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.
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
Odd Salon
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.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: www.eventbrite.com/e/odd-salon-shorts-best-in-show…
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
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: www.eventbrite.com/e/odd-salon-shorts-best-in-show…
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