Le Salon - Truly, Madly, Deeply: Life + Love = Art

WHEN?

Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012

Time: 3:00pm until 7:00pm

WHERE?

Sliema, Malta

                                    Paint your own love lines in the second edition of Le Salon,

                                          A theatre of food, conversation and exchange.

WHAT?

In the month of Eros (along with his bedfellows, Agape and Phileo), the literary lens is aflame with love.

Inspired by the auguries, Le Salon, lays the table for a marriage of art, love and food. If St. Valentine’s Day will have sharpened the appetite we promise to spice up the palate, and get oxytocin, the love hormone, addling your brain with a heady concoction of aphrodisiacal love bites, love poetry and live painting.

Singly or in a crowd, come make new friends, possibly have a brush with romance on canvas, talk about how you love in 2012, and share what makes you GLOW in a relaxed, unpretentious and informal setting.
Held at both regular and alternative venues, with different themes and events , Le Salon/Is-Salott, aims to revive the great tradition of the 18 and 19th century Italian and French open salons. An intimate and animated cafe on the move if you like, encouraging social interaction, and the meeting and exchange of ideas, concepts and artistic expression.

WHO's INVITED?

Open hearts, lost souls, all the lovers and the unloved, unrequited yearners, the incurably romantic, the blasé and the broken hearted, the hopeful, the innocent and the jaded, the adulterous and the faithful. Monogamous, polyamorous, gay, straight, bisexual, trans and asexual, the undecided, the chaste, the celibate. Seekers and searchers, adventurers and the uncomfortably complacent. Artists , poets, painters, dilettantes, amateurs and those who think they don’t have an artistic bone (but you do! Come find your vein of gold) . Here at Le Salon, we believe, it is who you are that counts, not what you do. You don’t actually have to produce anything or fit into any category to be an artist. You are an artist by virtue of how you express yourself, by dint of who you ARE

WHAT TO BRING?

Le Salon is a participatory event. It is what you contribute to each event that makes it a success. Please (and this time it is EXPECTED that you) do tag along, an idea, a thought you would like to share, a discussion or debate you would like to instigate, a poem, a tract, a short story, an infatuation, a love letter to yourself, a painting of your own, or by someone who has touched your soul. No need to remind you the theme is LOVE and ART. Alternatively, bring your easels and acrylics, pastels and charcoal, canvas and drawing pads. ( A virgin canvas/ paint can be provided at an extra 3 euro charge) for a tryst with heart on art.

VENUE:

A delightful and intriguing Sliema town house with piano Nobile Salon in miniature and an orchard garden. Intimate and seductive, a touch of the fairytale, a glimpse of the other world. Artist in residence

HOSTS:

Hosted by Susan Waitt and Warren Bugeja.
Susan, an ex-Disney artist is also an expat American living and working in Malta where she currently serves as Artistic Director for Liquorish TV. Susan is well known as the former moderator of the Taggart House Salon Evenings of Stockbridge in the USA, where she was celebrated for bringing sophisticated intellectual muscle to the cultural and intellectual life of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts for more than a decade. Her boutique hotel, the historic Taggart House, was an acclaimed and award winning inn with notable VIP clientele.


PRICE:

12 Euros
15 Euros (includes easel and paint)

WHAT YOU GET:
• Aphrodesia (that is , delectables, dainties and munchies for lotus lovers/eaters)
• Wine punch
• Inspiration
• Ambience

BOOKING:

Availability is limited. Confirmed booking is on payment.
Please book by 16th February
To book and receive details how to effect payment please send e-mail to lesalonmalta@gmail.com
(Do stress if you would like to pay the 12 or 15 Euro entrance, depending on whether you would like painting materials supplied for those artists and non-artists who want to venture into trying their hand at painting. However, you are very welcome to bring your own materials without any extra cost)

For more info or enquiries phone 79213030(Susan) / 77829836 (Warren: this number will be in use after the 9th of February, in the meantime, I may be reached via email or facebook)

                        “All a sane man can think about is giving love” - Hafiz
 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Le-Salon-Is-Salott-an-innovative-form-of-socialising/224610140943822
Artwork is based on original painting 'The Lovers' by Catrina Louise Attard

Next Salon

Truly, Madly, Deeply: Life, Love & Art - coming soon in February
(keep the 19th tabula rasa)

Simon Sultana Harkins - wahda mill-poeziji/hsieb

Towards the end of Le salon 'The Gramophone Years', Simon read out a couple of his poems which generated a lively debate on amongst other issues; whether art requires an audience. Simon is a founder member of the very novel 'Nisga' project leading to spontaneous intertextual and multimedia collaborations where poetry is written and inspired by music being created,improvised and played on the spot and vice versa.

Dejjem tnissel gewwa l-habba, l-hena li tinseg il-gmiel minghajr waqfien. Sortok qafas il-mewg li jhabbat mal-blat u jonqox armonija bejn il-hsieb u l-qalb. Minghajr kliem is-seher iwarrad ward lewn wiccek ruxxan, xaghrek frieghi guf il-frott, mitluq, mifrux u sa kemm jitwieled id-dlam, u jfegg il-qamar bejn shab bajdan, jien inqimek u noffri dan l-inbid. Ghax ghalkemm ismek jien ma nafx, iltqajt mac –centru f’ruhek, tpaxxejt bid-dija li kont qatt ma rajt: la thallinix aktar fil-biza  gewwa dan il-dlam, sejjahli lura fejn mieghek jien qattajt l-hena. Issa ntbaht. 

Simon Sultana Harkins 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nis%C4%A1a-Project/176006489144032?ref=ts&sk=wall

Nisġa Project

Nisġa Project stemmed from a reaction of a general constraint felt in the arts. The notion of compartmentalization of music, painting and so on that has been the focus of popular media. While being aware that such a reaction has always been the case, Nisġa aspires to contribute to the continuation of their line of attitude towards the arts. Simon Sultana Harkins came up with the idea during the summer of 2009 and encouraged others to join in and partake in it. Nisġa being a voluntary activity from different people with different backgrounds who want to participate in a collective creation from these diverse natures, Nisġa’s vision is to reflect the flexibility of human capabilities. Obviously a sense of framework has to be done in order to get things moving. The main focus is based on the context to be created, with the involved bringing in their own perspective for things to be set in motion.