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.
"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.
('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.
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.
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!
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.
Who better to provide cat stories, than one who owns too many cats?? 
More from Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days collected stories:
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.
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.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
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.
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. 
