Monthly Archives: November 2023

Where Have You Been? Cesa Gallery

November 25, 2023   Programming

In this episode of our bi-week­ly (ie each episode runs for about two weeks) series, “Where Have You Been?” — where we sug­gest places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid — hosts Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin dis­cuss the excit­ing new pho­tog­ra­phy gallery opened by long-term SL res­i­dent Ste­vie Basevi.

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Live Tarot Readings in Second Life, Nov 23

November 23, 2023   Station News

To give thanks for the sea­son, Hon­ey Heart PhD, host of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s orig­i­nal series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, will be giv­ing  FREE Live Tarot Read­ings at the Tarot Tent in Win­ter Hol­low in Sec­ond Life, on Thurs­day, Novem­ber 23 1:00–2:00 PM SLT.

All read­ings are free, per­formed in a pri­vate SL Voice Call, and con­duct­ed sole­ly in Eng­lish. Please make sure you are con­fig­ured to accept a pri­vate SL Voice Call pri­or to arriv­ing. Read­ings are first come-first served and the last read­ing will be tak­en at 1:50 pm.

Your car­riage awaits: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Willow%20Grove/200/62/2801

Read­ings are for enter­tain­ment pur­pos­es only.

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The Magic of The Musical: Another Openin’ Another Show!

November 18, 2023   Programming

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 18th @2pm Pacific/slt. This Month: “Anoth­er Openin’, Anoth­er Show — Cole Porter”

THIS SHOW IS NOW AVAILABLE ON MIXCLOUD — CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

For this mon­th’s episode we return to the Gold Hall at the ele­gant Angel Manor Estate. Join our live audi­ence in #Sec­ondLife or on-the-air!

Also on the air today: tune in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT for the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?”  Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am. Fea­tured Music today will, of course, be “On Broadway!”

TUNE IN  at main.vcradio.org, or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speaker*!
(*If this does­n’t work first time, say “Enable Skill” and when asked what skill to enable, say “Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio”)

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Where Have You Been? The Bellisserian Bureau of Bureaucracy

November 8, 2023   Programming

In this episode of our bi-week­ly (ie each episode runs for two weeks) series, “Where Have You Been?” — where we sug­gest places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid — hosts Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin dis­cuss the intrigu­ing­ly-named Bel­lis­ser­ian Bureau of Bureau­cra­cy (BBB) which sets out to encour­age trav­el and explo­ration across the grid, with a pass­port sys­tem pro­mot­ing over 600 items — and they’ll find you a licence for almost any­thing! They run events and tours, pro­duce a week­ly online pub­li­ca­tion, and there are even Bel­lis­ser­ian embassies on sev­en continents.

The show is broad­cast on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days, in this case Novem­ber 8, 11, 15 and 18, and it goes out at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.

In addi­tion, tune in every four hours from 4am SLT for a new episode of “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Houston.

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Jack Flanders in Tropical Hot Dog Night

November 3, 2023   Programming

Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: “Trop­i­cal Hot Dog Night” - fea­tur­ing that sea­soned eso­teric tourist, Jack Flanders.

This adven­ture con­sists  of four half-hour episodes, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fridays.

Now read on…

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Celtic Music for Samhain

November 1, 2023   Programming

It’s the first of Novem­ber and we are cel­e­brat­ing Samhain today with a pro­gramme of Celtic and Celtic-influ­enced music (and we’re not being too spe­cif­ic about which Celtic fes­ti­vals it applies to!).

Samhain is a Gael­ic fes­ti­val on 1 Novem­ber mark­ing the end of the har­vest sea­son and begin­ning of win­ter or “dark­er half” of the year. It is also the Irish lan­guage name for Novem­ber. Cel­e­bra­tions begin on the evening of 31 Octo­ber, since the Celtic day began and end­ed at sun­set. This is about halfway between the autum­nal equinox and win­ter sol­stice. It is one of the four Gael­ic sea­son­al fes­ti­vals along with Imbolc, Beal­taine, and Lugh­nasa. His­tor­i­cal­ly it was wide­ly observed through­out Ire­land, Scot­land, and the Isle of Man. A sim­i­lar fes­ti­val is held by the Brit­ton­ic Celtic peo­ple, called Calan Gaeaf in Wales. (Wikipedia)

Today you can also hear the Octo­ber edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” (details at the link), which cov­ers both the Autum­nal and the Hal­lowe’en aspects of the month just gone, with a selec­tion of sug­gest­ed places to vis­it in Sec­ond Life, many of which will remain acces­si­ble for the next day or two. The show goes out at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time. Note that the hour has gone back in Europe and not in the US — as a result there is one hour less between US (Sec­ond Life) and EU times this week — so for exam­ple in the UK, we are only 7 hours ahead of SLT instead of eight. This con­fus­ing fact applies for the week ahead — Day­light Sav­ing Time in North Amer­i­ca ends on Sun­day 5th.

We also have a new episode or two of “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT/Pacific.

Image: A Neo-Pagan cel­e­brat­ing Samhain — author unknown (Wiki­me­dia)

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