East River Community

Please join us at the Rils' Art Gallery and Holly Golightly's Cafe on October 29th at 12:00 PM for a very special event. Click here to join us.

Rils' Art Grand Opening

Nalivru Urvilan and Nils Urqhart are pleased to invite you to the opening of their new exhibition.

You will discover a set of photographs made in the medieval villages in the south of France (Old Stones) on the 1st floor. Also 3 sets of erotic photographs (nudes and half-nudes) of Sophie, a very beautiful French's young woman, on the 2nd and 3rd floors (The naked princess, Pretty woman naked in his bedroom and Naked in the forest). Sweet and sensual photos, revealing, sometimes only suggesting the woman's body, never vulgar.

Ilya's Fashion Show

For the grand opening we will also have a fashion show by Ilya's Fashion Show in the Holly Golightly's Café, next to the Rils' Art Gallery.

Hellig Melson live music show

For the event Hellig Melson will perform live music at Holly Golightly's Café.

Meet the artists

In real life, Nalivru Urvilan is a French artist painter and sculptor, Nils Urqhart is a French self-taught photographer and webmaster.

Fascinated by photography, he shot into the nature and cities in search of natural or historic sites.
By using the lights that will give his photographs a special atmosphere, even unreal, it tries to make the emotion felt at the time of the shooting.

His universe is an universe of colors, light, beauty, emotions, far from everyday concerns. Exploiting the possibilities of digital art, he invites you to discover the vision of his dreams.
His work is available for publishing (magazines, advertising, postcards, posters, websites, etc..).

Nils Urqhart is in Second Life since December 2007, he opened his first gallery in Isla Victoria in 2008. After two years in solo, he met Nalivru Urvilan in September 2010. From their meeting  in November 2010 a new gallery (Rill'Arts) was created in the East River Community, where they exhibit their works.

Nalivru Urivilan is in Second Life since June 2008, as she was attracted by this virtual world for its freedom of expression in all areas. Aged 27, Nalivru is painter and drawer, and also nude model for painters and photographers, his great passion is the portrait and the nudes. Nalivru Urvilan exhibits oil paintings and watercolors.

We have some vacancies in the community. To date, we have 5 houses, 2 tree pods and 2 stores available for rent. Two of the houses are barnd new and located on a small island and a lovely setting.

Why renting at the East River Community? Because we take great care of our environment and you can be part of a friendly community where you will be a resident, not just a tenant. It just takes a visit to see that we are not one of the many estates with cookie-cut rentals.

Here are some pictures of some of our vacancies. For more details please check our Vacancies page. For any inquiry please send an IM inworld to Indigo Mertel.

East River Community Easy Living is our new promotional campaign, 7 posters for our kiosk network as conceived by the art of Paola Tauber.

Paola Tauber is a Second Life graphic artist, photographer, and creative director of Avenue magazine. You can see more of her work on her Flickr stream, or visit her gallery at the East River Community.

We have some vacancies in the community. To date, we have 3 houses, 2 tree pods and 2 stores available for rent.

Why renting at the East River Community? Because we take great care of our environment and you can be part of a friendly community where you will be a resident, not just a tenant. It just takes a visit to see that we are not one of the many estates with cookie-cut rentals.

Here are some pictures of some of our vacancies. For more details please check our Vacancies page. For any inquiry please send an IM inworld to Indigo Mertel.

Ballet Pixelle™ will premiere its twelvth original ballet, “Archidance”, Sunday June 26 at 5pm and Wednesday June 29 at 3pm 2011.

In Ballet Pixelle's continuing exploration of the similarities, differences, and interactions of digital, virtual, and physical movement and dance, we have simplifed movement into its basic architecture.  And brought digital, virtual, and physical dance together in one ballet.

How is dance constructed?  What is its architecture?  Form, color, shape?  Moving steps, turns, jumps?  High, slow, and medium height movements?  Sharp, flowing, dropping movement?  Let's look at the present, past, and future of dance and see how one influences the other.

First, we look at these influences and notation of a current ballet.

Then we see key figures in the construction of dance through the ages, including physical dancers mixed with our virtual dancers.

Finally, working with spheres, cubes, and triangles, we can see animated dancers -- who are not real people at all -- and then our virtual dancers who are real people all over the world -- Canada, England, Estonia, Japan, Portugal, Spain, and all time zones of the United States and Hawai`i, dancing together in the future of the art.  What are the similarities?  What are the differences?

Join us for an evening of mind-bending thought and an homage to dance.  Leave the theatre wondering...   Discussions following all performances.

Performances take place on Sundays at 5:00pm and Wednesdays at 3pm at the Ballet Pixelle Theater.

Come early because seats fill quickly.

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Ballet Pixelle™ is the first performing ballet company in the virtual global community Second Life.  Says the Company's founder, Inarra Saarinen, “As artistic director of the Company since its inception, I have enormous pride in Ballet Pixelle™.  Our goal is to investigate and explore the interaction and intersection of physical and virtual dance.  We are excited to celebrate the future of dance.  We are dancing into the digital future!”

Members of Ballet Pixelle™ come together from all over the world, Japan, Europe, and North America.  Animations are created by Inarra Saarinen and put into dance phrases.  There are no artifical synchronizing devices and the dancers truly perform dancing with each other and the music.  Each performance is truly live and unique, and takes advantage of the characteristics of Second Life to extend the art of the ballet in new directions.

The East River Community is happy to announce that the Second Life Coast Guard (SLCG) HQ will officially relocate to Station Muirhead on July, 27th 2011. There will be a formal transfer ceremony at Station Muirhead at 3 PM SLT. You are all invited to celebrate this event with us. Following the ceremony, at 4 PM SLT all are welcome and encouraged to celebrate the event with dancing and live music courtesy of Shannon Oherlily at the Holly Golightly's Cafe in the Free Town of Helvellyn, adjacent to Station Muirhead.

Station Muirhead in 2008, its first building.

The East River Community has been a long time supporter and several of our community members are members of the SLCG. The community hosts Station Muirhead since the community's inception in 2008, which makes it the oldest and one of the largest of the SLCG stations. The current station located in the region of Kirkstone, adjacent to region Muirhead, was built in 2010 when the need for a larger and more modern facility arose, and it was further expanded May 2011 to accomodate the HQ's offices. Today Station Muirhead is a large, multi-functional station sporting a 4-stores modern building for HQ and district offices, an operation center, a server room, a port with boat shed for large and small boats, a workshop, and an air base with hangar.

Station Muirhead in 2008. The then station commander Elisha Paklena working at her desk, her friend and SLCG supporter Indigo Mertel next to her.

The Second Life Coast Guard (SLCG), funded 2003, is a very active and successful group with the goal of educating the boating residents of Second Life in watercraft safety, conducting water safety & security patrols and provide a presence in nautical and aviation role playing events. For further info, please visit their web site or search inworld for the SL Coast Guard group.

Two SLCG helicopters during a night operation, photo courtesy of Felicia Humbridge

A SLCG boat on patrol, photo courtesy of Daeshara Ansar

 

A SLCG boat on patrol, photo courtesy of Daeshara Ansar

 

Ballet Pixelle presents "Les Fleurs Rose"
One Show Only, Thursday, July 14 at 3pm

Bienvenue Mesdames et Messierus! 

Ballet Pixelle presents "Les Fleurs Rose" -- an evening of French dance, music, and magic.  "Les Fleurs Rose" will have one performance only for France's Bastille Day on July 14 at 3:00pm in the Ballet Pixelle Theâtre Français. Come see beautiful showgirls draped in feathers, a romantic ballet français, and the glorious Can Can!  Come and have a glass of absinthe on us.  A bientôt!

Ballet Pixelle Theâtre Français

The East River Community is committed to support organizations in Second Life and for this reason we are sponsors of the Leeward Cruising Club and are happy to host one of their outpost at Port Kirkstone. If you are into leisure cruising and would enjoy a nice way to explore Second Life in good company, I highly recommend you join the Leeward Cruising Club. Please search for it inworld to join.

The Leeward Cruising Club will have one of their cruises tomorrow, ending at the East River Community. A party will follow at the Holly Golightly's Cafe. Borday Moo will be the party dj. You are welcome to join both the cruise and the party, here are the details:

East River Cruise

28 June 2011, 5 pm

For this cruise we pack up the boats and head for Sansara! We will first cool off from the summer heat by rezzin in Svan in the Icy bay.

We will then sail to the East River via the Sea of Fables.

Borday will play tunes for us at the Holly Golightly's Cafe in Helvellyn

Start: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svan/233/195/22

Party:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Helvellyn/45/216/31

Banlines: Marked in Red on the chart.  Be very careful between icy bay and fabled sea

Rezz Zones: There are a quite a few, one I found in blue on the map.

Suggested wind is from the Southeast at 18 knots.
On a Trudeau this is /x set wind 135 9.25
On an old Trudeau this is /x set wind 315 9.25
On a Bwind its SE then 18 -- so easy

No one left on the Dock!!!!

Please come celebrate the third anniversary of the founding of the East River Community, with a birthday party from 1 PM to 3 PM SLT, Saturday April 30th.

DJ Jilly K. will provide Vintage Voola for your dancing and listening pleasure.

Join us at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Helvellyn/229/157/27

Helvellyn Musical Events is proud to present

Mason Thorne live at Holly Golightly's Cafe Wednesday, May 4th at 4 PM SLT

Are you a resident of Second Life? Click here to go to the cafe

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