Connecting Over Coffee: The Artist Residency - Part Three The Cup

Bernard Melanson

Three parts. One corridor. Two artists. One cup changes everything.

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Connecting Over Coffee: The Artist Residency - Part Two The French Press | Casa das Artes

Bernard Melanson

 When coffee arrives before words are ready.

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Connecting Over Coffee: The Artist Residency - Part One The Wall

Bernard Melanson

A Story in Three Part Part One THE WALL Three months. One building. And the longest eleven feet in Europe. "The first casualty of war is not truth. It is the ability to see the enemy as a person." — Adapted from Aeschylus How Connecting Over Coffee Begins With Someone Who Tends the Room Month One The smell of coffee reaches Studio 7 before Oksana does. She notices it the moment the elevator opens. It moves down the hallway, warm and faintly smoky, and she thinks: someone is already here. Someone is already making this place feel like a place....

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The Artist Residency - Introduction - Coffee and Connections Series

Bernard Melanson

Something new is coming to Coffee and Connections. The Artist Residency     · Mikhail Volkov · Oksana Kovalenko · Sofia Andrade · Eduardo Fonseca · Johnny Haas · · Camila Rocha · Ingrid Larsen · Casa das Artes, Lisbon, Portugal · 2022     This week I begin publishing the longest story in this series so far. Three parts. Three weeks. One building in Lisbon where twelve artists have come to make something true. The setting is an international arts residency. The year is 2022. The world outside is loud, complicated, and heavy. Inside, someone brews coffee every morning...

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Coffee and Connection: Penny Universities: The Coffee House That Built the World

Bernard Melanson

One penny. One idea. How coffee built the modern world.

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Coffee and Connection: The Third Cup

Bernard Melanson

Three cups of coffee. One missed flight. Everything changed.

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