THE CABINET
Salons of collective investigation into cultural curios
Every other month, one thing. A film, a writer, an image, an idea that will not stay in its category.
The Cabinet is a sequence of standalone, two-hour salons. We dedicate unhurried, collective attention to a single unyielding object - a specimen where mind and matter blur, where self and other merge. These rooms are neither lectures nor traditional classes. Instead, they are cabinets full of strange artifacts you pick up and cannot put down. You do not know exactly what it is. You know it is doing something.
We stay with the specimen until it activates the imagination, opening up into a constellation of possibilities.
“Cassie’s intro promised that we weren’t going to be looking for answers with our discussion, but we would be asking more questions… She was a natural facilitator.”
— Laurence, No Hay Banda
“Her class was well structured and organised, and kept everyone engaged to the degree of their choice. Listening to the different thoughts and perspectives of fellow participants brought new insights and inspiration for my own work.”
— Gabriela, No Hay Banda
The Mescaline Journals
DECEMBER 5th 2026 · Online · Two hours
Henri Michaux went inward and found a universe with its own geography, its own creatures, its own laws. This salon is an encounter, treating Michaux's frantic writings and ink marks as a live laboratory in psychic cartography, testing the limits of language and notation.
The Watcher
FEBRUARY 6TH 2027 · Online · Two hours
This salon tracks the symbol of the eye across its historical, mythical, and cinematic fragments. We do not rationalise the dread; we simply place the images in the center of the room and ask: who is watching?
The Heteronym
APRIL 2027 · Online · Two hours
Fernando Pessoa kept them in a trunk—dozens of fully realised separate people, each with their own biography, philosophy, and distinct handwriting. We enter this archive to examine the self as a radical multiplicity. Who else am I?