A Weekend of Practical...and Impractical...Cats at the Caledon Library

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The Caledon Library invites you to join us in a weekend of events celebrating T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"

Saturday, April 26
The Jellicle Ball - Sponsored by the Caledon Library Benefactors
3-6pm SLT
Coughton Court in Caledon Carntaigh
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"Jellicle Cats come out to-night
Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright -
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball."

Come dance as only a Jellicle cat can, to music played by DJ Gabrielle Riel, and celebrate all things feline ...and Eliot's beloved book of cat poems, the inspiration for the musical "Cats."  All the Cultured cats will be there: Bustopher Jones, Grolwtiger, The Magical Mr. Mistoffelees, even bold Skimbleshanks, the railway cat.

Dress: Feline, Furry, Neko, or Formal Black & White





Caterwauling
The Good Folk of Radio Riel have recorded numerous Feline Inspired Poems, for this weekend, and will be playing them, along with accompanying music on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week. Tune in at  http://music.radioriel.org and see their blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ for more of de tails....




Sunday, April 27th
Book of the Month Discussion: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
2 - 4pm slt
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
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Eliot's cat poems (originally composed to amuse his friends) amply demonstrate his genius with metrical forms.  They also show us the author in a playful mood, instead of the high seriousness that characterizes the works with which he revolutionized poetry in the early 20th c. He was a close observer of cats and their ways, and captures feline types to perfection.

All fans of Eliot's works, lovers of The Literature of The Feline , and literary schmoozers are welcome to join us, as are likewise all Bravo Cats,  Gumbie Cats, and Rum Tum Tuggers   whether they have read the work or not -- and everyone is invited to attend in their Furred, Tailed, and Whiskered Best

An exhibit treating of the work, and featuring some of the most notorious critters from Caledon, Winterfell, and New Toulouse as Eliot's Practical cats, will be on display at the Whitehorn Library, and the New Toulouse Library, for the entire month of April

Copies of the work may be had at the Whitehorn Library in Caledon VictoriaCity,
or found online at http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum/oldpossumlex/

NOTE:    The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Whitehorn building, or use the red and gold book-shaped Library Transport Device located at the telehub. 

Please direct questions to JJ Drinkwater, Caledon Library.

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