CALL for Performers

Stories Unlimited! & Fruit Island Events are pleased to announce the second year of the BARD ON THE VIRTUAL BEACH Weekend Shakespeare Festival, and we would like to invite YOU to be a part of it . . .

WHEN: You may be a part of one day that suits your schedule, or part of both.  (See restrictions below)

              ~ Saturday, August 18^th at 3:00pm (up to 90 minutes)

              ~ Sunday, August 19^th at Noon (up to 90 minutes)

WHAT: Shakespeare scenes, monologues, sonnets performed in voice.

• Minimum of 5 minutes in length, maximum of 12 minutes. Participating performers will be required to submit a specified length of their presented pieces in advance of the Festival. 
• A single presentation may be solo, or include a scene with multiple actors.
• Performers may participate in more than one selection under these conditions: a limit of two selections per day, three in total (subject to program review).
• Selections will not be repeated from one day to the next, so that each session will be unique.
• Minor fluctuations in time may be negotiated directly with Caledonia – PLEASE be realistic!

TECHNICAL DETAILS: This is a festival, so keep it simple.  There will be a festival stage on Mango Beach and seating will be very casual – beach chairs, beach blankets, cushions etc.  PLEASE do not plan on sets. Our festival set is very versatile, with inner above and below exits and a functional balcony level.  A very few furniture pieces will be available to use during your performance if necessary.  Participating performers will be required to request their needs in advance of the Festival. 

HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?:

Send a notecard to Caledonia Skytower by the end of the virtual day on Tuesday, July 31^st.  Include your name, the piece or pieces you would like to present, approximate length of the performance slot you need, and whether this is a solo performance or a presentation by a group of performers.

Details and schedule drafts will be managed through the StoryFest Events Group (if you are bringing a scene you will need to designate one from your company to be your captain & join that group temporarily to assist in communication/logistics) and through the StoryFest Blog on the web -- http://storyfestsl2011.blogspot.com/

PLEASE NOTE: Emphasis in this event is on presenting the best quality of Shakespeare in a traditional outdoor festival setting.  Performers with experience in handling Shakespearean text are encouraged.  If this is the first time you will be doing Shakespeare in a performance environment, this may not be the event for you to be a part of, but you are most welcome to apply.  The Organizers reserve the right to require an audition of performers whose work they are unfamiliar with. 

BARD ON THE BEACH ANNOUNCED!

Yes!  We are going to do it again!  We are pleased to announce that we have confirmed a date for the Second BARD ON THE VIRTUAL BEACH!

We'll be back at Mango in the Fruit Island Estate:
Saturday, August 18th beginning at 3:00pm, and
Sunday, August 19th beginning at Noon.

There will be more information out shortly.  Mark your calendars now!

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!)