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Join Kevin Sprague at Shakespeare & Company for the official LAUNCH of his new book "Imagining Shakespeare" and to celebrate William Shakespeare's 446th birthday. Kevin will be signing, selling and distributing books. If you supported the publication of his book on Kickstarter.com and would like to get your copy in person, this is the time!

Book signing starts at 6pm and will continue through till 11pm or so. Come get a book, have a drink, maybe hear some accordion music!

Also, dont miss the acclaimed touring production of "Julius Caesar" which play s at 7:30 (tickets required: 7:30 http://www.shakespeare.org/sandco.php...)

Here's the details on all the other great things taking place this evening:

Shakespeare & Company celebrates William Shakespeare's 446th birthday with a performance of his celebrated Julius Caesar by our New England Tour cast, followed by a birthday party for the Bard featuring live music, yummy food, cash bar and, of course, a delicious multi-layered birthday cake.

6:00 - Book Signing Starts!
7:30 – Julius Caesar performance (ticket required - $10/$15)
9:30 – William Shakespeare's 446th Birthday Party!

Hey everyone! I hope that you'll consider coming to my talk at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA Saturday, Feb. 27th at 5:30pm. I'm going to be talking about my working process as a photographer and image maker with some commentary about the parallels between contemporary photography techniques and Norman Rockwell's use of photos as resources for his paintings as described in the excellent, currently-running exhibition at the Museum "Behind the Camera". I hope to be giving a sneak peak at the upcoming 2010 season illustrations for Shakespeare & Company that we've been working on the last couple of months as well as some discussion about my soon-to-be shipping book "Imagining Shakespeare". Please come!

BOOK STATUS UPDATE!! - The books are ON-PRESS at the present time. I hope to be getting the first-bound copies in the next two weeks or so, and the balance of the books are coming on a slow boat.... but they say good things come to those who wait! As soon as I have a solid date for having the books in-hand we'll set a time, date and location for the massive Kickstarter-supporter laucnh-a-thon with (hopefully) snacks, drinks, signing and potentially even some exhilirating accordion music!

All the best! - Kevin

Just a quick update on "Imagining Shakespeare" - The color proofs for the book are on their way from China! We're printing the book with Permanent Printing CO in Hong Kong. I'd love to have printed it domestically, but the estimates I was able to get from my preferred printers was nearly twice what it costs overseas ... In any case, we hope to have a small quantity in hand end of February if all goes well, but the bulk of the shipment is literally coming on a "slow boat from China" so it may be March or April before the balance arrives. Thanks for all of your interest, investment and patience on this! Apparently my job is also slightly delayed as all the printing plants shut down for a week mid-february for Chinese New Year! A week! We don't even do that here....

Just an update - after weeks of spellchecking, fact-checking, image-fixing and content-tweaking, the book "Imagining Shakespeare" is currently uploading to the printer via FTP! I'll have a firm production schedule soon and I'll let you all know how it is going. Thanks for your support and for helping me make this happen. happy New Year!

There it is - 4 hours to go, 223 backers, and we made our numbers! Thank You to everyone who supported the project - and put up with my constant asks, accordion solos, and other behaviour! Please stay tuned for status updates on the progress of the book publication itself, as well as delivery of the backlog of accordion blasts to come! Thanks!