The Seasonal Salon

Food & Exchange

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:01:16 -0600

Food & Exchange

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:39:00 -0600

Our Chicago, a boom town owing early success to the extraction of food from the countryside and later to the abstraction of food on the Market, remains a city in which food, specifically how we procure food, gives shape to our communities. We frequent bodegas & delis, break bread in school cafeterias & in parks, and open our homes to neighborly dinners.

Please Join the Seasonal Salon as we host the stories of our three Experts for the evening:

Stephen Vick cultivates equitable relationships with Rwandan farmers to improve the quality of coffee stateside. @ Intelligentsia. Annie Lambla believes in the Power of Yogurt to build community and has pedaled 750 miles across the Midwest to prove it. The Yogurt Pedaler. Catherine Muller captures stories that communicate the cross-cultural threads that persist through the act of eating. Mobile Food Collective.

Food & Sense

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:57:00 -0600

Our experience of food is a flood of local and environmental sensations. From the closeness of mouth feel and smell, to the intensity of lighting and our choice of dining companions, or deeper still into our associations of memory with the sounds or colors of a particularly bad dinner date. Even our choice of food may conspire to alter our ability to sense.

Please join The Seasonal Salon as we host the stories of our three Experts for the evening:

Jane Lopes advocates for the role wine & spirits play to enrich our food environment, and thus our community. Lush Wine & Spirits / Violet Hour. Jay Gottfried researches how humans perceive smells, and how this perception may change with context. Gottfried Laboratory, Northwestern University. Martin Kastner ‘blurs the boundary between art & design’, building armatures to experience food. Crucial Detail.

And we're back...

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Join us January 10th at 8 pm as we welcome a new year and the renewal of The Seasonal Salon. While we reflected upon the 20 Salons and 75+ speakers that we have hosted from our home on Palmer Square, many of you asked, What happened to the salon? Well… We’re back from our Summer/Fall sabbatical with a variation on an old theme. The Seasonal Salon will continue to be a place to share stories with the Interested & Interesting. We will continue to be a place of support for your stories, be you citizen-expert or professional-savant.

You may notice three changes in our Format. First, we have decided upon a simple, consistant framework to support your stories. For each Season, we have chosen a Concern, and for each evening we have paired a Focus with that Concern. This Winter we have gathered storytellers to speak on Food. For the January 10 salon, we have asked our Experts to address Food & Sense. Second, the Seasonal Salon will occur on the 2nd Monday of each month. Third, the salon will be televised, er, documented. The Seasonal Salon intends to be a reflection of the wealth of Chicago’s community. As such, we are committed to the you, the Interested and Interesting, and to extending the reach of your story beyond The Seasonal Salon. As we welcome winter, The Seasonal Salon would like to give our own warm welcome to Scott. In addition to being awesome and certainly one of the most intentional of Chicago’s emerging designers, he’s the hands behind the look & feel of The Seasonal Salon. When you visit The Seasonal Salon, say Hi! to Scott, or take a moment & a little inspiration from Scott’s other projects.

Thanks for your patience.
We hope to see you all real soon,
Ryan & Scott

Seasonal Sabbatical

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Hello Friends,

Two things to you all.

First, as of last Monday I am taking a sabbatical from the Seasonal Salon for the entirety of Spring and into Summer.

After nearly two years and 70 storytellers, it is time to re-acclimate myself with the goals of and the community about the Seasonal Salon. One of the organizational shifts to occur this Spring that I’m sure you will appreciate is the institution of a greater lead time to allow speakers to prepare, and ensure that you get the salon on your calendar.

Second, I am grateful that so many of you continue to share your interests and your ideas for the Seasonal Salon. Please continue to do so. Or, go a step further and create your own place for sharing in conversation or demonstration.

I hope to see you all very soon,Ryan

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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:35:35 -0600

Kate Joyce, a documentary photographer by training and architectural photographer by practice. link

Joseph Mohan, the whiz behind the SpecificObjects brand, and a collaborator in The Building Society. link

Greg Harris, the curatorial chops behind the soon-to-open Art Institute photography collection, In the Vernacular. link

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Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:45:00 -0600

Excerpts from the Resolutions Salon:

I will not over commit.

I will be more methodical.

I will folkdance with Mom.

I will not eat cereal straight form the box.

I will make a sketch each day.

I will learn more.

I will see more live music.

I will shower with people I love.

I will learn to do my job better.

I will spend more time in a bathrob.

I will stop being academic, and start doing.

I will teach first graders how many days are in a week.

I will only take on projects that I believe in.

I will operate at my own pace.

I will share one picture each day.

I will find stability.

I will find a life that merges cultures.

I will maximize my day.

I will learn hand-to-hand combat.

I will sleep with rich models. (a simplification of last year’s ‘get rich and sleep with models’)

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:00 -0600

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:40:00 -0600

Gajus Miknaitis
Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Vice President of Logan Square’s newly-open Dill Pickle Food Coop.

Sam Rosen
One Design Company & Post Family, facilitator of Chicago’s West Loop co-working space COOP.

Lisa Junkin
Education Coordinator at the Jane Addams Hull House, resident & former president of Qumbya housing cooperative in Hyde Park.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:51:37 -0600

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:00 -0600

Erin Rensink

Ben MacDonald
burns the midnight oil as a jazz guitarist heading-up Ben Brown & the Makeout Machine. He spends his days building gardens as Backyard Bounty, and acting as Food Production Manager at City Farm.

Kristin DeLap
is one part of the Archeworks team that took the Little Village Pockets Parks project from vacant lots to community-built & supported garden space.

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:29:26 -0600

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:20:14 -0600

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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:41:29 -0600

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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:47:46 -0600

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Sat, 23 May 2009 12:48:00 -0600

John Greenfield
Traveled from Milwaukee to Chicago, on foot.

Ben Helphand
A self-described Pedestrian Advocate promoting Pedestrian Safety, Access, Awareness, and Community in Logan Square and beyond.

Will Hutchinson
An artist and model builder, Will spent months of his life walking from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail.

Charlie Vinz
Architect, Musician, Educator, & a general Good Guy, Charlie is bound to enlighten, if he is able to find just the right cassette.

Spring Salon. May 25th, 8pm. “Every Journey Begins on...

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:20 -0600

Spring Salon. May 25th, 8pm.
“Every Journey Begins on Foot”

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Mon, 04 May 2009 00:01:00 -0600

Ioana Marinescu is an economist and educator at the University of Chicago, who studies the labor market.
Kelly Huang is a real estate broker for commercial and governmental properties.
Matt Krepsik is an economist and consultant with an intense love for geographic relativity and Hayek.
Bob Elchert works for Chicago’s 3rd alder-district, while advocating for wide-spread inclusion of environmental justice in social work.

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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:37:24 -0600

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