SUNDAY, December 18th: THE DICKENS PROJECT Finale!

We enter our final event day for THE DICKENS PROJECT SL - 2016

Image of The Dickens Project SL 2016 by Derry McMahon

Dickens' contemporary, William Makepeace Thackeray, was as scathing a critic as ever walked the street of London, once said of A Christmas Carol, "Who can listen to objections to such a book as this? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness."

@ 11am - Traditional Dances and Music with Wald Schridde, 17th and 18thC tunes played in traditional instruments, live in Christmas Present Square. COME EARLY in case the Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers make one final, triumphant Wootmas appearance!

@ NOON: THE BIG READ: "A Christmas Carol" - All the words of every stave presented all at once by a cast of voices, presenting in relay. Est 3.5 hours. Live in Christmas Present Square.

The Dickens Project 2016 on Water Haven in Second Life.
The build will be open to the public through the end of the virtual day Tuesday.  

This year's Project has been Co-Sponsored by Kultivate Magazine, and  benefits Team Diabetes of Second Life (American Diabetes Association)

SATURDAY, December 17th at 1pm: FEZZIWIG'S BALL

Come and join us at the Christmas Past Dock for Fezziwig's Ball, featuring DJ Dano Bookmite!

But the great effect of the evening came after the Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler (an artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!) struck up 'Sir Roger de Coverley.' Then old Fezziwig stood

out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.

Period dress is encouraged but not required. Just come along and dance like its 1843, or earlier!  

The Dickens Project SL benefits Team Diabetes of SL

and is Co-Sponsored by Kultivate Magazine

The Dickens Project 2016 on Water Haven in Second Life.

The Christmas Past Docks, photo by Derry McMahon

TUESDAY, December 13th at 7pm: THE DICKENS PROJECT "The First of Three Spirits"

We continue our walk in the steps of Ebenezer Scrooge, following him into the past. Today we continue with Stave Two: The First of Three Spirits.

"At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig, sitting behind such a high desk, that if he had been two inches taller, he must have knocked his head against the ceiling, Scrooge cried in great excitement--

"'Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it's Fezziwig alive again!'"

Two opportunities to hear these classic words:

• @ 2pm slt - Bryn Taleweaver & Caledonia Skytower present
• @ 7pm slt - Corwyn Allen & Faerie Maven-Pralou present

Live in voice at The Dickens Project SL

The Dickens Project 2016 on Water Haven in Second Life.

SUNDAY, December 11th at THE DICKENS PROJECT SL

Opening Day was outstanding: with good music,  great stories, and terrific audiences.  

Day #2 is full of delights just as enticing!

The revised reverse of the 1993 issue 10 pound note, featuring Dickens

@ 11am - "Dickens' Shorts" (Stories that is) with Trolley Trollop

@12:30pm - The Raglan Shire Tiny Carolers - WOOTMAS!!!! 

@ 1pm - Any Friend of Nicolas Nickleby's is a Friend of Mine by Ray Bradbury with John Morland

@ 2pm - More from the Pages of Charles Dickens- Short Selections with Dubhna Rhiadra and Caledonia Skytower

@ 3pm - A Pickwick Holiday, Bryn Taleweaver shares a festive selection from The Pickwick Papers

All events today will take place in Present Square, near the tree.
The Dickens Project 2016 on Water Haven in Second Life.

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.