Chilbo Community Blog

Poet Cecilia Delacroix performed her first public reading at The Shrubbery Amphitheatre in Chilbo on Saturday, May 3rd.

Clearly inspired by the beauty and power of nature, Cecilia’s works centered around a theme of the seasons. Her first readings were a celebration of the rebirth, lush growth, and the playfulness all life feels in the new Spring. She then turned to the warmth of Summer, evoking the “salt breeze” of the ocean and and lazy carefree days. With “The Edge of Maybe” and the end of summer, Cecilia explores her search for peace with herself and the world, and in “September Lonely”, she perfectly captures the melancholy of Autumn. Finally, in “Winter Solstice” and “Fresh White”, she feels the solitude of winter and and the wonder of a snow-blanketed earth.

All an all an excellent and perfectly appropriate inaugural event at The Shrubbery Amphitheatre & Park! With many thanks to Cecilia for a wonderful performance and Rachel Corleone for arranging the event!

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Chilbo resident Lizzette Zenovka recently opened the SL HIV Prevention & Education Center in the Madhupak sim area of the Chilbo Community. The center works to promote HIV awareness and provide resources for testing and treatment to Second Life residents. “The Chilbo community lends itself to those who want share their passion and creativity to help the SL community,” said Lizzette. She is available for Risk Reduction Counseling and individual appointments for the Second Life community. Congratulations to Liz and the SL HIV Center! Stop by to say hello and wish her a warm welcome, and visit the new SL HIV Center Blog at http://hivpreventionandeducationcenter.blogspot.com/.
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Longtime resident and original First Lander of Chilbo, Ra Deemster donated 1024m of land to the Chilbo Community Building Project this evening. Adjacent to the newly proposed amphitheatre and park in The Shrubbery, the plot will contribute to the park like nature of the center of the sim. “It’s the least I can do to the community of which I have been part of for a long time,” said Ra. Our great thanks to Ra for his contribution, and his continued involvement with Chilbo! - Fleep
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Thanks to Rachel for creating the latest map of group owned land in Chilbo:

Visiting the Livingtree sim where there are very cute sweaters for free and sale. I like the map with brochures, and I’m impressed with the welcome area of the sim. When I landed the first thing I noticed was the sound of a whiporwill, something I haven’t heard since childhood. The next thing I noticed was a building that looked awfully like the old school house where I used to catch the bus, and cute squirrels flitted about my feet. The sim evoked my childhood before I knew anything about it, not in a cheesy splashy marketing way, but in a way that feels much more authentic. I wonder if new visitors feel a difference when they cross our borders and come into Chilbo?
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Please welcome new member of the Chilbo Community Building Project, Economic Mip! Eco’s place is just over the border in Mujigae and he’s currently involved in the CSY:NY project here in SL. Stop by and give him a warm welcome!
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Residents of Chilbo now have a cute marketplace to sell their wares! Cosimo and Wainbrave have created a place for residents to set up small shops. Interested in putting a few items out? Contact Cosimo for more information!
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Chilbo resident Cocoa Pebbles opens a new furnture store right over the sim border in Mijugae. Tasteful designs and lovely textures are the hallmark of CoaPec Furnishings, stop by to visit and pick up some new furniture for your next remodeling project!
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Happy rezday to Kat!
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Filthy Fluno sent a TP for an impromptu Cylindrian performance, and who could pass that up? Leslee McCarey and Malburns Writer joined the crowd while I got some filing and laundry done. Live music in SL is one of the best things about it. Yay Cyl!
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Captain Sin Trenton of Caledon On Sea gifted a lovely map of the Mainland Continents to Chilbo, and it is perfect for visualizing what lies where. The larger map is always available if you wait long enough,but it’s difficult to get a good overview of where things are that way. It’s quite exciting to think of Chilbo near the edge of the world, truly pioneering in a frontier of recently charted waters. With many thanks to the Captain for a bit of perspective!
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Hey gang! Wainbrave signing in to the community blog for the first time…. Things have really started to simmer here in Chilbo. I think I’m finally going to get my Lab and Grill going, We’re working with folks to bring a Teacher Training Institute called the GUILD to Chilbo, and Fleep and Cosimo have visionary plans to include us all some grand possibilities for re-inventing this already amazing community!

Haven’t been around as much as I’d like - for many of the same reasons that Fleep was lamenting - but the new leaf is ready to be flipped I think!

Getting ready to present to a graduate “psychology of the imagination” class in a few hours so don’t have a moment to pretty up this entry with a picture or two - but thank you Fleep for having such boundless creative, technical, and loving energy! You are the BEST!

~ Wain