HR GIGER TEA SALON

  ~ presents~ 

 HR GIGER: virtual tea salon 

  Wednesday May, 13th,

 3:00 PM PST  

 ~please  donation to attend~ 

 paypal.me/rickcastrotea

 or 

venmo.com/rick-castro-13007 

  choose your fave tea & dainties 

  find a nice spot to sit down  

 take off your slingbacks and have a nice cuppa with me

 get to know more about HR giger!

    you have to join zoom to attend- it is free.  

 I am requesting  donation to help me thru the plague mass. 

 it will take a little time getting used to zoom 

 please donate to reserve seat 
  paypal.me/rickcastrotea or venmo.com/rick-castro-13007  

 rick castro is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

 HR Giger death day

 Time: May 13, 2020 03:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

      Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84524228427 

 Meeting ID: 845 2422 8427

  Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdyNcaE5ze

 Hans Ruedi aka
 HR Giger 
  5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014)
  was a Swiss painter, best known for airbrush images of humans
 and machines linked together in a cold biomechanical relationship. 
  He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for design work on the film Alien, in fact designed the image of the alien. 
In Switzerland there are two themed bars that reflect his interior designs, 
 and his work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum at Gruyères. 
 His style has been adapted to many forms of media, 
 including record album covers, furniture, and tattoos.

TOM OF FINLAND VIRTUAL TEA SALON

 ~ presents~ 

TOM OF FINLAND:100th BIRTHDAY

virtual tea salon

  Wednesday May, 6th, 3:00 PM PST

 ~please  donation to attend~

 paypal.me/rickcastrotea or https://venmo.com/rick-castro-13007 

 choose your fave tea & dainties

  find a nice spot to sit down

  take off your slingbacks and have a nice cuppa with me

celebrate Tom's 100th birthday!

  you have to join zoom to attend- it is free. 

 I am requesting  donation to help me thru the plague mass.

 it will take a little time getting used to zoom 

please donate to reserve seat 

 paypal.me/rickcastrotea or https://venmo.com/rick-castro-13007 

rick castro is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: tom of finland 100th birthday

Time: May 6, 2020 03:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

    

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84524228427

Meeting ID: 845 2422 8427

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdyNcaE5ze

 Touko Valio Laaksonen AKA Tom of Finland 
 (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991),  
 Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the most influential creator of homoerotic art. Over the course of four decades Tom produced some 3,500 illustrations featuring men with men. This May 8th, 2020 is the 100 year birthday of our leather daddy icon.

TENN TEA SALON~ MARCH 25TH @ TOM HOUSE

 

and the Purple Circuit 

presents   

  TENN TEA SALON  
  

    March 25th   

  5pm   

   (salon ends @ 7pm)

      $25 prepaid reservations required  

due to the era of plague mass~ salons are limited to 7 people~ reserve to secure spot

         hand-blended tea    

 cakes & dainties 

     jovial chats

      view erotic art    

  enjoy a nice cuppa tea  

Stella shouting contest!

(winner recieves beautiful gift) 

  wish Tenn a happy birthday!

   hosted by Rick Castro 
presentation by Bill Kaiser  

         Tom of Finland House

      1421 LaVetta Terrace 

     Echo Park, CA 90026   

   info- antebellum@earthlink.net 

Tennessee Williams

(March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)

 American playwright considered among the foremost playwrights of 20th-century.

At age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944), 

A Streetcar Named Desire(1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). 

With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. 

In his later years Tennessee was a regular fixture on late night talk shows. 

When asked point blank by Dick Cavett if he was homosexual,

 Tenn responded, "I've covered the waterfront."

This salon will focus on that era.

WEDNESDAY TEA SALON @ TOM HOUSE

presents 

 Wednesday Tea Salon

  February 26th

  5pm 

 (salon ends @ 7pm) 

   $25 prepaid reservations required  

  hand-blended tea

 cakes & dainties

  jovial chats

  view erotic art 

 enjoy a nice cuppa tea

  hosted by Rick Castro  

  Tom of Finland House 

 1421 LaVetta Terrace 

 Echo Park, CA 90026

  info- antebellum@earthlink.net

WEDNESDAY TEA SALON @ TOM HOUSE- HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

PRESENTS

WEDNESDAY TEA SALON  

FEBRUARY 19TH 

    5PM

      (SALON ENDS @7PM)  

        $25  PREPAID RESERVATIONS REQUIRED   

  

       HAND-BLENDED TEA    

 CAKES & DAINTIES  

  JOVIAL CHATS 

  VIEW EROTIC ART 

 ENJOY A NICE CUPPA  

          HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

 

    TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE  

     1421 LAVETA TERRACE 

    ECHO PARK, CA 90026  

INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net 

FERAL- OPENS FEB 15TH-3PM

FERAL: Rick Castro & Stephen Holman opening Saturday February 15, 2020
from 3pm to 6pm at Lisa Derrick Fine Arts. Feral runs through March 7.
Join Rick Castro and Stephen Holman for the opening of Feral at a Valentine’s Day aftermath tea party from 3pm to 6pm on Saturday, February 15, 2020 along Chung King Road. Elegant, Edwardian, Victorian, vintage, eclectic, cosplay, attire encouraged. Scones, fairy cakes, finger sandwiches, fruits, teas both hot cold, beverages for adults and children.
Feral combines new works from Stephen Holman and larger than life photographs of furries taken by Rick Castro at the ninth iteration of ConFURence. Images presented reveal our animal natures in a romanticized yearning return to a free and uninhibited state. Parallels are drawn to that time during Age of Enlightenment through the Industrial Age when feral children became all the rage, and our own era of technological advances which has facilitated news ways of discovering our true natures.
Rick Castro - FERAL
This collection of images was taken at ConFURence 9, in Buena Park, California, 1998.
The furry fandom owes its history to the original sci-fi conventions of the late 1940s. Inspired by the 1938 Orson Wells radio presentation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, originally published in1897, a plethora of sci-fi, books, stories, comics and films flooded the market. This gave way to the monster, outer space genre of the 1950s, mushrooming into the Star Trek and Lost In Space phenomenon of the 1960s.
In the mid 1980s a smatter of people dressed in fur suits started to attend Trekkie Conventions. “Furries,” as they became to be known, took over one room in the burgeoning Comic Cons, then in 1989 ConFURence Zero was presented as an all furry convention.
With the advent of the internet, furry is, in my opinion, the first culture to create and organize online. Since my documentation in the late 90s, furry has indeed become mainstream morphing into other fandoms, raves, and conventions. In the 21st century monthly furry conventions are worldwide events.
A furry is someone who identifies with anthropomorphic culture, in this case animals. They usually have a “fursona,” which in new age terms was once called, “spirit animal.” Some furries enjoy the art, (the erotic art is amazing!) gaming and social gatherings only, others take it deeper and sexualize the fandom as their fetish.
My research of furry became a documentary film I directed for MTV premiering January, 2nd, 2001. Plushies & Furries scored # 2 in the ratings with heavy rotation for 6 months.
My doco can currently be viewed on WOWTV-
FERAL is part of 120 Days of Rick Castro, a project running throughout 2020 across the greater Los Angeles area, facilitated through a variety of venues, celebrating internationally renowned photographer Rick Castro.
Stephen Holman - FERAL
Stephen Holman presents twenty new works in Feral, and comments, “These works represent the bigger, bolder, wilder, and more magical side of my work, and I am THRILLED to be showing them all together in one amazing gallery location.”
Holman spent a happy childhood roaming through the rural idyll of the English countryside before being rudely thrust into the chaos of punk-era London in the late 70s, and New York City’s Lower East Side club scene in the early 1980s. He moved to California in 1987, and his subsequent four decade, multi-media career in the US has included co-founding and directing the notorious cabaret/performance art troupe Theatre Carnivale in Los Angeles in the late 80s, creating and directing surreal stop-motion animation series for Nickelodeon (Life with Loopy/Kablam!), Warner Bros (Phantom Investigators) and Disney (The Bite-Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich), and discovering and managing outsider artist, William A. Hall from 2015-2019.
Holman's visionary paintings frequently relate to his surreal stage performances, combining eco-science and political satire with messy, outrageous comedy, utilizing props such as giant rabbits, dancing toilets and cheese propulsion devices. In recent years, however, magic, mythology, childhood, and man’s spiritual relationship with nature have also become deep inspirations. Holman’s work has been shown widely throughout the world in venues including MOCA, the American Visionary Art Museum, The Kitchen, Track 16 Gallery and the Tokyo International Theatre Festival. He resides in Alhambra, CA.

OLIVER SIPPLE TEA SALON- FEB 5TH

presents

Oliver Sipple Tea Salon

February 5th

 5pm

 (salon ends @ 7pm) 

 $25 prepaid reservations required 

 hand-blended tea cakes & dainties 

jovial chats 

view erotic art

learn the legacy of Oliver Sipple

enjoy a nice cuppa tea 

hosted by Rick Castro

  Tom of Finland House 

1421 LaVetta Terrace

 Echo Park, CA 90026

 info- antebellum@earthlink.net

Oliver Sipple

 (November 20, 1941 – February 2, 1989) 

 On September 22, 1975, he grappled with Sara Jane Moore

 as she fired a pistol at U.S. President Gerald Ford in San Francisco, causing her to miss.

 The subsequent public revelation that Sipple was gay

 turned the news story into a cause célèbre for LGBTrights activists.

MISHIMA TEA CEREMONY- JAN 15th @ TOM HOUSE

PRESENTS

 MISHIMA TEA CEREMONY

 the seppuku of yukio mishima 

 TEA CEREMONY DEDICATED TO YUKIO MISHIMA

JANUARY 15TH

  5PM

           $25 PREPAY RESERVATIONS  REQUIRED

 TEA & TIDBITS WILL BE SERVED

        HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO    

           TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE     

   1421 LAVETA TERRACE   

     ECHO PARK, CA 90026    

    INFO-ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET 

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Yukio Mishima

January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970

  Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, nationalist, 

and founder of the Tatenokai. 
Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. 

 His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel. His avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change.

1ST TEA SALON FOR 2020!

 

 PRESENTS 

1ST TEA SALON  FOR 2020

JANUARY  8TH 

    5PM  

  (SALON ENDS @7PM)  

     $25  PREPAID RESERVATIONS REQUIRED  

      HAND-BLENDED TEA 

  CAKES & DAINTIES 

 JOVIAL CHATS

 VIEW EROTIC ART

 TAKE IN THE NEW YEAR WITH A NICE CUPPA  

        HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

 TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE  

   1421 LAVETA TERRACE

   ECHO PARK, CA 90026  

   info- antebellum@earthlink.net