Where the only thing you need to bring is your appetite for New Ideas
Nonfiction Salon
Guest Artist: Our beloved expert on Southern Culture, Diane Roberts, will share her experience with writing for Oxford American, BBC documentaries, and telling the capital t Truth
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Poetry Salon
Guest Artist: We are happy to have Mehdi, a talented PhD student and translator of Haitain poetry, to join us in testing out the limits of language and translating by sound
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Fiction Salon
Guest Artist: Our very own “literary excellence,” Ravi Howard, will walk us through his process as a critically acclaimed author and approach to African- American narratives
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Film Salon
Are you a Filmmaker? A Video Star? Is every last night a movie— because you’ll do anything to get the shot? Were you directed by Sofia Coppola? Or did you cringe reading that? Get your snarky self over to the SoFA for our Film Salon.
Painting Salon
Are you a painter? Have you cleaned your nose ring? Do you treat your hair as your your paint palette? Is your next tattoo an adition to your lif elong canvas? Do you splatter you present in the values of your past and the present of your future? You need your riot girrrl clique. You can find that sitting with us at the SoFA Painting Salon.
Theatre Salon
Are you dramatic? Do you wait for the curtains to rise for you every morning? Is that why you’ve bee late to your last 3 classes? Wait.. no, you’re just getting ready for your heart-throb crush. They can’t see you in acne star stickers— you are the star!! Obviously. We agree. Come sit with us at SoFA for the Theatre Salon.
Sculpture Salon
Are you a sculptor? Perhaps you just play around with clay in your living room, maybe you make your own trinkets and dream of bartering them in an underground market. Or do hope to bring fill galleries with living installations—despite Dad’s warnings of the economy? Either way, or somewhere in between, we saved a seat for you at SoFA!
Story Salon
Do curtains rise the moment you open your eyes– ready to embody a new day’s plot? Perhaps you were already dreaming of setting the scene with ornate costumes or a sudden character arc. A new life can start by the end of Act One– where the stage extends to the living room limelight for SoFA’s last salon of the semester!
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Poetry Salon
Ever notice the sensibilities of spilled milk– its silk skin wasted on the Kitchen floor? Are you certain to find rhyme linking the mundane to madness in our world? A poet’s journey to uncover rubies and gauntlets hiding behind its various stop signs, put up by glaring father figures in neckties, feels uncertain most of the time. So don’t travel alone, walk with us to the SoFA.
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Music Salon
Is there a song behind every dramatic beat of your life– a rhythm to your reason for being? Finding your place in the music industry isn’t an easy task done solo, and every musician needs a sounding board. So, whether you dream of composing symphonies or simply want your voice to be heard outside the shower, get comfy with creating your track to success at the SoFA!
Literature Salon
Are you a writer? Perhaps just snippets of captured visions on the backs of restaurant napkins? Or is there an entire 200-page novel sitting in your Google Docs? Either way, or somewhere in between, we have a seat for you at the SoFA!
