The Liminal Salon
The Liminal Salon is a new works series that honors the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance’s revolutionary salons as spaces of resistance, reflection, and artistic communion, reimagining them for today as intimate gatherings where artists share new work-in-progress, exchange feedback, and engage in dialogue that deepens both artistic process and the communal networks that sustain creative work.
Informal. Generative. Alive.
INTRODUCING OUR INAUGURAL LIMINAL SALON PLAYWRIGHT!
CARPAL TUNNEL BY CORI DIAZ
Our inaugural Salon features a reading of Cori Diaz’s Carpal Tunnel, a semi-experimental, meta-absurdist dramedy that examines the myth of the tortured artist and the blurred line between performance and truth.
This first Salon celebrates what The Liminal Theatre Collective stands for: process, vulnerability, and the courage to create in the in-between. Carpal Tunnel gathers a remarkable ensemble of artists to explore how ambition, identity, and imagination collide.
The Liminal Salon is an intimate gathering series designed to bring artists and audiences together in a spirit of exploration, dialogue, and shared discovery. Inspired by the apartment salons of the Harlem Renaissance, the series offers a space where new works, creative ideas, and community intersect. Each Salon centers process over product, curiosity over polish, and connection over performance.
The Liminal Salon:
Creates space for artistic exchange, offering playwrights, performers, and interdisciplinary artists an opportunity to share excerpts of new or evolving work in a low-pressure environment.
Blurs the line between process and performance, transforming readings into conversations and inviting audiences to engage directly with the creative impulse behind the work.
Celebrates experimentation and voice, allowing artists to take risks, test new forms, and discover resonance in real time.
Builds community, fostering collaboration among artists, audiences, and thinkers who gather to reflect, respond, and imagine together.
Encourages dialogue, offering facilitated post-reading discussions that center artistic process, cultural context, and shared inquiry.
What sets The Liminal Salon apart:
Process as Gathering: Rather than a rehearsal model, the Salon embraces immediacy. It is a live exchange of ideas, conversation, and artistry where each event is its own creative moment.
Artist-Audience Communion: Audiences are invited into the work’s unfolding, transforming from observers into participants in collective reflection.
Celebration of Emerging Voices: The Salon highlights artists of color and underrepresented storytellers exploring the boundaries between tradition and change.
Integration with TLTC’s Ecosystem: Works and artists featured in The Liminal Salon may continue development through TLTC’s First Draft Series or Liminal Labs programs.
The Liminal Salon honors the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance’s creative salons while reimagining them for today. A space of experimentation, connection, and artistic dialogue that reflects TLTC’s mission to cultivate transformative, socially conscious storytelling.
