Seanchai ("Storyteller" in Irish) Library celebrates the Celtic tradition of stories told around the hearth or in the pub to friends, family, and welcomed strangers. Seanchai Libraries bring stories of all kinds to life, in Second Life.
Join Caledonia in the Fireside Room for the last stories of 2016, from Maeve Binchy's "Chestnut Street" with two favorites that have become great NYE stories. In the first story Molly, learns the cure for sleeplessness from her pen pal from Chicago . . . then a group of strangers just happen to end up sharing New Years Eve together, and form lasting bonds of real friendship and understanding. Live in Voice. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27
It's the Closing Day of The 2017 Edition of The Dickens Project and we have every reason to celebrate.
No stories today? There are not, but there have been over 25 hours of live stories including plenty of sessions of The Christmas Carol over the last five weeks.
Music? Yes there will be music, and what's more, The Dickens Project has featured a previously unprecedented 12 hours of music presentations plus five hours of large stage dance performances.
To Date there have been 2900 visits to LEA 7 since the doors opened November 25th, and over 33% of them returned for multiple visits. As the previous 10-14 days of Dickens expanded to 36 days, more people than ever were touched by The Dickens Project's vision of providing the opportunity to "walk in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge."
CLOSING DAY celebrates these many successes, before The Dickens Project fades into "Past." @ 1pm - JOSIE ANDERTON, Live in Dickens Square!
Josie is a breath of fresh air on the live music
scene in SL. Her sultry voice and sense of fun along with an electric mix of
blues, rock, pop and romance will have you dancing one minute and sending tingles
up your spine the next. Her energy is contagious and Josie's
voice defines talent at it's best. One listen and you are
hooked. An incredibly interactive, playful performer who's laugh is as infectious as her
singing is music for the soul.
2-4pm - THE LAST DANCE in Dickens Square, with DJ Gabrielle Riel
Gabrielle Riel is the general director of Radio Riel and the recipient of the February 2016 Avi Choice Award for Favorite SL Radio DJ.
She has been broadcasting for over 11 years and has played for Second Life Relay for Life, Fantasy Faire, Burn2 and the official 2008 Inauguration Ball for President Barack Obama.
She plays several monthly programs on Radio Riel that feature all music genres with emphasis on Early Music, Celtic, Classical, Jazz and EDM. Learn more at http://radioriel.org .
@ 8pm - The Finale Performance by GUERILLA BURLESQUE
GB is going to help us bid farewell to this year's Dickens Project, bringing their boundless creativity and artistic joy to the stage in a stunning encore-finale performance on Dickens Square.
Come early to grab you seat (the one you sit IN, not the one you sit ON) and be kind to your cache. NOTE: This is burlesque, so while the show is appropriate for a Moderate sim, it might not suit all tastes.
The Dickens Project on LEA 7, at least for one more day...
@ 3PM - GHOST STORIES ~ More than Dickens! At The Dickens Project on LEA 7
Following a fine tradition of our friends and cousins across the pond, we've been heavily into GHOST STORIES this week, as we bring the 2017 Edition of The Dickens Project into its final days. Today will be the last story day on LEA 7, with stories by M.R. James and A.R. Burrage with Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower, in Dickens Square. M.R. James' THE LOST HEARTS: a mysterious scholar welcomes an orphan boy into his home. Yet the boy discovers he is not the first young person so welcomed, and ponders the mystery of the sudden disappearances of his predecessors, just as spirits from beyond the veil take things into their own ghostly hands. A.R. Burrage's SMEE (as retold by Rosemary Border): What could be more playful and innocent than a game of hide-and-go-seek? Perhaps its cousin "Smee" (derived from "It's Me")? How could a party of a dozen players suddenly come out as thirteen? Who is the unexpected extra player? Stories presented live in Voice. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
A Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat provides the backdrop for Dickens and his friends — including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins — who take turns spinning supernatural yarns.
Book: The Haunted House
Author: Charles Dickens and others
DON'T FORGET SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT @ 9PM Join Finn Zeddmore for a little late night contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy fiction, in a relaxed atmosphere intended to soothe you to your rest, or ease you into your day - where ever you are on the globe. (SL Only)
Montague Rhodes James OM FBA, published under the name M. R.
James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's
College, Cambridge, and of EtonCollege.
James perfected a method of story-telling which has since become known as
Jamesian. According to James, the story must "put the reader into the
position of saying to himself, 'If I'm not very careful, something of this kind
may happen to me!'" He is best
remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the
genre.
The holidays are great, but they can get too intense and we can get too serious about them. It's time for a little post-holiday reconstruction, each piquant, twisted point made in 100 words. There's only one individual for THAT task. R. Crap Mariner does what he does best (well, one of them, atleast...) live in voice. Long ago, he swore an oath to write a 100 word story every day until the day he died. He's not dead yet. http://oneadayuntilthedayidie.com/
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.
*Tuesday, December 26th: ~ at 1pm:GHOST STORIES ~ More than Dickens! Caledonia Skytower presents haunting Tales by author E.F. Benson in Dickens Square, at The Dickens Project, live in voice, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21 ~ at 7 pm:HO, HO, HOLD ON A MINUTE!with Crap Mariner - time for a little post-holiday reconstruction, each piquant, twisted point made in 100 words.
*Wednesday, December 27th: ~ at 3pm:GHOST STORIES ~ More than Dickens!in Dickens Square, at The Dickens project, live in voice,http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21 ~ at 7 pm: IF IT'S WINTER, WHY CAN'T IT BE CHRISTMAS? Selections from C.S. Lewis with Caledonia Skytower (also presented in Kitely hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29)
*Thursday, December 28th: ~ at 1pm:GHOST STORIES ~ More than Dickens! in Dickens Square, at The Dickens Project, live in voice. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21 ~ at 7 pm:Dickens: Other Ghost Stories - THE HAUNTED HOUSEwith Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitely hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29) ~ at 9 pm:SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT late night contemporary sci-fi with Finn Zeddmore, back at the Holly Kai Library. *Friday, December 29th: ~ at 3pm:GHOST STORIES ~ More than Dickens! in Dickens Square, at The Dickens Project, live in voice. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
*Saturday, December 30th: CLOSING DAY AT THE DICKENS PROJECT http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21 ~ at 1pm: Josie Anderton, LIVE in Dickens Square ~ at 3pm: THE LAST DANCE with DJGabrielle Riel in Dickens Square ~ at 8pm:Guerilla Burlesque Encore Performance in Dickens Square*
* FOR LARGE STAGE PERFORMANCES, please arrive early to grab a seat and let your cache load. Music will be playing for your enjoyment during these pre-show times.
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.
All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents. Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our featured charity for October - December, Habitat for Humanity - bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower
As part of their regular annual seasonal programming, Radio Riel presents the Radio Riel Players production of "A Christmas Carol" on the Main Stream. Like The Dickens Project, this broadcast has become an SL tradition over several years.
Luckily, the Radio Riel Main Stream is what is currently playing at The Dickens Project on LEA 7! So you can listen in to the broadcast while you explore the build. Someone might even be there to show you around.
This is the final "A Christmas Carol" Story Tour for this year's Dickens Project. Aoife Lorefield and Caledonia Skytower lead you in the steps of Ebeneezer Scrooge in a version of the novella adapted by Charles Dickens in his time for public presentations. Come 15 minutes early and enjoy the festive exuberance of the Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers! Presented live in voice. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
[long story tonight! 1:20] The Homecoming - A Christmas Story with Shandon Loring
It is remembered in my family that on Christmas Eve of 1933 my father was late arriving home. That, along with the love he and my mother bestowed upon their eight redheaded offspring, is fact. The rest is fiction. ALL day the cold Virginia sky had hung low over Walton's Mountain. It was a leaden, silent, moist presence. It promised snow before the fall of night. This morning Olivia had gone to the upstairs hall where she kept her Christmas Cactus in a spot where the winter sun filtered in through the window.
Not feeling it yet . . . the holiday spirit? Or perhaps you are feeling too much of it and already find yourself in a Happy Holly Daze. "Doctor" Faerie Maven-Pralou has just what you need. Come and share a relaxing feel-good hour of Christmas tales, told as only the delightful Miss Faerie can tell them. In all the hustle and bustle, it's good to take a moment to remember the reason for it all. Presented live in voice. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/215/44/27 and in Kitely! Teleport from the Main Seanchai Homeworld
Two stories from the collection
edited by Martin Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes.
"Nethan's Magic" by Jodie
Lynn Nye (2006) yes it is Nethan, not Nathan.
After unsuccessfully trying to
magical make a child, a witch finds a real baby has been left on her
doorstep. Ugly and without a shred of
magic, Nethan still has a magical effect on the witch and the village she lives
in.
In case there is time for a second
story....
"Touching Faith" by
Alexander B. Potter (2006)
A slightly tongue-in-cheek look at
a boy who learns as he grows up that he has the power to heal with a touch.
TODAY is the climax of "Carol Week." Don't miss it!
@ 11am: Wald Schridde Live in Dickens Square
Traditional acoustic music, Wald plays an amazing variety of instruments from things with strings to penny whistles. Come and enjoy an hour of seasonal music with this delightful man of music.
Noon: A CHRISTMAS CAROL The "Big Read" in Dickens Square All the words, from beginning to end, presented by a talented chorus of storytellers, relay style, in one live presentation . . . From "Marley was dead, to begin with..." to ". . . God bless us, everyone." Featuring: Aoife Lorefield, Shandon Loring, Cybele Moon, John Morland, Kayden
Oconnell, Dubhna Rhiadra, Caledonia Skytower, Bryn Taleweaver, and VT Torvalar,
live in voice and on stream!
TWO events today to ignite your holiday spirit, if it is sputtering . . .
@ NOON: A VERY MISFIT CHRISTMAS - Encore Presentation
Misfit Dance & Performance Art celebrates the season from the whimsical moments to those that tug at your heart strings. Music, dance, and spectacular visuals in motion.
Please arrive early to grab a seat and let your cache load. Music will be playing for your enjoyment during pre-show.
2-4PM: FEZZIWIG'S BALL
Join us at the Christmas Past Docks, where we'll dance like its 1843 . . . well, not entirely.
"There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer."
Let your heart be open, and allow yourself to be joyful and merry. DJ Dano Bookmite will be spinning music whimsical, sentimental, and eclectic from all times, to delight your ear, and kindle your holiday spirits.
@ 3pm - "A Christmas Carol" 90 Minute Story Tour "Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all,
and infinitely more; . . . He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old
City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world."
From a version adapted by Dickens' himself for public readings in his time. Caledonia Skytower & Kayden Oconnell lead you through the story, presenting Scrooge's journey of redemption live, in Voice.
@ 7pm - Misfit Dance & Performance Art
Misfit Dance celebrates the season from the whimsical moments to those that tug at your heart strings. Music, dance, and spectacular visuals in motion. Please arrive early to grab a seat and let your cache load. Music will be playing for your enjoyment during these pre-show times. The Dickens Project on Linden Endowment for the Arts Region 7 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
CAROL WEEK continues with a lot going on today ... But mainly A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Concludes:
"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." (Note: Schedule updated at 1:30pm Thursday)
@ 2pm - Staves Four & Five: "The Last of the Spirits" & "The End of It" - Story Tour with Dubhna Rhiadra
@ 6:15pm - The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers! Wootmas!
@ 6:30pm - The Conclusion of Stave Three from last night, (before voice collapsed)
@ 7pm - Staves Four & Five: "The Last of the Spirits" & "The End of It" - Story Tour with Shandon Loring
@ 9pm - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT - The Dickens Edition with Caledonia Skytower
Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL Continues
with a visit to Christmas Present.
"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. He felt that
he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the
especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger
dispatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention."
@ 2pm - Stave Three: The Second of Three
Spirits - Story Tour with Aoife Lorefield
@ 7pm - Stave Three: The Second of Three
Spirits - Story Tour with Caledonia Skytower
& Damien Vectorscope
"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 for the hour."
@ 2pm - Stave Two: The First of Three Spirits - Story Tour with Caledonia Skytower
@ 7pm - Stave Two: The First of Three Spirits - Story Tour with Faerie Maven-Pralou & Gina Pralou Maven
“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 houses pleasantly,
and no one wish to lay it.”
~ Charles Dickens,
1843
@ 1:45pm - The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers! Wootmas!
@ 2pm - Stave One: Marley's Ghost - Story Tour with VT
Torvalar 2pm
@ 7pm - Stave One: Marley's Ghost - Story Tour with Aoife
Lorefield
@1pm - TEA TIME with Charles Dickens This week we'll be in "Christmas Yet to Come" in the area the insiders refer to as "Redemtpion Square." We have more fromOliver Twist to share, and a pivotal chapter from Great Expectations. Presented live in voice. Come a few minutes early and you just might catch the Wootmas! delight of the Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/35/86/29
2-4pm - Dancing in "Yet to Come" with DJ Elrik Merlin In the very midst of the holiday cheer of Redemption Square, we'll spend a wonderful time with Elrik Merlin, as he presents a wonderland of music from his vast resources. Elrik Merlin has been a Second Life resident for almost 11 years, and a presenter on Radio Riel for over ten. He programmes the station’s Main Stream two days a week, and handles technical aspects of the station along with international music licensing. He also co-hosts Designing Worlds, the popular TV series on design and designers in virtual worlds. He occasionally DJs for friends and good causes.
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 noted. It's "Carol Week" for Seanchai Library's annual Dickens Project. You can hear Charles Dickens' holiday classic in parts & in its entirety over this seven day celebration. All sessions will be at LEA 7 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
*Sunday, December 10th at 1pm:TEA TIME with Charles Dickens
More selections from the works of Charles Dickens. This week in Christmas Yet to Come in "Redemption Square" at The Dickens project on LEA 7. Look for the teleport panel at the main Landing Point. Come early to experience the holiday joy of the Raglan ShireTiny Carolers! Dancing Follows with DJ Elrik Merlin http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA7/114/149/21
*Monday, December 11th,at 2 pm & 7 pm:A CHRISTMAS CAROL,Stave One: Marley's Ghost (VT Torvalar 2pm/ Aoife Lorefield 7pm) *Tuesday, December 12th,at 2 pm & 7 pm:A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stave Two: The First of Three Ghosts(Caledonia Skytower 2pm / Faerie Maven & Gina Pralou 7pm) *Wednesday, December 13th, at 2 pm &7 pm:A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stave Three: The Second of Three Ghosts (Aoife Lorefield 2pm/ Caledonia Skytower & Damien Vectorscope 7pm) *Thursday, December 14th: ~ At 2pm & 7pm:A CHRISTMAS CAROL,Four & Five: The Last of the Spirits & The End of It( Caledonia Skytower 2pm / Shandon Loring 7pm)(also presented in Kitely hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29 @ 7pm) ~ 9pm:A SPECIAL DICKENSIAN LATE NIGHT with Caledonia Skytower *Friday, December 15th, at 3pm; A CHRISTMAS CAROL, The 90 Minute Adaptation & Story Tour - taken from the version edited by Charles Dickens himself for public readings during his lifetime. (Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower)
Check out all the events at THE DICKENS PROJECTincluding Performances by Misfit Dance and Performance Art, Fezziwig's Ball, and which reading sessions are likely to be preceded by the Wootmas Joys of the Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers!
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.
All sessions at the Seanchai Library (SL) are offered free to all Residents. Guests at Second Life sessions at the Holly Kai Main Branch are welcome to join us in donating to our featured charity for October - December, Habitat for Humanity - bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. In accordance with Linden Endowment for the Arts rules, there is no on-going tipping at The Dickens Project on LEA 7.
Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower
" Council for Temporal Studies asks time travelers to save Christmas "
IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
An Out of Time Christmas Novella part two
At a time when interest in the Christmas holiday was waning, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol and inspired the world. But now, history is changing, and the book is never written. When the Council for Temporal Studies asks time travelers Simon and Elizabeth Cross to "save Christmas," they think he's joking. But it's anything but a laughing matter. Simon and Elizabeth must go back to 1843 London and convince Dickens to write his endearing story, or the Christmas holiday we all know and love will cease to be--forever.
Book: IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Author: Monique Martin ISBN: 978-1539539681
Join Caledonia in the Fireside Room for the last stories of 2016, from Maeve Binchy's "Chestnut Street" with two favorites that have become great NYE stories.
@ 1pm - JOSIE ANDERTON, Live in Dickens Square!
@ 3PM: GHOST STORIES ~ More Than Dickens!
As part of their regular annual seasonal programming, Radio Riel presents the Radio Riel Players production of "A Christmas Carol" on the Main Stream. Like The Dickens Project, this broadcast has become an SL tradition over several years.
This is the final "A Christmas Carol" Story Tour for this year's Dickens Project. Aoife Lorefield and Caledonia Skytower lead you in the steps of Ebeneezer Scrooge in a version of the novella adapted by Charles Dickens in his time for public presentations. 
Two stories from the collection
edited by Martin Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes.
@ 11am: Wald Schridde 
Two events today, as we swing into Carol Weekend!
Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL Continues
with a visit to Christmas Present.
Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL Continues!
@1pm - TEA TIME with Charles Dickens This week we'll be in "Christmas Yet to Come" in the area the insiders refer to as "Redemtpion Square." We have more from Oliver Twist to share, and a pivotal chapter from Great Expectations. Presented live in voice.
Elrik Merlin has been a Second Life resident for almost 11 years, and a presenter on Radio Riel for over ten. He programmes the station’s Main Stream two days a week, and handles technical aspects of the station along with international music licensing. He also co-hosts Designing Worlds, the popular TV series on design and designers in virtual worlds. He occasionally DJs for friends and good causes.
