Burning Life Ends This Sunday!

Don't forget Burning Life ends this Sunday, October 5.  Be sure to catch the fascinating builds and interesting events before it is too late (and be sure to share them here)! Tere is a full calendar of Burning Life events available here on the official blog as well as interesting info on the unofficial blog.   (Cilck here to teleport to the arrival area)


CHECK THIS LINK TO MY FLICKR SLIDESHOW OF BURNING LIFE PHOTOS:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25788300@N05/sets/72157607548051767/show/

 

(All times in SLT, "Second Life Time"-- i.e., Pacific Standard)

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Thursday, October 2

1 PM - Cetus First Thursday
Come down for the 1st Thursday in Cetus to enjoy some wonderful art in the 25+ galleries in Cetus while enjoying some great entertainment. The music starts at 1 PM with DJ Doubledown Tandino,  Joaquin Gustav at 7 PM, Digby Smalls at 8 PM, and DJ Jaxx Tardis at 9 PM. In Cetus (click here to teleport).

4 PM - MetaKiosk Launch Party
Come and enjoy the music, prizes and fun on hand for the launch of the new metaKIOSK; a virtual kiosk that consolidates products from vendors all over Second Life into one simple portal at a single location.  In Monogramia Prime (click here to teleport).   

4 PM - Banned Book Week Dance Party: Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights
As part of the American Library Association's Banned Book Week, this dance celebrates Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights; not allowed into the USA (1927-1931) and confiscated in Egypt (1985), said to threaten moral fabric of citizens. In ALA Island (click here to teleport).

7 PM - Lyndon Heart at the Clocktower
The very talented Lyndon Heart has an eclectic repertoire of acoustic rock, Compose Postfolk, and blues and a playlist of originals, popular covers, and lesser-known gems. Lyndon's gigs are all about good time music. In Edloe (click here to teleport).

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Friday, October 3

6 AM - What Do Social Workers Do? 
Gabrielli Rossini (Robert Vernon of Indiana University School of Social Work in RL), will will explain social work education and areas in which social workers practice. He will answer questions about how we might want to work with social workers. This will be the first in a series about the helping professions, which was suggested at a recent focus group of our members and a class of nursing students. In Virtual Ability (click here to teleport).

12 PM -  ChangHighTrinitySisters at Octoberfest
Come enjoy the great ChangHighTrinity Sisters Fireshow of Light, Life and Love at Octoberfest! It is a hot artistic experience with fire and dance. In Munich City (click here to teleport).

2 PM - The Rings
CARP (Cybernetic Art Research Project) has followed-up their highly regarded production of THE WALL V-2 with The Rings.  The Rings is a rock opera that “celebrates the miracle of the Metaverse.”  The show has composed lyrics and music, building and scripting, costumes, shape changing, flight, dance and drama underpinned by new use of in world cinematic techniques.  This show will be performed every Friday and Sunday at 2 PM.  In NMC Labs (click here to teleport).

 

3 PM - Exhibit Opening: 5 X Real 55 X SL at TowerVisions
Vision Planer (Bernd Bötzel in RL) has created TowerVisions, the adaptive re-use of Bethanienturm, a church in Berlin that was heavily damaged during World War 2.  Come for guided tours of this spectacular build and the opening of an exhibit showcasing work that recently opened in Berlin in RL.  Featured works include the SL photography of Harper Beresford, the painting of Vindi Vindaloo(Vinya Cameron in RL), the RL photography of Parker Noriega, the  paintings of Mario Dalpra (RL), and the photography of Gundrun Senger(RL). Meet Harper, Vindi and Gundrun in SL and dance to the music and mash-ups of DJ Todd Action.  In Plush Avenue South (click here to teleport).

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Saturday, October 4

 

1 PM - Indonesia
Ratna Markova is a free-lance journalist and photographer in RL . In this exhibition she lets us look back at Indonesia, the country where she was born and raised, through a series of images frozen in time. These confront us with aspects of daily life in this country. Unknown persons look back at us, everyone telling a silent, different story. These images thus allow us to look back over several years, lifting the cover that has hidden them.  In Helvellyn (click here to teleport).

3 PM -Calling all SL researchers/educators to collaborate
Come learn about the opportunity to get virtual land for collaboration between online researchers and educators. The American Anthropology Association is promoting this opportunity and encourages research anthropologists and related disciplines such as sociology and psychology to get involved.  If you are interested but cannot make this session contact Sarasvati Kohime. In Anteater Island (click here to teleport).

5 PM - Banned Book Week Author Appearance
Celebrate Banned Book Week with author Chris Crutcher.  Chris is one of the ten most frequently challenged authors of 2007.  Join this discussion on his books and issues related to intellectual freedom and censorship.  In ALA Island (click here to teleport).

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Sunday, October 5

 

12 PM - House of RFyre Fall Fashion Show
Come see the 2008 Fall fashion show of the renowned SL design house.  In Best of SL Boulevard (click here to teleport).

 

4 PM - Grand Opening of Bradburyville
Come to the grand opening of Bradburyville which is designed to be a unique, immersive walk-in book experience that is linked to the Big Read of Fahrenheit 451 by writer Ray Bradbury.  Visitors will dress as the books protagonist, literally walk through the cover of a large copy of Fahrenheit 451, then watch and interact as scenes from the book appear around them.  Narrations describes the action and themes of the story as the scenes change and evolve.  In addition to experiencing Fahrenheit 451, additional events and activities will be available during the grand opening.  There will be guided Tours from 4 -6 PM and a lecture by Professor Logsdon of Eureka Collegeentitled  Bradbury the Man.  In Bradburyville (click here to teleport).

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Monday, October 6

12 PM - Metanomics: Social Research Foundation
Did you ever wonder who is in Second Life, how they interact with virtual and real-life businesses (or represent them), and whether it actually IS getting harder to find work in Second Life? Join Metanomics to hear the results of one of the most comprehensive panel surveys, conducted by Andrew Mallon of Social Research Foundation, with commentary by Erica Driver of ThinkBalm. This event takes place in a variety of partner venues, please visit the Metanomics page for one of the multiple SLurls.

7 PM - Alice in Wonderland with storytelly Caledonia Skytower
Join Caledonia as she reads the classic story of Alice in Wonderland.  In West of Ireland (click here to teleport).

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Tuesday, October 7

8 AM - Stepping into Health Conference
Using virtual worlds to promote health and healthcare is the topic of the next installment of the Stepping into Virtual Worlds conference series.   The day-long conference sponsored by Alliance
Library System and LearningTimes and is open to the public. The cost for this day-long conference is $79, and participants may register for the conference at www.steppingintovirtualworlds.org

3:30 PM - Thinkers: Building Dullsville?
Morgaine Dinova commented, "You would imagine that virtual worlds would offer the ultimate opportunity for human storytelling, since they are not bounded by physical limitations. Yet, look around us, across all of SL --- it's all uniformly identical, instead of exploring without restraint. SL has become a bastion of political correctness, and role playing has become almost sordid, with furries being the last holdout. I'm beginning to wonder whether VW globalization might not destroy the "cultural differences" (by RL analogy) that could allow VWs to provide that wonderful storytelling framework." To what extent is this comment correct? Come and discuss with Extropia. All welcome.  In Support for Healing (click here to teleport).

 

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Wednesday, October 8

2 PM-  What is(n’t) Digital Humanities?: Mellon seminar in Digital Humanities at UCLA
The seminar will investigate What is(n’t) Digital Humanities? as part of Digital Humanities studies at UCLA. Through dialogues with expert guest interlocutors and practitioners from various fields, seminar participants will examine, historicize, and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities." Bringing together insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century.  Co-organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA) and Todd Presner (Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA). The monthly mixed reality seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and the general public in RL and Entropia in Second Life. In Entropia (click here to teleport).

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The Wild Card!
Looking for fun and adventure?  The Wild Card! highlights just the day, time and a SLurl for an event.  The Wild Card! may be anything, but I’ll try to pick something that promises to fun, lively, or interesting.

Monday, October 6 at 12 PM (click here to teleport)

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Join Lanna’s group on Eventful.com to stay up to date on what's happening in SL-- info on submitting event notices below. 

The "Best of Second Life Events" are published each week in James Au's fascinating blog, New World Notes.

Many of you have been reading my posts of these Events each week, but what you have not had a chance to see is the ongoing reporting in NWN of notable news from Second Life.

I will not be posting these weekly event updates for awhile, because of other commitments right now, but I would urge you each to not only check in to NWN for the event updates, but also for the news and articles about cool things happening in SL generally.

The link for New World Notes is: