Amazon.com Career Fair

On Tuesday morning at 6 am PDT, the first ever Amazon.com Career Fair will began in Second Life. The fair will go on the entire day, open until midnight. It will be held at the Amazon Developers 2 SIM. Interested parties can check the following the posting on the Amazon Web Services site for more detail. The site also provides links to look at the open positions. The in world contact is Jeffronius Batra.

Art and Craft Fair in Second Life

There's an Art and Craft fair scheduled to be held at the Serendipity Mall, on Sunday 12 July, from 10 am - 1 pm PDT / SLT. Seventeen artists will be displaying throughout the mall, and each will be giving out a freebie. There will be live music, many of the artists will be wandering around, and there will be free gifts and a treasure hunt with a first prize of 2,000L.

Opening of Café Ristretto

Tonight, be prepared for an hour of music and dance at the opening of Karuna's brand new Cafe Ristretto. Throw in a new art exhibit by Sunn Thunders on the rooftop garden and Juel Reistance singing her special blend of tunes starting at 6:00 pm PDT/ SLT and you've got the makings for a special evening.

The Vision Quest Awards

I had the opportunity this past week to take part in Jenaia Morane's "Vision Quest" event, which was part of the Helen Keller Day activities in Second Life. Ms Morane had asked me to be one of the judges for the writing competition which I readily agreed to do. She runs one of the most delightful spots in second life for writers, StoryBook Island, which is the home of "The Virtual Worlds Story Project and I Avatar: Stories from the virtual edge". She is active in the nonprofit sector of second life and is a talented writer in her own right.

Details on the event and the winners of the competition can be found at "Days of Our Second Life".

The Soleil: Multi-artist Exhibition

The Soleil, a multi-artist exhibition will open on July 11^th at 10 am PDT/SLT at the Angelgate Gallery. This exciting exhibition will be presenting thirty six Second Life artists of all possible styles and techniques … from copies of RL paintings to interactive immersive installations. Almost every art work you will see is new and not seen before. Most were created specifically for the show. The artists were asked to make art reflecting all possible interpretations of the theme, "the Soleil". You will see many interesting and unique artworks that this theme has inspired. The level of creativity of the artists is amazing. There are many names you will already know … they have participated in many events around the grid and are regular exhibitors at Angelgate shows. You will also have a chance to discover some new artists making their debut in the SL art scene and some very rare exhibiting artists.

Here is the list of the artists and the artworks (in the order they appear from the bottom up)

GARY KOHIME - The Future of Color

SPIRAL WALCHER - Beyone Violet Symphony

COLEMARIE SOLEIL - The Watcher, Where are You

SAIWUN YOSHIKAWA - 3 Strip_Multi_15/15/2009_sou

SPECIAL JEWELL - Terra Egypta 2, Terra Egypta 3, Terra Egypta 4, Terra Egypta 1

PIXELS SIDEWAYS - AG-F-Summer in the City - Pixel

FILTHY FLUNO - Filthy Complete, #1/3 AngelGate

CORCOSMAN VOOM - In The Sunshine In The Rain

MORGANA NAGORSKI - Glowing, Alone, Wearing Violator, She Hasn't Come Out To Play For Such A Long Time, Feathered

XENOPHILE NEUROCAM - Xenophile Neurocam - dendrite.potential

POID MAHOVLICH - Solen til jorden

BF2 SHEPHERD - Isis Egyptian Goddess WW Fountains

BLUNT FHANG - 1-09-08m black

CHARLES ROSENTHAL - Soleil Charles Rosenthal v.2

JIMMY DEBRUYERE - Polished Fish

FEATHERS BOA - Sand, Sea, Sun (3D)

YABUSAKA LOON - < Yabusaka > Sculpture " Yin Yang"

NESSUNO MYOO - MechanicalKnight

WHITE LEBED - If an Art Gallery could dream about a summer vacation...

SUNN THUNDERS - Fusion Sculpture, 6/2009

ARTISTIDE DESPRES - Soleil d'Or

ZHORA MAYNARD - Mirror by Zhora Maynard

SASUN STEINBECK - Texture Picker 1 Prim, Morph Sculpture v14

ALIZARIN GOLDFLAK - Sunrise Sunset

KOLOR FALL - Chromosphere

DOROTHY URVILAN - "Take me back to the garden of love"

TALIA TOKUGAWA - Soleil Renaissance

SOROR NISHI - sorors branch

UP YIFU - Sun's birth

SHELLINA WINKLER - DAWN AND SUNSET - DAWN, SAWN AND SUNSET - SUNSET

SOLKIDE AUER - Mi ritorni in mente.

SAPPHORIA SHILOV - "can only dream of Soleil", "worship the idea of Soleil", "C'est Moi Soleil"

OBERON ONMURA - Heat

MISO SUSANOWA - The Alchemist's Table

STARHEART ERDHEIN - Star Portal, Wings of Promise, Chariot of Ra

ADAM RAMONA - Stella Sonice

GLYPH GRAVES - Memories of Summer

When you arrive using the landmark above you will see the first floor filled with art work. On this floor and above many of the art sculptures are interactive - they react to avatar presence by making sounds or rezzing something as part of the presentation. Consider walking closer - if you just cam around you will give you only part of the effect our artists have created.

After you examine the first floor, please walk up the staircase. Each step has an art work made by the artist whose name you see on the step. Clicking on a step will give you information, bio, and artists' statements.

Once you reach the top of the stairs you will enter our Events area. This is where the Opening Event will be held on July 11th. This is a very unusual event area - the whole room is designed specifically for this show by one of the most acclaimed SL artists, Glyph Graves. He is well known for making beautiful, vibrant, unusual installations. For the Soleil he created not just a room - it is a different world. Again, I strongly suggest walking in as opposed to camming up - you will see how being inside affects your mood and feelings.

To emphasize this effect, during the opening, July 11th, we will enjoy a very special performance by AldoManutio Abruzzo, an amazing professional musician (Dennis Moser in RL) known for his music improvisations. He visited the events area and agreed that this wonderful art installation will inspire him to play something special - his music will be the 37th art piece of the show, only existing for one hour. He is generously donating his performance to AngelGate Arts to support the future of creating art events like the Soleil.

The opening celebration will be continued by another live music performance. Edward Kyomoon sings rock music and love songs ranging from the 60's to the present, covering bands and artists such as the Doors, Pink Floyd, Blue October, Snow Patrol and Nine Inch Nails. He also shares his own original music. He will perform from 11AM till Noon. His concert is another generous donation to support Angelgate non-profit organization art programs.

Don't hesitate to contact me should you require any further information.

White Lebed,

Curator.

white.lebed@gmail.com

Arthole Season 3 Opens July 18th

The full details on the opening of Season 3 are available at the Arthole blog. July 11^th is the last date for Season 2.5 viewing as Arahan Claveau, Nebulosus Severine and the new guest artist, Penumbra Carter will be working to prepare the space for the new exhibit on July 18^th. Plans for the opening include Amy Freelunch joining Ara for a live DJ event along with artistic contributions from past Arthole guests Selavy Oh and Dekka Raymaker.

Bid4aCure Fundraiser Totals

The final tally is in and the Bid4aCure team informed me earlier that they had exceeded last year's total, having raised L$1,785,236. Congratulations to the team of Jocelyn Sands, MacKenzie Rasmuson and Argus Collingwood who led the 2009 campaign. The three ladies did an extraordinary job throughout the month of June and I hope are now taking a well deserved rest to relax and recover. I also received an IM from Adrian Harbinger, telling me of the video he'd made of the date auction and he added, "By the way, the date auction alone bought in $L 701,195." Money raised in the month long fund raiser will be donated to both the Diabetes UK and the American Diabetes Association.