Freda's Place

Open Mic, Wednesday at 5 pm, Babble Cafe and Books http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/221/17/105 Do you sing or dance?  Tell jokes or read poetry? Join us at Babble Cafe and Books for our weekly open mic. All welcome.  Stream can be available if you need it.

5:00 PM Tuesdays Ballroom Dancing With a Twist This Week:  Music From The Rat Pack Join Freda and Hex in The Lily Lanes Ballroom in InWorldz for some great music and lively conversation.  Each week, Freda puts together a stream of music from a specific historical period or a specific artist or on a specific theme.  One week it might be all Strauss-- the next all Rod Stewart or songs about moonlight.  You are not required to dress for the theme.  We will be thrilled to have you come in anything you want to wear, but costumes are encouraged. http://places.inworldz.com/The%20Lanes/228/206/22

Ballroom Dancing,   The Juliet Letters  performed by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet 5:00 PM Tuesday The Hall at Freda's Place, InWorldz http://places.inworldz.com/Mille/59/46/40 The Juliet Letters is the 14th studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, released on compact disc as Warner Brothers 45180. The entire instrumental backing is provided by The Brodsky String Quartet. Costello described the album as "a song sequence for string quartet and voice and it has a title. It's a little bit different. It's not a rock opera. It's a new thing." Join Freda and Hex in The Ballroom for some great music and lively conversation. _________________________________________________________________________________ Get CLUED UP (Board Game) Sunday (4/30) at 12 Noon SLT Funland Arts and Entertainment Center, SL Join us to play this inworld murdery mystery board game.  The table only seats 6, so arrive early!  The w...

(ZG) Quiet Write-In 6:00 AM Wednesdays Join Freda Frostbite for 90 minutes (or so) of quiet work time.  Freda will be writing her next novel.  You can work on whatever you like:  Homework, poetry, sorting inventory, correspondence...  If you arrive and Freda does not notice immediately, it just means she is "in the zone" and will say hi when she comes up for air.  Or caffeine.  More likely, caffeine.  In the meantime, go ahead and take a seat. hg.zangrid:ch:8002:HyperShopping The cafe is shop #21 in Hypershopping on Zangrid.  If you can't find your way there, just IM Freda when you land in the region.  She'd be happy to offer you a ride.

Six years of creating magic. DJ G Winz:  The theme for our party was Outer Space, Factual or Fictional Hex and Freda, celebrating six years partnership, dressed as Mal and Inara from Firefly. Today, Hex and Freda celebrated 6 years committed to one another in virtual worlds and beyond. And Freda celebrated her 8th Rez Day. Many of our friends were there. in the upper ballroom Freda made for the occasion. The conversation and was as vibrant as the colors of the ballroom. Dancing and music in sl have meant a lot to us over the years. Tonight was another special time.   This has always been Freda's favorite dance in sl. It is called "Becoming."

(SL)   Quiet Writing 6:00 AM Tuesday and Thursday Join Freda Frostbite for 90 minutes (or so) of quiet work time.  Freda will be writing her next novel.  You can work on whatever you like:  Homework, poetry, sorting inventory, correspondence...  If you arrive and Freda does not notice immediately, it just means she is "in the zone" and will say hi when she comes up for air.  Or caffeine.  More likely, caffeine.  In the meantime, go ahead and take a seat. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/106/246/4004 (SL)   Open Hours For Tarot Readings Wednesday at 12:30 PM SLT Freda has been using tarot to guide herself and friends for many years in her first life and for several in SL.  If you would like to schedule a reading with Freda, just IM her.  If you have arrived for one of Freda's free single-card promos and she is not in the studio, just IM her and she will be right here. The cost for more extensive re...

Wednesday at 11:30 AM SLT Book Talk:  Tell us about your most recent read! (Discussion) Read any good books lately?  Have you thrown any at the wall?  What did you love?  What did you hate? Join us by the fire at Freda's where we'll talk books for part of an hour.  All welcome. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/143/123/97 Wednesday at 12:30 PM SLT Writer's Activity: 642 Things To Write About Join us Wednesdays at 12:30 PM as we make our way through the writing prompts in "642 Things To Write About"  by 826Valencia. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/143/123/97 Thursday at 11:30 AM SLT Creative Writers, Artists, Musicians Chat (Discussion) Artists of various types, from graphic designers to inworld builders to first life ballerinas, share a lot of common experience.  Let's get together and chat about life as artists inworld and out.  All welcome. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarl...

FRIDAY at 10:00 AM Sweet Harry and Jasmine, Dancing: Best In St. Pat's Costumes, DJ Jez Burlesque, Irish Rock, Win Lindens for Best In St. Pat's Costumes!  Trivia! ______________________________________________________________ FRIDAY at 12 noon  Gorgeous Grace and Jezebel, Dancing: BEST In Leprechaun Costumes, DJ Jez Burlesque, Irish Rock, Win Lindens for BEST In Leprechaun Costumes!  Trivia! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/225/144/107 _______________________________________________________ FRIDAY at 2:30 PM Jezebel's Poolside: BEST IN GREEN BIKINI OR SWIMSUIT, DJ Jez Good Irish Beer, Prizes, Warmth in the midst of SL winter. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/190/151/106 ______________________________________________________ FRIDAY at 5:30 PM Kiss Me, I'm Not Irish! Ballroom Dancing; Formal Attire; DJ Freda Freda isn't Irish but she often wishes she were.  Don't we all, really?  Join he...

Join us weekly as we make our way through the writing prompts in "642 Things To Write About"  by 826Valencia. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quoll/70/49/97

The Dynamic Diva Ceci Dover   Friday at 2 PM PST Freda's Romance Saturday at 5 PM PST Smooth Blues with MadMax Huet Saturday at 6 PM PST Sizzling Songbird Nazirah Avro Saturday at 7 PM PST All at BabbleOn! Nights Ballroom and Cabaret Babble Arts Center Kitely grid.kitely.com:8002:Babble Arts Center Choose "Ballroom" from the teleporter in the welcome area.

A few week's ago I was googling myself (as one does) and found there is another Freda's Place and it's not far from me at all.  So this Saturday, Mike and I ventured down to Fort Lauderdale, where we dined with our friend, Paul, at Freda's Place .  The Caribbean food was magnificently tasty and the owners, Freda and her family, were very welcoming.  We will definitely return to see them again and enjoy another fabulous meal when next we brave the wilds of South Florida. That's me, Freda, proprietor of THIS Freda's Place , standing outside the other Freda's Place. Two Freda's after a wonderful meal.  That's Freda's son, Lorenzo, doing a little advertising behind us.

This morning I spent a few minutes exploring Seanchai Library's VikingWorld in Kitely.  This is another visually appealing world with a lot of potential for storytelling and RP. 

Today, rain suits me -- even sitting all alone in the virtual rain. Seanchai Library's Celtic World is a lovely build.  Most of it is even precipitation free. Get thee to Seanchai. grid.kitely.com:8002:Seanchai

10:30 AM Quicky Poetry Fun and fast poetry creation session. Using various prompts and games, those gathered will create new poems each week. I promise, this really IS fun! Please have voice enabled so that you can hear each week's poem plan. Adults only because I have no intention of censoring what anyone is inspired to write or share.** This Week: LIMERICKS **Participants will have the opportunity to have their writings included in the first edition of OS Babble Journal Please, choose Writers' Studio on the Teleporter at the welcome area or use the blam gate just outside. grid.kitely.com:8002:Babble Arts Center 12:00 Noon Writers' Chat Writers of all genres are invited to this open discussion of all things writerly. Please, choose Cafe on the Teleporter at the welcome area or use the blam gate just outside. grid.kitely.com:8002:Babble Arts Center 2:30 PM Babble Open Mic Come to sing or play song, tell a story, read a poem. Dance for us, perform a play, tell us j...

Ok, so just when I thought I was done with RP for a while, I literally fell into this place , Great Canadian Grid's River Lands.  How did I fall there, you ask?  Well, I'll tell you, I don't know for sure but suspect it has something to do with a pair of fae sisters I met at the village market in this odd place.  It seems the two have a shared reputation for misaiming their wands.  One can only guess what they intended when they aimed their magic in my direction.  Perhaps the magic was not even intended for me.  Still, I ended up far from my home, miles and miles from Poppy Raymon and the rest of my people.  I apparently passed out from whatever ( whos ever) magic stole me away.  When I awoke I was in a little hut in a forest.  There was a sweet boy there as well.  Sweet and afraid.  He refused to go with me when I went to seek food to feed us both, saying that it was not safe in the woods.  He described a great flash of li...

Being a professional writer means that I am pretty isolated on most days.  I have several tricks for managing to get the work done without becoming a complete hermit.  One of my methods is the virtual world write-in.  At write-ins, avatars gather so that their typists can be together while working individually.  There is very little chat during these sessions.  Of course, people greet one another (once they have looked up from their own work to notice someone new has entered the room) and occasionally someone will share the progress they have made when they are done.  Most write-ins are drop-in oriented.  You come when you can and leave when you are ready.  I sometimes attend write-ins on Nara's Nook in the Greyville Writer's Colony or the ones hosted in Second Life by Bhelanna Blaze.  I host them myself in Second Life, Kitely, Great Canadian Grid, and Inworldz.  In general, write-ins are scheduled ad hoc, so watch for notices inwor...