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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Corwyn rides the Wild Arruckus Pretzel as he presents "DOON"

All times Pacific Time, story events in Voice.

*MONDAY, April 2nd at 7pm: THE CRUCIBLE OF TIME  Resumes with Gyro Muggins

*TUESDAY, April 3rd at 7pm:  National Lampoon's DOON continues with Corwyn Allen

*WEDNESDAY, April 4th at 7pm:  MERLIN'S DRAGON Resumes with Faerie Maven-Pralou

*THURSDAY, April 5th at 

       ~ 7pm: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ~Concludes with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitelyhop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29)

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

We had an outstanding Volume 10 celebration.   Mostly it is because we have a great community - good folks who care about stories and value what we have shared over the last decade.  Thank you one and all,  It would not have been near as much fun without you, any of it.

Special thanks goes to Aoife Lorefield for her support and wonderful Quest.  Dagmar Kohime for the way-super-cool jackets and T-shirts.  Inara Pey for generally letting us do our thing.  Corwyn Allen & Wald Schridde for their delightful music.  Our friends at Radio Riel & Fantasy Faire Radio: Gabi, Elrik, Zander, and friend Ktahdn for joining in. Thank you Dubhna Rhiadra for hosting the final sandbox gathering - such fun!

 Images above from Volume 10 provided by Caledonia Skytower, R. Crap Mariner, and Bear Silvershade.

From top to bottom: The Architect of Newgrange with Shandon; Celtic Music with Corwyn Allen & Wald Schridde; BEYOND LOUD: A Bagpipe Challenge with our friends from Radio Riel; Sci-Fi by Command: "The Bulkhead" with Gyro; Stories Go Round with the Seanchai Staff; Dracula!; War of the Worlds, and Storytellers' Sandbox.

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 (SL) are offered free to all Residents. 

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY March 29th at 7pm: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - pt1

"The blinder love is, the more tenacious it is"

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Paris, 1482. The gypsy Esmeralda captures the hearts of many men, including Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of the Notre Dame Cathedral. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her...

Book: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Author: Victor Hugo

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CONTINUING THROUGH THE WEEKEND ...

Cale's kittens "Fade" and Cue Sheet" explore the "Decade..." exhibit. 
And you can join them!

The Seanchai Library's Volume 10 events have concluded, but the anniversary still continues through the weekend with the Quest, and Historical Wander remaining open through April 1st.

Find teleports and information on the lawn by the landing point.

Come seek out your own cool jacket and other fun, light-hearted surprises, and enjoy a bit of nostalgia in the 2008-2018: A Decade of Seanchai Library exhibit, also known as "the Caverns of Memory."

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~ Slainte'

TUESDAY, March 27th at 7 PM: DOON Begins!

Arruckus – men call it Doon, the dessert planet. It is a sugar covered wasteland entirely devoid of entrees, patrolled by a terrifying species of giant pretzel. This savage world is the setting for an apocalyptic drama between the evil Baron Hardchargin, and young Pall Agamemnides. These forces clash over Doon’s one precious resource, a substance found nowhere else in the Universe: the mind-altering liquid know as beer… 

Corwyn guides us through this hilarious epic National Lampoon parody  of Frank Herbert's sci-fi adventure, Live in voice.

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MONDAY, March 26th at 7PM: FROST & FIRE

The runner up in the recent poll nominating "Science Fiction By Command" for the just completed Volume 10 celebration, Gyro presents Ray Bradbury's 1946 classic.

Placed there by a past rocket ship that crashed, the people of the storied land are within sight of another rocket ship on a distant mountain plateau. The plot follows Sim, the protagonist of this story, and his apparently short life on a planet where people are cursed by radiation to live only eight days.

The people of this planet are also gifted with racial memory (they remember their ancestors' memories). However, they do not attempt to reach the sole remaining rocket ship due to the futility of attempting to reach it in one hour, which is the longest length of time between day and night (both deadly).

Sim is then moved by the memory of his ancestors to find and meet with scientists who make halting progress towards the goal of lengthening the world's decreased life span. Sim, motivated by his dwindling days, makes it his goal to extend his life and reach the distant rocket, despite the protests of his sister and other cave-dwellers.

Presented Live in voice.
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FINAL WEEKEND - VOLUME 10: Celebrating a Decade of Seanchai Library

As VOLUME 10 draws to its conclusion - full of great events, new friends made, old friends joyfully reunited - Seanchai Library invites you to two events for our finale weekend.

Saturday, March 24th
   @ 2pm: War of the Worlds at Holly Kai Park's Art Hill.
    The Martians have landed!  But no one believes the incredible, unbelievable truth - that there's life out there beyond our atmosphere, and that it might not be so very friendly.  Join Bear Silvershade, Caledonia Skytower, Derry McMahon, Aoife Lorefield, Zander Greene, Kayden Oconnell, and Shandon Loring for this Sci-Fi treat, first read by Seanchai Library in 2009.

Sunday, March 25th 
    @1pm: The Storyteller's Sandbox hosted by Dubhna Rhiadra, at Ceiliúradh Glen.
Seanchai Library has always been about more than just what happens on our home parcel.  Over our ten year history we have continually made connections, provided opportunities and resources to the greater spoken word community.  We've invited some of our friends from across the grid to join us for one final Volume 10 gathering around the fire, to share stories and poems.

Take a stroll through A Decade of Seanchai Library, a retrospective wander from our beginnings in the West of Ireland, through our years with the Community Virtual Library, our expansion to the Kitely Grid, to the present time.  Images, artifacts, media links all come together to share the story of telling stories.  This exhibit will remain open through the end of the month, so there's still time to walk through the caverns and tunnels of a decade.

AND the Volume 10 Quest will also stay up through the end of March.  There's still goodies to find and surprises to be found by exploring the clues of this light-hearted, fun adventure.  Find instructions at the Seanchai Library main landing point and let your quest begin.

THURSDAY March 22nd at 7pm: THE ARCHITECT OF NEWGRANGE - pt2

"Before Stonehenge. Before the Pyramids."

NEWGRANGE

In the winter of 1951, a storyteller, the last practitioner of an honored, centuries-old tradition, arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish countryside with a tale of the most brilliant Irishman of all time. He was the architect of Newgrange—but, as all stories should, this one begins before its own beginning. And that was a long, long time ago, before there was ever a place called Newgrange, before there was ever an architect to build its famous work, even before there was a country called Ireland...

Book: Ireland: A Novel Author: Frank Delaney

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WEDNESDAY, March 21st at 6:30pm: Dracula!

Seanchai Library reprises it's popular presentation of DRACULA (2008 & 2010), adapted from Bram Stoker's classic novel, granting generous permission to the Library for its anniversary celebration.

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy.  The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Shandon Loring, Derry McMahon, Bear Silvershade, Corwyn Allen, Marian Dragovar, Aoife Lorefield, Faerie Maven-Pralou, Kayden Oconnell and Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

NOTE THE TIME... 6:30 PM SLT

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Tuesday, March 20th at 7pm: VOLUME 10: Stories-Go-Round

Grab a brass ring and hang on as the Seanchai staff take you on a whirling ride through tales of
various kinds, stopping in with a certain Pirate named "George."

This is our traditional-style celebration, five storytellers, no waiting.  Well, maybe a little waiting, but PLENTY of popcorn.  Come along for the ride! Kayden Oconnell, Corwyn Allen, Derry McMahon, R. Crap Mariner, and Faerie Maven-Pralou,  live in voice.

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MONDAY March 19th at 7pm: VOLUME 10: Sci-Fi By Command with Gyro Muggins

Sci-Fi By Command

- with Gyro Muggins -

What Story will the audience choose??
Cabin Boy
Stranger Station
Bulkhead
The Skills of Xanadu
Frost and Fire
The Man Who Would Be Kzin
The Machine Stops
A Martian Odyssey
Call Me Joe
The Thing in the Attic
Operation Desert Fox

PRESENTED IN LIVING VOICE BY GYRO MUGGINS

at SEANCHAI LIBRARY in SECOND LIFE

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VOLUME 10 THIS WEEKEND: Let There be Music!

Saturday, March 17th 
    
 @11:30 am: Corwyn Allen & Wald Schridde Play Celtic Music, Live! at  Ceiliúradh Glen on Holly Kai  (in homage to Glens na hEirean in the old West of Ireland Estate)


Followed at 1pm by . . .
    @The Storyteller's Path with Caledonia Skytower at  Ceiliúradh Glen broadcast on Fantasy Faire Radio

NOTE: The broadcast of the story on Fantasy Faire Radio will be followed by an interview with Zander Greene and Caledonia Skytower.  Hang out at the Glen to hear it on the stream, or tune in on your browser.

Sunday, March 18th 

     @12:30 pm: Prelude to A Bagpipe Challenge with Caledonia Skytower at  Ceiliúradh Glen 

Followed from 1-4pm by . . .

    @ BEYOND LOUD: A Bagpipe Challenge - music with Elrik Merlin, Gabrielle Riel, and Ktahdn Vesivino at  Ceiliúradh Glen broadcast on Radio Riel Main Stream

THURSDAY March 15th at 7pm: THE ARCHITECT OF NEWGRANGE - pt1

"Before Stonehenge. Before the Pyramids."

NEWGRANGE

In the winter of 1951, a storyteller, the last practitioner of an honored, centuries-old tradition, arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish countryside with a tale of the most brilliant Irishman of all time. He was the architect of Newgrange—but, as all stories should, this one begins before its own beginning. And that was a long, long time ago, before there was ever a place called Newgrange, before there was ever an architect to build its famous work, even before there was a country called Ireland...

Book: Ireland: A Novel Author: Frank Delaney

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WEDNESDAY, March 14th at 7pm: THE QUIET MAN

A Seanchai traditional favorite, Caledonia presents Maurice Walsh's THE QUIET MAN.

Sean Kelvin comes home to Ireland from his sojourn to the "land of opportunity."  All Sean wants is  peace, and a roof he can call his own - such a contrast to his life in America.  But soon enough Sean's dearly acquired peace is shattered  . . .  he falls in love with Ellen O'Grady, sister to a local landowner and his chief antagonist.

Walsh's 1933 story was fashioned, after 10 years of effort, into an Academy-Award winning feature film starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, and Victor McLaughlin.

Presented live in voice.
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TUESDAY, March 13th at 7pm: MIST NESTS

Aoife Lorefield shares her original work, MIST NESTS: a story of what happens when science meets magic. In springtime, who knows what we might find in our nets? What we believe, what we see, and what is in our hearts makes all the difference. 

Presented live in voice.
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MONDAY, March 12th at 7pm: SENTENCED TO PRISM Concludes

SENTENCED TO PRISM

- by Alan Dean Foster -

Evan Orgell is The Company's best troubleshooter.  Highly competent, cocky, absolutely sure of himself, he is completely unprepared for the world known as Prism.

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 IN VIRTUAL WORLDS SINCE 2008!

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All times Pacific Time, story events in Voice.

*SUNDAY, March 11th at 6pm: MAGICLAND STORYTIME:  Caledonia is back at the Golden Horseshoe continuing Betsy Byar's "The Not-Just-Anybody Family" http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bracket/180/56/31

*MONDAY, March 12th at 7pm: Alan Dean Foster's SENTENCED TO PRISM Concludes with Gyro Muggins

*TUESDAY, March 13th at 7pm: An Original Story from Aoife MIST NESTS 

*WEDNESDAY, March 14th at 7pm:  Maurice Walsh's THE QUIET MAN with Caledonia Skytower, a beloved Seanchai classic on the eve of our anniversary.

VOLUME 10: 
Celebrating a Decade of Seanchai Library 
Begins . . . 

*THURSDAY, March 15th at 7pm: THE ARCHITECT OF NEWGRANGE ~ Part 1 with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitelyhop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29)

Check out the exciting celebration Schedule on the dedicate Volume 10 Page

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 (SL) are offered free to all Residents.  Guests at Second Life sessions are welcome to join us in donating to our current featured charity Reach Out and Read, a nonprofit organization that gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together.

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower

THURSDAY March 8th at 7pm: CREATURES OF MIST

"the darker side of human existence"

CREATURES OF MIST

Creatures of mist, half credited; Our faint form flings No shadow in the moonlight on the bed We visit; noiseless is our tread, Who come from the deserts of the dead.

Book: Shadows #3 Author: Charles L. Grant

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WEDNESDAY March 7th at 7pm: THE ORACLE

"The Isle of Coruain – 938 AD"

ORACLE

Ana Mac Lochlainn came awake suddenly, her heart pounding, her mouth dry. She is on the brink of taking her vow of chastity and becoming Oracle to her magical race, when she sees a vision of dark forces stirring up strife on earth. Having 'seen' the part she has to play, will Ana choose to leave her magical dimension to stop the impending war on the earthly plane? 

This is a tale of ancient Irish magic, myth, and love.

Book: Mammoth Book of Irish Romance Editor: Trisha Telep

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TUESDAY, March 6th at 7pm: IRISH POETS & WONDERS

Caledonia Skytower shares selections from D. R. McAnally's compendium of late 18th Century Irish Lore, punctuated with selected Irish poems.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

~ W. B. Yeats.

Caledonia Skytower, live in voice.

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MONDAY March 5th at 7pm: SENTENCED TO PRISM

SENTENCED TO PRISM

- by Alan Dean Foster -

Evan Orgell is The Company's best troubleshooter.  Highly competent, cocky, absolutely sure of himself, he is completely unprepared for the world known as Prism.

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 Library

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

_____________________________________

Shandon gets immersed in "Sirens" and takes his audience along

All times Pacific Time, story events in Voice.

*SUNDAY, March 4th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME MYSTERIES: Featuring Nero Wolfe and his charming assistant Archie Goodwin with the Conclusion of "In Bad Taste."

*MONDAY, March 5th at 7pm: Alan Dean Foster's SENTENCED TO PRISM Continues with Gyro Muggins

*TUESDAY, March 6th at 7pm: IRISH POETS & WONDERS with Caledonia Skytower

*WEDNESDAY, March 7th at 7pm: ORACLE with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitelyhop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29)

*THURSDAY, March 8th 
   ~ at 7pm: CREATURES OF MIST with Shandon Loring (also presented in Kitelyhop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Seanchai/144/129/29)
    ~ at 9pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT contemporary Sci-Fi Fantasy with Finn Zeddmore

VOLUME 10: Celebrating a Decade of Seanchai Library is coming soon!

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.  

Have questions? Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower