Info Islands and Libraries this week - Got Lit?

SLiterary Festival “Got Lit” February 2!
Got Lit? Join us on Info Island on Saturday February 2 from 8 am - 6
pm sl! Presentations are by a variety of authors in real life and
Second life. Presentations include science fiction, young adult
literature, international literature and more. Special events include
fireworks, a dance, treasure hunt, and mystery theater!
Check out http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/festival or contact Teofila
Matova in world.

Beowulf Book Discussion
Beowulf vs Grendel

What: Book discussion
Where: Info Island, Meeting Area (100,12,33)
When: Thursday, February 7, 6:00 p.m. SLT
Books:
Beowulf: http://tinyurl.com/2tym3q
Grendel: http://tinyurl.com/2aqsnq

Literature lovers and monster sympathizers: Join a group of readers
to discuss the Seamus Heaney translation of BEOWULF and John Gardner’s
modern novel GRENDEL. Explore the continuing power of this medieval
epic to touch our twenty-first century lives. Come to the meeting area
between the Alliance Library and the Reference Desk. Everyone
welcome. Contact Stolvano Barbosa in world for more information.

Mystery Manor Book Discussion
The Book: Moth by James Sallis
When: January 30, 6 p.m. SL
Where: Mystery Manor http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/181/161

Maxito Ricardo will lead the discussion using voice chat.

James Sallis is a poet, musician, and the author of six novels
featuring the sometimes New Orleans private investigator, Lew Griffin.
Sallis writes with a lean, compact, literary style that manages to
pack the most meaning in fewer words than seems possible.

When we were introduced to Griffin in Long Legged Fly, he was an
alcoholic, black private detective working in New Orleans. In Moth,
Griffin has retired as a P.I. and is a writer and adjunct professor
preparing to teach Modern French Novel. Griffin is not a stereotypical
private investigator: he is an intellectual who is at war with himself
and conflicted about his past and past relationships. Griffin is a
deeply introspective man. Here he is trying to locate the run-away
daughter of an old friend, who has recently died. He reenters to world
of the P.I out of his sense of obligation to a dead friend

Please join us for a discussion of a very type of detective story and
a very different detective. For more information contact Max Batra.

Caledon Library
Story Hour at the Whitehorn Library, with Gilbert Sapwood
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008,6 pm SLT.

Join noted storyteller, Gilbert Sapwood, for an exploration of the ups
and downs, the ins and out, of love, sweet love, with a selection of
traditional stories. Gilbert will share tales of the heart and its
triumphs and follies, from across time and around the world, streamed
live from the Jack & Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library, in Caledon
VictoriaCity.
Following the performance, Gilbert will answer questions regarding
traditional tales and the art of storytelling, as time permits.

This is a live audio stream storytelling performance, produced by
Radio Riel. Media url address for SL (or outside of SL listeners)
:http://music.radioriel.org

ABOUT THE STORYTELLER

Gilbert Sapwood is a storyteller, traveller and collector of tales. He
tells stories from the British Isles, Ireland and from his Canadian
home, stories from the Brothers Grimm, and tales from the folklore of
the Good People, wherever they may be found. He is the founder of,
and driving force behind, the Storytelling Guild of Second Life, and
is committed to spreading the love of traditional storytelling in
Second Life. If there is a fireside, pub or gathering that needs a
story, he has one ready.

Sponsored by the Caledon Library, and produced by Radio Riel
For more information, see http://radioriel.blogspot.com/ or
http://www.thelibrarymilitant.net/blog/

Story Hour Details
Tales of Love at The Whitehorn Library , Caledon VictoriaCity
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, 6 pm SLT.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/49/208/26

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New Exhibit at the Caledon Library

Notes of Love: romance in the Victorian Age
An Exhibit at the Whitehorn Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
Curated by Mica Braun

In February, our thoughts turn to love and romance…
While Victorians subscribed to a strict moral code, and complicated
rules of etiquette (especially concerning matters of the heart!) this
did not prevent them from romanticizing both love and tragedy in all
its forms. This exhibit celebrates the fascination that love and
romance held for the Victorian age.

The exhibit will focus on love and all its aspects — from courtship
and marriage to betrayal and disillusionment. The inspiration for the
exhibit was an anthology of Love Letters, giving access to the real
words of real lovers. Sprinkled throughout the exhibit are quotes of
love letters from Victorian authors. Modeled after articles from
period ladies journals, the content of the exhibit highlights the
Victorians’ burgeoning use of Valentines and the language of flowers.
A special section focuses on the fair land of Caledon, and the
symbolism of the rose.

The exhibit, offered to the Romantically minded citizens of Caledon
by Miss Mica Braun of the Caledon Library for their enjoyment and
edification, will run February 1st to February 28, 2008

Exhibit Opening and Conversation with the Curator
February 2, 2008
2-5 PM SLT
Jack & Elaine Whitehorn memorial Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20VictoriaCity/52/203/23

For more information on these events, contact JJ Drinkwater.