STORYFEST 2012 Full of Fun and Great Stories!

Thank you all!  Those who presented, and those who attended.  It was a terrific day, living up to all our expectations!

THE MORNING SESSION:

Morning in the Grand Story Circle at Branwen Arts Center

Elder Priestman kicks off with "Zions's Cause"

Rune Draegonne with Irish Faery Tales

SL Clemens with a selection from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Lycanthia Wolfhunter with "The Lady of the House of Love"

StoryFest welcomes Wolfgang Glinka with original poetry & flash fiction...great works Wolfie!

THE AFTERNOON SESSION:
(The great crowd played hell with the lag, so if you got shots od Dubhna & Cale, Gyro, or BigRed...pass them along and we'll post them.)

Gathering 'round the campfire for the afternoon session. Anybody got any s'mores?

Corwyn Allen with "Eyes of Dust"

The Seanchai Library's Derry McMahon

Derry holds them spellbound with "Scottish Tales"

Crap on a wire (or is that an umbrella?)... hanging around and sharing some 100 Word Stories

Next StoryFest Event - God and the Lindens willing - may well be Bard on the Virtual Beach 2 this summer.  Stay tuned!

STORIES! STORIES! STORIES! March 10th Beginning at 10am SLT!

10am - Elder Priestman - "The Onion Feast" from Zion's Cause by Jim Peyton - Set in the corn fields and on the porch of a general store in a backwater Kentucky hamlet, this lyrical first novel describes an unexpected world of poetry and heroism. In a series of vignettes that loosely document the folk history of the town of Zions Cause during the three decades following 1920, the commonplace is inextricably entwined with the epic and miraculous.

11am - Rune Draegonne with Irish Fairy Tales
Magic and lore from the homeland of mystery and intrigue. "The Giants Stairs" by T. Crofton Croker, and other short Irish Fairy tales.

11:30am - SL Clemens with The Adventures of Huck Finn
Chapter 31 from "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn": possibly the most significant chapter in the book as Huck faces the moral dilemma of stealing Jim back from a farmer the duke had sold him to.  Dialiect and some offensive language.

Noon - Lycanthia Wolfhunter with Angela Carter's  The Lady of the House of Love.
 The story begins in an abandoned Romanian village on the eve of the First World War, where the Countess, "queen of the vampires," lives. Ghosts live with her in the castle, but she keeps herself alone in a dusty, rotting and lightless suite. Until.....

1:00pm - Wolfgang Glinka with Original Poetry and Flash Fiction

I am a bit shy, a bit sensitive, a bit of a show off and way too passionate. I am a wolf with a human form, a writer - novelist and poet in Real Life and here in Second life. My passions are writing, music, humour and friends. Second Life is fun, challenging and it is teaching me a lot about myself. There is more to come, I hope.  www.wolfiewolfgang.com

1:30pm - Break

2:00pm - Dubhna Rhiadra & Caledonia Skytower with Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men
Introducing the Nac Mac Feegle- blue-skinned, red-haired, tattooed Pictsies, they wear kilts, carry BIG swords, and enjoy creating mayhem. Storyfest is being held on Nac Mac Feegle territory so we couldn't keep them out!

2:30pm - Corwyn Allen with “Eyes of Dust” from the collection I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream  by Harlan Ellison –  “In the kingdom of the blind, a one–eyed man is God.” Contrariwise, in a world of absolute beauty, who labels ugliness?

3:00pm - Derry McMahon with "The Good, The Bad,  and The Fae - of Scotland."

Derry McMahon brings several fine tales of the wee folk - the good, the bad, the fae, the witches, and more - of Scotland.  Seanchai Library's Queen Bee enjoys chick lit, folk and fairy tales, Arthurian legends, and the rare foray into science fiction. She serves as the Librarian for Seanchai, one of SL's longest running storytelling venues, in continuous operation since March 2008.  http://bit.ly/seanchai

3:30pm - Gyro Muggins with Sci-Fi Potpourri
Gyro brings his refines sense fo Sci-Fi literarure to this series of short stories including: "The Game of the Name" by Alice Laurance; "Down the Digestive Track"  by Robert Sheckley; "Dog Star" by Mack Reynolds; and "Nightmare in Time" by Fredrick Pohl.  30 minutes, 6 stories, no waiting!

4:00pm – BigRed Coyote with Romantic Celtic Fairy Tales.
Two classics from Joseph Jacobs’ collections of Irish Myths and Legends: “Guleesh” and “Connla and the Fairy Maiden.”  All about love found, denied and sometimes lost, and eventually regained though not without some toil in the bargain.

4:30pm - Crap Mariner with 100 Word Stories
Always unpredictable and irreverent, no subject is too sacred, no cow too holy for Crap not to pull it out, examine it, and bang it on the table a few times before putting it back where he found it - albeit slightly crumpled.  Long ago, he swore an oath to write a 100 word story every day until the day he died. He's not dead yet.  And no, he NEVER has opinions! http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/

5:00pm - Freda Frostbite with A Work In Progress
Freda Frostbite (aka author Stephanie Mesler) shares excerpts from her current work in progress.  http://apoetsprogrogress.blogspot.com/




The Morning Session will take place at the Grand Story Circle on the terrace of the Branwen Arts Center: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bran/71/91/3512

The Afternoon Session will take place by the Fireside Story Circle on Bran's terra level: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bran/46/99/23

STORYFEST 2012: Preliminary Schedule

(Updated March 6th)
Wow!  We are bustin at the seams with great stories and great presenters!  Here is the preliminary schedule, which will no doubt be subject to "adjustment" over the next few days.  When was the last time YOU puiblished a schedule once and made is stick?  If youy have, your life is more blesed than mine! ~ Cale

ALL TIMES SLT

10am - Elder Priestman - Zion's Cause by Jim Peyton - "The Onion Feast"
11am - Rune Draegonne with Irish Fairy Tales
11:30am - SL Clemens with The Adventures of Huck Finn
Noon - Lycanthia Wolfhunter with Angela Carter's  The Lady of the House of Love.
1:00pm - Wolfgang Glinka with Original Poetry and Flash Fiction
1:30pm - Break
2:00pm - Dubhna Rhiadra & Caledonia Skytower with Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men
2:30pm - Corwyn Allen with TBA
3:00pm - Derry McMahon with The Good, The Bad,  and The Fae - of Scotland. 
3:30pm - Gyro Muggins with Sci-Fi Potpourri
4:00pm - BigRed Coyote with TBA
4:30pm - Crap Mariner with 100 Word Stories
5:00pm - Freda Frostbite with A Work In Progress (may run past 5pm)

STORYFEST 2012 Scheduled ... Call for Participants!

BE A PART OF IT!

WHAT IS IT?

StoryFest is a partnership between the Branwen Arts Cooperative, and the STORIES UNLIMITED! hippo-group.  Our goal is to present a day of stories presented in a variety of methods:  Traditional Telling, Literature, Theatre, etc. 

WHEN & WHERE?

Saturday, March 10th at “Here Be Pictsies!” in Bran.  10am to 1pm, and 2pm to 5pm.  Presentation slots will be available in half hour and hour increments.  Multiple performers can share a single slot (please specify when waving your hand at us and saying "Me! Me please!")

WHO IS INVITED TO PRESENT?

Anyone who is currently presenting stories in Second Life in any manner that is a live performance.  Presentations should fit within 30 or 60 minute performance slots, and be presentable in live Voice.  Some limited performance slots for more elaborate presentations are possible.  No stream will be available for individual performers. 

WHAT ELSE?

There will be a resource area near the Landing Zone where guests attending can click on an image you provide and receive notecard information about you, where and when they can find you on the grid, freebie giveaways if you want . . . whatever.  This is designed to help you promote what you do beyond the festival, and hopefully draw new audiences to your story events (and cut down on the amount of time and prims it would take to set this up at individual venues).

INTERESTED? . . . PERFORMERS AND VOLUNTEER HOSTS NEEDED

Contact Caledonia Skytower or Dubhna Rhiadra via notecard by March 1.  Please be sure to include the length of slot you are interested in, some reference to what and where you currently present on the grid, what you intend to present at StoryFest, and any technical needs you might hope for (prims needed etc.). PLEASE NOTE AGAIN: No Stream will be available for individual presenters.

The StoryFest performances will be confirmed by March 5th, and the final schedule published at that time.

The organizers reserve the right to review the performers submitting and accept those performances & performers that they feel best fit the goals of the festival.

NOTE: World Storytelling Day, which celebrates Traditionally Told Tales, will be the next weekend on March 20th around the world, with this year's theme of "Trees."

BOOFEST 2011 In Pictures (Finally)

Derry McMahon (above) and Aoife Lorefield with "The Red Headed Ghost"

Stranger Nightfire and his unfailing sense of occassion!



The delightful menace that is Crap Mariner...then there's his stories!  http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/



Caledonia Skytower with "Danse Macabre"

Alvetra Karu with "A Cask of Amontillado"

Dubhna Rhiadra with Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton



"A Diva Scorned" with Freda Frostbite (RL Author Stephanie Mesler .. http://apoetsprogrogress.blogspot.com/)

 

Gyro Muggins does  hard time in the Story Circle

Lycanthia Wolfhunter and "The Evil Desire Machines of Dr. Shin"

Thanks one and all for making BooFest 2011 such a delight...sorry it took so long to get these up (Real Life, that thing that happens while you are making virtual plans!)

BOOFest Day #2 - Sunday

At the Storytelling Circle

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bran/48/99/23

10:00am - Pipsqueak Albatros TBA

~ talented actress Pipsqueak Albatross shares spooky, scary storiesto start off Day #2 of BOOFest.

 




11:00am - The Evil Desire Machines 
of Dr. Shin

~ with Lycanthia Wolfhunter

A macabre tale of clockwork, necrophilia and twisted revenge ... steampunk meets De Sade.

Warning contains descriptions of a sexual sadism.

 

Noon - Ghost Stories from Edith Wharton

~ with Dubhna Rhiadra

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Wharton was also designer, short story author, and knew a thing or two about ghost stories.  Dubhna shares scary tales from this classic late ninteenth century literary voice.

1:00pm - True Ghost Stories from San Antonio

~ with Big Red Coyote

La LLorona, A southwest folk tell, every town village and settlement has a variation on the story of the crying woman at every stream, creek and river in Texas.  The Dancing Devil also a well known and often told folk tale of when the devil comes to a party.  Concluding with Sister Angelina's Stories from Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX the spirits that have been seen walking the halls of the university. 

1:30pm - Ray Bradbury's The Murderer

~ with Gyro Muggins

In Bradbury's 1953 classic tale, a convict is interviewed by a psychiatrist.  His crime?  He murdered his house.  It's strange, funny and subtly scary.

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3:00pm - Scary Stories from Cale's Stack

~ with Caledonia Skytower

This time of year the reading stack on Caledonia's desk swells to near skyscraper height with authors as diverse as Joseph Sheridal LeFanu, Robert D, San Souci, Neil Gaiman, and Maurice Walsh.  What will she grab from that stack of spookable matter?  Will Sadie the Cat help choose?

4:00pm - Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

~ with Alvestra Karu

Jealousy, pride,  and madness all mix together into a horrific stew as Poe's tale wine and revenge weaves through the catacombs of classic macabre fiction.

4:30pm -  A Diva Scorned

~ with Freda Frostbite 
Author Stephanie Mesler (aka Freda Frostbite) has penned an original tale to conclude or two days of BOOFest.  For those that remember Ermengarde the Expansive from last Spring's StoryFest know that you are in for a treat with a new tale from this delightful author.

BOOFest Day #1 - Saturday

At the Grand Circle

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bran/71/90/3512 

Noon - Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market 

~ with Dubhna Rhiadra, Caledonia Skytower, and Shandon Loring 
Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a poem with overtly sexual overtones which explores temptation, through the experiences of two sisters with elusive and supernatural Goblin men.

12:30pm - The Cat-Dogs  

 by Susan Price ~ with Shandon Loring 
 They're not exactly dogs. They're not really cats. They have teeth like a dog's and claws like a cat's. They're the perfect combination of two of our best-loved pets. There's only one problem: Cat-Dogs love to hunt. Humans.

 

 1:30pm - The Red-Haired Ghost 

~ with Aoife Lorefield and Derry McMahon 
 The Red-Haired Ghost is from A Book of Ghosts by S. Baring-Gould. Isn't it interesting how red-heads can be troublemakers even from beyond the grave.  Subtitled "A Wife's Story" and presented in voice by two gifted storytellers.


 

  

2:00pm - The Oval Portrait & Shadow 

by E.A.Poe along with selected poems ~ with Corwyn Allen 
The Oval Portrait is one of Poe's shortest short stories, concerning disturbing circumstances around a portrait hanging in a chateau. Shadow is a parable written by Poe which beings ominously by quoting the Psalm of David: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death.

2:30pm - Spooooky 100 Word Stories 

~  with Crap Mariner 
Irascible, irrepressable, and always unexpected . . . Crap Mariner brings his unique views on the world around him into elegant brevity, with stunning results.  If he can make peanut butter seem twisted, imagine what he can do if he really TRIES to be spooky!

3:00pm - The Mournful Cry of Owls  

by Christopher Golden ~ with Lilia Quinnell
Christopher Golden's The Mournful Cry of Owls tells the strange tale of a mother who, on her daughter's birthday, must explain the strange truth of the girl's ancestry.