Previously at Salon
Salon London: Bringing ideas to life.
National Theatre
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Grand Sensual
3rd Nov 2011
November saw Salon taking a train to Grand Sensual. For your delectation we had Sara Jayne Staines OBE, known by her first name in the finest chocolate houses in the capital. She is an expert in chocolate, from its dark history to the three hundred different notes found in the cocoa bean confectionery, from cherry to orange to cloves and tobacco. Sara taught us about taste of the most sensual kind, taking us through a structured chocolate tasting, and leading us through sweet, sour, salt and bitter, in pursuit of umami, the elusive fifth taste. Does it exist? Are you sensual enough to find it?
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Reveal. Respond. Reflect.
5th Oct 2011
In celebration of our first Salon in Warwick, Salon manned-up and offered our first ever all male line-up to invite our audience to: Reveal. Respond. Reflect.
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White Noise
14th Sep 2011
A big thank you to our auracular speakers (with special thanks to Chris for travelling all the way down from Northumberland).
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Brain Fever
11th Aug 2011
Thanks to everyone who came and to our fabulous speakers: Iain McGilchrist who came down from Scotland to explain the battle in our brain that is between Master and Servant, top literary agent Clare Conville who reviewed the Booker long list and told us what to read and who she thinks will win and Professor Michael Brookes explained why science is more rock-n-roll than, er, rock-n-roll.
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Salon Centraale
15th Jun 2011
This Salon certainly didn't Bohr us, because we had Manjit Kumar, physicist, philosopher and writer of Quantum, a book designed to help you understand the actual secrets of the universe. He came along to Salon to explain quantum theory in half an hour. Yes, it can be done, he did it.
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Sap Rising
5th May 2011
Up first art historian Roz Whyte who runs a business creating bespoke tours of London's art and cultural establish- ments. She gave us a half hour virtual tour of the art highlights in the capital over the summer.
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Twisted Love
3rd Feb 2011
Taking a sensual, yet twisted, approach to love, writer Jessica Fellowes talked about psychopaths: who they are and how to deal with them, and she should know having just finished writing her book: 'The Devil You Know - How to Spot the Psycho in your Life'.
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Salon Goes Gothic
18th Nov 2010
For its first anniversary, on the 18th November 2010, Salon celebrates by going gothic with a stellar lineup:Philippa Perry (psychotherapist, author of Couch Fiction: a graphic tale of psychotherapy) explains exactly why there are dark corners of the mind.Helen Oyeyemi (author of highly acclaimed novels Icarus Girl and Opposite House) leads the Salon crowd in how to write a horror Haiku.Dr Suzy Lishman, Registrar of the Royal College of Pathologists, will be bringing Pathology to the people, when she performs a live virtual autopsy on our willing volunteer.
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Festival Survival
12th Aug 2010
Salty Sea Dog and ex Director of the ICA Mik Flood showed us just how to predict the weather by looking at the clouds. A perfect skill to have whether dressing yourself in the morning or planning an impromptu BOURGEOIS picnic.
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Zen and the Art of Knife Maintenance
6th May 2010
"How to Wield a Knife - in the Kitchen" - Clara Paul, Resident Chef, Books for Cooks
