May 22-28 Second Life Events (From New World Notes)

Lanna's List For May 22-28: CARP Perfoms Pink Floyd's "The Wall", HL2 Machinima PremiereCharlanna Beresford's weekly round-up of upcoming SL events...

On July 21, 1990, nine months after the dismantlement of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters and an all-star cast performed The Wall at the Potzdamer Platz in Berlin. The performance was watched by a live audience of 250,000 and an estimated half-billion people on television. Inspired by these events, an international team of artists working with the Cybernetic Art Research Project (CARP) bring a unique vision and live performance of The Wall to Second Life. CARP the Wall takes place on Saturday, May 24 at 2 PM and again on Sunday, May 25 at 1 PM.  Lighting is very important to this event and all facelights are strictly prohibited. In Havens Paradise(click here to teleport)

All proceeds from CARP the Wall will be part of the Relay for Life of Second Life and benefit the American Cancer Society. The Relay for Life continues until July 19th, for more information and to bette identify legitimate RFL events like CARP the Wall, visit ACS Island (click here to teleport)

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

Thursday, May 22

2 AM - Digital Animation Expose
This mixed reality event takes place at the University of Hertfordshire in RL and SL and showcases the best student films from the current academic year. The Digital Animation Expose also includes presentations from leading professionals in the animation, film and games industries. More information on this full day event is available at the UH Second Life Amphitheatre. In Uni of Herts (click here to teleport).

7 PM - Host & Hostess Training
Recreational Employment Agency (REC) is offering a Host/Hostess training class for those who are thinking about becoming a Host/Hostess or those who already are and would like to become a more valuable employee.  Participants will learn how to post events, add VIPs, as well as basic working knowledge of how to run a successful event. There is a 150L charge for this course. In Andraca (click here to teleport).

Also this week: Conference on teaching languages in Second Life, SL Ballet performance, mixed reality Beethoven concert and discussions on Sara Paretsky's VI Warshawski.  All that and more after the jump...

Friday, May 23

9 AM - Exhibit Designers Meeting
Every Friday, there is a brainstorming and discussion session around prototyping exhibit design in Second Life hosted by The Tech Virtual Museum of Innovation. In The Tech (click here to teleport).

10 AM - SLanguages 2008
SLanguages 2008 is a 24 hour multilingual conference taking place in Second Life to celebrate and investigate the use of virtual worlds for language education.  The events will cover methodologies, teaching tools and experiences. Visit the conference website for a full schedule and more information on the event. In EduNation II (click here to teleport).

5 PM - Memorial Day Weekend Bash for Relay For Life
From 5 PM on Friday, May 23 until 9 PM on Monday, May 26, the Haute Couture sim is hosting an entire weekend of special shopping, dancing and music (live and dj) events to benefit  the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life. All proceeds from the yard sale, tip jars, Raiders Store will go 100% to RFL. Notecards with complete event information are available on-site. In Haute Couture (click here to teleport).

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Saturday, May 24

6:30 AM - Clothing Design Using Graphics Templates
This course by NCI will show you how to design your own clothing in Second Life using Avatar UV maps. This class will teach participants to move beyond the appearance sliders and create Second Life fashions with precisely-placed hems, necklines and accents using your own custom designed textures.  This is not an entry level class and be sure to read this information on prerequisites and requirements. In Fisherman's Cove (click here to teleport).

3 PM - Show off Your Creations Contest
This contest sponsored by the SL Learning Centre is an opportunity to show off some of your interesting and unique builds.  Registration is required and must be completed 30 minutes prior to the start. Full rules are available at the event, but entries may not be larger than 10m and have more than 50 prims.  Prizes will be awarded to the top three entries.  In Agape Enchanted (click here to teleport).

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Sunday, May 25

12 PM - Premiere of The Monad
Machiniplex is presenting the in-world premiere of The Monad by filmmaker Sam Goldwater.  Goldwater delivers a powerful and moving film about identies in virtual worlds and real life.  Following the screening there will be a Q&A session with the director and a general discussion on digital filmmaking.  In HatHead (click here to teleport).

4 PM - SL Ballet Performs Phylogeny
Phylogeny is a new original ballet that is a collaboration between the Second Life Ballet and Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI). It is the beginning of time.  We see beings fly and soar in the air. We see another set of beings crawl and tumble on the ground. They are not animals, but humans. Then, as their dance and the mysterious music continues, those in the air become dragons, and those on the ground become bears. Who has evolved from whom?  A different view of who was first and phylogeny -- the development of the species. In IBM (click here to teleport).

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Monday, May 26

12 AM - Guide to Preferences
This class by the Academy of Second Learning offers a guide to the settings within Preferences in your SL viewer. Participants will have the opportunity to learn what all those settings mean and how to adjust them to personalize their SL experience.  Specifically, this class discusses the universal buttons in the Preference window, together with the contents of the General and the Input & Camera tabs. This is the first of a series of four stand-alone classes that cover all of the settings in the Preferences window.  In Eson (click here to teleport).

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Tuesday, May 27

8 AM - Jeremy Denk at WGBH
This mixed reality event features a live performance by classical pianist Jeremy Denk; he will perform Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op. 53, Waldstein.  Sponsored by WGBH 89.7, a non-commercial public radio station in Boston, MA, the performance will be a live concert on the radio and will simultaneously take place live in their virtual Fraser Performance Studio in Second Life. After the hour-long live performance, Jeremy Denk will have a live Q&A with SL attendees.   In Brightonia (click here to teleport).

 11:30 - Academic Uses of Second Life 101
This session is designed to help educators just getting started in Second Life with the basics. It  is being simultaneously presented at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Conference in RL, in SL at Avgi Isle, and streamed here. There will also be several demonstrations following the presentation; among the demonstrations is one from a music academy, an accounting course, a hotel management course, team-building demo, and more. In Avgi (click here to teleport).

3:00 - Bohdi Congrejo at Cuddler's Cove
Bodhi Congrejo is a veteran SL performer who plays a limited number of times in-world. Bodhi plays a mix of originals and select covers and draws audiences in with heartfelt lyrics and relaxing melodious scores. In Glen Island Beach (click here to teleport).

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Wednesday, May 28

6 PM - Book Discussion - Hard Time by Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V I Warshawski returns in Hard Time.  For those not familiar with VI Warshawski, she is among the first, and is perhaps the most compelling, of female private investigators of contemporary fiction. Come share your thoughts about this book, character and author.
In Info Island (click here to teleport).

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