Salon of Shame Category
Inspired by NYC’s Cringe, I founded the Salon of Shame in November 2005, with lots of help from my friends at A Guide To Visitors. The idea is simple: Seattle writers stand before you and read their middle school diary passages, high school poetry, unsent letters, and other bits of horribly shameful, outrageously entertaining adolescent writing. It’s cathartic for readers and hilarious for listeners. Everybody wins when it comes to embarrassment!
Salon of Shame: next Tuesday 1/8
3
Jan
2008
In: Salon of Shame
Originally uploaded by Playapixie.
Diaries! Readings! Shame! Hilarity! Next Tuesday, January 8th!
I’ve been lazy about announcing Salons on my blog.
If you really want to know when they’re happening, sign up for the Notification list of Shame.
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Comic of Shame
13
Sep
2007
In: Salon of Shame
Hey, cool! Look, it’s the Salon of Shame in comic form!
Ok, so it’s not actually the Salon of Shame, but the artist links to the Salon after the comic, so I’m willing to say it might as well be about the Salon of Shame. Regardless, this comic is an excellent commentary on the whole phenomenon. There’s definitely a little bittersweetness to the Salon. Yeah, adolescence sucked and was ridiculous, but remember when you felt things that intensely? When you had that kind of conviction? Granted, it might have been ill-informed and naive, but there’s no denying that for better or worse, teens feel pretty intensely.
Marc @ Bumbershoot of Shame
Originally uploaded by .Ariel.
The Bumbershoot of Shame was a big ol’ success on Saturday. Whew! Thanks to everyone who came out at noon to sample the event. I wasn’t sure how it would translate from a boozy evening bar show to a mid-day sober theater event, but the little Salon That Could totally kicked ass.
The next show is back at the Capitol Hill Arts Center on Tuesday, September 25th.
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The Salon got a write-up in the Seattle Weekly, in anticipation of our Bumbershoot of Shame event this Saturday at noon. Here’s a quote of me rambling about the event:
“Most people view it as being hugely therapeutic. Some of these [old diaries] literally have a lock on them! And then you read this intimate writing in front of an audience, and everyone’s laughing and shouting things back like, ‘Oh, I’ve been there!’ And then you realize that these intimacies, these secrets that we held so close in our adolescence, were completely universal. We have people between their early 20s and their 50s reading. These mortifying thoughts are all the same.”
Here’s the full article: Bumbershoot 2007: Salon of Shame: Teen Angst Becomes Grist for Local Literary Mill
Salon of Shame: next Tuesday 1/8
3 Jan 2008 In: Salon of ShameOriginally uploaded by Playapixie.
Diaries! Readings! Shame! Hilarity! Next Tuesday, January 8th!
I’ve been lazy about announcing Salons on my blog.
If you really want to know when they’re happening, sign up for the Notification list of Shame.
- 0 Comments
- Tags: capitol hill, events
- 0 Comments
- Tags: capitol hill, chac
Comic of Shame
13 Sep 2007 In: Salon of ShameHey, cool! Look, it’s the Salon of Shame in comic form!
Ok, so it’s not actually the Salon of Shame, but the artist links to the Salon after the comic, so I’m willing to say it might as well be about the Salon of Shame. Regardless, this comic is an excellent commentary on the whole phenomenon. There’s definitely a little bittersweetness to the Salon. Yeah, adolescence sucked and was ridiculous, but remember when you felt things that intensely? When you had that kind of conviction? Granted, it might have been ill-informed and naive, but there’s no denying that for better or worse, teens feel pretty intensely.
Marc @ Bumbershoot of Shame
Originally uploaded by .Ariel.
The Bumbershoot of Shame was a big ol’ success on Saturday. Whew! Thanks to everyone who came out at noon to sample the event. I wasn’t sure how it would translate from a boozy evening bar show to a mid-day sober theater event, but the little Salon That Could totally kicked ass.
The next show is back at the Capitol Hill Arts Center on Tuesday, September 25th.
- 0 Comments
- Tags: bumbershoot
The Salon got a write-up in the Seattle Weekly, in anticipation of our Bumbershoot of Shame event this Saturday at noon. Here’s a quote of me rambling about the event:
“Most people view it as being hugely therapeutic. Some of these [old diaries] literally have a lock on them! And then you read this intimate writing in front of an audience, and everyone’s laughing and shouting things back like, ‘Oh, I’ve been there!’ And then you realize that these intimacies, these secrets that we held so close in our adolescence, were completely universal. We have people between their early 20s and their 50s reading. These mortifying thoughts are all the same.”
Here’s the full article: Bumbershoot 2007: Salon of Shame: Teen Angst Becomes Grist for Local Literary Mill
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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