THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

   We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life

... and other virtual worlds
CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

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                                                    FINAL WEEK AT HOLLY KAI PARK!

All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

*MONDAY - August 31st, at 7pm:  Dean Alan Foster's VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD concludes with Gyro Muggins.

 *TUESDAY, Setpember 1st: 

Both events today are in The Glen:   

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

    ~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in the Glen with music, and poetry in Ceiluradh Glen, live on stream. 

    ~ at 7pm: CALE'S GREATEST HITS, various short selections of popular stories that have been presented by Caledonia Skytower over the last 12 years, including Frank Stockton's "The Lady, or The Tiger" (her Seanchai audition piece all those years ago), live on stream.

*WEDNESDAY, September 2nd, at 7pm: THE BEELINE. Ktadhn Vesuvino shares more of his original work - a journey for late summer. "Riding a motorcycle to connect thoughts and actions via snow and flowers."

 *THURSDAY, September 3rd, at 7pm:  CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, Part 1. Shandon presents Rudyard Kipling's adventure in the first of two sessions, "An unhappy captain makes an unhappy crew,” live in Voice. (Also in Kitely!  Find teleport from the main Seanchai World grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI)

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And as you may well have heard, we are moving our home library in SL very soon. The new site is almost ready and looking great.  

Final day at Holly Kai will be this week - Thursday, September 3rd.  First day at our new home will be September 6th.  Grab a new landmark when you are next at the Library, or keep an eye out for notices delivering one right to your inventory folder. We don't want you to get lost!

Come by and check it out!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/203/43/26

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All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _________________________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

MONDAY August 31st at 7pm: VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Alan Dean Foster

- by Alan Dean Foster -

VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD 

On a world nicknamed Horseye a man and wife geologist and sociologist team explore the world from its steam room environment at the sea up to the frozen wastes at the top of the world.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

THURSDAY August 27th at 7pm: DIAMOND JIM and the DINOSAURS

"They’ve been dead way too long"

DIAMOND JIM and the DINOSAURS

Marty Zuber discoverS that the slipperiest of creatures may not be a Cretaceous dinosaur but rather is Diamond Jim, a fellow time traveler. Worse yet, Diamond Jim has teamed up with Marty’s rival, Derek Dill. The story is set in Antarctica. Yes indeed, our southernmost continent teemed with all manner of dinosaurs, to say nothing of other exotic critters.

Join us in Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

and Kitely

grid.kitely.com:8002:Seanchai   or   http://bit.ly/SeanchaiKitely

Book: ANALOG Science Fiction and Fact - April 2016 

Author: Rosemary Claire Smith

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WEDNESDAY, August 26th at 7PM: CHARACTERS FROM A SMALL TOWN ~ Tales of The Yukon!

Short stories of historical and hysterical characters from Atlin, BC. A small gold mining town in the Yukon Territory.  And you know how small towns are? The smaller they are, the more quirky.

Faerie Maven-Pralou, live in voice in The Glen.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

TUESDAY, April 25th: Tuesdays in The Glen!

@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live!

Join Russell's weekly performance at our beautiful outdoor gathering space for an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word.  Russell will be presenting original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected poems. Folk Baroque and Beyond.

Presented on Stream.

@ 7PM: The Griffin & The Minor Canon

Willow Moonfire reads Frank R. Stockton’s tale. Hearing of a stone image over the main door of an old, old church, the last remaining griffin flies down to the town to sate his desire to learn about how he looks to others. His arrival stokes fear among the townsfolk, who demand the church’s young canon go and learn what “the monster” wants.

Caring only for the well-being of the people, the canon escorts the griffin to his stone likeness, who is well pleased by the statue, regarding it as an “admirable likeness”. So much so, that he decides to stay, following the young canon as he goes about his daily tasks.

The townsfolk, however, are less than happy with this turn of events, fearing for their safety and what might happen at the time of the Autumn Equinox, when the griffin must partake of food. And so they conspire to send the young curate out into the wilds as the equinox arrives, hoping he will lead the griffin away and little caring if the canon lives or dies.

And so the stage is set for the Griffin’s nobility to be displayed for all to see, shining beside the Minor Canon’s innocence and shaming the selfishness of the townspeople.  Presented on Stream.

Both sessions:

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

MONDAY August 24th at 7pm: VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Alan Dean Foster

- by Alan Dean Foster -

VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD 

On a world nicknamed Horseye a man and wife geologist and sociologist team explore the world from its steam room environment at the sea up to the frozen wastes at the top of the world.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

  We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life

... and other virtual worlds
CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

_____________________________________ 

SPLASH! Mer Celebration, produced by Elite Equestrian

All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

*SUNDAY - August 23rd, at 1:30pm:  SPLASH! Tales of the Sea - Seanchai Library

presents tales from above and below the sea: legend, myths, and adventure! 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Island%20Of%20Joy/242/52/3

*MONDAY - August 24th, at 7pm:  Dean Alan Foster's VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD continues with Gyro Muggins.

 *TUESDAY, August 25th: 

Both events today are in The Glen:   

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

    ~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in the Glen with music, and poetry in Ceiluradh Glen, live on stream. 

    ~ at 7pm: Frank Stockton's THE GRIFFIN & THE MINOR CANON, presented by Willow Moonfire, live on stream.

*WEDNESDAY,August 26th, at 7pm: TBA

 *THURSDAY, August 27th, 

~ at 7pm:  DIAMOND JIM & THE DINOSAURS. Shandon presents Rosemary Claire Smith's adventure in time travel with a touch of Sci-fi, live in Voice. (Also in Kitely!  Find teleport from the main Seanchai World grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI)

~ at 9pm:  SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT. Finn Zeddmore presents contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy from such online sources as Light Speed, Escape Pod, and Clarkesworld magazines ... and more!

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And as you may well have heard, we are moving our home library in SL very soon. The new site is under construction and looking great.  

Final day at Holly Kai will be September 3rd.  First day at our new home will be September 6th.  Grab a new landmark when you are next at the Library, or keep an eye out for notices delivering one right to your inventory folder. We don't want you to get lost!

*****

All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _________________________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY August 20th at 7pm: THE WEEKENDER - American Noir

"Oh, a real tough guy eh?"

THE WEEKENDER

I LOOKED IN the rearview mirror and didn’t see any lights, but I knew they were after us and it was only a matter of time till I’d see the cops. Toth started to talk, but I told him to shut up and got the Buick up to eighty.

Join us in Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

and Kitely

grid.kitely.com:8002:Seanchai   or   http://bit.ly/SeanchaiKitely

Book: The Best American Noir of the Century
Story: The Weekender
Author: Jefferey Deaver



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WEDNESDAY, August 19th at 7:00pm: "TOUCH HISTORY" with Ktadhn Vesuvino

It's that time of year for road trips, vacations, and other wanderings in the glories of summertime.  In this season for memorable journeys, Ktadhn Vesuvino shares an original story about one of his own involving a motorcycle, history, geology, and highway engineering, 

Presented on Stream.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

TUESDAY, August 18th: Stories, Music, and Poetry in The Glen - Two Sessions

 @ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live!

Join Russell's weekly performance at our beautiful outdoor gathering space for an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word.  Russell will be presenting original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected poems. Folk Baroque and Beyond.

Presented on Stream.

@ 7PM: Fireside with Bear

Bear Silvershade is back at Seanchai to share a few favourite short stories, starting with The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery. Like all Canadian Literature, it is a little sad, a little funny, introspective and lighthearted, yet strangely engaging. Then it's time for a trip to Quebec cottage country with Stu McLean's Dave and Morley. And, contrary to what some ne'er-do-wells say about Canadian literature, there is nothing sad or introspective about this lighthearted little story. Well, except for Jean-Francois.

Presented in Voice.

Both sessions:

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

MONDAY August 17th at 7pm: VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Alan Dean Foster

- by Alan Dean Foster -

VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD 

On a world nicknamed Horseye a man and wife geologist and sociologist team explore the world from its steam room environment at the sea up to the frozen wastes at the top of the world.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

 We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life

... and other virtual worlds
CELEBRATING GREAT STORIES SINCE 2008!

_____________________________________ 

All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

*MONDAY - August 17th, at 7pm:  Dean Alan Foster's VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD BEGINS with Gyro Muggins.

 *TUESDAY, August 18th: 

    ~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in the Glen with music, and poetry in Ceiluradh Glen, live on stream.   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

    ~ at 7pm: A FIRESIDE EVENING WITH BEAR, Bear Silvershade shares " The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery." and other short tales, live in Voice.

*WEDNESDAY,August 19th, at 7pm: TOUCH HISTORY. It's the season for memorable journeys. Kt shares one of his own involving a motorcycle, history, geology, and highway engineering, live on stream.

 *THURSDAY, August 20th, at 7pm:  THE WEEKENDER. Shandon continues in  Noir vein with Jeffrey Deaver's tale, live in Voice. (Also in Kitely!  Find teleport from the main Seanchai World grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI)

Seanchai Library will be contributing to SPLASH! 2020 which starts on Sunday, August 16th.  

Check out Inara Pey's preview of all the great events and opportunities scheduled. Click Here!

And as you may well have heard, we are moving our home library in SL very soon. The new site is under construction and looking great.  

Final day at Holly Kai will be September 3rd.  First day at our new home will be September 6th.  Grab a new landmark when you are next at the Library, or keep an eye out for notices delivering one right to your inventory folder. We don't want you to get lost!

The New Seanchai Library at Nowhereville.

All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _________________________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY, August 13th at 7pm: IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME!

Caledonia shares more selections from Stephen Fry's HEROES: Mortals, Monsters, Quests and Adventures - a re-imagining of Greek myths.  (She promises less blood and guts this time)  

Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.

Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best.

Presented on Stream.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

Followed by SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT at 9pm, with Finn Zeddmore. Contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy from such online 'zines as Light Speed, Escape Pod, Clarkesworld, and more!

WEDNESDAY, August 12th at 7pm: WHITTINGTON Concludes

 

Caledonia Skytower continues Alan Armstrong’s 2006  Newbery-Honor winning tale.

Whittington is a roughneck tom cat who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. Present at the barn is a menagerie of animals and young Ben and Abby, whose grandfather owns the barn and does the rescuing.

To earn his place, Whittington tells the tale of his famous ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. In telling his story of how his ancestors saved and elevated Whittington, this tom-with-a-chip, elevates another little boy above his fear of learning to read.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27

TUESDAY, August 11th at 7pm: Ursula K. LeGuin's THE STARS BELOW

Willow Moonfire reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story that initially came to prominence when reprinted in the anthology volume The Wind’s Twelve Quarters alongside of The Word of Unbinding and The Rule of Names, two of the founding short stories of what would become her Earthsea novels.

Fearing the zealots who razed his observatory burn him at the stake for heresy, an astronomer is forced underground into the cold tunnels of ancient mine workings that sit upon deeper, more extensive tunnels and caverns hewn by nature. Here he is discovered by a group of old miners who still try to eke out a living chipping silver out of the hard rock. Rather than turn him in, they adopt him, and slowly he learns some of their ways and helps them with their work, but never venturing back to the surface, afraid for what might happen if the authorities come upon him.

But his learning of the stars of heaven will not leave him, nor will the skills he learned in making his own telescopes and fine lenses – one of which he rescued from the pyre of his observatory. And so the miners see him less and less as he explore the great caves and caverns, until one evening he comes to them to tell them he has once again found the stars – and they are below the mine.

Presented Live on Stream.

TUESDAY, August 11th at Noon: Russell Eponym, Live at the Glen!

 

Join Russell's weekly performance at our beautiful outdoor gathering space for an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word.  Russell will be presenting original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected poems. Folk Baroque and Beyond.

Presented on Stream.

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

 

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

_____________________________________ 

All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

*MONDAY - August 10th, at 7pm:  Dean Alan Foster's VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD BEGINS with Gyro Muggins.

 *TUESDAY, August 11th: 

events today, in The Glen  

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

    ~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in the Glen with music, and poetry in Ceiluradh Glen, live on stream. 

    ~ at 7pm: Ursula K. LeGuin's THE STARS BELOW with Willow Moonfire, live on stream.

*WEDNESDAY,August 12th, at 7pm: Alan Armstrong's WHITTINGTON, concludes with Caledonia, live on stream.

 *THURSDAY, August 13th, 

   ~ at 7pm:  TBA

   ~ at 9pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT: Contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy with Finn Zeddmore.

All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _________________________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

MONDAY August 10th at 7pm: VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Alan Dean Foster

- by Alan Dean Foster -

VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD 

On a world nicknamed Horseye a man and wife geologist and sociologist team explore the world from its steam room environment at the sea up to the frozen wastes at the top of the world.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

THURSDAY August 6th at 7pm: Philip Marlow - THE FINGER MAN pt2

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts"

Philip Marlow
THE FINGER MAN pt2

Marlowe is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the mob murder of a district attorney he was hired to bodyguard. Throw in a femme fatale and Marlowe has his hands full trying to shake himself loose from the murder rap of a former client killed with his gun. The pressure is on and the fix is in as the mob tries to force him to change his testimony.

Join us in Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

and Kitely

grid.kitely.com:8002:Seanchai   or   http://bit.ly/SeanchaiKitely

Book: The Finger Man

Author: Raymond Chandler

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WEDNESDAY, August 5th at 7pm: WHITTINGTON Continues

Caledonia Skytower continues Alan Armstrong’s 2006  Newbery-Honor winning tale.

Whittington is a roughneck tom cat who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. Present at the barn is a menagerie of animals and young Ben and Abby, whose grandfather owns the barn and does the rescuing.

To earn his place, Whittington tells the tale of his famous ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. In telling his story of how his ancestors saved and elevated Whittington, this tom-with-a-chip, elevates another little boy above his fear of learning to read.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27

TUESDAY, August 4th: TWO in The Glen, Today!

@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live!

Join Russell's weekly performance at our beautiful outdoor gathering space for an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word.  Russell will be presenting original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected poems. Folk Baroque and Beyond.

Presented on Stream.

@ 7PM: A Trio of Cat Tales

Cale has a new friend in the house!  So it's only fitting that "Mr Benson" should learn of the felinious heritage of the family he is now a part of.  And you can listen in!

A Trio of Cat Tales is Cale's own work, published in 2013. A slim volume of life from a cat's point of view.  Meet “S” – a cat in the prime of her nine lives. From her superior feline perch, she swipes a paw at adventures in traveling, her favorite games, along with lessons in art and respect. A Trio of Cat Tales is a "feliniously" philosophical journey with plenty of insights and exploits for cat lovers and the “cat owned.”

Presented on Stream.

Both sessions:

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

MONDAY August 3rd at 7pm: VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Alan Dean Foster

- by Alan Dean Foster -

VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD 

On a world nicknamed Horseye a man and wife geologist and sociologist team explore the world from its steam room environment at the sea up to the frozen wastes at the top of the world.

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS
at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/213/43/27

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Libraries

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

_____________________________________ 

All times slt/Pacific Time.

Story events in Voice unless otherwise noted.

*MONDAY - August 3rd, at 7pm:  Dean Alan Foster's VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD BEGINS with Gyro Muggins.

 *TUESDAY, August 4th: 

events today, in The Glen  

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/223/61/2966

    ~ at Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in the Glen with music, and poetry in Ceiluradh Glen, live on stream. 

    ~ at 7pm: tba

*WEDNESDAY,August 5th, at 7pm: Alan Armstrong's WHITTINGTON, concludes with Caledonia, live on stream.

 *THURSDAY, August 6th, at 7pm:  Phillip Marlowe's THE FINGER MAN Part 2 (the conclusion) presented by Shandon  (Also in Kitely!  Find teleport from the main Seanchai World grid.kitely.com:8002:SEANCHAI)

All sessions held at the Seanchai Library in Second Life unless otherwise indicated. Schedule subject to change, because that is just how life rolls sometimes.  

                _________________________________________________________________

All sessions at the Seanchai Library are offered free to all Residents.  Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower