World Salon

The online snack table of a real-world party. World Salon aims to build a global community of people rooted in their particular places, and fascinated with everywhere else.

The mission is to increase knowledge and understanding of the world's people's and places, face-to-face, one story at a time. Peace and Sustainability are the big goals, chit-chat, dinners, artsy-fartsiness are the small steps.

sa·lon
   /səˈlɒn; Fr. saˈlɔ̃/ Show Spelled[suh-lon; Fr. sa-lawn] Show IPA
–noun, plural -lons  /-ˈlɒnz; Fr. -ˈlɔ̃/ Show Spelled[-lonz; Fr. -lawn] Show IPA.

1. a drawing room or reception room in a large house.

2. an assembly of guests in such a room, esp. an assembly, common during the 17th and 18th centuries, consisting of the leaders in society, art, politics, etc.

3. a hall or place used for the exhibition of works of art.

4. etc.