The Chilbo Road Press

The ChilBowl Bowling Alley will be hosting a month-long fundraiser to help the victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. From today until April 15, the bowling lanes, (which are normally free for the public to enjoy), are set to collect Lindens for play. All proceeds will be donated to the international aid group, Doctors Without Borders.

“It is my hope that Chilbo and the SL community at large, can once again step up to help another community in a time of need,” states Chibi Lexenstar, co-manager of the bowling alley. “Much like our efforts to assist the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, I believe our individual measures can create a synergistic effect especially at a time like this. Let’s all contribute to the rescue and rebuilding efforts of a country that has seen immense tragedy over the past several days.”

To donate directly to Doctors Without Borders,
please visit http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

For a list of other organizations that are currently assisting rescue efforts,
please visit this page.

Saturday, January 29th, 2pm SLT – The Chilbo Community hosts Musician Hazideon Zarco at ChilBowl. [SLurl]

This is an ALL-AGES / Teen Friendly event!

As well as being a talented musician, Hazideon is also a first class organic sculptor and a machinima performer!

Check out the video for his original song, “Lucky Stars”

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the show, come early and stay late for free bowling and arcade games!

The main sims of the Chilbo Community have a G maturity rating and residents of ALL AGES are welcomed to all our events and attractions, and as residents too!

*Follow up*

Hazideon put on an amazing concert for a great crowd of music lovers and bowlers too!

We’d like to thank everyone that came out and hope to see you next week for the wonderful Starflower Orbit!

One of the major changes in 2010 for Second Life was the elimination of private island discounts for education and non-profit organizations. One of several options that educators considered was establishing a presence on the mainland. Insight Virtual College now has a campus on the Kuwol sim in the Chilbo community.

Insight Virtual College is a “bridge between worlds” offering first life teachers the opportunity to teach to Second Life residents. IVC also offers Second Life skills classes such as building, scripting, role play, business, and new resident orientation.

The administrative staff of IVC are the dean of the college Stargazer Blazer, ReverendMathias Merit and Kee Llewelyn.

Stargazer told me, “We do offer opportunities for all teachers, from first life or second life, to share their knowledge with the community. We are always looking for dependable teachers who like to teach and can be self directed.”

The North entrance to Insight Virtual College slurl

To the right of the entrance is the Welcome Center and Lounge. You can get a notecard with a current class schedule on the front deck of the Welcome Center.

Looking South from the Welcome Center, the quad and classroom.

Standing on the classroom stage looking North to the Welcome Center.

Kee Llewelyn’s Weegee Gallery is currently exhibiting Xenophile Neurocam 2005-2010 A Retrospective

If you are a self-motivated teacher, IVC may be an opportunity for you.

In the NorthEast corner of the campus, a spot to sit and chat or spend a few quiet moments in the meditation garden.

The Chilbo community was established in 2006 as an association of mainland land owners determined to be good neighbors to each other. Through the years that ethic has continued to be the foundation for a diverse group of residents with a wide variety of interests, both land owners and renters. As such, it runs counter to the mainland stereotype of ‘anything goes and the heck with your neighbor’. A presence in the Chilbo community has the advantage of being a part of long term community.

Chilbo does have a small number of rentals available if your prim needs and budget are limited. Contact Maddog Easterling or Kristine Kristan about residential or office rentals. Chibi Lexenstar is the person to contact to see commercial properties fronting the Linden roads.

If you are looking for something larger, there are currently a couple of open parcels that can be sized to suit your needs.

Over 8000 sqm close to Linden Rt 10 slurl

Over 3000 sqm with Linden Rt 9 frontage slurl

The Chilbo Community held our first Town Hall Meeting for the year on Saturday January 8th.

Led by Kristine Kristan, members in attendance were Memorial Dae, Corcosman Voom, Bacon Hellershanks, Chibi Lexenstar, MS Hawker, Corky Myrtle, Maddog Easterling, Chimera Cosmos, Fleep Tuque, Polenth Yue, Mal Burns, and Ania Sapphire

We welcomed Corky and Chimera to their first Town Hall meeting. And later, new resident Ania Sapphire arrived as well.

Update on Land/Rentals

The new rental system is finally in place and the changeover went very smoothly. We did lose some residents due to the price changes, which was expected, but happily most folks understood the need for the change and chose to stay. We also already have new members and tenants. Kristine stated that the little bit of increased investment will hopefully keep members active in SL and the community. Big thank you to our commercial director Chibi Lexenstar and residential Director Maddog Easterling who worked so hard in the weeks leading up to the changeover to implement new move-in procedures and guides and also setting up the new Chilbo Rental and Real Estate office, a central location for the rental vendors as well as info on tier donation and private rentals and land sales.

Rental and Real Estate Office in Chilbo

One of the changes that came with the new rental system was the introduction of street names and addresses for those properties. This makes it easier to group nearby spots and locations. Some names are based on actual location (i.e., South Sandbox Way) and some are nods to our founders (Fleep Street, Cosimo Ave) . The main Linden roads that run thru the sims remain Route 9 and Route 10.

Map with Street Names 2011

Copies of the map are available at Town Hall, and the Chilbo Department of Public Works.

We’ll be taking suggestions for other street names in the future!

Looking Ahead for 2011 – What should Chilbo’s Theme be for this year?

What do you want for Chilbo, how can you help it get there? 2009 was a year of growth, 2010 was a year of outreach and partnership. Circumstances toward the end of 2010 began a period of contraction for the community in square meters but saw increased commitment from the core group of members both longtime and new.  The Theme of  “Sustainability” was suggested for 2011. Kristine Kristan hopes for a strengthening of the core of the community both in membership and geographically.[Planning a whole blog post devoted to that in the near future--kk]. Fleep also spoke about sustaining the community across the Metaverse/OpenSim by providing a Chilbo “starter sim” OAR file with opensource resources that anyone can load into their own or self-managed opensim install, and is building it out on Fleepgrid if anyone is interested in contributing.

Corcosman suggested folks put their suggestions for goals for 2011 on a notecard and submit to Kristine, which was agreed upon. It would be great if community members could format their card with not just suggestions for goals, but what plan or even what they need to accomplish them i.e., “I want Chilbo to become a more active community! To help accomplish this I’d like to learn how to host my own events.”

Kristine Kristan stated that her personal goals are to encourage a more active membership and mentorship, and also to stabilize tier to the point that we can reclaim the abandoned and “effectively abandoned” parcels in Chilbo and Madhupak.

Partial view of map showing abandoned parcels as well as parcels currently available for tier donation

Speaking of abandoned parcels, Fleep will be petitioning for the former Pyle and Assoc. property in Chilbo proper. While we are currently in “downsize mode”  the plot  was originally a community-owned parcel in addition to being both a prime location and having historic and sentimental value,  so it was agreed that Fleep should go ahead and petition to reclaim.

RP in Chilbo?

Members of the nearby community of Norcrest have visited Chilbo and met with Kristine, Chilbi and some other residents. Norcrest is an urban themed Role Play group and have various police and emergency services. There is a 911 call box currently placed at Town Hall Plaza (by the atms) that will contact their dispatch and be responded to in-character.

911 call-box near Town Hall

It was easily decided that it is a good idea for Chilbo to be RP-friendly, but to maintain some guidelines to limit disruption and to clarify that engaging is “Opt-in” so that community members don’t feel compelled to participate (as opposed to full RP sims where being in character is the default and sometimes even required).  Plans are to get with the Norcrest folks and perhaps plan some sort of ‘event’ that could include the RP aspect.

The Meeting concluded with a few announcements:

New Commercial Spaces at Chilbo Outdoor Market

Commercial Director Chibi Lexenstar installed two outdoor markets on Route 10 in Mangyeong and Kuwol that feature adorable market cart spaces for just 75L a week for 25 prims. Perfect for those looking for an outpost or not ready for a full size shop.

Street Dance Event

On Wednesday, January 19, from 10am-12pmSLT, we’ll be hosting a street dance on the street between Germelshausen and Mad Wax. The event will showcase artists from an indie label from Northern Ireland called Stampgevaard Digital. They’ll play mostly house/trance/dance music and will be selling songs and compilations. part of the proceeds from this event will go back to the community!

Community Partner Boards at Town Hall

The old Town Hall Plaza had quite an array of various info boards and kiosks and we wanted to have a space where community members and community partners such as Malburns and Tara Yeats’ Metaverse Week in Review can share information. Installed outside between the east entrance to Town Hall and the Chilbo Road Press building are new panels where info-giving posters can be placed.

Both short term events ads and general info can be posted by any community member.  Anyone needing help or an info-giver poster blank object, just contact Kristine.

The Chilbo Museum is currently looking for community art collectors who are willing to put on loan their collected works of art for display. The new exhibit, tentatively titled Selected Works From Chilbo Art Collectors, will run from Saturday, January 15th through March 31st. Members of the community are invited to put on loan some of their collected works to share in this new exhibit.

The museum is looking for about 18 works of art, including paintings, photos, and wall hangings. The space will also accommodate up to 8 sculptures, at about 20 prims or less.

For more information, please contact the Chilbo Museum Curator, Corcosman Voom.

Nov 10th 2010 7 PM SLT – Nov 17th 2010 00.00 SLT

- Photo exhibition of Mentawai and Mt. Merapi, Indonesia
- Video play of Mt. Merapi
- Merchandise bazaar
- Cultural event

Mount Merapi is an active volcano located in a densely populated area in central java – Indonesia.

More than 100 people have been killed in it’s latest eruption (Oct 2010 – today Nov 2010.
The eruption is still going on as we are creating this event).

An estimated 300.000 residents have been evacuated from the area.

“Pray for Indonesia” was a TT on Twitter. The logo has been used widely on Facebook, and now it’s our turn to help raise donations to the victims here in Second Life.

All the money from this event will be donated to the victims of tsunami on Mentawai and Mt. Merapi eruption.

This event was completely and wonderfully organized by new Chilbo members: Lala Rembrandt, Marcel Mosswood, frencisca Tamelyn, mella Ashland, waway Sakazov, wietski Iskirra & Ines Onega with the help and support of the SLED Indonesia group and the Chilbo Community.

Visit us at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Madhupak/244/196/88 from Nov 10 to the 17th to donate to help those in need due to these disasters.

High in the sky at the Summerland Sim, Chilbo resident artist Corcosman Voom, has put on a varied display of whimsy and nature. Corcosmia At Summerland features over two dozen pieces of artwork ranging from photographs of beautiful landscapes to sculptures suspended in lively animation.

The Aerialist

Among the highlighted works in this collection, is Jump!, Corcosman’s entry into the University of Western Australi’s 3D Art & Design Challenge, which garnered the distinction of being tied for Best Non-Scripted Entry for the July round.

Jump!

Corcosmia At Summerland is located in a temporary space that provided during the August round of the Challenge. Head on over to Corcosmia in Chilbo on Route 10 to pick up a landmark, or visit both galleries using the SLURLs below.

Corcosmia At Summerland: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Summerland/20/166/811

Corscosmia in Chilbo: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chilbo/38/123/121

Route 10 is getting a much-anticipated makeover! Lots of construction happening in Chilbo Proper.

Some new storefronts designed by resident extraordinaire, Kristine Kristan.

The previous Town Hall has been removed to make way for a newer, more functional space.

Want to learn more about the revitalization plans? Read the Chilbo Wiki here.

The streets and sidewalks of Chilbo received an updated look this week!

The week has gone by with a blink of an eye! Today, Chilbo celebrates the closing of the Summer Faire with a Main Street Parade on Route 10 and a Fund-Raising Block Party at the Community Sandbox in Madhupak immediately following. The Main Street Parade will feature distinguished members of the Chilbo community, as well as participants from the Community Showcase.

Scheduled Line Up:

Yokohama Marching Band
Fleep Tuque - Chilbo Community Building Project & Second Life Community Convention
Memorial Dae – Noru Sim, Parade Grand Marshall
Monarchy Republic & Alleara Snoodle – Homecoming Queen, Madhupak Sim
Kristine Kristan – Madhupak Sim, Mad Wax Records, K2 Gallery
Corcosman Voom – Chilbo Sim, Corcosmia Gallery
Calissa Leclerc – Kuwol Sim
Maggie Larimore - Soyeonpyeongdo Sim, Azire, Greater Chilbo Zoo
The Lyrical Poets Cafe
Leah Shim – NCI Building Blitz Winner
RacerX Gullwing & the Snail Racing Community

The parade starts around 10am slt on Route 10 and ends with a party in Madhupak. Festivities will run until 12noon.

In partnership with Operation Squeegee, Chilbo will host an Faire-Well Fund-Raising Block Party to help raise funds towards clean up efforts in the Gulf Coast. The Party starts immediately after the parade. Donation buckets have been set up at the entrance of the party tent. Please feel free to invite your friends as we celebrate the end of a wonderful week in Chilbo!

To watch the parade, viewers can head over to the Chilbo Town Hall and walk out onto Route 10. The parade route runs from Mangyeong to Mindulle.

Chilbo Town Hall: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chilbo/112/230/121

Faire-Well Block Party Location: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/122/239/90