2016 PEOPLE: ART: PROMO: SL13B: 13 years of the virtual worlds community. Call for participants. “The Shared Adventure.”

SL13B:  13 years of the virtual worlds community.  
Call for participants.   “The Shared Adventure.”

The virtual worlds community begins planning for a celebration of its 13th year with the theme of  “The Shared Adventure.”   It now calls for participants:  performers, exhibitors, DJs, builders, volunteers.  The event starts on Sunday, June 19, noon Second Life (California) time.  The language makes clear that this is about all virtual worlds.

Last year I floated 

among the sun's nearest neighbors

• Barnard's Star is behind me.
• The Alpha,Beta, Proxima Centauri triplet is at my foot. 
• An adventure I shared with a dozen other visitors at the time.
• And thousands over the life of the event.
• That was last year SL12B opens, 12th anniversary of Second Life.
• This year a new adventure begins:  SL13B

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• The adventure begins with a call for participants 
•  performers, exhibitors, DJs, builders, volunteers
• who will share in the preparation of exhibits and other work 
• to build the celebration area into a virtual fairground.  
• The adventure continues as the celebration area opens on:
• Sunday, June 19, noon Second Life (California) time. 
• The celebration area remains open through July 3.

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• (More after the break)
• Where is Arcadia?

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite (News, not limited to Kitely)
• Selby's daily news collection
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES

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New Media Arts (NMA) on the web

• Avatar Repertory Theater - past, present, future
• NMA website
• NMA blog
• NMA projects
• NMA video: Flying Saucers Return Episode 1
• NMA entry path (NEW) Low tech instructions for entering virtual worlds

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More details are on the SL13B website: SL13B

Previous SL birthdays

• Second Life, the first 11 years. The empires of the future...
• SL11B, the first 11 years. Part 2
• SL10B Art, building, and fashion  
• SL10B Space aliens and other facts
• SL10B A few of the sights
• SL9B Early Sightings 
• More SL9B Sightings
• SL9B still more sightings
• SL8B: VRC. Trains. Remember the magic  
• SL8B: Joseph Campbell's hero journey. The journey of life

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News and Notes

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The Hypergrid WIP Show

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog and elsewhere.

Next WIP show 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Apr 24, Noon SLT
• Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
• HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
• in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22

• Narasnook  location (second Sunday of the month)
• Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
• world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

• Cookie II location (fourth Sunday of the month)
• HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
• in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hypergrid Destinations

HG links-- depending on your interests 

• Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
• HOW TO HYPERGRID
• Sign of the Kite
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
• Best metaverse communities   
• Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid

Metaverse beginner help

• NMA entry path (NEW)
• How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
• Metaverse 101 Info + Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

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