Announcement: Freda FrostBite Sings, Saturday Dec 19, 26

 

 

 Freda Frostbite will perform her favorite winter songs live on the winter platform in Bellesmere!  
Saturday, December 19 at 12 Noon SLT
Saturday, December 26 at 5 PM SLT

Freda has been a professional singer for most of her life.  She holds advanced degrees in music and voice and brings a sophisticated interpretation to music of many varieties.  This year's holiday concert will include a little country, some showtunes, a couple of traditional songs, and some rock/pop.  You won't want to miss Freda's Winter Wonders!  

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Relax/41/198/2002

 

SL Video: "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve"

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From Freda Frostbite on December 28, "Join Freda Frostbite in Second Life for two more performances of her concert, A Winter celebration. Saturday, December 29 at 9 AM, and Monday, December 31 at 12 Noon. Times are in SLT (which is the same as US Pacific Time.) Both shows will be in the Recital Hall at Belle Demeure." https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bushside/225/237/51

Press Release: The Decades Festival and Ball

The Decades Festival and Ball is set for June 27, 2015 starting at 12:01 AM SLT

We conceived The Decades Festival when it became clear that money needed to be raised to support Historical RP and education in SL through The Historical Communities and Royal Courts website, http://royalcourts.ning.com/.   We wanted to help with the expense of running this site that supports all of us in sharing live history in the metaverse.  What started out as a simple request for donations drew all of our attention to the need to support one another in all we do in Second Life and elsewhere on the net to promote historical education and RP.  A little discussion led to a lot of planning and, voila! a Festival was born. 

We chose the sunflower as the symbol for the DECADES Festival because their open faces that symbolize the sun speak to what historical communities and builds represent: warmth, happiness, admiration—and  with your help and support, longevity, as well. Look for sunflowers throughout the sim, and if you can please be generous in your donations to support historical and education builds.

June 27, The Decades Festival Site on Vahalla Island in SL will be host to nine HUGE history exhibits and 15 live and/or interactive events, which run the gamut from Renaissance music to coffee house RP.  There will be balloon rides and pony rides, even a zip line.  There is a historical ship to explore and a space museum that will knock your socks off.  You won't believe the attention to historical detail and accuracy in all of the exhibits, no matter what their subject, from hats to fine art to tarot to houses. 

The festival was dreamed up by Freda Frostbite and her cohort in many things virtual, SisterButta.  Lots and lots of people have contributed their time and talent to building this big event and they have done it in less than a month!  Please compliment all of them on the amazing work they have done creating The Decades Festival and Ball.  Questions and Concerns may be directed to Freda and Sister.  We do hope you'll spend at least part of June 27 with us at The Decades Festival and Ball.  Below are the events schedule and descriptions of the many exhibits. 

Please help to make the Decades Festival a huge success!

Press Release: "Miss Intensity Walks In" at Freda's Place

As many of you know Freda's Place has relocated after a long time as it's previous location.  Tomorrow will be my first performance at this new venue.  I'll be performing my new poem cycle, Miss Intensity Walks In, which will appear in the December issue of SLGoth.  I also have some time to perform some other original works that could be thought of as "red" in one way or another. 

My performance will be this Tuesday's edition of Live Lit.  It will follow Tuesday Babble (open Mic) which will start at 1 pm.  I do hope you will show up to support me, my venue and my work as an sl/rl writer. 

See you soon! 
Freda

P.S.  Most of this month's events will take place at Freda's Winter Place, but this one is decidedly UNwintery, so we will be at the cafe in Quoll. 

Freda's Place, Quoll (11, 86, 96)

Dana's Return

Before Second Life Newser, there was Second Life Newspaper, of which the editor was Dana Vanmoer. Since the close of the old paper four years before, she'd only been back inworld once, when her SL mother Breezes Babii was ill. Since then, she'd decline invitations to return. But finally, on Tuesday June 10, I ran into her online. "You finally got me curious," she told me. After meeting up at her old home in Skybeam, we headed to the SL Newser office.

And later on, we headed to Book Island, where we ran into Freda Frostbite, and Crap Mariner. Crap had quite a few things to say on a number of topics from drama to the Avi Choice Awards.

Dana and I chatted quite a bit about the Grid, a conversation that went on when we'd later drop by Club Zero and some friends joined in. Second Life had changed quite a bit. Dana had gotten her start as a dancer, and back then a girl could make a bundle at a club doing that. Not so much any more. She had moved on to being a clothing designer. That had changed as well, with mesh and fitted mesh designs on the scene and making things quite complicated for dressmakers. Gambling was banned just before I was on the scene. It was a different Grid.

Dana told me she had no plans to appear regularly, but making occasional visits inworld to see friends and SL family.

Good to have you back, Dana.

Bixyl Shuftan

"Promptly Erotic" at Book Island

Grease Coakes is back with a story. In his article today, he writes about a recent trip to Book Island in which they had a new kind of event: "Promptly Erotic." Hosted by Freda Frostbite, the event is an exercise for those aspiring to write adult fiction. Grease attended the workshop, and even submitted a sample.

Read Grease's article in Events.