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Odd Salon curates cocktail hour lectures highlighting strange-but-true stories from history, science, art, and adventure, live on stage, over cocktails. We bring experts and enthusiastic amateurs together to explore history’s overlooked and under-told stories, from legends of lost cities to masters of art forgery, engineering failures to murderous sideshow performers, daring heists, questionable taxidermy, and tales of epic revenge. Sometimes with stick figures.

The spirit of this event is to bring whimsy and eccentricity to the study of history. Over the course of two hours, you’ll enjoy six different irreverent lectures, presented by six different entertaining speakers. A curator selects the speakers and topics based on an overarching theme. For this salon, the theme is COTERIE, so you can expect stories of camaraderie and fellowship, secret societies, obscure organizations, and great minds thinking alike.

Who are we:

Odd Salon was founded by Annetta Black, Tre Balchowsky, and Rachel James in 2014. It is a community project, centered around a Fellowship of speakers, an extended family of Members, and dedicated audiences in both San Francisco and New York City. As a community-focused and mission-driven organization dedicated to the diffusion of unusual knowledge, they are a membership supported, fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization.

Doors open at 7 pm, Talks begin at 7:30.
Tickets are $20 and all proceeds will support the Odd Salon Fellowship and the Odd Fellows Youth Services Programs.