Scenes From The FCA "Christmas in July" Club Crawl

 

Saturday July 24 2021 was the day of the Furry Club Alliance (FCA) summertime club crawl. The FCA is made up of several clubs, numbering six at the time of this article, which support one another a little through some cross-promotion and in the case of the Sunweaver clubs that make up most of the members to prevent (or at least cut down on) schedule conflicts as they have much the same audience. 

The theme was "Christmas in July," which was felt would be a "cool" theme in these warm times. Things started out at Club Zero Gravity at Noon SL time. And the club had been colored a bit for the occasion with much red and green. The space-themed club is high above the Sunweaver Space sim at (129, 249, 3597).

The people who came in had all sorts of Christmasy looks.

DJ Lexi played the tunes for the two hour's of Zero-G's part of the event.

The contest was won by LiskaBystrouska Resident and, Dusk Griswold. 

At 2PM, the crowd went over to the newest club in the Sunweaver community, the Bouncing Bunny Beach Club.

The club came about in November last year, and has done far better than the hangout that came to an end shortly before it's construction. It's in the SunWaterThree sim at (75/56/25).

Tonight we are looking for your best Christmas avatars ,outfits ,and/or wearable pets !

Hop on over to our beautiful bunny beach club for this great event.

Come listen to the sweet sounds of DJ Snow Buns as we rock out for two hours at our wonderful beach club.

 "Only 154 days until Christmas !"

DJ Snowbuns played the music for the event in her reindeer avie.

At one point, Snowy had a mistletoe just over her tail. Which reminded me of the "enchanted mistletoe" in one online comic. 

The contest was won by Ginger (Dusk Griswold) and Jenni Greenfield.

 At 4PM, it was the Happy Vixen's turn for the club crawl. Outside of the main group of Sunweaver sims, the beach club is located in Purrfection Estates at (236, 219, 24). It recently celebrated it's tenth anniversary. 

Hey folks! It's time for the Happy Vixen's event in the Club Crawl. On this hot day, many of us are wishing for winter. So our theme for the Crawl is Christmas in July. Come in Christmasy colors of red & white and green, Santa hats, reindeer, elves, or anything else Christmasy you can think of. Our Christmas kitsune DJ Mattie spins the tunes.

"What does Santa do in his garden? Hoe hoe hoe!"

DJ Mattie, the star DJ of the Sunbeamer RFL team this Relay season, played the music for the two hours for this part of the event with a number of classic Christmas tunes and a few funny ones such as "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer."

I only took a few pictures of the event, so  the camera didn't pick up the crowd that would come over before, during and after halftime. The winner of the contest was Dusk Griswold. 

At 6PM was Club Cutlass. Unlike most of the other clubs in the crawl, it regularly had events on this day of the week and time. The airship club is located high over Sunweaver Bay at (114/117/757).

It may be hot outside, but we're celebrating the yuletide tonight at Cutlass. get in to your Christmas outfits and come out to party with DJ Geerkil and his crew. Doors open at 6 PM.

DJ Geerkil (who goes by a few nicknames such as "Sausage") played the music for the event. Some of his tunes were a bit on the twisted side for this Xmas-themed party. The club itself was decorated a bit, such as putting reindeer antlers on the pirate bunny logo on the dance floor.

Besides the dragon DJ, there were a few other large avatars. This guy "bear"ly fit through the door.

While usually 250L is up on each of the two contest boards, for this party it was 1500L each. Kylee Gracemount and AndrewFoxianArctic were the winners.

At 8PM, it was the turn of the Sunweaver's classic rock club, Xanadu. Like Cutlass, it also usually plays at this day of the week and time. It's high above the HV Community sim at (67/207/4051).

 Saturday July 24, 2021  Tonite, 8PM :Hey folks! It's Club Xanadu's event in the Club Crawl. On this hot day, many of us are wishing for winter. So our theme for the Crawl is Christmas in July. Come in Christmasy colors of red & white and green, Santa hats, reindeer, elves, or anything else Christmasy you can think of. Our Christmas reindeer DJ SnowBuns spins the tunes.

DJ Jesse was supposed to be the one making music for Xanadu. But her Internet was out. So DJ Snowbuns, still in her reindeer avatar, filled in.

The contest ended in a tie between Nikkita Sugar Lefavre (Aubrytia Resident) and DeniseUnicorn Toonie.

Finally at 10PM was the last event at the crawl, at Club Balance. The one club outside the Sunweaver community, its located at Liwei (113/23/53).

The club had an event going earlier, which had more people, but a number went to bed after it ended. So DJ Maliit played the tunes for a small but happy crowd. There was no contest, but the folks were happy just the same.

And so that was the FCA's summer 2021 club crawl. There will likely be another around Halloween, or perhaps Christmastime.

Bixyl Shuftan

Various Events on New Year's Eve

 By Bixyl Shuftan

Thursday December 31 2020 was New Year's Eve, and the day and night for everyone to tell the old year goodbye and welcome in the new one. 2020 had been a tough and hard year in real life with much tragedy and drama, and many were very glad it was over and hoping/praying 2021 would be much better.

One of the big events was a series of smaller events, the Furry Club Alliance Club Crawl. It was an ambitious undertaking of six clubs having events back to back from twelve hours from 12 Noon to 12 Midnight.

The crawl started at the newest of the FCA clubs, the Bouncing Bunny Beach Club, or BBBC.

Yours truly was there in my newer fox avatar, with a New Year's top hat.

DJ Maliit, on the far left, was playing the tunes.

The winners of the contest were Lycill Shiriki-Elysian (diwowo Resident) and Mr.Fox da'Alenfey  (Spooked Dreamscape), who split the 2000 Linden prize.

At the Ark around this time, DJ Tantari was playing some tunes for the crowd there.

Virtual Ability held a New Year's party of their own at this time as well.

There were a few comments about the change from 2020 to 2021, with this display showing a bottle of hand sanitizer in place of the "1."

"Happy New Year 2021 in Athens.  2020 begone and don't darken our doorway again."

Fireworks rang out to mark the arrival of the new year in part of the world.

At 2PM SL time, the Club Crawl moved to Club Zero Gravity,

DJ Mallit spun the tunes at the "Party among the stars" for the new year.

The winners of the contest were Dusk Griswold and Perri Prinz.

 

 

4PM SL time was when the Club Crawl moved to Urban Furry.

 

The club is currently the sole one in the FCA not part of the Sunweaver community, so it got plenty of new people dropping in.

 

 DJ Snowbuns played the tunes for the event.

The big winner of the contest was Valkyrie "Ice" McGill, who took home 500 Lindens. Second and third place went to Noc (Nocturnal23 Resident), and Rose

6PM was when Club Cutlass had it's turn in the Club Crawl in a rare Thursday event.

 There were a few party favors people could grab.

Cynthia Farshore was the DJ for the event. Shockwave Yareach had a hat that read, "Burn in Hell 2020."

The winners of the contest were Andrew Foxian Arctic (AndrewFoxianArctic Resident), and Perri Prinz.

8PM was when the Club Crawl headed on to Club Xanadu, the Sunweaver's classic rock club.

DJ Christine played the music for the party. 

The winner of the  500L prize was Gil Otaared. Afterwards, she and a few others loaded the 'sploader, and it showered people with cash.

Also at this time was Caledon's New Year's party at the Goblin Cave in Caledon Downs.

Cynthia Farshore, the owner of the location, DJed the music for the event.

Pictures from Cynthia Farshore.

Mieville would have a "Black and White" New Year's ball that night as well.

"A formal occasion... gorgeous gowns for the ladies, 'penguin' suits (tuxedos) for us men."

The Mayor's assistant, Wyvvy the Snugglefox (Wyvern Dryke) danced away with the larger avatars.

Finally at 10 PM SL time, it was time for the last of the FCA New Year's Eve parties, taking place at the Happy Vixen beach club.

Before the party, a "prim drop" had been set up to go down at one minute to midnight.

DJ Snowbuns would play the last music the club would hear in 2020.

The theme was "Dog and Pony," with a 5000L prize.

At Bay City, they would have their own event in the North Channel Fairgrounds.

They called it the "Prim Drop", with their prim to go down at a minute to Midnight.

The place was packed, so there was a bit of lag, and gray, in my viewer. 

Among those at the party were Marianne McCann, GoSpeed Racer, and April Linden.

Back at the Happy Vixen, at 11:59 PM SL time, the big prim started to lower.

Getting closer to the ground as the final seconds of 2020 ticked away.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...

Zero, and Happy New Year. 

The winner of the contest with Piper Pekli, whom took home 5000 Lindens.

It was an event-filled New Year's Eve, and what we hoped would be a great start to a new year.

Bixyl Shuftan