Tune in for  anoth­er chance to hear Episode 9 of our pop­u­lar series, “Tarot @ Teatime”, with Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire, explor­ing the his­to­ry of the cards and how they may be read. Tune in to http://main.vcradio.org at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / SLT, 8pm or mid­night UK time. This episode will be broad­cast on Jan­u­ary 8, 12, 15 and 19.

In this episode, Wil­low and Hon­ey dis­cuss how agency, func­tion, and con­text influ­ence the inter­pre­ta­tion of cards in a read­ing.  A spread of three cards is read to address two dif­fer­ent issues to demon­strate the impor­tance of context.

If you’ve missed any episodes of this series, remem­ber you can catch pre­vi­ous episodes on demand at Mix­cloud.

Wel­come to 2023 and we wish all our lis­ten­ers, friends and spon­sors a very Hap­py New Year.

Two of our orig­i­nal series will be on hia­tus for a while:

“Where Have You Been?”, where we sug­gest things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, will be back for a new series in late Feb­ru­ary. In the mean­time we’ll be re-broad­cast­ing a few pro­grammes from Series 2, start­ing with Seren­i­ty Val­ley (S02E08). While “WYB” includes quite a few time-relat­ed items like gallery exhi­bi­tions and places based around the time of year, there are some places we’ve vis­it­ed which are longer-term in scope and we’ll be revis­it­ing a few of them in the show’s reg­u­lar times­lots of 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, on Wednes­days and Saturdays.

“The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal”, our month­ly series on musi­cal the­ater, will return with a new series — and a new venue! — in the Spring, and until then we’ll be run­ning some past shows in the show’s 2pm Pacif­ic, third Sat­ur­day in the month slot.

As the end of 2022 — and our sec­ond anniver­sary — draw near, we’d like to invite Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio lis­ten­ers, friends and spon­sors to a Year’s End Ball on Fri­day Decem­ber 30th at 2pm Sec­ond Life Time. Here’s the loca­tion.

Elrik Mer­lin will be play­ing a selec­tion of Clas­sic Rock tracks and the event will be held in the Ball­room in Hon­ey Heart and Sil­lve’s Win­ter Won­der­land at Chest­nut Hills. And if you haven’t vis­it­ed Win­ter Won­der­land yet, now’s your chance! There’s a sleigh ride, horserid­ing and an amaz­ing col­lec­tion of build­ings decked out in sea­son­al attire, plus a wealth of places to sim­ply hang out and enjoy the view.

We’d like to thank our lis­ten­ers, friends, and spon­sors for your much-val­ued sup­port in the past year that has made Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio pos­si­ble — we do hope you’ll stay with us in the com­ing year and we wish you a hap­pi­er, health­i­er 2023.

Today, Box­ing Day (Decem­ber 26th), join Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio pre­sen­ter Elrik Mer­lin par­ty­ing to music from the Vic­to­ri­an era at the Skat­ing Pond in the Dick­ens Project in Sec­ond Life — or lis­ten-in on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — from 2pm Pacific/SLT, 10pm in the UK.

The pro­gramme will include clas­si­cal waltzes, Eng­lish Coun­try Dance and Mor­ris Danc­ing tunes, Music-hall songs, pieces from musi­cals by Gilbert & Sul­li­van, Lionel Mon­ck­ton and Edward Ger­man, and much more.

Use the skat­ing paths, dance, or BYO skates!
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Image: Scene from The Arca­di­ans, an Edwar­dian musi­cal com­e­dy styled a “Fan­tas­tic Musi­cal Play” in three acts with a book by Mark Ambi­ent and Alexan­der M. Thomp­son, lyrics by Arthur Wim­peris, and music by Lionel Mon­ck­ton and Howard Talbot.

On Decem­ber 24, Christ­mas Eve, tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic Time – 8pm or mid­night in the UK – for a spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion of Charles Dick­ens’ sea­son­al clas­sic, “A Christ­mas Car­ol”, adapt­ed for radio by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er, with Shan­don Lor­ing, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Merlin.

And what bet­ter place to lis­ten than at The Dick­ens Project in Sec­ond Life, where Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio pro­vides the audio track? Here are the details!

Dur­ing the day, we’ll be play­ing a col­lec­tion of sea­son­al music and Victoriana.

To tune in, use the play­er on the right hand side of the brows­er win­dow. If this does­n’t work for you, open a net­work play­er such as Winamp or VLC and play this URL: or it may open in your brows­er. http://main.vcradio.org 

May we take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to wish all our lis­ten­ers, friends and spon­sors a very hap­py Hol­i­day Sea­son and a hap­py and healthy year ahead. Thank you very much for your sup­port and encour­age­ment which has made it pos­si­ble to bring you our unique pro­gram­ming for the past two years — and hope­ful­ly many more!

This pro­gramme will super­sede oth­er pro­gram­ming at noon and 4pm SLT on the 24th, so we will not be broad­cast­ing “Where Have You Been?” at this time (you can catch it on Wednes­day next).

Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 17th sees the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “The Mag­ic Of The Musi­cal” with your host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er;  this month brought to you live from the Opera House at the Dick­ens Project in Sec­ond Life, at 2pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT.

This episode is now avail­able on Mixcloud

This month the theme is “Christ­mas on the Musi­cal The­ater Stage” and Cale­do­nia’s spe­cial guest is Chris Ser­face, Man­ag­ing Artis­tic Direc­tor of Taco­ma Lit­tle The­atre and Past Pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre.

Fea­tured music for the day con­sists of music from the stage of the Vic­to­ri­an era includ­ing musi­cal hall songs, songs from the shows such as those by Gilbert & Sul­li­van and Lionel Mon­ck­ton, and much more, such as mechan­i­cal instru­ments like the street piano, Polyphon and street organ.