More about the Premiere, Thurs, June 16
I'm happy that you're interested in coming to the premiere of Zee's Cafe Cafe. In fact, I'm delighted.
The Cafe is something I've long felt the drive to create - something that is both a place for my works and a place for like-minded people to get together, comment, discuss, explore. A kind of community. That's my vision of it.
The internet gave me the possibility of getting my works out into the world without the gatekeeper of editors of small magazines. I started my first site in 2006. Over several years, it came to reach as many as 60,000 page views a month.
Fabulous. Enormously satisfying.
Also extremely satisfying was hearing from people and having exchanges.
But how to have more of those exchanges? And how could people also, if they felt like it, connect with each other?
Already long ago - 1999 - I had the idea of a cafe. Not a cafe in the everyday world of tables and chairs. Back in 1999, I thought of TV. A few years later, I thought of a virtual cafe.
Fast forward to the present. Now there's the technology, readily available, for a virtual cafe where people can meet.
So I'm glad you're interested in taking part in this experiment, coming to the premiere of Zee's Cafe Cafe.
You will get a Zoom link on Wednesday, plus a couple of reminders on Thursday.
Again, here's the time:
Thursday, June 16.
At 2 times: 8 pm UK time. 8 pm Eastern time.
Here's the one-minute teaser.
https://elsasemporium.com/blog/220609e-premiere.html#teaser
By the way, I will also be moving to send emails about the Cafe, from Substack. So here is your first email from Substack.
All the best to all of us,
Elsa
PS. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share this email!