Uptown Salon in Harlem, Please Come! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61836517728&ref=mf

My wife, Asia, and I will be hosting a new artistic gathering in Harlem called the Uptown Salon-http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61836517728&ref=mf

The concept is to draw artists to come and present their work in a venue conducive to aesthetic inquiry and discussion of the artistic process. The goal is to foster an appreciation of art and build a creative community in Harlem, with a nod to the Harlem Renaissance and the late 19th and early 20th century Parisian artistic salons. I hope you will be able to make it as well.

Here's the full blurb:

Happily, last month was a great success and we hope that it will continue. We will be holding this month's salon once again in our Harlem home.

We are looking for other performers and visual artists of all genres to do 10-15-minute
presentations. This could include singing a song, displaying and presenting a painting, reading and discussing a poem, or simply performing a monologue.

This event is FREE but because our apartment isn't terribly big (understatement), we only have room for the first thirty people who RSVP to come this month. This is not including seven to ten performers. Next month we are still considering relocating to a nearby café. We will offer light refreshments but please BYOB.

By the way, you don't have to be an artist to attend, just someone willing to seriously consider another person's work with an open mind.

Hope to see you at the Uptown Salon!

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During the early 20th century at Montparnasse and Montmartre, and later during the storied Harlem Renaissance, artists of all disciplines would congregate and share incipient ideas with one another and the greater public in an intellectual forum.

Though to our disappointment we will not be serving absinthe, we hope to create a similar forum in 21st-century Harlem, developing and sustaining an artistic community above Union Sq.

Artists need the input of others to help flesh out new projects and ideas, thus the Harlem Salon will be a forum for all artists-- visual, musical, literary and performance-based-- to come and present their works for the enjoyment and edification of their fellow artists, as well as the greater public.

This is a forum for discussing the experiences and catalysts of creative work in order to foster a greater appreciation of the arts and establish a creative community.