TODAY'S EVENTS ON SECOND LIFE (4/27)

Sunday, April 27

12 PM – Machinima Premiere: The Wizard of OS: the Fish Incident
Machiniplex is presenting the inworld premiere of Wizard of OS by filmmaker Tom Jantol. This machinima is based on a fragment of writing by renowned inventor/eccentric Nicola Tesla. We will screen the film and afterwards Tom will be present to answer questions and discuss the making of this action-packed potboiler. Jantol won the European Machinima Festival award for best experimental film last year.  In HatHead (click here to teleport)

1 PM – Feast of St George
Renaissance lovers have an opportunity to gather and revel at the Feast of St. George, in the Parish of Reading Primley. Saint George fans will be able to enjoy plenty of dancing, jousting, feasting, and fireworks. In Renaissance Island (click here to teleport)

2 PM - Ibn Khaldun Inaugural Lecture - DavidOrban Agnon on Tolerance, Societies, Technlogies
As the inaugural lecture in the Ibn Khaldun lecture series, the Al-Andalus community will host a presentation by DavidOrban Agnon, a Real-Life physicist and virtual works specialist who regularly speaks on these themes at universities and conferences around the world. David Orban is particularly interested in the birth of new social organizations in online-worlds. David will compare the tolerance and resilience of digital and atomic societies as they recognize the value of the contribution of different cultures and people. In Al Andalus Alhambra (click here to teleport)

4 PM – WingFling 2008 Wrap Party
WingFling 2008 is a festival for SL wing creators and fans. This end-of-festival party with DJ Seven Shikami will be the last opportunity for wing lovers to party and catch all their favorite vendors in one sim. In Platinum (click here to teleport)

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Tuesday, April 29

3:30 PM – Thinkers: Bebop Reality
Join the discussion on Bebop Reality; it is a term coined by Hamlet Au and it refers to "the plastic, improvisational nature of SL, where people can riff off each other's creativity. That's how we can get mermaids and robots and so on in the same social space and not have it seem discordant". But does it take a special mind to accept this mix of the normal and the surreal? If so, does it actually have an adverse effect on recruiting residents? In Support for Healing (click here to teleport)