Announcement: SL Living Expo Registration Is Now Open

 

Registration is now open for the SL Living Expo (a re-imagined Home and Garden Expo) that is running from March 3rd through March 12th, 2023. We have spots for region sponsors, event sponsors, booth participants, donations, raffles, auctions items... and so much more! Remember, this event is expanded beyond home and garden to include aviation, maritime, equestrian, farming, leisure activities, travel, food and so much more.

Please visit our website: https://sl-living-expo.org/how-to-participate/

 

Announcement: Simwide Deathlands Hunt, July 29 to August 1

 

Hunt/Games Details: Deathlands Hunt sponsored by Goddess Creations. Find all skeleton pieces and receive the Goddess Creations High Times Fatpack a 2000L$ Value!
Primary Genre(s) Home & garden, A Post-Apocalyptic Sim
Costs/Fees Only 50L$ for the HUD
Start Date: 29th July, 2022
End Date: 1st August, 2022

 

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paradise%20Kingdom/76/218/23

 

Sponsored by Goddess Creations

 

RFL Home And Garden Events End

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The events at the Relay For Life's Home and Garden Expo ended at 8PM Sunday night, March 20, with a fireworks show over the main stage in Hope 1. For over three weeks, the stage had seen many performers on stage, with other sims hosting auctions, discussions, contests, and of course shopping. 

Earlier at 4PM was the last of the Lantern Ceremonies, in honor of those lost in the battle with cancer. 

In the ceremonies, numerous paper lanterns floated to the sky (picture from Cynthia Farshore). 

Store (and media) owners were told, "We officially close at 11.59pm tonight. However the regions often remain for a couple days after official closing.  So if you want to leave things in place until the regions evaporate feel free to do so, but remember to take any no copy items from your display ASAP please."

And for those taking part, there was this little gift.

We are honored to have been involved with so many kind and generous people. Expo has, as always, been a wonderful experience and the beginning of many new friendships.  

Through all the hard work, dedication and generosity, you have all made this event so very special,  meaningful and a true example of what can be achieved through Second Life.

So from us all once again, thank you for all your efforts.

While the sims should be up for a couple more days for further shopping, the RFL Home & Garden Expo is over. But the Relay season goes on. The various Relay teams are having their events. And a month from now, the Fantasy Faire begins on Thursday April 21.

Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan
 

DJ Mattie At The Home and Garden

 

On Sunday March 13 at the Relay for Life's Home and Garden Expo, DJ Mattie (Mattie Carlton/Mattie Foxclaw) played at the stage at Hope 1. For two hours from 6 to 8PM, the talented DJ from Team Sunbeamers spun some country music and other tunes for a small but enthusiastic crowd. By the end of her set, she'd raised 11,111 Linden dollars, her joking the last who donated must be a coder.

DJ Mattie, whom is a member of Team Sunbeamers, has taken part in a number of Relay events, some in which she's raised large amounts. In April 2021 in a DJ competition, she raised over 110,000 Linden dollars.
 
To see who's playing today, Click Here to check the stage schedule.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

RFL Home and Garden Shopping: Part One

 

The Relay for Life's Home and Garden Expo is taking place. There are events to see, competitions to take part in, and of course the shopping. But what can you get there? There's too many items to count, but we at the Newser did look at a couple shops
 
Read more in Events.
 

A Busy Weekend

 

Quite a bit happened this past weekend. The Relay for Life's Home and Garden Expo officially started. New Toulouse had it's "Sami Gras" parade on Saturday. Roma had it's Equirria and Lupercalia events. Caledon had it's 16th Anniversary Ball (above). There was a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Moscow Island. Veterans Island had their annual fundraiser concert. And more.

More on some of these events later.
 

Cartoon of The Day: Coffee Addiction

 

Picture from Levi Heartsdale, taken in Wafflevile, in Home and Garden Discord chat, "I found this to be a much easier source of coffee."

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Press Release: RFL Home And Garden Expo - Feb 26 to March 20

 

The Home and Garden Expo is the largest and longest running event of its kind in Second Life. Its main goal is supporting Relay For Life through its fundraising efforts. We strive to educate, entertain and help the people of Second Life to give to an amazing cause. Home and Garden Expo prides itself on championing not only Relay For Life but the visitors, exhibitors, performers and volunteers who make this event so successful.

HG Expo supports Relay For Life through fundraising in various forms throughout the event. Funds are raised through sponsorships, exhibitor fees, donation items, Great entertainment offerings, The Wall of Hope, Decorating Contest, Finale Auction and much more.

The Expo also encourages many real-life artists who sell their work here in Second Life to have a store at the H&G so that people get to see their art. 

A Busy Weekend

 

Quite a bit happened this weekend in Second Life. There were numerous events at the Home and Garden, such as when several Linden Moles were interviewed. "Pi Day" events were held at Inspiration Island and Virtual Ability (above) on Sunday March 14. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education had their Press Day (the event officially starts on Thursday March 15). RFL Team Sunbeamers finished one "Bid Me" event and started another. GoSpeed Racer got together with Tuna Oddfellow for some special Odd Ball events, and more. 

Stay tuned for more information about these, and more.

DJ Matt Raises Over 20,000 Lindens

  
 On Wednesday March 10, DJ Matt (aka Matt Carlton / MattDCarlton Resident) took to the stage at the Relay for Life Home and Garden Festival. She took to the stage at 7PM SL time.

DJ Matt grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. Having lived near Branson and spending a a lot of time there seeing shows and also having some distant realatives that performed for Silver Dollar City, shi was raised on country music, blues, bluegrass and classic rock. Shi still has a great passion for these genres, country being her favorite. Music has always gotten hir though some of the worst times in hir life, and now she love to share some of these wonderful tunes with folks here on SL as a Tiger striped 9 tailed fox. Hope 3 (55,114,33) 

Originally scheduled for one hour, Matt ended up playing music for two, all the while people donating Lindens to two RFL kiosks on either side of the stage. Although Matt is with Team Sunbeamers, the money didn't get credited to the team. Instead it went to general funds. Over time, there were various comments spoken about those lost to cancer and the effort to fund the fight against it. Matt stated that she had taken part in the Relay in real life before coming to the virtual world, and was thankful for her friends telling her about the Relay for Life in Second Life. 

At the end of the two hour event, the two kiosks had an additional 21,493 Linden dollars. 

DJ Matt currently plays every Thursday at the Bouncing Bunny Beach Club on Thursday afternoons. She just recently volunteered for a "Bid Me" event, the details which will be in the Newser soon.

Bixyl Shuftan

Patch Linden Appears at Home and Garden

 

On Wednesday March 10 at 2 PM SL time, Saffia Widdershins interviewed Patch Linden at the theater in the Home and Garden Expo.  Patch talked about a number of things. Among them were the Chalet Linden Homes, which will likely be open for residents to live in within two weeks of the interview (March 24). He would say the next theme would likely be announced at the SL18B, but would say little about it other than it would "blow you socks off" and had "unique capabilities unlike anything you've ever seen to date" (he wouldn't say what the SL18B theme was). As of now, Linden Lab plans to have all Linden Home themes announced by the end of 2021.

Patch would also talk some about Bellisseria, at one point saying Linden Lab was building on it's experiences with Bay City in regards to it's community. Linden Lab's reactions to the Pandemic were brought up as well, Patch saying because of the Coronavirus the Lab made the decision to delay the coming about of Premium-Plus accounts. He also admitted that the Lab was still cleaning up bugs that came about from the move to The Cloud, such as map areas

To watch the video of the interview, Click This Link. Alternatively, Inara Pey wrote this outline of what was discussed.

Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: DJ Matt At Home And Garden Tomorrow

The RFL Home and Garden Festival has many musicians on stage. Among them for tomorrow, Wednesday March 10 will be Matt Carlton (MattDCarlton Resident), aka DJ Matt. She will be performing for the audience at the Main Stage from 7 to 8 PM SL time.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%201/91/127/22

Cartoon of the Day: Marvel Disapointment

 

Taken at the RFL Home and Garden.  Captain Marvel may be a powerful superhero. But when it comes to popularity, he's way behind the guy in blue with the red cape. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

Scenes From The RFL Home And Garden Festival

There's a lot going on at the RFL Home and Garden Festival. The Hope 01 sim is best known for it's Main Stage. But on the sides of the sims are various small buildings that have been handed out to various teams. This includes one for Team Sunbeamers.

Besides making a donation to the team, one can always walk in and purchase one of a few nick-knacks up for sale, all proceeds going to the team. There's also a little information on the weekly Moon Dance that happens ever Thursday (including today), and the Sunbeamer Air Show that's scheduled to take place on May 8.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%201/124/12/23

One event that takes place every day is the Lantern Ceremony.  This is the daily moment to reflect on those whom have passed away to cancer. At 4PM every afternoon, many dozens are rezzed, and float to the sky. Saffia Widderships announces it in Relay chat, "We have been doing this every year at the Expo since 2012, when Immortalis Cyannis first made these lanterns."

Dropping by, the people watching had a few comments, "So touching, so memorable, gives everyone a time to reflect and so well done." "This really is the highlight of the Expo day. thanks for doing this, Saffia." After half an hour, it came to a close, "But it will be happening again at 4pm tomorrow night, and every night bar one ..."

For more pictures, Wildstar Beaumont has a few more on his Flickr page.

Bixyl Shuftan

A Busy Weekend

 

This weekend saw plenty going on. Saturday saw the start of the RFL Home and Garden Festival (above). Caledon would hold it's anniversary parade. And the CDS held it's Chinese Lantern Festival. On Sunday, Veterans Isle held it's monthly Homes For Our Troops benefit concert, there was a 24 hour event for Rare Disease Day, and at the stroke of Midnight, the biyearly Gacha Guild event started.

More on these events later.

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Home and Garden Expo Starts Today

 

The Relay for Life's "Home and Garden" Expo starts today, Saturday February 27. For those looking for a new home inworld or furnishings for it, this is a good event to attend. And there's also music performers to listen to.

For a little more than three weeks from now to Sunday March 21, there will be events and shopping across nine sims. The temporary areas, named Hope 1 to Hope 9, are east of the American Cancer Society sim. Unlike some Relay events, one can't just walk from the ACS sim to the adjacent sims. One has to fly or teleport over.

The main stage is on the west side of Hope 1. The other sims are for various shops and other buildings by exhibitors. There are dozens of stores to go to, a list of which can be found here (link). But there are other places, such as the SL Newser, at Hope 4 (40/165/23). There will also be occasional discussions by Saffia Widdershins.

For more on the Expo, check the website at https://slhomegardenexpo.com/ ,  or the inworld group, or it's Discord channel (link). For schedules of performers, click here (link).

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Announcement: Lindens to Reveal 5th Home Theme at Home And Garden Expo

The American Cancer Society is excited to host the 5th Linden Home Reveal as part of the 2020 SL Home & Garden Expo. Residents are welcome to take a tour of the new Linden Home theme that will become available at 10am SLT on Friday, February 28, 2020. Residents can land on the American Cancer Society Island and walk to the Reveal region following the directional signs from there.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/American%20Cancer%20Society/128/128/25

“We are always grateful for our relationship with Linden Lab and are honored to host the Themed Home Reveals,” says Stingray9798 Raymaker, American Cancer Society staff Director in Second Life. “We hope to use this opportunity as a way to educate the residents of Second Life that the American Cancer Society is here to help cancer patients and caregivers from around the world, and to give our Second Life community a means to fight back against a disease that has taken too much.”

This marks the 5th Linden Home theme that will be added to the Bellisseria community, alongside the previous 4 themes: traditional, trailers, houseboats, and Victorian. Residents of Bellisserria are sharing theories with one another in the Bellisserria forum and a queue of avatars has been sighted on the American Cancer Society island.

Source: Second Life ACS Information
 

A Busy Weekend

Quite a bit happened this weekend from Relay events to the Home and Garden Expo to the monthly Homes For Our Troops benefit concert (above) to the LOLapalooza at Raglan Shire, and more.

More on some of these happenings later.

The 2020 Relay Season Kickoff

Saturday February 16 was the official start of the 2020 Relay for Life in Second Life's fundraising season: the Kickoff. Taking place in two sims, one at the Home and Garden Expo, the other at the Bellissaria Fairgrounds, numerous residents were there to officially start "Game on Cancer!" The Newser was there, and got pictures.

See the scenes in Events.

Announcement: EVENTS for Home and Garden Feb, 23rd, For Relay For Life

We are still relaying at Home and Garden - come on over - shop and be entertained

 Help us Give The Gift of Hope to someone you will never meet, in a country you may never visit, but who desperately needs it.  Your Gift will last a lifetime.

**11am SLT   Anemone Wing Walker - Live at H and G for RFL**
We are a wing walking performance and training team. Our group is not only intended for our team members, but also for all other wing walking performers and enthusiasts, to keep everyone informed about our activities and shows.
Our activities include performing shows, training of wing walkers and pilots, and we also provide personal wing walking experiences.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%201/160/251/23

**12 NOON SLT  Rosy and the Funsters - Live at H and G For RFL**
Rosy sings live with her crazy group of funsters who are a wonderful band
we hope to bring fun and laughter!!!!!!  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%201/122/131/23

**2pm SLT  Prim Perfect Talk with Saffia Widdershins**
Show and Tell - Always Fun 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%203/115/217/30


**4pm SLT Release of Lanterns at H and G for RFL**

Nothing is more beautiful, and a wonderful time to reflect on those we have lost.  One person commented yesterday, " It is  like sending little prayers or kisses to heaven"  

**6pm Miha Shamen At H and G for RFL  - LIVE **

My name is Miha Shamen, I've been involved in music for many years, singing as Mihaere Shamen in sl since Jan 2009. I play guitar & piano badly, mostly I sing live. I sing many eclectic songs from my song list. Golden Oldies Blues Reggae Rock Ballroom and Country. I have the music for the majority of  venues, adding the technique to the Art Of Entertainment in my shows.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%201/126/132/23