Tag Archives: Virtual Community Radio

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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Virtual Community Radio Programme Schedule

June 19, 2023   Programming

Here’s a quick guide to the spe­cial pro­gram­ming avail­able on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio on a reg­u­lar basis, accu­rate at June 2023. Episodes change every two weeks except where indi­cat­ed. You can find more infor­ma­tion on our orig­i­nal pro­gram­ming here.

  • Wednes­days - Fea­tured Music — a dif­fer­ent theme or genre of music is played on the stream all day
  • Wednes­days — Where Have You Been? — we look at things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Host­ed by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin. 12 noon and 4pm SLT
  • Wednes­days — Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity — a radio pro­gram that tells the sto­ry of how our cul­ture is formed by human cre­ativ­i­ty. From the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton. Every four hours from 4am SLT
  • Thurs­days — Tarot @ Teatime — a pro­gramme about the his­to­ry of the cards, their mean­ing and how they can be read. Pre­sent­ed by Hon­ey Heart and her co-host. 12 noon and 4pm SL
  • Fri­days — The ZBS Radio Show — a full-cast radio dra­ma series of adven­tures with a touch of the mys­ti­cal and mys­te­ri­ous, from ZBS Foun­da­tion. Usu­al­ly 30-minute episodes, new every week. 12 noon and 4pm SLT
  • Sat­ur­days — Fea­tured Music — a dif­fer­ent theme or genre of music is avail­able on the stream all day
  • Sat­ur­days — Where Have You Been? — we look at things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Host­ed by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin. 12 noon and 4pm SLT
  • Sat­ur­days — Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity — a radio pro­gram that tells the sto­ry of how our cul­ture is formed by human cre­ativ­i­ty. From the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton. Every four hours from 4am SLT
  • Sun­days — Tarot @ Teatime — a pro­gramme about the his­to­ry of the cards, their mean­ing and how they can be read. Pre­sent­ed by Hon­ey Heart and her co-host. 12 noon and 4pm SLT
  • 3rd Sat­ur­day of the month - The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal — explores the blend­ing of music and dra­ma with host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and her guests, fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. Live from the Gold Room at Angel Manor. 2pm SLT
  • Oth­er spe­cial event pro­gram­ming is aired from time to time. Watch the web site and social media for details — find us on Face­book.
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New Shows on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime 13 and Where’ve You Been 14

August 30, 2021   Programming

It’s time to add two new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

In  Episode 14 of “Where’ve You Been”, we vis­it the Haunt­ed Man­sion trib­ute on Lythria. Owned by Nance Clowes, it is a trib­ute to the theme park attrac­tion first devel­oped by Walt Dis­ney Imag­i­neers for Dis­ney­land, and sub­se­quent­ly for oth­er Dis­ney destinations.

And in “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 13, Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss dif­fer­ent approach­es to study­ing the Major Arcana, and how to iden­ti­fy your Per­son­al­i­ty and Soul cards. (Please ignore the mis­lead­ing URL of the link! — it’s episode 13, not 12.)

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New Shows on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime 12 and Where’ve You Been 13

August 19, 2021   Programming

We’re pleased to announce the addi­tion of two new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

“Where’ve You Been” Episode 13 fea­tures The SLEA Bridge Project, a two region con­nec­tive stretch between the SLEA home region (with its per­form­ing arts cen­tre, Machin­i­ma­land, and edu­ca­tion spaces, etc) and the quar­ter region small project area.

And in “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 12, Hon­ey and Wil­low explore the his­to­ry behind the Rid­er Waite Smith tarot deck.

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New Shows on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime 11 and Where’ve You Been 12

August 2, 2021   Programming

We’re pleased to announce the addi­tion of two new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

“Where’ve You Been” Episode 12 fea­tures The Bor­der­less Project, an inter­ac­tive dig­i­tal art exhi­bi­tion that explores light: reflec­tions, struc­tures, move­ment, cre­ation and evolution. .

“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 11 explores sev­er­al clas­sic Tarot spreads and how to read them.

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Three New Shows on Mixcloud

July 19, 2021   Programming

We’re pleased to announce the addi­tion of three new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

“Where’ve You Been” Episode 11 fea­tures the amaz­ing Arca­di­an Rap­ture Remas­tered - an incred­i­ble cyber-deco shop­ping mall in Sec­ond Life.

“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 9 dis­cuss­es 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.

“Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 10 looks at The Major Arcana and var­i­ous way of think­ing about these twen­ty-two cards as a group. We dis­cuss the notion of The Fool’s Jour­ney, Jun­gian Arche­types, and the Major Arcana as a depic­tion of the inter­play between order and chaos.

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Three New Titles on Mixcloud — including Tarot @ Teatime Special Edition

June 24, 2021   Programming

We’re pleased to announce the addi­tion of three new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

“Where’ve You Been” Episode 10 fea­tures the Limon­cel­lo Air­ship Art Gallery, while “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 8 intro­duces the role of nar­ra­tive in read­ing: the Tarot read­er as storyteller.

In addi­tion, there is a unique Spe­cial Edi­tion of Tarot @ Teatime titled “Demys­ti­fy­ing The Tarot” in which Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire intro­duce the sub­ject of Tarot and present a brief his­to­ry of the cards, and how they may be read with prac­ti­cal exam­ples. It’s a fas­ci­nat­ing intro­duc­tion to the top­ic and will be found espe­cial­ly use­ful if you want a quick refresh­er course on the back­ground to the Tarot. This spe­cial episode was record­ed live at the Sec­ond Life 18th Birth­day on 23 June 2021.

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Virtual Community Radio Is On The Air — Saturday Feb 6

February 5, 2021   Station News

The tests are com­plete, the stream is on the air, and it’s time to offi­cial­ly launch the station!

We’d like to extend a warm invi­ta­tion to Sec­ond Life res­i­dents to join Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio at our Grand Open­ing Ball in our fab­u­lous art deco the­atre on the Chest­nut Hills region, on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 6th at 2pm Pacif­ic Time (22:00 GMT), as we offi­cial­ly launch the sta­tion. Come in for­mal dress and enjoy a pro­gramme of 90 min­utes of waltzes, fox­trots and some rather more live­ly dances in a broad­ly Light Clas­si­cal vein, pre­sent­ed in liv­ing stereo­phon­ic sound by DJ Cale­do­nia Skytower.

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