Showing posts with label Crazy Eights on LEA 9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crazy Eights on LEA 9. Show all posts

SUNDAY, May 29th: TERRIFIC TALES

@ 1:30pm Tea Time at Baker Street concludes:
The last event by Seanchai Library at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 will conclude Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Second Stain
Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe, even war. They are loath to tell Holmes at first the exact nature of the document's contents, but when Holmes declines to take on their case, they tell him that it was a rather injudicious letter from a foreign potentate.

Presented live, in voice
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@ 6pm Magicland Storytime: More from the Art and Magic of William Joyce
Caledonia shares "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" and continues "Ollie's Odyssey" :
In the secret realm of toys, there are many mysteries.There is the Code of the Toys, which is as ancient as childhood. There’s also the magic of becoming a child’s favorite, the highest honor in the Toy World. Made by hand by Billy’s mother, Ollie is a special toy, “a toy who will matter.” He becomes Billy’s best friend, confidant, pal, and yes, Billy’s “favorite.”

But there are villains in the Toy World, and Zozo, the clown king, is the most feared. He and his toy henchman (the Creeps) have sworn to steal and imprison favorite toys until they forget their children and become forever lost.

When Ollie is toynapped, Billy must rescue his beloved favorite from Zozo’s subterranean lair in the old Carnival Place, past the park, through the woods, and into the night.
Never has a journey of ten blocks been more epic 

Presented live in voice. 
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WEDNESDAY, May 25th at 7pm: The Conclusion of THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE


Featured Book Series #4 concludes at "Crazy Eights"on LEA 9:

The War is raging through Europe, and now is very real to Ada, Jamie, and Susan Smith.  But another "War" is about to begin when Mam comes to fetch her children home on the very eve of the London Blitz.

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from acclaimed author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. The War That Saved My Life" is one of this year's Newbery Honor Books, among other distinctions.  Caledonia presents, Live in voice.

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Be sure and check out LEA 9 before it closes on May 30th!


SATURDAY, May 21st Beginning at 1pm: THE BIG READ of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Alice was ..."considering in her own mind ... whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."

Saturday, May 21st at 1pm SLT seven members of Seanchai Library's Story Staff will assemble in the Crazy Eights Arena on LEA 9 to present the entire text of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"We begin at the beginning, and go on till we come to the end, then we stop, "quoted Caledonia Skytower, when explaining what a Seanchai Library "Big Read" is.  Voice performers including Corwyn Allen, Hana Hoo, John Morland, Kayden Oconnell, Dubhna Rhiadra, Trolley Trollop, and Caledonia Skytower.  

The presentation will begin with "Down the Rabbit Hole" at 1pm slt, and conclude with "Alice's Evidence" shortly after 4pm.  The performance will begin with voices reading in pairs and crescendo to a cacophony involving the entire cast, in a script arranged by Kayden Oconnell which includes all the words from the original, with no adaptation.

When asked what more we should know, Skytower replied, "The stage is set: the tea is poured, the cards are dealt.  All that remains is you!"  Guests are welcome to enjoy all or part of Saturday's performance.


The Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Big Read - Saturday, May 21st beginning at 1pm live in voice at the Crazy Eights Arena on LEA9


THURSDAY, May 19th: Two Great Sessions Tonight!


@ 7pm THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE Continues!
As Ada becomes a hero once again, taking one more step towards being accepted, and accepting herself as "normal," while World War II continues to rage around her.

An exceptionally moving story of triumph from acclaimed author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. "The War That Saved My Life" is one of this year's Newbery Honor Books, among other distinctions.  Caledonia presents, Live in voice.

Featured book Series #4 continues tonight on LEA 9
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@ 9pm SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT with Gyro Muggins
Gyro has got three magnificent Sci-Fi Tales to share:

  •  "DOG DAY AFTERNOON" (from The Callhan Chronicles)
  • "TAKE A DEEP BREATH" by Arthur C. Clarke from Microcosmic Tales, 1957
  • And if there is sufficient time "HOBBITS" from Analog Magazine, Feb 1999

Live in voice, back at our Bradley U home base.
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SUNDAY, May 15th: TWO UP FOR GREAT TALES!

@ 1:30pm Tea Time at Baker Street continues...
. . . our sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
Godfrey Staunton is missing! 


Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby team (who plays at the three-quarters position, hence the story's title), and they will never win the important match tomorrow against Oxford if Staunton cannot be found. Holmes has to admit that sport is outside his field, but he shows the same care he has shown to his other cases. The game is truly a foot!



@ 3pm Storytellers' Sandbox
For this final Sandbox session on LEA 9, we welcome two delightfully different story offerings:

Eleseren Brianna is a gifted artist, stylist, and writer.  COO of Windlight Magazine and the creative force behind "The Edge," she shares an original story at the Sandbox today.

The Cold Shot Players promote writing, reading and theater.  And they do it cold, no prep.  They thrive on spontaneity.  Today they share an new, original radio show with the Sandbox audience.


Your seat in the Crazy Eights Arena is waiting for you!

WEDNESDAY, May 11th at 7pm: THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE Continues


More from the final featured Book Series on LEA 9: "The War That Saved My Life", one of this year's Newbery Honor Books, among other distinctions.

Ada and Jamie have made it safely to the country and are now firmly installed with Miss Susan Smith, who is not a nice person (except she actually is). As she addresses their external wounds and neglect one by one, they begin to struggle with the internal hurts.  Both Jamie and Ada have grown up sorely neglected by "Mam," and in Ada's case profoundly abused.

It all sounds so tragic, but add to that Germans, Bombs, potential invasions.  Can anyone feel safe?

Caledonia presents, Live in voice.

SUNDAY, May 8th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street!

@ 1:30pm Tea Time continues...
. . . our sojourn at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with the next adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"

THIS WEEK: The Adventure of the Golden Pinc-Nez
One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins comes to see Holmes at 221B Baker Street to tell him of a murder that defies solution. The dead man is Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, an old invalid. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent. The most perplexing thing about the case to Hopkins is that it is apparently motiveless.

WEDNESDAY, May 4th at 7pm: More from THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE

Featured Book Series #4 continues on "Crazy Eights" at LEA ! Caledonia continues "The War That Saved My Life" is one of this year's Newbery Honor Books.  An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from acclaimed author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.

Ada and Jamie have made it to the country, and they've been placed with a certain reluctant Susan Smith; a woman as emotionally damaged, in her own way, as Ada and Jamie. Yet Miss Smith does not lack compassion, as she sees the needs of the two children, and sets about improving their lot.

Caledonia presents, Live in voice.
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MONDAY, April 18th at 7PM: SILENT RUNNING

“SILENT RUNNING”
by Harlan Thompson
ISBN: B000KDJ5A8

In the future, all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn.

Featured Book Series #3 continues at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with Harlan Thompson’s novelization of the 1972 screenplay for Silent Running, by Mike Cimino, Deric Washburn, and Steven Bochco.

Gyro Muggins, Live in voice.


Come a few minutes early and explore the Valley Forge, now docked in Crazy Eights' Featured Book Area, on LEA 9.
Gyro Muggins, live in voice.

MONDAY, April 11th at 7PM: SILENT RUNNING

“SILENT RUNNING”
by Harlan Thompson
ISBN: B000KDJ5A8

In the future, all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn.

Featured Book Series #3 continues at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with Harlan Thompson’s novelization of the 1972 screenplay for Silent Running, by Mike Cimino, Deric Washburn, and Steven Bochco.

Gyro Muggins, Live in voice.

Come a few minutes early and explore the Valley Forge, now docked in Crazy Eights' Featured Book Area, on LEA 9.
Gyro Muggins, live in voice.

SUNDAY - Two Opportunities for Enjoyment

Sunday is always a big day for literature on the grid, and this Sunday is no exception . . . Join us!

1:30pm TEA TIME at Baker Street
  
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" continues as Seanchai Library presents all 13 adventures in the collection in the LEA 9 221b Lounge, concluding at May's ending.

THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor’s house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.


Holmes knows that Lestrade’s theory about a Napoleon-hating lunatic must be wrong. The busts in question all came from the same mold. Why is he breaking them?

In the Baker Street Arena.  Enter the door to 221b and join the happy Tea Time crew.
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@ 3pm: STORYTELLERS' SANDBOX at the Crazy Eights Arena
welcome to the another Storytellers' Sandbox at Crazy Eights, designed to providing a forum for new stories, new storytellers, and new ways to present them.  

This Sandbox we are pleased to welcome to the Crazy Eights Arena: Bryn Taleweaver, Virginia (UnderstandingComplexity Resident), and Boudicca Amat.  Three voices with three unique stories to share.

Presented live in voice.
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MONDAY. April 4th at 7PM : SILENT RUNNING Begins

Featured Book Series #3 begins at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with Harlan Thompson’s novelization of the 1972 screenplay for Silent Running, by Mike Cimino, Deric Washburn, and Steven Bochco.
In the future, all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn.
Freeman Lowell, one of four crewmen aboard the freighter Valley Forge, is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully preserves a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth and the reforestation of the planet. Lowell spends most of his time in the domes, both cultivating the crops and attending to the animal life.
Then, orders come from Earth to jettison and destroy the domes with nuclear charges and return the freighters to commercial service. Orders Lowell’s crew mates are only too happy to follow if it means a return to Earth. Lowell, however, is less than sanguine about this new turn of events.
Come a few minutes early and explore the Valley Forge, now docked in Crazy Eights' Featured Book Area, on LEA 9.
Gyro Muggins, live in voice.
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OUT & ABOUT: A SEANCHAI SUNDAY

It's Spring and we are out about the SL grid on Sunday, sharing stories and enjoying the season ...

1:30pm TEA TIME at Baker Street
  
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" continues as Seanchai Library presents all 13 adventures in the collection in the LEA 9 221b Lounge, concluding at May's ending.

THIS WEEK: "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"
Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers" and he makes his living out of blackmail.

In the Baker Street Arena.  Enter the door to 221b and join the happy Tea Time crew.
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3 pm "Stories at the Park" ~ Holly Kai Park
  
Kayden and Caledonia share stories and poetry written for the exhibition at Holly Kai Park's Art in the Park outdoor gallery which currently features the work of visiting artists Io Bechir, Goodcross, Hana Hoo, Mistero Hifeng and Sisse Singh.

Join us in the stone gazebo (just up the hill from the landing point) surrounded by virtual nature and art. Consider coming a few minutes early, or plan to linger after and explore the sculpture, painting, and photographic art of the featured artists.  

Check Out Inara Pey's Preview of Stories at the Park at Living in a Modemworld

Presented live in voice.

WEDNESDAY, March 16th at 7pm: More from THE HUNTER'S MOON

Well Gwen's done it now!  She's gone and eaten the Faerie food!  She'd been warned, even.  How is she going to ever get out of Fae now, with or without her cousin?

Featured Book Series #2 on crazy Eights continues ...

Cousins Gwen and Findabhair may not always get along but their shared love of everything fantastical and fae creates a bond nothing can break, not even Faerie itself.

O.R. Melling interweaves the first in her Chronicles of Faerie series with real landscapes, tying all together with the threads of myth and legend that make Ireland the magical land it is.

Aoife Lorefield, live in voice.
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WEDNESDAY, March 2nd at 7pm: HUNTER'S MOON Begins

Featured Book Series #2 begins tonight on Crazy Eights at LEA 9.

Cousins Gwen and Findabhair may not always get along but their shared love of everything fantastical and fae creates a bond nothing can break, not even Faerie itself. Back together for a summer of gallivanting across Ireland, the cousins find more magic than they bargained for when Finn is kidnapped by the King of Faerie. In that Land, all is not well, and as Gwen sets out to find the help she need to save Finn, she may save all of Faerie too. O.R. Melling weaves her young adult novel, the first in her Chronicles of Faerie series, through real landscapes, tying all together with the threads of myth and legend that make Ireland the magical land it is.

Aoife Lorefield, live in voice, in the newly refreshed Featured Book Area.
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SUNDAY, February 7th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME at Baker Street

He's baaaaack . . . .

And so are Corwyn, Kayden, John and Caledonia.  They've taken up residence in 221B Baker Street, at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 to present "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" from February to May.

TODAY: "The Adventure of the Empty House"
In April 1894, Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then drops his disguise – it is Holmes. He's alive!

Join the crew in the "Baker Street Lounge" for this new journey, and settle down with a fresh cuppa.  The chairs are still comfy!

Presented Live in voice.