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Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! It’s been nearly two years since we brought stories to the live stage, but we’re shaking off the dust, locating the sexy microphone, and emerging from our assorted meticulously crafted hermit huts to come back to the stage, stronger and stranger. oddsalon.com/donate/giving-tuesday-2021/

Thanks to the support of our amazing community, we have been able to weather this extended pandemic hiatus. This year we are holding our annual fundraiser to rebuild the Odd Salon nest egg for the coming year of live salons, and to support the (NEW! EXCITING) upcoming podcast project.

DONATE EARLY & DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT: We have an amazing and generous donor who will be matching the first $3,100 of our Giving Tuesday campaign.

Donations to Odd Salon are tax deductible, as a fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization.

Donate today, and help us keep sharing stories
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Coming up next: Join us tomorrow night for Odd Salon SHORTS "Love is Love": Stories of romps and romance, acceptance out of adversity, forbidden liaisons, enduring connections, and love that defies limitations

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The phrase "lost cities" brings to mind romantic visions of crumbling architecture, creeping vines, and the toil of archeologists and historians digging in the ruins... but what can we learn about the stories of the actual people who inhabited these places, and the everyday existence of these cities when they were not yet lost, but thriving metropolises?

We are very excited to host Annalee Newitz, science journalist and author of the new book "Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age" for an intimate look at stories of four real lives lived in cities lost to time.

Tuesday, June 8

Odd Salon Presents: Lost City Stories with Annalee Newitz
The Basket-maker, the Sex Worker, the Servant, and the Archaeologist: 9,000 Years of City Life - Stories of four ordinary women working in four great cities, separated by thousands of years and thousands of kilometers.

Streaming live

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Grab a delicious beverage and join us for Odd Salon SHORTS “Hold My Beer” curated by Odd Salon fellow Alexander Razo-Myers, streaming live on Tues, May 18.

This edition of SHORTS is all about bad ideas, spectacular stunts and barely managed mayhem:

Eva Galperin ~ Hold My Beer, I've Got to Go Punch This Leopard to Death
The "father of modern taxidermy" was not a man who did things by half-measures. It's not enough to stuff and mount a leopard in the New York Museum of Natural History: he had to go on safari and personally wrestle the beast. Fortunately, this is one of the most meticulously-documented battles of all time. Are there first hand accounts? Yes. Are there maps and diagrams? Yes. Is there a photograph of the taxidermist with his dead leopard? Also yes. Raise a glass to a man who would absolutely tell you to hold his beer.

Betsy Golden Kellem ~ Tommy Fitzpatrick: Taking "Beer Flight" Too Literally
Planes land in non-airport locations more often than you’d think – just last week, for example, a plane in Phoenix ran out of gas and landed by a local road. For the most part, though, these are rare cases where pilots made the best of a bad situation. Back in 1950s New York City, though, there was one flyer who not only enjoyed unconventional landings - he very purposely drunk-landed a Cessna on a New York City street. Twice.

Frederic Lightning Leist ~ Anything You Can Dome, I Can Dome Better
In 1086-87, Nizam al-Molk, vizier of the Seljuk Sultan Malek Shah, built a dome in the main mosque of Isfahan, capital of an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the borders of China. It was larger than any dome known at the time. In 1088, Nizam's rival, and later successor, Taj al-Molk, built another dome for the same mosque, far surpassing Nizam's dome in the intricacy of its design. Both domes still stand, preserving a rivalry of nearly a thousand years ago.

Priscilla Mollard ~ Mauricia de Tiers & the Dip of Death
At the turn of the twentieth century, just as the automobile was just beginning to displace horses and carts, one daring woman saw an opportunity for an extraordinary feat: to launch herself in an death defying leap of faith, looping-the-loop, upside-down, sixty feet in the air in a 1200 pound first generation automobile.

Kurth Reynolds ~ Cold Fusion & Ten Inch Guns: Misadventures in Physics
Scientific experiments have come with various levels of apprehension throughout history: from Marie Curie's lack of awareness of the health effects of radium, to Oppenheimer's concerns about the effects of the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, amidst the fever of enthusiasm for cold fusion, a proposal was given to detonate palladium (aka "heavy water") in a light gas gun, with the possible result of a kiloton explosion on a Southern California university campus. What could possibly go wrong?


Tues, May 18: Odd Salon SHORTS: “Hold My Beer”
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Join us tomorrow night for the opening night of Odd Salon YEAR EIGHT! We're excited to bring five short stories of strivers and showstoppers, sideshows and spectacles.

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Tuesday, February 16th
“Best in Show”
Stories of stunning exhibitions & stellar performances, prize winners, blue ribbon pedigrees, and cutthroat competitors vying to be top dog

Curated by Odd Salon Fellow Isolde Honore

Odd Salon SHORTS is our new online series of speed round history: Five, five-minute stories from the odd corners of history, science, art, and adventure. Grab a cocktail and join us online for bitesized stories and our interactive community chat.

Featuring:

Rachael Van Schoik - When a Giant Beaver Almost Caught Fire

Who would set fire to a beaver? Learn how a team of derring-do students and firefighters saved this unique resident of the Joseph Moore museum. This giant beaver nearly went extinct, twice.

Barbara North ~ Matthew Webb's Marvelous Swim

Matthew Webb was described as having one of the finest examples of the male physique in Victorian England. Join us as we follow him (and his famous red swimsuit) on his quest to conquer one of the most challenging physical feats known to man.

Jennifer Batt ~ Dr. Couney & His Baby Incubator Sideshow

Dr. Couney ran “infant hatcheries” at fairgrounds where visitors viewed preemie babies in incubators. His sideshow attractions gave state of the art medical care when the medical establishment felt that premature infants were not worth saving. Dr. Courney saved an estimated 6,500 lives when he closed his last attraction in 1943.

Edmund Zagorin ~ Feeling Beyond Sense: OBERIU Poets & the Strange Tale of Elizabeth Bang!

In the early days of Leninist Russia a group of radical poets created a performance art movement with ambitious goals: enact a universal language of pure emotion, abolish chronological time and declare victory over the sun. Challenging convention and state authority alike, the OBERIU poets made fast enemies, won unexpected devotion and inspired generations of subversive poets and artists. This short talk focuses on the origins of one of the most startling OBERIU performances, Elizabeth Bang!

Michael Sollazzo ~ Les Zazous: Fighting Fascists with Fashion

Of those opposing the Nazis in Occupied Paris in the early 1940s, one group did it through fashion: the Zazous. These pre-hippie, proto-punks adopted zoot-suit style and flamboyant hair to visibly express their resistance to fascism - learn more about the Zazous, and you're welcome to honor them by sipping their signature drink: beer (or fruit juice) with grenadine.

Streaming with live community chat on YouTube via private invite

Pay what you can sliding scale: Tickets starting at $5

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Our SEVENTH ANNUAL Odd Salon ODDMENTS streams live tomorrow evening, our final salon of the year - featuring stories of magical objects and mechanical marvels, radioactive pursuits, musical motifs, fairy tales, sword swingers, and raccoons living in the lap of luxury.

JOIN US

Odd Salon ODDMENTS VII 2020
Tue, December 15, 2020

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST

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Here's a little peek at the stories coming up at next week's streaming salon: Odd Salon SHORTS.

The salon is live-streaming on YouTube on Tuesday, Nov 24.

Pay what you can sliding scale: Tickets starting at $5

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Help us make sure that Odd Salon survives to bring more weird history to the stage in 2021

We believe that now more than ever, community matters deeply, curiosity can be a powerful antidote to despair, and forging a deeper understanding and connection to history makes us better citizens of the world, and of this moment in history to which we all belong. Please donate if you can.
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Please help Odd Salon survive 2021 with a donation today:

History for all, now more than ever

For seven years now, Odd Salon has opened our stage to storytellers of all backgrounds to explore and share overlooked and undertold stories from history, science, art, and adventure. We've grown from a tiny gathering of friends into sold-out, standing room only nights. We've hosted over 150 individual salon nights, welcomed more than 600 speakers, and created a Fellowship now over 100 strong. Today, Odd Salon is so much more than a speaking series: it is a real world community, united by shared curiosity.

2020 was the year we almost didn't survive.

We would never have survived the unexpected hurdles of 2020 without the support of our incredible community of curious-minded Fellows, speakers, members, and Patreon supporters, and the funds we raised at the end of 2019. Together, we’ve learned just how resilient this community can be.

With your support, we took the salon digital, converting our stage to livestream salons, and in-person events to virtual gatherings. We opened up our video archives and created a YouTube library of past talks, free to all, created our first ever print journal, and completed a first ever digital residency with the Exploratorium science museum. With the help of our community we found new formats, new technology, and new ways of keeping our stage inclusive and open to all.

We need your help

2021 is a complete unknown. There is no crystal ball that will tell us what will come next, but if history tells us one thing, it's: Hope for the best, and prepare for the worst.

We believe that now more than ever, community matters deeply, curiosity can be a powerful antidote to despair, and forging a deeper understanding and connection to history makes us better citizens of the world, and of this moment in history to which we all belong.

With that in mind we are doubling down and getting creative, making plans, and raising funds against that uncertain future, so that we can create more, continue to gather, support our speakers, and growing this community of curious minds.

Donate today and support:
-Open and inclusive salon evenings full of weird stories from history's odd corners
-Online community gatherings, workshops, classes, and virtual happy hours
-Training and mentorship resources for our community of speakers
-More videos, more print projects, and new things we haven't even thought of yet
-Our triumphant return to the live stage, the hot second it is safe and possible to do so

Donations above $100 automatically includes Odd Salon annual Membership for 2021, for you or to give as a gift.
Your donation is tax deductible. Odd Salon is fiscally sponsored by the InterCulture Foundation, a 501c3 charitable organization, EIN #26-2224221.

Support our ongoing mission of celebrating uncommon knowledge and the craft of storytelling for tellers of true tales.

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New and renewed memberships purchased now include complimentary tickets to our end of the year ODDMENTS salon + discounts and private event access for all of 2021
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Or join us at any level on Patreon for discounts and private event access for as long as you want:
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NEXT TUESDAY: This one goes to eleven.

Tuesday, Nov 24 Odd Salon SHORTS "Above & Beyond": Stories of fierce fighters and unruly underdogs, clever comeuppances, overwhelming excess, and adventure on an epic scale

Curated by Odd Salon Fellow Colin Alexander

Featuring:
Lin Lawhn ~ Bunnyparte vs. Bonaparte: Napoleon's Defeat by an Army of Rabbits
Marc Wilson ~ Trolltown: Or, How Khosrow I Set a Gold Standard for Humiliation
Aaron Laycook ~ The Maltese Falcons: How Hal Far Fighter Flight Outflew Mussolini's Regia Aeronautica
Miles Traer ~ Noel Odell: The Geologist on the Roof of the World
Isolde Honore ~ Empress Anna’s Ice Palace of Malice

Streaming with live community chat on YouTube via private invite

Pay what you can sliding scale: Tickets starting at $5

Discounted tickets are available for Members and our Patreon Community to this and all of our events
Join us today:

New and renewed memberships purchased now include complimentary tickets to our end of the year ODDMENTS salon + discounts and private event access for all of 2021
www.oddsalon.com/membership/
Or join us at any level on Patreon for discounts and private event access for as long as you want:
www.patreon.com/oddsalon
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