PRESENTS
FAKIR MUSAFAR TEA SALON
AUGUST 8TH
5PM
5PM
(SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM)
$15-PREPAID RESEVATIONS
$20 DAY OF THE SALON
PREPAY- antebellum@earthlink.net
~ENJOY~
HAND-BLENDED TEA
CAKES & DAINTIES
VIEW EROTIC ART
ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS
RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA
CELEBRATE FAKIR MUSAFAR
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO
TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
1421 LAVETA TERRACE
ECHO PARK, CA 90026
FAKIR MUSAFAR
(born Roland Loomis)
AUGUST 10TH, 1930- AUGUST 1ST, 2018
performance artist and early proponent of the modern primitive movement.
He has experimented with and taught body modification techniques
such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing,
and flesh hook suspension.
He is involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities.
At age four Musafar claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives.
He reports having given himself his first body piercing when he was twelve.
Based on his viewing of anthropological works he first performed
his idea of a flesh hook suspension in 1966 or 1967.
As an adult he gave himself the name "Fakir Musafar".
Musafar has documented his experiences in writing and teaching "body play".
In the early 1990s, Musafar appeared in mainstream media -
NBC's Faith Daniels Show, CBS's People Are Talking,
CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's (Beyond Bizarre).
In 1998 He produced documentary segments for London Television's
Southbank Show and Playboy Television's "Sexcetera".
2000 thru 2003, Fakir appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel
(Human Canvas Part I and Part II), TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel
and the 2001 documentary film "Modern Tribalism".
In 2004 became a spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel's Taboo
and the Travel Channel's "Eye of the Beholder" series.
Musafar's writing and photography appears in Theater Journal, Bizarre magazine, Skin Two and PFIQ (Piercing Fan International Quarterly).
He has lectured and performed at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts
(Rapture Series, 1995); Copenhagen's Seminar on BODY:Ritual-Manipulation (1995).
His photographic art was exhibited at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1999 performed "Metamorphosis" at the LA Fetish Ball and Annie Sprinkle's Benefit Show at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
Musafar lectured at numerous colleges and universities,
New Age and other special interest groups.
Musafar is considered a Master piercer with over 40 years experience in the body arts. He is also the founder and director of the Fakir Intensives which hold training workshops on body piercing and branding in San Francisco- the first in America.
Musafar is featured in Modern Primitives, published by RE/Search,
and in the full-length documentary by Charles Gatewood-
Dances Sacred and Profane.
In May 2018, Musafar announced that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer.
On 1 August 2018, his wife Cleo Dubois announced that he had passed away.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE-
I HAD THE PLEASURE OF HOSTING & PRESENTING
FAKIR MUSAFAR'S PHOTOGRAPHY AT MY GALLERY-
ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD IN 2007.
FAKIR IS A SHAMAN-
AN ORIGINAL CREATIVE SOUL
HE IS ONE-OF-A-KIND
RIP MASTER
-RICK CASTRO
