The Bowery Collective

09/10/2017

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01/12/2017

With Donald Trump on the verge of being sworn in as President of the United States of America, it is time to take a moment and rethink our values and priorities.

We appear to be facing a new chapter in American history and the world at large. Are we truly facing a runaway kleptocracy that will also act savagely against women's reproductive rights, take away medical care and education from the poor and underprivileged, and ignore the climate catastrophe looming over our species? What kind of counter-force can emerge to deal with this situation? Do we need some type of "spiritual revolution" that encompasses business, the arts, media, technology, and so on, but uses these as tools for a positive reinvention of our society? Will we have the courage of our convictions and our values, or will we stand idly by as the extreme right crushes dissent, assaults immigrant rights, starts a new nuclear arms race, and so on?

Let's discuss!

Please RSVP as space is limited.
$10 suggested donation (or bottle of wine!) to cover costs.

11/06/2015

The Bowery Salon engages people ahead of their time. We expand minds through intelligent discourse. We have held space for true pioneers, established musicia...

10/02/2015

Please join us next Monday night, October 5, as The Bowery Salon will convene a dialogue on how we work together to confront accelerated climate change and the Sixth Great Extinction. This event will take place at the Soho Arts Club.

Our guests include film director Darren Aronofsky, known for Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, and recently visited the Alaskan tar sands with Leonardo DiCaprio; Veronique Pittman, Chief Information Officer for the Green Schools Alliance; and Alexander Frantzen, who created the website, EnergyWeNeed.com, and Summer Rayne Oaks, TV host and entrepreneur working on creative solutions to environmental challenges.

According to scientists, we have a short window of time to make significant changes to our social and technical infrastructure if we want human civilization to continue in anything close to its current form. There are many available solutions - in energy, agriculture, waste management, and other areas - that must be scaled up quickly. Some of these solutions present extraordinary entrepreneurial opportunities, although humanity may also have to embrace a period of shared sacrifice so we reduce our burden on the Earth.

Moderators will be Daniel Pinchbeck , New York based writer of Breaking Open the Head, and Samir Victor, managing partner of FullCycle Energy Fund, a fund investing in waste-to-energy technologies.

There will be a suggested $20 donation. This event will take place at the Soho Arts Club whom have generously offered their space. We have capacity issues and only those who have RSVPed will be allowed entry.

09/17/2015

Photos from our second Bowery Salon event, "The Future of Music', featuring Moby; Alex Ljung, CEO of SoundCloud; Owen Grover, Senior Vice President and GM of iHeartRadio; and Radha Agrawal, co-founder of DAYBREAKER, hosted by myself and Daniel Pinchbeck. Please check out the page to learn about future events. We will also post videos and other media from previous events.

The Bowery Salon is a series of intimate, invite-only events, community gatherings focused on what’s next, in areas ranging from spirituality to technology, health to social change.

"The Future of Music" was the our second event. It featured the musician Moby, Alex Ljung, CEO of SoundCloud; Owen Grover, Senior Vice President and GM of iHeartRadio; and Radha Agrawal, co-founder of DAYBREAKER. They presented to a unique, impressive crowd of business founders, NASA astronauts, culture disrupters, and do-ers.

Picture credit goes to photographer Karim Tabar. Located in Hong Kong, Tabar is known for his musical portraits and artist interviews on film (Art Department, Bonobo, Damian Lazarus). www.karimtabar.com

09/17/2015

The Bowery Salon is a series of intimate, invite-only events, community gatherings focused on what’s next, in areas ranging from spirituality to technology, health to social change.

"The Future of Music" was the our second event. It featured the musician Moby, Alex Ljung, CEO of SoundCloud; Owen Grover, Senior Vice President and GM of iHeartRadio; and Radha Agrawal, co-founder of DAYBREAKER. They presented to a unique, impressive crowd of business founders, NASA astronauts, culture disrupters, and do-ers.

Picture credit goes to photographer Karim Tabar. Located in Hong Kong, Tabar is known for his musical portraits and artist interviews on film (Art Department, Bonobo, Damian Lazarus). www.karimtabar.com

08/19/2015

Samir Victor and Daniel Pinchbeck kicked off The Bowery Salon with Psychedelics & Healing, the first in a series of salons focused on what's next, in areas ranging from spirituality to technology, health to social change.

Featuring talks, performances, and dialogues with some of the great visionaries of our time, The Bowery Salon will be held in a private downtown home.

This first impromptu salon focused on psychedelics and healing, featuring the extraordinary Rick Doblin, executive director and founder of the Multi-disciplinary Approach to Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). MAPS sponsors cutting-edge research projects in treating PTSD with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, medical ma*****na, psilocybin, L*D, and much more.

The event will include short talks, moderated group discussion, and Q and A. Light refreshments will be served.