Monthly Archives: July 2025

The Space Programme: Apollo 11

July 23, 2025   Programming

Space Music and a space documentary.

Wednes­day 23rd July 2025: 56 years ago this week, the Apol­lo 11 space­craft’s Com­mand Mod­ule sep­a­rat­ed from the Lunar Excur­sion Mod­ule and began its return to Earth after the first human being had stepped out of the LEM and set foot upon the Moon. Today, in a spe­cial pro­gramme by our sad­ly passed dear friend Peter Car­bines, that we’ve broad­cast annu­al­ly from the start of the sta­tion (and beyond), we cel­e­brate the mis­sion’s achieve­ment in music, and in a spe­cial music- and actu­al­i­ty-based documentary.

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TMoTM: S04E02: “Once Upon a Time” Fairytales on Broadway

July 19, 2025   Programming

Wel­come to The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal –on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio – where we explore the blend­ing of music and dra­ma fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. 

As Sec­ond Life’s 22nd birth­day came to a close, “The Mag­ic of the Musi­cal” cel­e­brat­ed this year’s theme of “Myths and Leg­ends” with an explo­ration of folk­tales and fairy­tales on the musi­cal the­ater stage. Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er presents. Orig­i­nal­ly broad­cast Sat­ur­day, 19th July, live from the VCRa­dio stu­dio at SL22B

This show is now avail­able on Mixcloud

Explore videos of some of the shows and songs fea­tured in this episode.

Rodgers & Ham­mer­stein’s Cin­derel­la (1957, Kinescope) — Julie Andrews, Jon Cypher, Edie Adams

Once Upon a Mat­tress “Shy”  (1959, Car­ol Burnett)

Once Upon a Mat­tress “Shy” (1972, Car­ol Burnett)

Into the Woods “Agony” (Motion Pic­ture) – Chris Pine, Bil­ly Magnussen

Into the Woods “Finale” (1991 Orig­i­nal Broad­way Production)

Wicked “Defy­ing Grav­i­ty” (Orig­i­nal Broad­way Pro­duc­tion Tony Award per­for­mance) Idi­na Men­zel & Kristin Chenoweth

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The Shrine Tree

July 11, 2025   Programming

The Shrine Tree by Judith Cullen — Fri­day, July 11th, 2pm SLT/Pacific Time

Audio real­i­sa­tion by Judith Cullen and Richard Elen

CEH Pro­duc­tions is proud to present The Shrine Tree, a sto­ry by Judith Cullen, cre­at­ed as an audio pre­sen­ta­tion by the author and fel­low CEH part­ner Richard Elen.

Like 2018’s Arrivals & Depar­tures, The Shrine Tree was inspired by one of the stun­ning vir­tu­al envi­ron­ments cre­at­ed by lead­ing artists and design­ers for the annu­al Fan­ta­sy Faire in the vir­tu­al world of Sec­ond Life, which rais­es tens of thou­sands of dol­lars every year for the Amer­i­can Can­cer Society’s Relay For Life. Indeed, the envi­ron­ment for The Shrine Tree was cre­at­ed by the same design­ers – Sharni Aza­lee and Mar­cus Inkpen of The Look­ing Glass – as cre­at­ed Erst­while Sta­tion, the set­ting for Arrivals & Depar­tures. And, like the lat­ter, The Shrine Tree was writ­ten as part of the annu­al Fan­ta­sy Faire Lit­Fest, where writ­ers are invit­ed to con­tribute sto­ries and poems inspired by the envi­ron­ments of Fan­ta­sy Faire.

The Shrine Tree tells of a man who has earned a unique rep­u­ta­tion as a prob­lem-solver – a “fix­er” – thanks to his abil­i­ty to remain emo­tion­al­ly detached from the prob­lems he is work­ing on. He can see through the emo­tions that cloud peo­ples’ judge­ment to find a solu­tion, thanks to that leg­endary detach­ment. He believes he has left the com­pli­ca­tions of the emo­tion­al realm behind him… but under the spell of an increas­ing­ly mirac­u­lous place, it becomes evi­dent that this may not, in fact, be the case.

The Shrine Tree is read by Judith Cullen and Richard Elen, and was record­ed and pro­duced by Richard Elen. The episode includes music by Gabriel Fau­ré, arranged by Ben Par­ry and Bene­dict Mad­den, cour­tesy of Audio Network.

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Where Have You Been? — S05E04: Sugarfish Artist’s Village

July 9, 2025   Programming

The lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”, our reg­u­lar fea­ture on things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life grid, fea­tures Sug­arfish Artist’s Vil­lage, which offers indi­vid­ual spaces for Sec­ond Life artists to dis­play their work, as well as a flex­i­ble cen­tral exhi­bi­tion space. In addi­tion to the oppor­tu­ni­ties for art, the area includes games; a beach and all that comes with fish­ing, rock climb­ing, and a cafe. There’s a gen­er­ous par­ty deck and sev­er­al loca­tions suit­able for danc­ing. Vis­i­tors are invit­ed to pour a glass of wine and gath­er ‘round the fire on the dock with friends.

There is an art walk through the vil­lage, with four images on dis­play per fea­tured artist; and there are artists stu­dios for rent in the form of ship­ping con­tain­ers that have been raised off the sand and pro­vid­ed with their own decks.

The pro­gramme airs on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at 12 noon and 4pm Sec­ond Life/Pacific Time on  July 9, 12, 16, 19 and 23.

Region: For­got­ten Tales – Adult
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Forgotten%20Tales/52/142/24
Own­er: Alex Riverstone

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First Sunday — July 6th, 2pm

July 6, 2025   Programming

First Sun­days: Sun­day July 6th at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time – Amer­i­can Tone Poems

Now avail­able on Mixcloud!

Orches­tral music has a long tra­di­tion of works that illus­trate or evoke the con­tent of a poem, short sto­ry, nov­el, paint­ing, land­scape, or oth­er (non-musi­cal) source known as tone poems, sym­phon­ic poems, or pro­gramme music. In the 20th Cen­tu­ry, notable Amer­i­can com­posers and arrangers cel­e­brat­ed their coun­try with­out stars, ban­ner-wav­ing, or red-white-n-blue; but through sym­phon­ic poems that cel­e­brate the peo­ple and scenic locales that bring rich­ness and vari­ety to their North Amer­i­can home.

You might not be able to dance to them, but these soar­ing works can fill your soul. Com­posers fea­tured include Aaron Cop­land, Ferde Grofe, and George Gersh­win. DJ Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er, presents, live from the VCRa­dio stu­dio at SL22B — on Sun­day July 6th at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time.

At Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, we believe Sun­day after­noons are the per­fect time to treat your­self to some­thing spe­cial.  That’s why we invite you to join us at 2pm SLT on the First Sun­day after­noon of each month as we present a dif­fer­ent musi­cal treat: one hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing from new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

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Arrivals & Departures — Original Radio Version

July 4, 2025   Programming

Arrivals & Depar­tures: A Tale of Two Jour­neys — Fri­day, July 4th, 2pm SLT/Pacific

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES — RADIO VERSION is a radio adap­ta­tion of a short sto­ry writ­ten by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er, orig­i­nal­ly record­ed for Fan­ta­sy Faire Radio as part of the 10th Fan­ta­sy Faire, the annu­al SL-based fund-rais­er for the Amer­i­can Can­cer Society.

The sto­ry was inspired by a superbly-imag­ined Steam­punk-inspired space­port cre­at­ed by lead­ing vir­tu­al world cre­ators The Look­ing Glass – Sharni Aza­lee and Mar­cus Inkpen – for Fan­ta­sy Faire 2018, which was used for the lat­er machin­i­ma ver­sion, which is avail­able on the CEH Pro­duc­tions web site.

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