Club Event A Success

Pi Kielty’s Book Party

“An Evening Affair” with Wisconsin author Pi Kielty was a great success. The party, a debut of his first collection of stories and other things, took place last Sat., Jan. 6, 2007, at the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts. The book, The Mad Tales, is the first book published by The Cepia Club. Pi, who is a very anobscure writer, read to 42 of his close friends, with many more sending regrets they could not attend. Pi read his stories “Darkness of the Lake” and “The Bridge” and his poem “Along Superior’s Northwest Shore.” The party afterward was a very cool social mixer of Pi’s friends, eating snack foods and non-alcoholic punch and coffee provided by Pi’s woman, Kitty Kat, friends Darren H. and Patti M., and prepared by MELM and Ralph W. from the Arts Center. Pickup band The Scalding Hounds set the breezy tone with soft drums, bango, acoustic guitar, and stand-up bass playing a variety of blue grass and other Americana twang. A good time was definitely enjoyed by everyone. Fingers Tristane gave massage samples, Uncle Abe sold his olive oil, and the Club sold 9 copies of Pi’s books.

The “Evening Affair” was promoted successfully by The Cepia Club. First, we got Pi’s friends there. Second, flyers drew in quite a few and many who saw the flyers were unable, unfortunately, to come and join the celebration of Pi’s book. Third, a press release was written, posted, and emailed to western Wisconsin newspapers. The release got some coverage, even in the St. Paul Pioneer Press’s Wisconsin Events section (not a hard feat, but worthy of note). The Cepia Club plans on doing similar fun events in the future in cooperation with other artists and merchants, and to promote them in a similar and more experienced manner. Stay tuned to the Clublog for more details. To purchase a copy of Pi Kielty’s The Mad Tales, go to www.cepiaclub.com/Store.htm .