhibit on Newgrange and the Winter Solstice. Aoife share information about both of those topics, and then stories.

Newgrange - megalithic passage tomb? burial place? celestial sundial? fairy mound? home of the gods?

The sun peeps over the horizon on the morning of the Winter Solstice and steals in to light the chamber deep inside Newgrange; exactly and perfectly as if a modern engineer had built it, but it was built around 3200 BC.

Join us to learn more. And visit these sites on the web to learn even more:

www.knowth.com/newgrange.htm

www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/newgrange-facts/

www.stonepages.com/ireland/newgrange.html

www.discoverireland.com/us/ireland-things-to-see-and-do/listings/product/?fid=FI_12303

MONDAY, November 9 at 7:00pm: "The Reluctant Dragon"

Best known for his classic THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, whimsical author Kenneth Grahame celebrates a fanciful re-envisioning of the St. George legend, and the story of a friendship between a boy and a dragon in THE RELUCTANT DRAGON.

Two children escorted home in the snow are told this story: A dragon makes his new home in a cave near a farm. The farmer, a shepherd, is naturally apprehensive because dragons and humans are enemies, right? One evening when the farmer’s wife questions him about his odd mood, he mentions the dragon and his extraordinary young son say that he will take care of the dragon.

For more about author Kenneth Grahame:

www.online-literature.com/grahame/
www.readprint.com/author-42/Kenneth-Grahame-books
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/kenneth-grahame/
www.bookrags.com/Kenneth_Grahame

Join Storyteller Caledonia Skytower for a dragon tale like no other. Read in Voice. Participation in Local Text Chat is encouraged.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

CHANGE OF PLAN for Caledonia

We won't be starting The Magician's Elephant as planned on Monday, but are deferring it to a later date. Instead, beginning Monday night we are going to spend three glorious weeks with author Kenneth Grahame, best know for The Wind in the Willows creating the indubitable "Toad of Toad Hall." We'll be enjoying short stories out of Grahame's collection entitled Dream Days.

It all starts Monday night at 7pm. There should be some great fun and surprises! Come and enjoy.

Read in Voice

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

THURSDAY, November 5 at 7:00pm: "Balor of the Evil Eye"



Tues, Nov 3, 7 pm SLT • Travels with the Snow Queen


Tonight, I'll be reading from Kelly Link's debut collection once again, this time her story "Travels with the Snow Queen," combining Link's unique perspective with this tale of a quest for lost love.

Reading in voice, chat in voice or text ... All are welcome!

WEDNESDAY, 4 Nov @ 7pm: "Wait it Out" with Gyro Muggins


For an astronaut facing death on a doomed exploration of Pluto, chance brings a way to survive, but is the cost worth it? He just might make it if he can "Wait It Out." Story in voice.