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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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Where Have You Been?: Two Sides of October

October 25, 2023   Programming

In the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we approach the month of Octo­ber in two dif­fer­ent ways: The Bri­ar Woods present a pleas­ant Autum­nal scene, while the Ride of Doom lends a Hal­lowe’en-ish feel­ing to the pro­ceed­ings. Both are well worth a visit!

We also sug­gest a cou­ple of oth­er venues that might be worth your perusal.

This show airs on Octo­ber 25 and 28, plus Nov 1 and 4, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Alexa, Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er*. Oth­er options for tun­ing in can be found here.

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The Magic of The Musical: Ghostly and Spooky!

October 21, 2023   Programming

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICAL — Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 21st @2pm Pacific/slt. This Month: “Ghost­ly & Spooky: The Haunt­ing Side of Gilbert & Sullivan”

This episode 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 Sec­ond Life 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?: Expedition Central

October 11, 2023   Programming

In the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we dis­cov­er­Jo­sain Zsun’s Expe­di­tion Cen­tral, a long-lived and enjoy­ably old-school approach to pre­sent­ing links to places of inter­est around and about in Sec­ond Life. There are two loca­tions at the moment, both with  plen­ty to offer. One is host­ed by the Help­ing Haven Gate­way owned by Lily Swindle­hurst, and the oth­er is on the main­land in the region Chilbo.

This show airs on Octo­ber 11, 14, 18 and 21, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Alexa, Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er*. Oth­er options for tun­ing in can be found here.

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Where Have You Been?: Return to Limoncello

September 23, 2023   Programming

In the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we pay a return vis­it to the Limon­cel­lo Gallery, a new­ly-enlarged art gallery with a sig­na­ture air­ship, now placed at the top of a tow­er in which is exhib­it­ed a very large col­lec­tion of Sec­ond Life Art. It was start­ed some 16 years ago, and it’s a big pri­vate col­lec­tion open to the public.

This show airs on Sep­tem­ber 23,  27,  30 and Octo­ber 4 & 7, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er*. Oth­er options for tun­ing in can be found here.

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Where Have You Been?: LynchLand

September 6, 2023   Programming

In the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we vis­it Lynch­Land, the remark­able trib­ute to the work of film­mak­er, visu­al artist, musi­cian and actor David Lynch. Lynch is per­haps best-known for his land­mark 1990s TV series, Twin Peaks.

This show airs on Sep­tem­ber 6,  9,  13, 16 and 20, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er*. Oth­er options for tun­ing in can be found here.

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Where Have You Been?: Ciampi and Porto Nuovo

August 23, 2023   Programming

The lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, this time explores the Ital­ianate vil­lage of Ciampi and its har­bor, Por­to Nuo­vo, which are spread across over half a dozen abut­ting main­land regions. They were envi­sioned and cre­at­ed by Viggen Petofi who began over six years ago with the parcels on Bhi­ma and a few more, and has built it out as land became avail­able and he could pur­chase it. This show airs on August 23, 26, 30 and Sept 2 at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er. Oth­er options for tun­ing in can be found here.

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Where Have You Been?: Journey to the Centre of Second Life

August 9, 2023   Programming

The lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, this time explores the mys­te­ri­ous Cen­tre of Sec­ond Life where the hand­print of Sec­ond Life is on the very ter­rain! In addi­tion, we dis­cuss Drax­tor Despres’s 47-minute machin­i­ma, “Made in SL: The Movie”, com­mis­sioned by Lin­den Lab for the 20th anniver­sary of the launch of Sec­ond Life. It’s well worth a watch — and it can be found on the Lin­den Lab YouTube Chan­nel — or the link below. And we’ll tell you about the region of Omid­yar where you can see the Sec­ond Life Logo Region for your­self. And take a deep breath and wan­der the heights and val­leys of the For­est of Karuhv­el to dis­cov­er what’s there to be found by the brave and persistent.

Learn more by tun­ing in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT/Pacific on these Sat­ur­days and Wednes­days: August 9, 12, 16, 19.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speaker.

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Where Have You Been: QT Gallery

July 22, 2023   Programming

The lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” which sug­gests things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, this time vis­its the QT Gallery on the Sev­ery region.

It’s the home gallery of long-time Sec­ond Life res­i­dent and artist quadrapop, whose vir­tu­al art­work includes every­thing from two dimen­sion­al wall pan­els, to more tra­di­tion­al 3‑D sculp­tures, to incred­i­ble three dimen­sion­al works full of col­or and motion.

Learn more by tun­ing in at 12 noon or 4pm SLT/Pacific on these Sat­ur­days and Wednes­days: July 22, 26 and 29, and August 2 and 5.

To lis­ten to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, tune to http://main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speaker.

S03E09 — The QT Gallery
Own­er — Gallery Owner/Artist, quadrapop

SLURLS/URLS:
Sev­ery — General

Ground Lev­el Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Severy/174/237/2891

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