11-09-2007 14:35
NCI/New Citizens Incorporated is holding a benefit auction and dance to raise funds for its classes, tier, expansion, and to build up its emergency fund (as we all know, SL is one emergency after another).

Featured sponsors are Microsoft (via CSharp Writer, Microsoft evangelist), who are donating brand new copies of Windows Vista Ultimate and Office Standard 2007; Simone Stern, who is donating her entire Fall 2007 dress lineup (150 dresses, worth approximately L$82,500) - and who will be co-hosting the event with NCI founder Brace Coral.

The auction will also features women's and men's fashions, jewelry, furniture, textures, art, shoes, gift cards, and more from dozens of creators throughout Second Life, including Blaze*, West Trade Imports, Xessories, and Teta a Pied.

The action starts at 7PM SLT (US Pacific) on Friday, 9 November at NCI Caledon in Nova Civis Caledon.

Come out and buy stuff! Or just come out!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nova%20Civis%20Caledon/170/52/35


About NCI:

Designed primarily for new residents, but open to all, NCI offers in-person advice from our team of NCI Helpers and NCI Land Officers classes, contests and social events, interactive tutorials, freebies, help notecards and landmarks, sandboxes for building, a new residents mall, Ginny Gremlin park, games, and newsstands with free in-world publications.

NCI’s offers an extensive schedule of classes and events (five or six a day), held at our campuses, and at venues of partner companies. NCI classes include basic and advanced courses in building and texturing, clothing and accessory creation, scripting, and land ownership. We also hold a number of other basic SL classes, such as Second Life 101, Using the Search Menu, Avatar Makeover, SL Consumer Skills, and New Player Q&A. NCI events include Show & Tells, Blitz Building contests, and our longest running event—our weekly Newbie Salsa.

NCI operates four Second Life campuses: NCI Kuula (the original and largest NCI location), NCI South (at Hamnida, directly adjacent to the South Welcome Area), NCI Beach (by the sea in the Class 5 Fishermans Cove sim), and NCI Caledon (on the Nova Civis Caledon OpenSpace sim).

NCI is entirely resident-run and financed and is unaffiliated with Linden Lab. Land and tier for NCI’s four campuses as been purchased by NCI or donated by NCI members and supporters. NCI continues to pay its instructors, even after Linden Lab abandoned class funding in December 2006. NCI is funded through a combination individual donations, fundraising, sponsored advertising, and by RL and in-world businesses that we conduct NCI-branded classes and events for.