Once a month in Berlin: a guest talks for 30 minutes, then we discuss it for about an hour around one table. It's free to come — you just pay for your own dinner and drinks.
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The guest talks about their work, without slides or a lectern.
Then the table discusses it together. This is the part people come for.
Small enough to stay one conversation. You pay for your own dinner.
Once a month, about 25 of us sit down together, and there's no fixed programme. Here's the kind of evening you might walk into.
The most common evening: someone talks for about 30 minutes on their work, then the discussion runs for an hour.
Sometimes we invite two people who take opposite sides of a question, and everyone at the table picks one.
Now and then we meet at a gallery or an artist's studio instead, and someone there shows us around.
Some months we don't invite anyone — it's dinner and whatever people feel like talking about.
Around 1800, Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Henriette Herz hosted Berlin's most important conversations in their own homes. They had no institution behind them and hardly any money. People came because the conversation was good, and because there was nowhere else they could have met each other.
The Salon Berlin does the same thing today: one guest who knows their subject, a table of people who probably wouldn't meet otherwise, and a host who makes sure everyone gets heard.
There's no stage, no sponsor and no membership. We just borrow a room once a month.
The first salon is being planned for autumn — free to come, about 25 seats, and you pay only for what you eat and drink. Leave your email and we'll send you the date as soon as it's fixed.
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