No concert at Music Island this week? Yes, but wait! It's time for the annual festival of SL Women in Music offered in partnership with Ohio State University's Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. This year the festival will be a kick off event for16 Days of Action against Gender Violence with events in…
Recent discussions about a community conference in Second Life made me reflect on just what that community is to me. My Second Life community doesn't have a capital city in California. It isn't limited by geo-political boundaries. Virtual community lives in the gathered consciousness of groups of beings from across the…
I have been talking to some friends in Second Life about the upcoming SLCC (Second Life Community Conference). http://www.slconvention.org/ For those of you that don't know what that is, some really late announcements have gone out for a gathering in California next month that purports to be a gathering of…
Reprinted here from a discussion from Linked-In on whether Second Life should/can connect with Facebook. "From the beginning of my involvement with Second Life I have said that Linden Lab had a "build it and they will come" idea that was mystical and naive because it didn't take into account…
HEAVEN, EARTH, METAVERSE 12 pm PDT (SLT), 3 PM EDT, 9 PM in Italy BENITO FLORES, piano (Alessandro Marangoni in RL) Ars Cantica, choir Marco Berrini, conductor To view inworld you need a Second Life account and to be at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/57/23/22 at 12 noon Pacific Time or you can view on the old…
Sandia Beaumont (Piano) & Shprav Oodles (Organ) Steam Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Wind… and words. SUNDAY MAR 27 12 NOON SLT Music Island, Sea Turtle Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/53/20/23 In First Life, as a solo pianist, Sandia Beaumont is regularly accompanied by symphonic orchestras. In Second Life, Sandia could only dream of having an…
Eveline Noth and Ensemble Saturday 19 Feb. at 12 pm SLT (PST) Music Island, Sea Turtle Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/57/23/23 If you attended Thom Dowd's concert with his colleague Eveline Noth in November then you know that you want to be there when the lovely Eveline Noth returns with 3 of her pre-professional students to present…
Rockcliffe University has graciously invited the Music Island concert series to be part of the distinguished educational and cultural offerings that the online university has been making happen in Second Life (and beyond) for the past three years. We'll be bringing selected representative concerts from the Music Island series to a newly created…
Oh, thank goodness! Another Full Moon Lunacy concert, #11/12 to be precise begins tonight on Music Island...join Aldo as he presents another hour of live improv... http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/57/23/22
Linden Lab recently served notice that they were going to double the tier fees for non-profits and educational sims, sending universities, non-profits and graduate students with limited budgets into a flurry of thoughts about how to cut 50% of their costs. Some are talking about reducing sims, some are talking about sharing sims, and others…