SUNDAY, December 30th beginning at 1pm: FINAL DAY of The Dickens Project!

The time has come to say good-bye, for now, to the most magical edition of The Dickens Project SL yet!  Our view goes forward today: facing the potential of a waxing new year, as well as celebrating the achievements of the waning.

Join us in Resolution Square (as in the act of bringing to a conclusion, not in the making of) for two final events today:

From 1-2pm : STORIESMaeve Binchy's short stories "A Cure for Sleeplessness" and "One Night A Year" with Aoife Lorefield and Caledonia Skytower, live in SL Voice.

From 2-5pm: REFLECTIONS ON A NEW YEAR. If it were music, what would a new year sound like? Musical possibilities with Radio Riel presenters Elrik Merlin and Gabrielle Riel, joined by guest DJ Ktadhn Vesuvino.  Live on stream on LEA 7, and broadcast on Radio Riel Main Stream (but really, you want to come and dance with us!)

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SATURDAY, December 29th, 2pm at The Dickens Project: EVEN MORE GHOST STORIES!

Our final installment of 'tween the holidays ghostly tales takes us into broad territory, spanning two centuries
VT Torvalar and Kayden Oconnell share an assortment of tales from a variety of sources:

My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling
Staying the night in a rather sinister old dâk-bungalow, a man hears the 'unmistakable' sound of a game of billiards being played in the non-existent room next door - a strange game in India at the time of the Empire.  

The Ghost by Guy de Maupassant
A man does his friend a favor, and comes to regret it.

Between the Lights by E.F. Benson
An unusual gothic horror story, written in 1912 and set in the sunlight rather than the dark and taking place on the day before Christmas. A tale of looking back and the healing power of Christmas. A prime example of the British tradition of Christmas ghost stories.

Mrs. Davenport's Ghost by Frederick P Schrader 
A medium gets more than he bargained for.

Presented live in voice, in Dickens Square.

FRIDAY, December 28th, 2pm at The Dickens Project: MORE GHOST STORIES!


We continue down our in-between-the-holidays path today with a return to Dickens, but not the Dickens most people think of - especially not at this time of year. 


Da5id Abbot and Caledonia Skytower share two tales from the darker recesses of the Dickensian canon:

The Signal-Man was first published as part of the "Mugby Junction" collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.

To Be Read at Dusk finds its first-person narrator amid the Swiss mountainous region of Saint Bernard, eavesdropping on a nearby group of men while avoiding the boring conversation of fellow travelers indoors. The sun is setting, giving way to strange thoughts and memories. The group is composed of five couriers from different nationalities, sharing instances of déjà vu, of omens and visions that mysteriously come true. As their stories co conclude, the couriers vanish leaving the narrator admitting that what he has heard has rendered him afraid of being left alone in such a place or in any other place.

Presented live in voice, in Dickens Square.

THURSDAY December 27th at 7pm: HAUNTED CHRISTMAS

"A Ghost Hunt on Christmas Eve?"
HAUNTED CHRISTMAS
When sensible and level-headed Beatrice Casson decides to spend Christmas in a hotel in the wilds of Scotland it was the “old fashioned Christmas” experience promised in the brochure that was the attraction. – The smell of pine trees, crackling log fires, mulled wine, tangerines, walnuts and frosted forest walks. What she had not noticed in the itinerary was the ghost-hunt planned for Christmas Eve. Bea didn’t believe in ghosts. So who was the pale young girl who visited her room during a power cut on the night she arrived? And how was it that suddenly Bea found herself helping a medium reunite a mother and daughter who had been roaming the hotel searching for each other for hundreds of years?

Author: Dawn Summers Book: Haunted Christmas


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THURSDAY, December 27th, 2pm at The Dickens Project: GHOST STORIES!

We take a different path at The Dickens Project, sharing ghost stories from a number of authors whose names are NOT Charles Dickens.


Elrik Merlin presents two selections from the work of English novelist Alan Garner: the Arthurian fantasy Tarn Wethelan, and The Smoker.  The author is best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of Garner's  work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.

Caledonia Skytower presents M.R. James' 1925 short story A Warning to the Curious; the tale of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently stumbles across one of the three lost crowns of Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion. Upon digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.


Presented live on stream in Dickens Square.

WEDNESDAY, December 26th at The Dickens Project

Time for us to take a broader view, in this well of time between Christmas and New Years.  For the last five days of The Project, we'll be presenting a wide variety of things - not just Dickens!


So here we go, into the home stretch. Today we focus on the southern shore of LEA 7, and this year's Urchin experience:
  • @ 11am: STORIES with a Lovecraftian Flair with Arik Metzger
  • @ NOON: WALD SCHRIDDE live with Sea Shanties
  • From 1-3pm: THE URCHIN EXTRAVAGANZA: music, dancing, parade, and frolic with Aoife Lorefield! All are welcome!
Look for the short cut teleport at the main landing point.

HAPPIEST & BEST from Seanchai Library!


It has been an amazing, event-packed year - our tenth!  Everything from our Volume 10 Celebration, to Fantasy Faire, to Tea Time on the Orient Express, to Frankenstein, and of course The Dickens Project. Our thanks to each and everyone who was a part of it, whether as presenters or appreciators enjoying the stories.  Together, we bring stories to life in virtual worlds.

We have more tales and adventures waiting in the New Year: ancient Polynesian journeys, the creation of Time and, of course, a return to the Laundry Files.  Join us, and bring a friend.

Happiest & Best,

~ Seanchai Library

SUNDAY, December 23rd: The Climax of Carol Week - THE BIG READ

It's BIG READ Day at The Dickens Project!

"I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it." 

Their faithful Friend and Servant,    --C. D.

@11 AM - WALD SCHRIDDE Live in Dickens Square! Delightful 19th C instrumental selections perfect for the season.

@ NOON - THE BIG READ: A Christmas Carol.
The whole thing, soup to nuts, in one tag-team-relay story session.  We begin at the beginning and when we get to the end, we stop!

Featuring, live in voice:
Aoife Lorefield, Bryn Taleweaver, Caledonia Skytower, Da5id Abbot, 
Gyro Muggins, Kayden Oconnell, & VT Torvalar
 


SATURDAY, December 22nd at The Dickens Project: Fezziwig's Ball & A Very Misfit Christmas encore

At The Dickens Project Today!

Fezziwig's Warehouse in the Christmas Past Dock area of LEA 7
@ 11am - 12:30pm in The Misfit Skybox Theater - A MISFIT CHRISTMAS encore, presented by Misfit Dance & Performance Art (Seating begins at 10am, come early to be kind to your cache)

@ 2-4pm in the Christmas Past Docks - FEZZIWIG'S BALL, Music with DJ Dano Bookmite - No one throws a party quite like Old Fezziwig! Come along and dance like it's 1812!

A Very Misfit Christmas in the Skybox Theater  - LEA 7 2018
Miss The Carol?
Here's another opportunity to enjoy it. Radio Riel Main will be broadcasting the Radio Riel Player's production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adapted by Saffia Widdershins, at 11am & 7pm slt.  You can Listen In, or visit LEA 7 for the 7pm broadcast and an impromptu tour lead by Caledonia Skytower of locations appropriate to the Radio Riel production.
This Poster in Dickens Square will link you to Radio Riel Main Stream

FRIDAY, December 21st at The Dickens Project: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Concludes

At The Dickens Project Today!


Today's Story Tours: Stave Four (selected) and Stave Five, The End of It
"... and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!"
             ~ Stave Five , A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Two readings at two different times, live in voice, all times slt.
                     ~ 1pm* - with Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower
                     ~ 4pm - with Aoife Lorefield, and Da5id Abbot

Look for the big red carpet in Dickens Square for the starting point of the session.



ADDITIONAL Events Today!

@ 3:45pm in Dickens Square - WOOTMAS! The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers

@ 7pm in In The Misfit Skybox Theater - A MISFIT CHRISTMAS, presented by Misfit Dance & Performance Art (Seating begins at 6pm, Post show music continues at 8pm)

NOTE: Click on the sign board (shown above) near the LEA 7 landing point to teleport to the Sky Box Theater

THURSDAY, December 20th: Ghosts of the Future & Tiny Carolers


At The Dickens Project Today!


Today's Story Tours: Stave Four, The Last of the Spirits
"The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery."
             ~ Stave Four, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Two readings at two different times, live in voice, all times slt.
                     ~ 2pm* -  with Aoife Lorefield, Da5id Abbot, and Caledonia Skytower
                     ~ 7pm - with Shandon Loring

Look for the big red carpet in Dickens Square for the starting point of the session.

* NOTE: this time has been adjusted from the original posted schedule due to changing circumstances. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

ADDITIONAL Events Today!

@ Noon at the Resource Center - VWER Tour with the Community Virtual Library

@ 12:40pm in Dickens Square - WOOTMAS! The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers

WEDNESDAY, December 19th at THE DICKENS PROJECT: Stories, Music, and Wootmas!


More to see and do at The Dickens Project Today!

Image courtesy of Inara Pey
Today's Story Tours: Stave Three, The Second of Three Spirits

"Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. . . ."
~ Stave Three, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Two readings at two different times, live in voice, all times slt.
                     ~ 2pm -  with Aoife Lorefield
                     ~ 7pm - with Kayden Oconnell

Look for the big red carpet in Dickens Square for the starting point of the session.

Special Bonus Events Today!

At 1:45pm in Dickens Square - WOOTMAS! The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers

3-4:30pm in Dickens Square - Music and dancing with DJ Dano Bookmite

TUESDAY, December 18th: Music, Stories, and Events at The Dickens Project Today

Three Great Opportunities to Enjoy The Dickens Project Today!


@ NOON - Russell Eponym, Live in Dickens Square
The Poet Laureate of Ce Soir Arts offers excellent music and outstanding prose and poetry that is especially selected for reading at The Dickens Project. Victorian poetry and song will mark the hour with wintry magic. Come gather in Dickens Square with friends and enjoy in this lovely atmosphere! Russell Eponym, live on Stream.


Today's Story Tours: Stave Two, The First of Three Spirits

"When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavoring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighboring church struck the four quarters. So he listened . . ."
~ Stave Two, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Carol Week continues at The Dickens Project as Scrooge conjoins with the promised Spirits on his journey of redemption with the These readings will be presented as Story Tours, visiting the locations on LEA 7 that have been created from the novella's inspiration.

Two readings at two different times, live in voice, all times slt.
                     ~ 1pm -  with Da5id Abbot & Caledonia Skytower
                     ~ 7pm - with Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower

Look for the big red carpet in Dickens Square for the starting point of the session.

And there's more! 

A new set of free Victorian Gowns in the Dressmakers' shop on Dickens Square. Not sure what to wear, ladies.  Stop by for a simple, but elegant, addition to your virtual wardrobe! Courtesy of our own Aoife Lorefield.

Collect these free gifts and more, found throughout LEA 7 as part of The Dickens project 2018 Edition, produced by Seanchai Library.

MONDAY, December 17th: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave One - Marley's Ghost

"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail." 

~ Stave One, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


Carol Week commences at The Dickens Project with the beginning words of Dickens' great Christmas ghost story.  These readings will be presented as Story Tours, visiting the locations on LEA 7 that have been created from the novella's inspiration.

Two readings at two different times, live in voice, all times slt.
                     ~ 2pm -  with VT Torvalar
                     ~ 7pm - with Aoife Lorefield, Gyro Muggins, and Cybele Moon

Look for the big red carpet in Dickens Square for the starting point of the session.
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Do you sometimes find words and phrases in "A Christmas Carol" that you don't quite understand? Visit "Professor Magwitch - Elocution & Lexology" near the Market Alley on the West side, where a glossary of words and terms is literally written on the walls.


Bless Us, Everyone!

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries


We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!


All times Pacific Time, 
story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

It's CAROL WEEK at The Dickens Project. All our events will be taking place on LEA 7, including Story Tours, and some fun special events.  

*Monday, December 17th:
    ~ 2pm - A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stave One:Marley's Ghost with VT Torvalar
~ 7pm - Stave One: Marley's Ghost with Aoife Lorefield, Gyro Muggins, and Cybele Moon

*Tuesday, December 18th:
   ~ Noon - Russell Eponym Live! stories, music, & poetry, on stream
~ 1pm  - A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stave Two:The First of Three Spirits with Da5id Abbot and Caledonia Skytower
~ 7pm - Stave Two: The First of Three Spirits with Kayden Oconnell


*Wednesday, December 19th:
   ~ 1:45pm - Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers
~ 2pm - A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stave Three: The Second of Three Spirits with Aoife Lorefield
   ~ 3- 4:30pm - MUSIC! - DJ DanoBookmite, live in Dickens Square

   ~ 7pm - Stave Three: The Second of Three Spirits with Kayden Oconnell


*Thursday, December 20th:
~ 12:40pm - Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers

~ 1pm - A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stave Four: The Last of the Spirits with Caledonia Skytower
~ 7pm - Stave Four: The Last of the Spirits with Shandon Loring


*Friday, December 21st:
   ~ 1pm  - The Conclusion: The Last of the Spirits (selected) & The End of It with Caledonia Skytower and Kayden Oconnell
~ 3:45pm - Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers

~ 4pm - The Conclusion: The Last of the Spirits (selected) & The End of It with Aoife Lorefield and Da5id Abbot

   ~ 7pm - A VERY MISFIT CHRISTMAS - Misfit Dance & Performance Art

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Stories in voice unless otherwise noted.  Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  
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All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15TH AT 7PM: IDLE ROGUE PRODUCTIONS Final Performance

AT THE DICKENS PROJECT:
It's your last chance to see this outstanding show  ...


Idle Rogue Productions presents a creative program of quality, original dance performances inspired by the life and works of Charles Dickens, with a little Steampunk and Women's Empowerment thrown in for delicious spice. All of it performed live in Dickens Square.

  • Seating begins at 6pm (get yours early - seats fill up fast!)
  • Show at 7pm
  • Post Show Dance Party at 8pm.

THURSDAY December 13th at 7pm: THE SANTA CLAUSE pt2

"Believing is Seeing..."
THE SANTA CLAUSE pt2
When Santa Claus accidentally tumbles off their roof, Scott Calvin and his son, Charlie, don't know what to do, until they find a small business card in Santa's pocket that reads: "If something should happen to me, put on my suit. The reindeer will know what to do." So Scott and Charlie take off on an amazing adventure in Santa's sleigh, delivering gifts and spreading cheer. But little do the Calvins realize, once you're Santa, you're Santa for life!


Author: Daphne Skinner/Leo Benvenuti/Steve Rudnick Book: The Santa Clause


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WEDNESDAY, December 12th at 7pm: COMPETING WITH TIME

Ktadhn Vesuvino presents an original story . . .


You have a task that needs doing. Without thinking much about it, you pick up some tools and use your skills to complete the task.

Now... imagine making a New Thing. Ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. You reach for a tool... and it isn't there. What do you do?

"Competing with Time" looks at the beginning. Where do tools come from? What leads to their design? There's a road trip and participating in a sand sculpture contest, along with exploring ideas. And... there are cats.

Live in Stream,

TODAY at The Dickens Project: Music with Ktadhn Vesuvino, Live in Dickens Square


What can you expect from a DJ whose name resembles the name of a mountain?

Ktadhn Vesuvino does indeed have a sturdy sense of the music he chooses, and a constant desire to take a long view of things - his is the road less traveled, and it really does make all the difference.  So if you have never had the pleasure of hearing one of Kt's sets before, be prepared for eclectic, thoughtful music, assembled in a musical journey that (he always hopes) speaks for itself.

Grab a friend and join us in Dickens Square from 1-3pm slt, live on stream.
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If you are not getting the mountain reference, CLICK HERE

TUESDAY, December 11th @ NOON at THE DICKENS PROJECT: Russell Eponym Live!


DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN 
RESCHEDULED TO DECEMBER 18TH AT NOON

The Poet Laureate of Ce Soir Arts offers excellent music and outstanding prose and poetry that is
especially selected for reading at The Dickens Project. Victorian poetry and song will mark the hour with wintry magic. Come gather in Dickens Square with friends and enjoy in this lovely atmosphere!

Russell Eponym, live on Stream.
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TUESDAY, December 11TH AT 7PM: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

SPOILER ALERT: The Goose gets the short
end of this particular adventure.

Caledonia Skytower returns to Baker Street for the story of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, which first appeared in The Strand Magazine in January 1892.

One December, Watson arrives at 221B Baker Street to offer Holmes season’s greetings and best wishes, only to find the Great Detective earnestly studying a battered hat. Holmes explains it had been delivered by commissionaire Peterson, who had witnessed a scuffle between some men, all of whom had run off, one of them dropping the hat and a Christmas goose in the process. Happy to let Peterson keep the goose, Holmes had found the hat to be of great interest, and by the time Watson arrives, had formed a quite clear set of deductions concern its owner, which he then proceeds to relate to the good Doctor.

Their conversation is interrupted by the return of Peterson, who presents Holmes with The Blue Carbuncle, a priceless jewel stolen from the hotel suite of the Countess of Morcar a few days previously. Peterson explains he found the jewel inside the goose. Having been quick on the case at the time of the theft, the police had already arrested known felon John Horner, who had previously been seen in the Countess’ suite cleaning the fireplace, and charge him with the theft. But Horner had from the start protested his innocence, and the police had been unable to locate the jewel, leading them to believe it is in the possession of an accomplice.

So could it be that the man who dropped the goose and hat was Horner’s mysterious accomplice, or is something else going on? And why hide the jewel in a goose? For Holmes and Watson, the game is once again, very much afoot! Live on Stream.


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MONDAY, December 10th at 7pm: A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES and Other Holiday Favorites

Aoife once again visits  the sea-town corner of Dylan Thomas' memory to share the cold and headlong moon, the lynx-eyed cats, the fire, the bat-black, snow-white belfries, and finally the close and holy darkness of this perfect Christmas. This and some poems of the season, for an evening's celebration.

Presented live in Voice.
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THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
 CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!


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All times Pacific Time, 
story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

*SUNDAY, December 9th:
      ~ 1pm - TEA TIME  with Charles Dickens - Selections from David CopperfieldGreat ExpectationsNicholas Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, live in  Dickens Square, in Voice.
      ~ 2:30pm - DJ Elrik Merlin - Music and Dancing live in  Dickens Square, on stream.
 Both at  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/128/131/22

*MONDAY, December 10th at 7pm:  A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES and other Holiday Favorites with Aoife Lorefield.

*TUESDAY, December 11th:
      ~ at NOON at The Dickens Project: Music~Poems~Stories with RUSSELL EPONYM in Dickens Square.   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/128/131/22

      ~ at 7pm:  THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE - A Sherlock Holmes Christmastide Adventure with Caledonia Skytower

*WEDNESDAY, December 12th:
     ~  at 1pm: DJ Ktadhn Vesuvino - Music and Dancing live in  Dickens Square, on stream.
                       http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/128/131/22
    ~  at 7pm: COMPETING WITH TIME  an Original Tale with Ktadhn Vesuvino

*THURSDAY, December 13th:
   ~  at 7pm: THE SANTA CLAUSE  Part 2 with Shandon Loring  (Also in Kitely!  Find teleport from the main Seanchai World grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI,  in Kitely)

   ~  at 9pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore 

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All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Stories in voice. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  
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All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower