Showing posts with label Derry McMahon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Derry McMahon. Show all posts

WEDNESDAY, June 19th at 7pm: THE MENACE FROM EARTH

An encore 8 years in the making!  Derry McMahon, Bear Silvershade, and Caledonia Skytower come
together again to present Robert A. Heinlein's story of young love, life on a lunar colony, tourism, and taking flight in more ways than one.

Young love is often hard on those experiencing it for the first time. Take 15-year-old Holly, for example. A lunar colonist and aspiring starship designer, who has something of a crush on her closest male friend, Jeff, with whom she shares a particular passion: that of flying.

Another element to life on the Moon is that of tourism: playing host to “groundhogs”, as the locals call them, who like to visit the Moon. One such tourist is Ariel, a glamorous woman to whom Holly is assigned to as a guide.


It all goes well to start with – until Holly introduces Ariel to Jeff. To her dismay, Holly find herself facing The Menace From Earth: Jeff is quite smitten with Ariel. As her jealousy grow, so Holly starts to resent Ariel more and more – but what to do?

Presented, live on stream.

SUNDAY, March 24th beginning at 12:30pm: AROUND THE WORLD with Seanchai Library & Radio Riel


Seanchai Library celebrates its 11th Anniversary with a trip around the world, in partnership with Radio Riel. Join us in Ceiliuradh Glen for an afternoon's journey of imagination and adventure.
(http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holly%20Kai%20Estates/219/63/2966)

12:30pm - Stories in Voice, with Shandon Loring, Seanchai Library Founder Derry McMahon, and Bear Silvershade.

1:00pm - International Folktales on stream, and broadcast on Radio Riel Main Stream, with Da5id Abbot, Faerie Maven-Pralou, and Caledonia Skytower.

FOLLOWED from 2-5pm by: Around the World, a DJ Challenge, live from the Glen
2:00pm - Elrik Merlin
3:00pm - Ktadhn Vesuvino
4:00pm - Gabrielle Riel

Join us in The Glen, or tune in as we celebrate 11 years and over 2000 stories, presented live in virtual worlds.

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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SUNDAY, October 16th: Hauntings Tales and Artful Stories

@ 1:00 pm - SPOOKY STORIES AT "SCARE ME SILLY" FEST 
As guests of Kultivate Magazine, Seanchai Library and friends presents an hour of thrilling tales in haunted ballroom/pavillion:

   ~ "Things That Go Bump in the Night" an Original Tale by Hana Hoo

   ~ Jacob Peyton's "Guilt" presented by Vortran Torvalar

   ~ Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" in a unique trio presentation by Derry McMahon, Aoife Lorefield, & Caledonia Skytower

   
~ R. Crap Mariner adds Haunted One Hundred Words Stories to the mixture

The event is sponsored by Team Diabetes in SL, and comes complete with shopping, music and other delights of the season.  CLICK HERE for slurl

Ghoulish guests have arrived early.  They are dying for some scary adventures!

@ 3 pm - STORIES AT THE PARK 
Join Caledonia Skytower, Trolley Trollop, and R. Crap Mariner for an hour of original short stories and poetry written specifically for the current Art at the Park exhibition at Holly Kai Park.

This is the third installment, in a partnershipwith the Holly Kai Estate and Art at the Park.  Come and enjoy the word compositions and the artworks that inspired them.  The current art show ends October 23rd.  CLICK HERE for slurl

Holly Kai's  Outdoor Art at the Park has recently been re-imagined by curator Inara Pey
It is a wonderful transformation.

TUESDAY, December 8th at 7pm: IMMOVEABLE FEAST ~ Christmas in Paris

Imagine Christmas dinner in Paris.  Not everyone can. Here is a tale of how a gent from a town in New South Wales, where olive oil was sold only in pharmacies, became the man who now cooks the sacrosanct Christmas dinner for a clan of fastidious Parisians.  Food, wine, family, traditions, all rolled into one dinner.

Join Derry McMahon for selections from "An Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas," live in voice.

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THURSDAY, April 24th at 7PM: GOIN' CRUISIN' AT THE VINYL CAFE

Time to return to the characters from Stuart McLean's "The Vinyl Cafe". Stuart McLean is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and humorist, and radio host.

Stuart's nine "Vinyl Cafe" books have all been Canadian bestsellers and have sold more than one million copies since "Stories from the Vinyl Cafe" was published in 1995. "Vinyl Cafe Diaries" was awarded the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Award in 2004 and Stuart is also a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for "Home from the Vinyl Cafe", "Vinyl Cafe Unplugged" and "Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe."

Tonight, we visit once more with Dave and Marley.  We haven't heard stories about them in a long time, so let's play catch-up and find out how they enjoyed their cruise.  Stories read in voice by Bear Silvershade and Derry McMahon.

THURSDAY, March 27th at 7:00pm: SEANCHAI LIBRARY TURNS SIX!

In 2008 our founder, Derry McMahon, founded the West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center into what would become the Seanchai Library.  Who knew?  Thousands of stories and thousands of hours later, Seanchai Library can be proud of six years of bringing stories of all kinds to life in Second Life through live voice presentations.

Join the Seanchai Staff tonight, as we celebrate six years of the power of stories and the spoken word, live in voice.

THURSDAY, January 30th @4PM: STORIES from OZLAND PICTURES featuring the Art of Derry McMahon

"Puss in Boot Flirts" by Derry McMahon
Inspired by a monthly featured work of art, the OZLAND PICTURES have been creating original stories inspired by these works in a weekly SL event for the last four years.  January's featured artist was our own Derry McMahon.  Come along as Llola Lane shares her story, and her wonderful event with Seanchai in an encore presentation.  Maybe YOU want to be involved?  Come and find out!

Visit their blog: http://ozlandbard.blogspot.com/

Presented live in voice.

MONDAY, December 23rd @ 7pm: THE NIGHT BEFORE, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

The Seanchai Library Staff gets together for their traditional feast of holiday stories, including tributes to C. Clement Moore's immortal "visitation" poem:  Shandon, Derry, Caledonia, Kayden, and Gyro.  Essays and fictional fancies new and old, and a visit by the Grinch! 

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
Live in voice.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH at 7pm: Food! Glorious Food! with Derry McMahon

It's that feasting time of year...when our minds, and tummies, turn to the comforts of the table, and the refrigerator, and the pantry and the ... well, you get the idea.   Join Derry for some fun short stories about mashed potatoes, matzoh, mayonnaise and more - and those are just the Thanksgiving stories! Stories in open voice, 7pm, Seanchai Library.

TUESDAY, October 22nd at 7pm: More SPOOKABLE IRVING

Derry Mc Mahon and Bear Silvershade bring us more from Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", commonly referred to as "The Sketch Book."  This collection of  34 essays and short stories was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820, and includes some of Irving's best-known stories: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Rip Van Winkle," and "The Spectre Bridegroom." It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon," which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career.
Join Derry and Bear for "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Mummy's Foot" and more spooky tales of the season from this notable American author.

Presented live in voice. 

TUESDAY, October 8th at 7:00pm: SPOOKABLE IRVING ~ Part 1

TONIGHT "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" aka the "Headless Horseman" 

The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells of Ichabod Crane, a sycophantic, lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". 
Join us as Bear Silvershade and Derry McMahon read this favorite fall tale aloud (and no, it is not the same as the new tv show!) Live in Voice.

TUESDAY, September 17th @ 7PM: A DRABBLE DUET!

Derry and Cale get together to share a dribble of their drabble (100 Word Stories) inspired by photo images and other creative prompts.  Come along and share a refreshing beverage, some cheese, chocolate, and other forgotten food groups.

Live in voice.

TUESDAY, August 27th at 7:00pm: TIME FOR GIRL TALK!

Our Derry is back on the story floor!  Join her for some great chick lit!  It's been ages since we have seen what Lisa Scottoline and her daughter have been up to; and caught up with Connie Schultz.  Pour a martini, grab a cupcake and settle on down for some fun stories.

Live in Voice!

SUNDAY, March 17th @ Noon: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Seanchai Library!

It has been an amazing journey of 5 years since Derry McMahon opened the West of Ireland Library & Cultural Center, and Shandon Loring told the very first story.  Here we are, five years later with hundreds of stories told by dozens of storytellers, and thousands of dollars raised for worthy charities all over the world!  What a wild ride!

Come join Shandon and Derry, along with Caledonia Skytower, Dubhna Rhiadra, and Crap Mariner as we celebrate five wonderful years of brings stories to life in Second Life!
Presented Live in Voice!

THURSDAY, December 27th: PAJAMA PARTY!!!

It's a Pajama Party!  We end the year with one of our favorite, fun Seanchai Traditions. Cale is ordering the pizza, Derry, Kayden, and Faerie are brushing off the blankies and bears, and we are pulling out our Favorite Bedtime Stories (of all kinds, though still region appropriate!) to share as the year comes to its close. Get your fuzzy slippers and your robe on and come along!

Presented live in Voice.

THURSDAY, Dec 20th @ 7:00pm: TURKEY & THE HOLIDAYS TAKE 2!


Let's have turkey stories for Christmas!

Dave is back at it again. Overcome by guilt and enthusiasm — a dangerous combination for anyone — Dave offers to help his wife Morley make Christmas this year, unwisely volunteering to cook the turkey.  Ever since the year Dave first cooked the turkey, back in 1996, the story has become an annual tradition on the CBC’s The Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean. This one will be read by Bear.

Derry offers M.F.K. Fisher's story of a Christmas turkey that wasn't quite the gourmet treat she had hoped.  Presented Live in Voice.

Tuesday 18 Dec at 7pm: A Sprinkling of Christmas Classic Stories


Join Aoife Lorefield, Bear Silvershade and Derry McMahon for some of the classic tales of Christmas from England, Wales and America. Aoife will lead off with Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales". Bear will read sections of "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens. Derry will offer "The Animal's Christmas Tree".   All stories in voice.

TUESDAY 20 Nov at 7pm: Food, Friends, Family, Lovers…and a Little Chocolate Now and Then


In the immortal words of Charles M. Schulz "All you need is love.  But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt".  Tonight we'll explore the relationship between relationships and food; how our eating experiences influence our interactions with friends, family members and lovers.  Stories from M.F.K. Fisher and other authors, including a few references to…more adult themes.  Stories in voice, please come prepared with a snack.

TUESDAY 13 Nov at 7pm: Steampunk Stories with the Seanchai Ladies


Join Faerie, Caledonia and Derry for two more steampunk stories.

“The Dowager Moncur’s Spectacles” by Laura Moncur.   Is the Lady Moncur mad? Dowager Lady Moncur owns three pair of spectacles – that is odd, but not mad; but the odd thing is what those glasses show the good lady.  You would think she’d just read the novels of Charles Dickens with them, but no!  Join Caledonia Skytower and Derry McMahon to see what the Dowager sees in her spectacles.  


“Lessons of a Clockwork Queen” by Megan Arkenberg.  Sometimes things really don’t run well, even when they run by clockwork.   A fairy tale set in steampunk time, with a cast of clockwork queens, winding-key maids and a perfumer’s daughter.  This story offers lessons taught and learned, and a bit of romance.  Presented in voice by Faerie Maven-Pralou.