Press Release: Astral Sector Alpha Art Fair June 25-July 3

Astral Sector Alpha is holding an art fair June 25th to July 3rd.

Astral Sector Alpha, also known as ASA or the Astrids, is a community of artists of different stripes that originated in Second Life, although not all of the members are within Second Life. They also have a Discord presence and do live readings every other Saturday over Discord (as not everyone can successfully use SL voice reliably) starting at 6 PM SLT and gather in world for camaraderie during the reads. ASA's goal is to nurture each other's creativity and to provide a good grounding for artists, writers, and other creators to grow within and draw encouragement from. Members are encouraged to start their own projects.

ASA has worked with several small libraries in the past to provide reading exchanges and art/writing contests, including with the Trotsdale library. Amehana Ishtari's past writing workshops and a Haiku anthology between cooperating Second Life libraries, available for free on Smashwords at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/542449 are examples of the sort of projects that members launch.

Art of several types is on display at the current art fair, things represented are visual art in the form of drawings and photograpy, jewelery, images created in blender, textual offering to be read either by the author or by volunteers, and "glitch photography" which is a new art form developed by Danielderv Resident, which has even had an article published about it in a university level publication. The building itself was created for the art fair.

For inworld readings of the content in the fair, readings will happen from the 30th to the 3rd at 5 PM SLT to ensure that all that was submitted has a chance to be shared.

This art fair is also intended to kick off a weekly magazine format. For more details about that particular endeavor talk to Danielderv Resident.

Calm Ocean (69, 196, 3821)

Press Release: Halloween Photography Contest by Astral Sector Alpha and Trotsdale Library

Kino Moonites from Astral Sector Alpha (the Astrids) and Project Catfort is running an SL photography contest. This is a cross-group contest in return for the cross-group writing contests the Trotsdale Library has headed in the past.

Theme: Halloween/Harvest
Picture Location: Anywhere, so long as it fits the theme.
Deadline: Midnight EST October 30, or 9 PM SLT October 30

All submissions will be displayed in the ASA art gallery in Computer. There will be prizes for the top three. Prizes have not yet been determined.

To enter: Put your photo submissions in a notecard with your name and statement that they are for the photo contest. Title the notecard "Your Legacy Name _ Halloween/Harvest Photo Contest". Send the note card at full perms to Amehana Ishtari or Kino Moonites, or put it in a drop box in the Ibexian Library building in the Ibex Empire sim and the Trotsdale Library building in Trotsdale if you're worried that the notecard will be lost or not received. Likewise there will be a dropbox in the ASA gallery. Amehana will deliver the Dropboxes to Kino Moonites when it is time to collect the cards.

An entry regarding the contest will also be make in the Intersim Library Website will be made at http://intersimlibrary.freeforums.net/board/17/contest-entry-archives

Box sites:

Library, Trotsdale Heights (22, 156, 24)

ASA: Astral Coalition, Computer (65, 144, 25)

Press Release: Cross-Group Halloween/Harvest Photo Contest

Kino Moonites from Astral Sector Alpha (the Astrids) and Project Catfort is running an SL photography contest. This is a cross-group contest in return for the cross-group writing contests the Trotsdale Library has headed in the past.

Theme: Halloween/Harvest
Picture Location: Anywhere, so long as it fits the theme.
Deadline: Midnight EST October 30, or 9 PM SLT October 30

All submissions will be displayed in the ASA art gallery in Computer. There will be prizes for the top three. Prizes have not yet been determined.

To enter: Put your photo submissions in a notecard with your name and statement that they are for the photo contest. Title the notecard "Your Legacy Name _ Halloween/Harvest Photo Contest". Send the note card at full perms to Amehana Ishtari or Kino Moonites, or put it in a drop box in the Ibexian Library building in the Ibex Empire sim, Exmoor's coffee house, the ASA/Catfort Gallery, or the Trotsdale Library building in Trotsdale if you're worried that the notecard will be lost or not received. Likewise there will be a dropbox in the ASA gallery. Amehana will deliver the Dropboxes to Kino Moonites when it is time to collect the cards.


Box sites:

Ibexian Crystal Library & School (IC and OOC), Ibex Empire (151, 22, 31)
Trotsdale Library, Trotsdale (22, 156, 24)
Java's Coffeehouse, Exmoor (62, 34, 24)
Astral Coalition and Project Catfort Art Gallery, Computer (60, 155, 25)