Let's say "Ba-Byyeeeeee!" like we mean it!
Join us in The Opera House in Dickens Harbour as we celebrate the definitive exit of 2020 ...
Starting at 2pm slt join us for continual music & dancing as we greet the New year across every timezone from GMT to the Pacific shores:
We had such a good time, we are going to do it again!
@ 2pm: More GHOST STORIES 'TWEEN THE HOLIDAYS! Today's ghost stories feature the voices of David Abbot, Elrik Merlin, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, Live on stream in Dickens Square.
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
COMING NEW YEAR'S EVE & NEW YEAR'S DAY: - Live Music and Djs to big "Ba-byeeee!" to the old year (pullleaz!) and "Hello!" to the new...
Wodehouse was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. He worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words. After the scenario was complete he would write the story.
The adventures (or misadventures if you will) of Jeeves and Wooster were televised in a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television. It starred the most estimable comedy team of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
The ebook can be found here
Find a host of collections here
More on Jeeves himself at Wikipedia
Having taken a breath, we set course though our closing week. We have traditions - good ones!
@ 2pm: GHOST STORIES 'TWEEN THE
HOLIDAYS! In this first of two sessions, Caledonia Skytower presents E.F.
Benson's "How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery", and is joined byShandon
Loring with R. Frank
We bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life
... and other virtual worlds
For Boxing Day, and through our last day on January 3rd, we depart from the strictly Dickens and Strictly Christmas to a joyful celebrations of . . . well, anything and everything! From ghost stories and the works of other pre-WWI authors, to Celtic music and rock-and-roll. If it makes us happy. There might even be some spontaneous surprises! We'll be sharing it in our invocation of the potential in a bright new year:
"Welcome Christmas, come this way!...
We'll be broadcasting the new CEH Productions adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" (90 minutes) on both regions. Come skate, ride, explore and enjoy the presentation featuring Elrik Merlin, Caledonia Skytower, and Shandon Loring.
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
Happy Christmas!
@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live in Dickens Square with an hour of music and stories.
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
@11am to Noon - Wald Schridde, Live!
Wald's music is as much a Dickens project tradition as The Big Read is. Come for an hour of mostly acoustics instruments and songs of Christmases Past.
@Noon to 3:30pm: THE BIG READ "A Christmas Carol" The whole thing from beginning to end . . . from "Marley was dead..." to "...God bless us, everyone." A cast of eight readers present a tag team choral reading of Dickens entire holiday classic, and how the time flies!
Presented live, on stream.
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@11:00am: A VERY MISFIT CHRISTMAS - Final Show
Misfit Dance & Performance Art SL bring this year's edition of their annual Holiday show: gingerbread, elves, hippopotamus, and graceful dances are all part of the joyous holiday cheer of this delightful production.
Dickens Harbour - Misfit Dance SL Theater
Seating begins at 10:00 am - we recommend you arrive early and be kind to your cache, and the region's.
CAROL WEEK CONTINUES!
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
@11am to Noon - ELITE EQUESTRIAN Animesh Pony Companion Give-Away
Ride to win a FREE Sultan the Pit Pony companion at The Dickens Project! This adorable little fellow is a Limited Edition only available at The Dickens Project. Come to the Pony Ride Pavilion, register to ride, then ride to win Sultan the Pit Pony companion Shetland. [Companion means he's small and cannot be ridden.]
WE RECOMMEND YOU READ these instructions in advance.
The Pavilion is on the shores of the Skating Pond, North of the Main landing area.
@1:45pm: WOOTMAS! It's the Raglan Shire Tinies. Turn on your sounds for 15 minutes of unbridled comfort and joy, ad only Caroling Tinies can bring.
@2-4pm: CELEBRATING The Dickens Project Open Art Show. This first-ever exhibition features 12 distinctive works by 7 SL Artists on the themes of Dickens, Victorian Christmas, and Winter Beauty. Join DJ Gabrielle Riel for dancing and English Christmas Carols in Dickens Square.
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@6:30pm: A VERY MISFIT CHRISTMAS
Misfit Dance & Performance Art SL bring this year's edi
tion of their annual Holiday show: gingerbread, elves, hippopotamus, and graceful dances are all party of the joyous holiday cheer of this delightful production.
Dickens Harbour - Misfit Dance SL Theater
Seating begins at 5:30pm - we recommend you arrive early and be kind to your cache, and the region's.
Join us Friday, December 18 from 11 am - 12 noon SLT
and ride to win a FREE Sultan the Pit Pony companion at The Dickens Project!
STORY TOURS TODAY - "A Christmas Carol" Staves Four & Five: "The Last of The Spirits" & "The End of It"
Beginning on Dickens Project, in Dickens Square
@2pm: Corwyn Allen, David Abbot, and Willow Moonfire
@7pm: Aoife Lorefield, Gloriana Maertens, and Kayden Oconnell
Presented live on stream.
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
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DID YOU MISS A TOUR? NOT GOOD FOR YOUR SCHEDULE?
Today - Thursday, December 17th,Radio Riel Main Stream will be airing a 90 minute adaptation of A Christmas Carol featuring Elrik Merlin, Shandon Loring, and Caledonia Skytower
The show will air at 10am, and 4pm slt
Come and listen here at The Dickens Project, or tune in to http://streams.radioriel.org:8010/stream
STORY TOURS: Continue the journey, walking in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge on his road to redemption. All times slt/pacific.
STAVE TWO ~ The Second of Three Spirits
@ 2pm - Da5id Abbot, Caledonia Skytower, and Dubhna Rhiadra
@7pm - Kayden Oconnell, Caledonia Skytower, and Willow Moonfire
Presented live on stream.
STORY TOURS: Continue the journey, walking in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge on his road to redemption. All times slt/pacific.
@ 2pm - Corwyn Allen, Faerie Maven-Pralou, and Dubhna Rhiadra
@7pm - Shandon Loring, Gloriana Maertens, and Finn Zeddmore
Presented live on stream.
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
@3PM - SKATING PARTY!
Join DJ Ktahdn Vesuvino for an hour of music and skating at the pond in Christmas Past, just North of Dickens Square and the main landing point.
Thus begins the first of The Dickens Project signatures - the story tours. Come and begin the journey, walking in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge on his road to redemption. There will be two tours daily this week. All times slt/pacific.
Today:
@ 2pm - Da5id Abbot, Aoife Lorefield, and Dubhna Rhiadra
@7pm - Shandon Loring, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower.
Presented live on stream.
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing Point
The Community Virtual Library hosts a tour of the resources and research that they have collected to present as part of this year's Dickens Project.
@3PM: SL Hawks Aerobatic Team presents "GHOST FLIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS"
The Tarmac - Dickens ProjectIn this unique adaptation by Luke Flywalker, the SL Hawks Aerobatic Team tell the story of Alexander Scrooge (descendant of the legendary Ebenezer) and his journey to regain his joy and love of life through the intercession of his deceased partner, Bill Farley, and thanks to the visits of three squads of ghost pilots. Story on stream + air show!
Seating begins at 2pm - Come early and be kind to your cache. This is the final performance of this show.
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NOTE: "Carol Week" is about to begin, with story tour readings from "A Christmas Carol" taking place each day. Monday through Friday has been posted on the Dickens Calendar page, and next weekend's events will appear there in a few days. Check it out and mark your calendars - set your alarms!
The Dickens Project - The Skating Pond in Christmas Past (just North of Dickens Square)
Dickens Square - Dickens Project - Main Landing PointJoin DJ Caledonia on the ice in Christmas Past for an hour of tunes to glide and spin to. Cocoa will be available for those who feel the chill. Wear your mittens and gloves!
Dickens Harbour - The Opera House
The Opera House - Dickens HarbourDirector Blaze DeVivre invites you to "The Midnight Dinner", an exciting evening of storytelling using the medium of dance, presented in the spectacular Opera House above Dickens Harbor. You will see performances from Dax Dover, Divine Quandry, Meegan Danitz, Lynxa Wilde and Blaze's bevy of multi-talented maids in stories themed around passion and adventure with more than a little nineteenth century flair.
Seating begins at Noon - Come early and be kind to your cache. Seating is limited and you don't want to miss this marvelous production. They've filled the region for every performance, so seating will be at a premium.
Special Guest Patch Linden joins Seanchai Library's Caledonia Skytower on young David Copperfield's journey from misery and indentured work in London, to the arms of his Aunt Betsey Trotwood in Dover, in an adaptation from the novel that many thought was the most auto-biographical of Dickens' work. Live in Dickens Square, on stream.
Dickens Harbour - The Opera House
The Opera House - Dickens HarbourDirector Blaze DeVivre invites you to "The Midnight Dinner", an exciting evening of storytelling using the medium of dance, presented in the spectacular Opera House above Dickens Harbor. You will see performances from Dax Dover, Divine Quandry, Meegan Danitz, Lynxa Wilde and Blaze's bevy of multi-talented maids in stories themed around passion and adventure with more than a little nineteenth century flair.
Seating begins at 7pm - Come early and be kind to your cache. Seating is limited and you don't want to miss this marvelous production.
Corwyn Allen continues Roger Zelazny's adventure of a prince named . . . "Corwin."
GHOST FLIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS at The Dickens Project
The Dickens Project - Ghost Flights Tarmac Seating
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/120/35/1501
In this unique adaptation by Luke Flywalker, the SL Hawks Aerobatic Team tell the story of Alexander Scrooge (descendant of the legendary Ebenezer) and his journey to regain his joy and love of life through the intercession of his deceased partner, Bill Farley, and thanks to the visits of three squads of ghost pilots.
Story on stream, and an airshow!
@ NOON, RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen!
