The Silk Road Series #1 For Feed a Smile

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

Natascha and I are very honored to be part of this exciting get -together of RL artists, poets, musicians, and storytellers, in Singapore, with their counterparts in Second Life.
While they will be live streaming from Singapore, their acts and presentations, we too, in Second Life, will be live streaming back to them. This is a real time International coming together of the Arts ,to raise funds for The Feed a Smile Charity for Kenyan children  and one of the things I just LOVE about Second life.
Dr. Chris Mooney – Singh from the Writers Centre Singapore, and also SL, at Monash University, is the producer and host who has assembled us all together. This is no small feat! Natascha and I will be showing our machinima, “The Changes Changes” on the big screen, and then taking turns to speak a few minutes each, on the process of making this film.

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  Natascha Randt & Karima Hoisan (Photo by Nat)

Here is a short teaser that will give you an idea of the magnitude of this extraordinary event. It is all happening on Saturday, May 18th, at 5:00am SLT. For us in the West, it’s early, but promises to be very worth it! If you would like to join us in SL, here is your camel ride: Monash University SL
Here’s a trailer to give you some more information:

I will also include some pertinent urls that you might enjoy reading about:

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Kari’s Bar & Dance

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

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Kari’s Bar & Dance

If you are one of the lucky ones, who finds her club..where the music stops time…
where the air is full of memories and decades have waxed the floorboards smooth
so dark, your eyes need to take their time, while the music is drawing you in and
 if you choose the boleros, your fate is sealed; you might fall in love by the end.

If you feel her in your arms, as you glide across the floor, her heart beating like a bluebird trying to fly out of her chest…
If she molds to your every step, and with every sigh you’re sure you’re about to fall…
You were one of the lucky ones, you charmed the recluse owner into a dance.
You were one of the exceptional ones, who woke her with your lead, woke her with your will and step, woke her with your smile.

Kari’s Bar & Dance is really a citadel where the owner lives imprisoned on the second floor,
locked inside those navy-blue metal walls and factory seams with bars and mesh, above the paintings above the bar.
She peers over her balcony, pondering all the Prince Charmings who failed the test,
who come in her doors with bravado but go out, only hoping for a second chance…
and perhaps they’ll try again sometime; they can remember every poster, every glance,
because the music stops time and while they awake in their sunrise,
They know that it’s always midnight… at Kari’s Bar & Dance.

Karima Hoisan
May 5th,2019
Kari’s Bar & Dance

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I Can

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

That’s the message Nat and I attempted to convey in our video by the same name.
This film was something very different for us, a challenge in a way, asked of us by our good friend, DB Bailey (David Denton Architect), who designed and built the See Yourself City Sim. DB had brought us into this really wonderful project, six months earlier, conceived by Suzanne Mitchell, MD,MS, Founder of
See Yourself Health – Play Wellness With Others from the University of Boston Medical School. Her vision of using virtual worlds as a means to help bring education and community to those who might not have that access, is now a reality in Second Life.
We are very proud to have contributed to this project, by making 6 videos. This final one,
“I Can,” we hope will bring inspiration and empowerment to those who watch it. You don’t have to have diabetes, to relate to it, but for those who are living with this disease, we made this for you, in the hopes it will inspire you to find your balance. I invite you to watch the video, and then I will add some beautiful photos taken by DB Bailey to give you an idea of how special these sims really are.. HD and full screen please:)

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Overview of the City Sim with Orientation Sim top right

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The Chapel in back where “I Can” is being shown – The Amphitheater Area

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The Meditation Gardens

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Captured by an artistic eye

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I created a Meditation Pool in this area to hear music, float and relax

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Nat (left) and I in our process of brainstorming the next scene

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I got the best seat in the house! If you visit, try to find it

We hope you will enjoy our film and please share it with anyone you want. Comments and Likes on YouTube or here are very welcome. Special thanks to Joey TwoShoes, Dale Innis, Ito Naminosaki, and Desdemona Enfield for giving up their time and lunch breaks to be in this film:)
If you want to come visit and see these beautiful inspiring sims yourself;
here’s how you can do that.
New users of Second Life please enter first on the Orientation Path
For experienced users, enter here at See Yourself City
I recommend you take time to see the Orientation side in any case; it has much more to offer than just orientation! It has many activities and things to see (This side was conceived and built by Gentle Heron, founder of Virtual Abilities and Eme Capalini. There is also a very cool game designed by MadPea Productions, specifically for this project!
So come see, and for more information visit the See Yourself Health Website (link here)
We Can!!!!

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ReCap of my Bayou Poetry Reading

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Karima Hoisan
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Beautiful photo by Natascha Randt

Last Sunday was the day of my Bayou Poetry Reading, and as you can see by the first photo, the venue was unique and seating both colorful and practical:) It was a wonderful group of friends old and new and some residents of the swamp lands, all mixed up and sitting on the ground, periodically spraying their bug spray (compliments of Secret Rage) who supplied canisters in leg holsters for easy grabbing.) She asked me to point out that the spray was environmentally safe and was only a suggestion to the mosquitoes, not an annihilation:)

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Another moody shot by Natascha

I recorded the whole hour for anyone who missed it and was out on a nice Spring Sunday afternoon, instead of behind their computer.. I was actually surprised  because of that, to see around 26 avies spread out in front of me. You can download the entire mp3 recording here: RECORDING Just Clic
I will include below some more photos that were taken by Dale Innis, who also helped me with the image board.
I want to give all who came a big heartfelt thank you and also to Mayor Henri Godenot for providing this unique spot to share my poetry!
For those who couldn’t make it, there will be more. I am tying to get back into a schedule of doing them once a month. Also feel free to download the recording if you would like to hear the whole thing.

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Photo by Dale

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From My Point of View

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                                      Noobie Image on the board..My birth in SL 2007

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Mayor Henri and Buddeh Menubar- So Dapper!!

If you missed this one..hope to catch you next time!!
Hugs,
Karima

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Back To My Roots in New Toulouse!

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Karima Hoisan
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Poster by Natascha Randt

For me, Second life started really getting interesting when I moved to New Toulouse in 2008. One of my favorite people, that I met at that time, was Henri Godenot, now mayor of all New Toulouse and the Bayou. So when he invited me to read under a tree at his boathouse..well how could I refuse?
The gorgeous picture was taken (by Nat) where this impromptu Bayou venue will come to life on:
Sunday April 28th
12pm noon slt
Live Poetry Reading to Music for 1 hour
Reading will be on the music stream (Not in voice)
Dress for ground sitting and of course don’t forget the bug spray:)
I sure hope you can join us..It’s a fabulous ambiance
Sorry…Zombies are not welcome at this event!!
Here is your ferry that will drop you off at the dock: Ferry Ride
Don’t miss this one!!

Hugs,
Karima

 

 

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Bolero

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

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Bolero

It’s not the dance; it’s never the dance, but who is dancing.
The connection takes place outside the steps, not within.
Still, the gliding graceful turns and pauses, the taut hesitation,
help the magic weave a moment never lost in time or memory.

We don’t remember the order, but who held the lead.
We don’t remember the words of the song, or the hour.
But we do acquiesce, to that gentle, insistent persuasion,
that invites us to move in grace and rhythm across the floor.

The dance, that great metaphor for life and love itself,
does strive, if not to absolute perfection, than nearly so.
When everything is just right, we are left breathless by its beauty
We go dizzy in its sync and twirl, as we fall into heart-stopping love.

We don’t remember the order, but who held the lead.
We don’t remember the words of the song, or the hour,
But we do acquiesce, to that gentle, insistent persuasion,
that invites us to move in grace and rhythm across the floor.

Karima Hoisan
April 22,2019
Costa Rica

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Pool

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

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Pool

This body of water was so much more than a liquid luxury,
blue when the sky was blue, the clouds floated on its surface…
the reflections of the sun, coated branches of a tree, in vibrating…
illuminating points and shadows of fantasy, when the light was right.

It sustained every heavy thought, of mine when I floated arms stretched.
It made me let go of them all and be buoyant and happy like the ripples…
that blew in on subtle currents, carrying a beach ball right to my side whispering,
“it will be alright,” before it moved away in a capricious change of mind and wind.

You made my heart race when I challenged your length, made my soul flow into your
aquamarine waves, the constant hum of the water being purified, in a cleansing loop…
the hypnotic ritual and pact we agreed upon, each and every time I swam in you.
You were a loyal ear, a wise philosopher; when I sought you out, you enveloped me.

Now you’re drained, your water has disappeared into the hard earth, the dry noon sun.
This gaping white cement hole, is like a death, a tomb left open for all to see and ponder.
The ball sits on the grass inert and paralyzed, while I contemplate this loss of what…
you are for me and in how many ways I know how much I’ll miss you, until your return.

Karima Hoisan
March 27th 2019
Costa Rica

 

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Open Field

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Karima Hoisan
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Open Field
You give me the moment others would take away
Your trust is like an open field where I can run to play
If I had to say it without the music making me, I couldn’t do it
If you’re surprised, love gets as good as this, well I always knew it.

Every time I ride along with you is a brand new sunrise-day
The more you unlatch the gates, the more I want to stay
And I won’t get lost in those roaming hours, if you just call
And I won’t lose sight of all we made, just to watch it fall.

Time tested, these pure-bred years, have broken every record for speed
Sweet ’n crazy, you and me; we’re a nightly galloping winner in the lead
And sure it’s about the divine chapters of  love, that we too live to glorify
And of course it’s about everything that makes it run so well… like you and I.

Karima Hoisan
March 23, 2019
Costa Rica

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Some Pics & The Recording from the Chelsea Hotel Reading Yesterday

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Karima Hoisan

Hi Everyone,
just going to put up the recording of yesterday’s reading and a few pictures from the really fun Sunday Spoken Word event, at the Chelsea Hotel.
Thanks to Dale Innis for all their help at the event and these great photos!
Click HERE to download or stream directly the whole recording. It came out well.
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If anyone else has any photos, please send them to me in-world, and I will add them. Thank you all who came for being there. It was a really great audience and your support of my poetry means so much to me! Until next time……

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Karima @ The Virtual Hotel Chelsea

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Karima Hoisan
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Poster by Natascha Randt

 I’m going to be reading at the Hotel Chelsea!!!
Well I hope you all agree this is Good News, but after hardly doing more than one or two readings in a year..it seems I am now, almost up to doing them bi- monthly ..

My next reading, as you can see, on my cool creative poster by Natascha, will be this coming Sunday the 17th at 12:30 slt at the Virtual Hotel Chelsea. I am super excited about this one, as it’s the first time I will read there Ever! Thanks to my dear friend and fellow poet, Luna Branwen, who invited me and I actually said “Yes!”
I am a bit nervous also because I peeked behind the stage, and I think I saw a big hook waiting in the wings..which will really inspire me to put my all into my 45 minutes., because If I don’t, and I am putting the audience to sleep…. ZZiPPP off I go stage left:)
If you came to my Pirate Reading in January..well this one will have a selection of poems (old and new)..that I did not do at that reading. I have chosen some great music and also many of these poems have my own back tracks that I recorded..so along with the imagery behind, I hope you all stay awake the whole time and enjoy yourselves too:)
The Details are:
Date: March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day )
Time : 12pm Open Mic in Voice 
12:30 to 1:15 (more or less,could be more:) I will read for you on stream.
Here is your cool slide into the front door> The Virtual Hotel Chelsea
Feel free to ask me for a tp before I start my read; I would be happy to pull you in.
Looking forward to seeing you all there..at this cool and historical venue in our own SL.
Try not to miss this… ok?
Love and hugs,
Karima

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