THE HALLOWEEN TREE by Ray Bradbury
"And it was the afternoon of Halloween.
And all the houses shut against a cool wind.
And the town full of cold sunlight.
But suddenly, the day was gone.
Night came out from under each tree and spread."
Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree" (1950) follows the path of eight boys on an adventure to save the life of their friend on Halloween Night. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, they travel through time and space, learning about different cultures, and how each views and deals with death.
** Tuesdays at 7pm slt - October 10, 17, and 24 with Shandon Loring, Faerie Maven-Pralou, and Kayden Oconnell.
** Sundays at 1:30pm slt - October 15, 22, and 29 with David Abbot, Gloriana Maertens, and Caledonia Skytower.
Presented live on Stream from The Bradbury Project in #SecondLife over three weeks in three hour long (approx) episodes.
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AND at Noon slt in Ceiluradh Glen, RUSSELL EPONYM, Live!
The Bradbury Project is open, and it is time for the first story.
Join Caledonia as she presents a chilling tale from Bradbury's collection "Dandelion Wine." Lavinia Nebbs is determined that not even the discovery of a murder, and the knowledge that the killer (a serial killer, as it happens) is still on the loose will upset or inconvenience her in any way.
None the less, "The Lonely One" is still abroad and might just be a little too close for safety - even for Lavinia Nebbs.
Caledonia Skytower presents, live on stream, on the Town Level of The Bradbury Project.
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Events and activities at The Bradbury Project include:
Readings of "The Halloween Tree" (presented in 3
Episodes)
eClipse Club & Resort Presents at The Bradbury Project:
This project is built in two skyboxes that follow the path
of the first third of the story "The Halloween Tree"
LEVEL 1: It begins in a neighborhood on the edge of Green
Town, a fictional Midwest American town that is the scene for a great number of
Ray Bradbury's works, including "Something Wicked This Way Comes,"
the collection "Dandelion Wine", and "The Halloween Tree."
LEVEL 2: Moundshroud's House - The Halloween Tree. The path
picks up in the center of the ravine, approaching the home of Mr Moundshroud,
with The Halloween Tree on the grounds, and a path to the Kite Barn, where the
first third of the story concludes. Reference to places that the boys and Mr
Moundshroud visit in their succeeding adventure are represented within
Moundshroud's House in this Project.
The Bradbury Project uses the “Caledonian Studios” and “Quantum
Products” experiences. Accept these to navigate and see the project as
designed. We recommend that you set your draw distances to 125, and use shared
environment.
As a fallback, you could set your viewer EEP to A-6PM or any
other dusk-like EEP. It will not look as
good as the EEP the build was created for, but it will suffice.
The Bradbury Project will remain open through November 16th.
Seanchai
Library is proud to announce the newest edition to its Special Projects Series.
These literature-immersive experiences allow guests to walk in the footsteps of
the characters that inhabit the world of a work of fiction: exploring
environments inspired by the words of the story, and hearing those words
presented live. The best known of these is the popular holiday tradition The Dickens
Project. Inspired, in part, by Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas
Carol this project will return to Second Life ® for its 2023 Edition in
December. The newest
project is focused on the work of American author and screenwriter, Ray
Bradbury, and features his short story “The Halloween Tree.” The Bradbury
Project will open on October 6th and remain open through
November 16th.
"We
are really excited about this one. It taps into an enthusiasm for Halloween
that many of our regular community shares. The story addresses how we think
about and deal with death in a way that is healthy, I believe," said
Caledonia Skytower of Seanchai Library. "We get as immersed in creating
our projects as we hope our guests do in experiencing them. But there is
something special about this one. There is so much farther we could take it,
and that is inspiring." The
Bradbury Project is patterned after the popular Dickens Project and follows the
path of eight boys on an adventure to save the life of their friend on
Halloween Night.
Patterned on the successful, decade old Dickens Project, this new virtual adventure will focus on Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree" and touch on some of his other works.
The Bradbury Project will be accessed from Seanchai Library's main landing point on Nowhereville, and will use an SL Experience to support teleportation and effects. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/204/43/26
Events will include "The Halloween Tree" presented in a three part live reading at times appropriate for week night and weekend residents. Eclipse Club & Resort will present music-dance events, and some other short works by Bradbury may also be presented.
Check back to this blog for more information in the first full week of October for more details.
Our August series concludes with an hour of stories by 20th C legendary author, Ray Bradbury.
One
of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, Bradbury worked in a
variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery,
and realistic fiction. The New York Times called
Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction
into the literary mainstream"
Bradbury wrote many works and is widely known by the general
public for his novel Fahrenheit 451
(1953) and his short-story collections The
Martian Chronicles (1950) and The
Illustrated Man (1951).[4] Most of his best known work is speculative
fiction, but he also worked in other genres, such as the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the
fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White
Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television
scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his
works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books.
Finn Zeddmore presents, live in Voice.
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FINAL WEEK: AUGUST POTPOURRI @ Seanchai
@ Noon: RUSSELL EPONYM Live in The Glen!
Join him for an hour of great originals, beloved interpretations, and a few stories - "from baroque to folk and beyond!"
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@ 7pm: Shadow & Bone
Caledonia continues author Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, following Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, one day, she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had, becoming a target of intrigue and violence. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
Presented Live on Stream
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Tonight we begin the final week of our August bouquet of storied adventures with The Wind from the Sun by Arthur C. Clarke.
The Wind from the Sun is the title of a 1972 collection of
science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Some of the
stories originally appeared in a number of different publications. A part of
the book was included in CD on board the Planetary Society's solar sail, Cosmos.
The titular story is a suspenseful tale of a race using spacecraft that use
only the pressure of sunlight as propulsion.
Gyro Muggins presents, Live in Voice.
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Caledonia continues author Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, following Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, one day, she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had, becoming a target of intrigue and violence. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
Presented Live on Stream
@ 9pm: Seanchai Late Night
TONIGHT: "Mrs. Donovan" & "Boris and Mrs. Bond's Cat Establishment"
"James Herriot (1916–1995) was the pen name of James Alfred “Alf” Wight, an English veterinarian whose tales of veterinary practice and country life have delighted generations. Many of Herriot’s works—including All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, and Every Living Thing—became international bestsellers and have been adapted for film and television.
Herriot’s stories rely on numerous autobiographical elements taken from his life in northern England’s Yorkshire County, and they depict a simple, rustic world deeply in touch with the cycles of nature."
Presented Live in Voice.
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@ 7pm: Shadow & Bone
Caledonia continues author Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, following Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, one day, she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had, becoming a target of intrigue and violence. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
Presented Live on Stream
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We start the second week of our fragrant August bouquet of stories with a sci-fi adventure from classic author Clifford Simak.
In "Desertion," Kent Fowler is the head man in Dome No. 3 on Jupiter, and the reconnaissance teams that have been sent out, converted to "Lopers" to deal with the alien climate. Fowler and his dog decide to make the conversion and go out next as the next team to find out what has cause the previous teams to seemingly disappear completely.
Gyro Muggins presents, live in Voice.
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Caledonia begins author Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, following Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, one day, she unexpectedly harnesses a power she never knew she had, becoming a target of intrigue and violence. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
Presented Live on Stream
@ 9pm Seanchai Late Night
Finn Zeddmore presents late night Sci-Fi Fantasy stories from a variety of sources, both classic and contemporary. What adventure will Finn take us on this time?
Presented, Live in Voice.
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@ 7pm More "Tails" from James Herriot
Fayleen Bellois returns with more stories of people and their furry companions from the the short works of James Herriot.
James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practiced for almost 50 years. He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with If Only They Could Talk, first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books has sold some 60 million copies.
TONIGHT: Triki Woo and Mrs. Pomphrey in "A Triumph of Surgery" ... and time allowing... "Alfred: The Sweet Shop Cat."
Presented, Live in Voice.
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Of the author: "This is a woman of enormous talent, whose fiction is utterly without compare among modern American masters. She sees things that no one else sees, she finds connections that no one else has ever imagined, and she makes her prose sing and vibrate with a barely constrained but firmly disciplined power, with immense feeling, with great sympathy for the all-too-human characters who people her literary worlds."
Gyro Muggins presents, Live in Voice.
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You didn't think we'd get through the summer without more stories, did you? Silly! We have science fiction adventures, tales of compassion with humans and their furry & feathered friends, a saga steeped in the folklore of Old Russia . . . they are all coming to Seanchai Library this August in a fragrant bouquet of storied journeys.
Works by: A.R. Moran, Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Arthur C. Clarke, James Herriot, Leigh Bardugo and more!
Presented by Fayleen Bellois, Finn Zeddmore, Gyro Muggins, Shandon Loring and Caledonia Skytower.
Schedule (always subject to change as life does that "happening" thing) all times slt:
Monday, August 7 @7pm : The Hemingway Kittens by A.R. Moran with Gyro Muggins
Tuesday, August 8 @7pm : More "Tails" from James Herriot with Fayleen Bellois
Thursday, August 10 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower
@9pm : Seanchai Late Night with Finn Zeddmore
Monday, August 14 @7pm : Desertion by Clifford Simak with Gyro Muggins
Tuesday, August 15 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower
Thursday, August 17 @7pm : Dark Blue by Alan Dean Foster & Clown Fish
by Matthew Baugh with Shandon Loring
@9pm : Midnight Dreary by Owl Goingback with Shandon Loring
Monday, August 21 @7pm : One Step from Earth by Harry Harrison with Gyro Muggins
Tuesday, August 22 @7pm : More "Tails" from James Herriot with Fayleen Bellois
Thursday, August 24 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower
@9pm : Seanchai Late Night with Finn Zeddmore
Monday, August 28 @7pm : A Wind from The Sun by Arthur C. Clark with Gyro Muggins
Tuesday, August 29 @7pm : Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo with Caledonia Skytower
Thursday, August 31 @7pm : Finn Presents! :TBA with Finn Zeddmore
PLUS our regular weekly events: Russell Eponym , live in The Glen (Tuesdays @ Noon); Seanchai Flicks (Wednesdays at 7pm); and our guests - Tales With Friends (Wednesdays at 6pm)
