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FRIDAY, December 20th" A Big Day at The Dickens Project - Carol Tours Begin!

It's finally here! Time for the "Christmas Carol" Story Tours!

Beginning today and every day through Monday a different section of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" will be read in a live walking tour format. Read live on Stream, come enjoy this singular immersive experience, only st The Dickens Project.

TODAY: Stave One: Marley's Ghost

@ 3pm - Read by Caledonia Skytower

@ 7pm - Read by Kayden O'connell, Gloriana Maertens, and Caledonia Skytower.

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All times slt/pacific

Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project - Thursday, December 19th

@ Noon - Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable

Hosted by The Community Virtual Library.

@ 1pm - Tally Mercury, Live at The Dickens Project

Join us for an hour of fantastic music and songs with Tally at the Opera House.

@ 9-11pm - DJ Tigerpawz with "Decades Holiday Edition"

eClipse Club & Resort brings an hour of music and mayhem to The Dickens Skating Pond.

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All times slt/pacific

Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project: "The Cricket on the Heart" Continues

The next best known of Dickens' Christmas novellas, after the mighty "Carol", this "Fairy Tale of Home" invokes the folkloric magical luck of crickets, while making keen observations on relationships, and making a choices. The "Chirps" continue tonight.

Live on Stream from Fezziwig's Courtyard.

Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project: December 16th - Music and Dancing

@ 9-11pm slt/pacific - eClipse Club & Resort at The Dickens Project Continues

Our friends from eClipse Club & Resort continue their jubilant residency at Dickens tonight with DJ JAdmiral Maelstrom will spin 2 hours of Holiday favorites at The Opera House for a "Holiday Formal."

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Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

LOTS TO DO at The Dickens Project: December 14 & 15

In addition to balloon rides, and horse cart tours, strolling the streets exploring while listening to "A Christmas Carol" and using the new Points of Interest Mini-Map to help you discover parts of the story and activity markers, and visiting the art gallery (there's just do much to do!) we have the following events scheduled . . .

Saturday (all times slt/pacific)

@ Noon - The Night Before Humbug!

Divertissement in dance presented by Evolution Dance. (Come early to get a seat and be kind to your Viewer).

@ 7-9pm- "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" with DJ Iniry

Our friends from eClipse Club & Resort continue their great line-up of music & dance events. DJ Iniry will spin 2 hours of rockin' seasonal music to make your heart happy and your feet dance at The Opera House.

Sunday (all times slt/pacific)

@ 10am - The Night Before Humbug! - Final Performance

Divertissement in dance presented by Evolution Dance. (Come early to get a seat and be kind to your Viewer).

@ 2pm - Tea with Mr. Dickens - The Pickwick Papers

Selections from the early works of Charles Dickens, with a slight lean towards the spooky! Presented live at Fezziwig's Courtyard.

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Teleport to all venues available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project: Friday, December 13th

Lucky You! It's the starts of a busy weekend full of great events at The Dickens Project in SL!

@ 9am slt/pacific - The Non-Profit Commons Annual Tour

Hosted by The Community Virtual Library

@ 7-9pm slt/pacific - eClipse at The Dickens Project Begins!

Our friends from eClipse Club & Resort have a great line-up of music & dance events all prepared, and tonight is the one that starts it all. DJ Momma will spin 2 hours of Holiday favorites at Fezziwig's Courtyard for a "Classic Christmas."

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Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project: Music at The Miner's Village!

@ 4pm slt/pacific: Live acoustic music and charming vocals from Mr. Corwyn Allen at the Miner's Village on Dickens Harbour. Let your feet do that happy dance that you KNOW they want to!

Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project: THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Begins

The Cricket on The Hearth, by Charles Dickens

Tuesday, December 10th at 7pm

Probably the next best known of Dickens' Christmas novellas, after the mighty "Carol", this "Fairy Tale of Home" invokes the folkloric magical luck of crickets, while making keen observations on relationships, and making a choices.

Presented over several weeks - Live on Stream from Fezziwig's Courtyard.

Teleport available at The Welcome Area

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/129/128/1401

TODAY at The Dickens Project SL: TEA WITH MR. DICKENS - Klannex Northmead & "Little Dorrit"

2pm slt: Tea With Mr. Dickens - "Little Dorrit"

Poet Klannex Northmead presents an hour of satire and irony from one of Mr. Dickens' most worthy works including, as it does, some of his most pointed social commentary (complete with Dickensian rants).

The event will be live in Voice at Fezziwig's Courtyard, accessible from The Dickens Project Welcome Area

Little Dorrit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London.

The novel satirizes some shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work and yet incarcerated until they had repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the impotent bureaucracy of the British government, in this novel in the form of the fictional "Circumlocution Office". Dickens also satirizes the stratification of society that results from the British class system.

TODAY at The Dickens Project: Saturday, December 7th

Noon slt: The Angelicus Boy Choir Concert

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/231/110/33

The Dickens Project is pleased to welcome back the Angelicus Boy Choir to this year's Edition.

The Boy Choir celebrate both music, and the stories behind the music with their choreographed performances. Kick of your 2024 Dickens Experience with an hour of songs and delight in the Christmas Past Field. Stick around for a snow ball fight afterwards.

1pm slt: "Vision of Dickens' World" by Hermes Kondor - Opening Celebration
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/48/181/24

Artist and arts advocate Kermes Kondor opens the Dickens 2024 Art season with an exhibition of his own work - created images reflecting the thoughts and key moments of characters from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Music by DJ Faye Hexem at the Art Gallery.

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Both events are also accessible from The Dickens Project Welcome Area

THE DICKENS PROJECT is Coming: Opens December 6th

Video by Honey Heart

https://www.flickr.com/photos/97527756@N06/54154222850/in/dateposted/

Since it's founding in Second Life in 2008, Seanchai Library has always had a special relationship with Charles Dickens seminal novella "A Christmas Carol." Not a year has passed since when the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's journey of redemption has not been read or presented in some form.

2024 will be no exception! The Dickens Project returns for another year, featuring "A Christmas Carol" as well as other works, and a variety of holiday music, dancing and amusements from across the Second Life Community. There's plenty to do an explore (pro-tip - also a great photo ops to shoot your holiday greetings from).

Join us on the regions Dickens Project and Dickens Harbour for a month of yuletide cheer and festive celebration along with:

Our Participating Communities for 2023

Angelicus Boys Choir

The Community Virtual Library

Eclipse Club & Resort

Elite Equestrian

Evolution Dance

Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft Inspired

SL Hawks Aerobatics Team

Virtual Community Radio

The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers

... and Additional Performing Artists yet to be announced.

THURSDAY November 28th at 10am: ALICES RESTAURANT MASSACREE - 17th ANNUAL!!!

<<17TH ANNUAL>>
ALICE'S RESTAURANT MASSACREE

The song is one of Arlo Guthrie's most prominent works, based on a true incident from his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965 with a citation for littering, and ended with the refusal of the U.S. Army to draft him because of his conviction for that crime. The ironic punch line of the story is that, in the words of Guthrie, "I'm sittin' here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the Army - burn women, kids, houses and villages - after bein' a litterbug." The final part of the song is an encouragement for the listeners to sing along, to resist the draft, and to end war.

The "song" is in fact a spoken monologue, presented by Shandon Loring today for your listening pleasure or just to groan at and be Thankful when it's over.

Seanchai Library in Second Life

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Storylink Radio Estate in Opensim

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LIVE ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/StorylinkRadio

Read About RL Alice Brock:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/22/alice-brock-alices-restaurant-dies

SATURDAY November 2nd at 6pm: MORGAN CAREY AND THE CURSE OF THE CORPSE BRIDE - Dia de los Muertos Myths & Legends

“Oh, don’t be such a scaredy-cat”

Morgan Carey

THE CURSE OF THE CORPSE BRIDE

Dia de los Muertos Myths & Legends by Susan Colleen Browne

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Myths and legends...

Halloween is just around the corner, and 5th grader Morgan chooses the coolest costume ever—a dead bride. Preparing for a fun night of trick-or-treating with her best friend Claire, she definitely did not expect a trip to the costume store to set off a series of strange encounters… Like the snarky, mysterious clerk at the store, a very curious bridal veil, and a weird fortune-telling machine that actually works…when it’s not plugged in!

But Halloween quickly takes a spooky turn: a Day of the Dead curse, an old book of magical spells, and a dark and deserted cemetery forces Morgan, with Claire’s help, to confront the powerful magic of Dia de los Muertos...Or is Morgan doomed to be cursed by the Corpse Bride forever? A family-friendly Halloween adventure - humor, drama and just the right touch of scariness!

FOLLOWED BY DDLM DANCE WITH DJ CALEDONIA

STORY REVIEW (spoiler alert):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710390-morgan-carey-and-the-curse-of-the-corpse-bride

addt'l story information and reviews may be found at: www.storylinkradio.com

*READ-A-LONG:

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Pc50EAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PP1&hl=en

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Questions?

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Book: MORGAN CAREY AND THE CURSE OF THE CORPSE BRIDE
Author: Susan Colleen Browne

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:

halloween, Dia de los Muertos

*Notes re: Read-a-Long & Thematic Elements
We ourselves do not provide or post text for non-Public Domain stories or books, on this blog, on our websites, YouTube channels, or other repository, except when given explicit permission from the rights holder. The Read-a-Long link on this page is publicly available on the internet. Typically this information be found by a simple Google search for the title of the story. This text is in no way hosted by Storylink Radio or Seanchai Library. Please note that your storyteller may adapt the story for the intended audience, time allotted, dramatic purposes, etc. Efforts are made to remove or adapt instances of foul language from these stories before presenting, certainly no "F-bombs" will be present. However, you may encounter such language as well as potentially disturbing thematic elements in the original text of the story if you choose to follow along with the read-a-long links. Any thematic elements in tonight's telling that we believe some audience members could find objectionable are noted above under "Thematic Elements". It is our hope that audience members will find such elements to be neither extreme nor gratuitous, but rather enhancing to the story overall. We do understand that people's views and values may vary, and so while it is not our intent to provide an exhaustive nor industry compliant list of Thematic Elements of this story, we are attempting to provide a guide that we hope you may find useful if you have such concerns.

THURSDAY October 31st at 9pm: WITH GRAVEYARD WEEDS AND WOLFSBANE SEEDS

"It's Halloween"

WITH GRAVEYARD WEEDS

& WOLFSBANE SEEDS

A Halloween Trick or Treat by Seanan McGuire

In the small town of Holston, Oregon sits an abandoned mansion called the Holston house. The house is eerily well-maintained, considering that it has sat empty for many years. There are rumors that the Holston's youngest child, Mary, still walks the halls looking for someone to play with her. It is Halloween night and a group of teenagers, including a girl named Emily, decide to break into the house.

INTERVIEW With Author & STORY REVIEW (spoiler alert):

https://earthandskye.org/2019/12/11/with-graveyard-weeds-and-wolfsbane-seeds-by-seanan-mcguire/

addt'l story information and reviews may be found at: www.storylinkradio.com

*READ-A-LONG:

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/with-graveyard-weeds-and-wolfsbane-seeds/

Join Us Live At:

Seanchai Library in Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27

Storylink Radio Estate in Opensim

https://bit.ly/slr-octoberworld

Storylink Radio Youtube Channel:

www.youtube.com/StorylinkRadio

Questions?

visit: www.StorylinkRadio.com or email: admin@storylinkradio.com

Book: Haunted Nights
Editor: Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton
Author: Seanan McGuire

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:

halloween hooliganism

THURSDAY, October 31st: Happy Halloween from The Bradbury Project!

@1pm - Ray's Tales, the final session

The last session of short stories in the Green Town Park from the works of Ray Bradbury including The October Country live on stream.

Today: "There Was An Old Woman" from "The October Country Stories" . . . a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere.

For more information on Ray Bradbury's life and work, visit raybradbury.com.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradbury%20Project/197/32/41

WEDNESDAY, October 30th at 7pm: THE HALLOWEEN TREE - Final Story Tour

@7pm - The Halloween Tree Story Tour - Part 3

"The unemployed of all midnight Europe shivered in their stone sleep and came awake."

Ray Bradbury's tale of youth, life, death, and Halloween continues, in the Story Tour format with presenters Shandon Loring, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower guiding guests through the story while visiting the elements of the story and Bradbury's work that inspired the region.

For more information on Ray Bradbury's life and work, visit raybradbury.com.

TUESDAY, October 29th: Moving Closer to Halloween!

@NOON - RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen!

Join us today for Russell's weekly performance. Enjoy an hour of 100% live and unplugged acoustic music and spoken word. Russell presents original and traditional songs, instrumental pieces and covers, together with some selected stories and poems: Folk Baroque and Beyond. Presented on Stream in Ceiluiradh Glen at Nowhereville.

@7 PM - THE HALLOWEEN TREE, Part 2 - RESCHEDULED

"The boys hung down from the Kite in a fine lizard’s tail, now weaving, now looping, now snapping, now gliding. They yelled with delight. They shrieked with ingasped, outgasped terror. They rode across the moon in an exclamation point."

Ray Bradbury's tale of youth, life, death, and Halloween begins, in the Story Tour format with presenters Kayden O'Connell, Finn Zeddmore and Shandon Loring guiding guests through the story while visiting the elements of the story and Bradbury's work that inspired the region. Presented live on stream at The Bradbury Project.

For more information on Ray Bradbury's life and work, visit raybradbury.com.

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Events at Nowhereville

The Glen - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/197/131/21

Events at The Bradbury Project

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradbury%20Project/143/57/41

MONDAY, October 28th at 7pm: LAST CONTACT with Gyro

@7pm slt - Sci-Fi Classics: Last Contact

Gyro is back with more Science Fiction adventures from his endless library.

'Last Contact' by Steven Baxter (36 mins) The effects of Dark energy expanding the universe are accelerating; soon everything will expand into sub-atomic particles. Humanity is spending its last days deciphering the final message received from aliens.

Gyro Muggins presents, live in Voice at Seanchai's Main Library on Nowhereville.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

SUNDAY, October 27th: A Pair of Intriguing Events at The Bradbury Project

@1:30pm - The Halloween Tree Story Tour - Part 3

"The unemployed of all midnight Europe shivered in their stone sleep and came awake."

Ray Bradbury's tale of youth, life, death, and Halloween continues, in the Story Tour format with presenter Caledonia Skytower guiding guests through the story while visiting the elements of the story and Bradbury's work that inspired the region.

For more information on Ray Bradbury's life and work, visit raybradbury.com.

@7-10pm - eClipse at The Bradbury Project

Join us in the shadow of The Halloween Tree for the final contribution from our friends at eClipse Club & Resort as DJs TigerPawz and Caledonia combine their sinister efforts to present "Dr. Frankenstein's Halloween Boogie." Music, Dancing, Random Raffles and Jeopardy!

All events today will be live on stream, re-direct teleports available from the Green Town section to appropriate location of the region.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradbury%20Project/143/57/41

SATURDAY. October 26th: Stories, Music, and Fun at The Bradbury Project

@Noon - Ray's Tales

More short stories from the works of Ray Bradbury including stories from Dandelion Wine and The October Country live on stream in the Green Town Park at The Bradbury Project.

Today: a selected story from "The October Country" . . . a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere.

For more information on Ray Bradbury's life and work, visit raybradbury.com.

@7-9pm - eClipse at The Bradbury Project

Join us in the shadow of The Halloween tree as DJ Iniry and the fine folks from Eclipse Club & Resort as they present "The Vampyre Masquerade Ball."

Live on stream, re-direct teleport available from the Green Town section to north side of the region.

THURSDAY October 24th at 9pm: LAST OF PLACIDE'S WIFE

"The slavering terror panted at my heels"

LAST OF PLACIDE'S WIFE

Cajun Vampires & Werewolves Battle in the Bayou by Kirk Mashburn

There was a positively feral light in those glorious eyes, now; and that seductive mouth had ceased to be such. With lips drawn back from her teeth (queer that I had not before noticed how sharp and cruelly pointed they seemed—like fangs!

A shuddery story of Louisiana Cajuns, of corpses that screamed in their graves, and a woman who would not stay dead.

*READ-A-LONG:

https://sffaudiomediacan.s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs/TheEmpireOfTheNecromancersByClarkAshtonSmith.pdf

Join Us Live At:

Seanchai Library in Second Life

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Storylink Radio Estate in Opensim

https://bit.ly/slr-octoberworld

Storylink Radio Youtube Channel:

www.youtube.com/StorylinkRadio

Questions?

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From: Weird Tales Magazine - September 1932
Author: Kirk Mashburn

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:

anachronistic attitudes, classic horror, alcohol use

THURSDAY October 24th at 7pm: BLOOD & BRINE - Tales of the Slayer

"Tales of the Slayer"
BLOOD & BRINE
She alone stands against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness.
- followed at 9pm by THE LAST OF PLACIDES WIFE -
Slayer Robin Whitby disguising herself as a man, is the pirate captain of her ship "Neptune's Lady" in 1661. Along with her Watcher, Dr. William Henry Pratt, she and her crew prowl the Caribbean. Encountering a derelict treasure ship full of stolen Inca gold she battles curses, leeches, vampires, a mutinous crew.. and a kraken!

Into every generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, to find the vampires where they gather, and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In our time, that girl is Buffy Summers. But Buffy is merely one Slayer in an eternal continuum of warriors for the Powers That Be.

STORY REVIEW (spoiler alert):
https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Blood_and_Brine
addt'l story information and reviews may be found at: www.storylinkradio.com

*READ-A-LONG:
https://bookreadfree.com/537494/13196718

Join Us Live At:
Seanchai Library in Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27
&
Storylink Radio Estate in Opensim
https://bit.ly/slr-octoberworld
&
Storylink Radio Youtube Channel:
www.youtube.com/StorylinkRadio

Questions?
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From: Tales of the Slayer, Vol.II
Author: Greg Cox

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:
supernatural, monsters

*Notes re: Read-a-Long & Thematic Elements
We ourselves do not provide or post text for non-Public Domain stories or books, on this blog, on our websites, YouTube channels, or other repository, except when given explicit permission from the rights holder. The Read-a-Long link on this page is publicly available on the internet. Typically this information be found by a simple Google search for the title of the story. This text is in no way hosted by Storylink Radio or Seanchai Library. Please note that your storyteller may adapt the story for the intended audience, time allotted, dramatic purposes, etc. Efforts are made to remove or adapt instances of foul language from these stories before presenting, certainly no "F-bombs" will be present. However, you may encounter such language as well as potentially disturbing thematic elements in the original text of the story if you choose to follow along with the read-a-long links. Any thematic elements in tonight's telling that we believe some audience members could find objectionable are noted above under "Thematic Elements". It is our hope that audience members will find such elements to be neither extreme nor gratuitous, but rather enhancing to the story overall. We do understand that people's views and values may vary, and so while it is not our intent to provide an exhaustive nor industry compliant list of Thematic Elements of this story, we are attempting to provide a guide that we hope you may find useful if you have such concerns.

c

THURSDAY October 24th at 6pm: PLACIDE'S WIFE

"There was a feral light in those glorious eyes"

PLACIDE'S WIFE

Cajun Vampire Horror by Kirk Mashburn
- followed by more stories at 7pm & 9pm -

A shuddery story of Louisiana Cajuns, of corpses that screamed in their graves, and a woman who would not stay dead.

*READ-A-LONG:

https://reh.world/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Weird-Tales-November-1931-with-links.pdf

Join Us Live At:

Seanchai Library in Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/44/27

Storylink Radio Estate in Opensim

https://bit.ly/slr-octoberworld

Storylink Radio Youtube Channel:

www.youtube.com/StorylinkRadio

Questions?

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From: Weird Tales Magazine - November 1931
Author: Kirk Mashburn

*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:

anachronistic attitudes, classic horror, domestic violence

TUESDAY, October 22nd: Another Full Day at Seanchai Library

@NOON - RUSSELL EPONYM, Live in The Glen!

@7 PM - THE HALLOWEEN TREE, Part 2 - RESCHEDULED to 10.29

For more information on Ray Bradbury's life and work, visit raybradbury.com.

@ 9 PM - SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Finn Zeddmore

Finn Zeddmore presents more contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy from a variety of sources. What adventure will Finn take us on tonight? "After the Cure" by Carrie Ryan and "The Sweetest Honey" by Tim Pratt. Presented live in Voice at Seanchai Library on Nowhereville.

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Events at Nowhereville

The Glen - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/197/131/21
Seanchai Library - https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26

Events at The Bradbury Project

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bradbury%20Project/143/57/41

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