Talking Peers | A Reading Salon
Our inaugural salon on Thursday, May 28, is anchored by Rewilding the Kitchen, an interview with Rachel Yoder, author of the New York Times bestselling Nightbitch, published in Image Journal’s The Kitchen Issue. Through conversation, performance, and shared edible gestures by guest artists.
Time & Location
May 28, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Rooftop | True Light Lutheran Church, 195 Worth St, New York, NY 10013, USA
About the event
An intimate evening launch of Talking Peers — A Reading Salon
Bringing together the peer-to-peer ethos of the Asia Contemporary Art Forum’s Talking Peers program with the reflective spirit of Image Journal’s Reading Groups, the salon offers a space where artists, writers, curators, and thinkers gather in mutual presence—engaging texts, lived experience, and the deeper questions that shape our inner and creative lives. Drawing from Image’s quarterly offering of essays, poetry, and reviews spanning visual art, film, music, and more, each session centers on close encounters with texts that open onto questions of meaning, imagination, and belief.
Our inaugural salon on Thursday, May 28, is anchored by Rewilding the Kitchen, an interview with Rachel Yoder, author of the New York Times bestselling Nightbitch, published in Image Journal’s The Kitchen Issue. Through conversation, performance, and shared edible gestures by guest artists: Roya Ghiasy, Dara Hartley, and Emilio Rojas, the evening tends to the kitchen as a site…