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JIM HAYNES |
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Zadovoljstvo u kontaktu Mira Popović, Džim Hejns je pionir evropske underground kulture i utemeljivač
društvenih mreža, ali sa pravim ljudima. U razgovoru sa Mirom
Popović Hejns se priseća nekih od svojih susreta i manifestacija
koje je pravio uz pomoć svoje neiscrpne energije |
Before Google… the alternative travel guide to Poland Vicky Baker, Vicky Baker takes social networking back to its roots by resurrecting
a travel project in Poland from 20 years ago – long before the days of
Google and Twitter |
Let's do it ! J.C., The International Writers' Conference took place over five days at the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh University, in August 1962. "Nothing was properly discussed", Stephen Spender wrote in his report in Encounter, "but some interesting things were said." This is commonly the case. The more unsettled the times, the more embattled the participants, the more interesting the things said will be. "There was a great deal about sex, homosexuality and drugs", a TLS leader writer stated - "too much for most." But he or she delighted in a "highly provocative week...>> |
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Dinner? Paris? Invite Everyone! Kenan Christiansen, BEFORE Facebook, Couchsurfing.org, and even before the Internet, Jim
Haynes was helping the world connect. In the late 1980s, he wrote
five travel books, each containing short biographies of people from Russia
and Eastern Europe who were willing to accept travelers into their homes.
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Chez Jim Haynes: In Paris, a great Sunday feast with instant friends Doug Oster, For more than 30 years, Jim Haynes has hosted a Sunday dinner at his
home here for whomever wants to come. |
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Jim Haynes on the book that went up in flames Michael MacLeod, Jim Haynes opened the Paperback bookshop in Charles Street in 1959, where the University of Edinburgh's new informatics centre now stands. It was "sometime around 1960" that he sold a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover to a woman to proceeded to set it on fire. Penguin Books was put on trial in 1960 for publishing the book, in what became a test-case for freedom of speech...>> |
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Social Networking in der Wohnküche Daniela Noack, Manche Menschen genießen im Alter ihre wohlverdiente Ruhe. Andere machen Party. Zu Letzteren gehört Jim Haynes. Seit 33 Jahren lädt der US-Amerikaner fast jeden Sonntag zur Dinnerparty in sein Pariser Domizil. Willkommen sind alle, sofern sie sich vorher anmelden. Jim Haynes liebt das Besondere. Besonders sonntags. Sonntags abends verwandelt sich die Wohnküche des Schnauzbartträgers in einen Salon, um die hundert Menschen drängen sich für ein paar Stunden zwischen Couch und Küchentisch. Im Sommer bevölkern die Gäste auch den Vorgarten...>> |
A Dinner Party Tradition in Paris Ann Banks, The Conversation flows as freely as the wine every Sunday at Jim Haynes' legendary Paris salon. Before there was social networking, there was Jim Haynes. Haynes doesn’t have a shy bone in his body, though he has the greatest compassion for those of us who do. Everyone in the world wants to meet everyone else in the world, he believes, “as long as they are tenderly introduced.” Haynes has dedicated his life to making such tender introductions, first in his career as an international avant garde arts impresario and for the last three decades at the legendary Sunday night dinners he holds in his Paris atelier in the 14th arrondissement. ...>> |
Bishop backs rhino monument... Craig Brown, IT COULD be a landmark to rival Greyfriars Bobby, but perhaps not as cute. Visitors to Edinburgh may one day be charging across the city to see a rhino sitting on the site of a historic bookshop, at least if one senior churchman has his way. The Bishop of Edinburgh, the Right Rev Brian Smith, of the Scottish Episcopal Church says that The Paperback bookshop, opened in 1959 by a recently demobbed US soldier called Jim Haynes in Charles Street, deserves to be commemorated as a cultural nexus from which the ideas and impetus for the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Traverse Theatre emerged...>> |
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Rendez-vous chez Jim Susan Johnson, Every Sunday for 30 years Jim Haynes has opened his Paris apartment
for dinner. Susan Johnson finally joins the party. |
Lo scrittore che invita a cena sconosciuti. Chiara Degl'innocenti, VOLETE incontrare persone nuove a Parigi? Non perdete
le cene a casa di Jim Haynes, allora. Meglio di un social network
virtuale, questo originale settantaseienne della Louisiana apre la porta
ogni domenica sera a chi desidera fare nuove amicizie. Jim è uno scrittore
e si è trasferito a Parigi nel 1978: da allora organizza incontri settimanali
mettendo a disposizione casa, cibo e bevande. L'idea è ormai collaudata,
quasi centoventi- mila persone hanno già cenato nell'appartamento di Rue
de la Tombe Issoire scambiando chiacchiere e numeri di telefono. |
Paris Notes: Auto Bios & a Lady
Named Betty Jim Haynes, In the summer of 1982, while visiting my son, Jesper, in New York
City, I decided to call my friend, Betty Dodson, to see how she was doing
and to plug into her amazing energy and intellect. |
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Alle er invitert Fredrik Drevon, Hver søndag klokken 20 inviterer Jim Haynes til åpent hus i Paris. Middag med fremmede er den nye formen for sosial nettverksbygging. I byer som Paris, Berlin, New York og Oslo, popper såkalte undergrunnsrestauranter
opp. Flere gjør som Haynes i Paris: De inviterer fremmede for å
bli kjent med nye mennesker og bygge seg nettverk. |
Want to meet people in Paris? Vicky Baker, Chez Jim |
60 Seconds with Jim Haynes Kieran Meeke Every week for the past 30 years, Jim Haynes, 75, has hosted a dinner party in his home in Paris. Anyone who calls or e-mails to book – even total strangers – is welcome. A play producer, he helped start the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The International Times in London...>> |
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Break bread, not your budget Athena Tsavliris, Back in the 1980s, Jim Haynes edited a guidebook that contained no hotels,
no restaurants, no museums, monuments, maps, nor any of the usual tourism
trappings. It was filled with about 1,000 brief biographies of people,
in nine Eastern European countries and Russia, who would be prepared to
welcome visitors to their countries. He called them people-to-people guides.
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Jim Haynes takes Henry Miller down memory lane in Paris Adam Biles, "It's rare that you know your hero.
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Im Untergrund Wo sich der kubanische Kulturattaché und der Trucker aus Arizona
bei einem Teller Suppe begegnen. Freie Salons bieten Reisenden Zugang
zur Dinner-Guerilla einer Stadt.
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Master of soirées brings back taste of Paris Tim Cornwell, THEY have become a Parisian institution attended by grateful guests
from across the world. |
A house of free spirits Allan Brown, There are two things in life to which I have particular aversions:
meeting strangers and eating in strangers’ houses. So there are few
less auspicious projects to undertake than a visit to Jim Haynes at his
atelier in Paris. Now 76, Haynes was the man who, with John Calder and
Richard Demarco, founded the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and who opened
Britain’s first paperback bookshop in the same city. Both events are widely
attested as central in transforming the Festival Fringe into the sprawling,
monolithic jamboree it is today. |
Dinner with Jim Haynes Abi Andersen, Every Sunday for the past 30 years, people have been wending their way to a converted sculpture studio in Paris to have dinner with Louisiana-born legend Jim Haynes. Over 100,000 people from all over the world have been to his home. Children have been conceived here and come back to cook feasts; artists and writers have found inspiration; models have had photoshoots taken...>>
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Sees hos Jim? Intervju med Jim Haynes
i Paris. Fredrik Drevon, Hvis du er så heldig å befinne deg i Paris en søndag, er du invitert
på middag hos Jim Haynes (73).
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Inviting the World To Dinner Jim Haynes, Every week for the past 30 years, I've hosted a Sunday dinner
in my home in Paris. People, including total strangers, call or e-mail
to book a spot. I hold the salon in my atelier, which used to be a sculpture
studio. The first 50 or 60 people who call may come, and twice that many
when the weather is nice and we can overflow into the garden.
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Sunday suppers: If you're in Paris, you're invited Carol Pucci, Seattle Times travel writer PARIS — It's Sunday night, and in apartments all over the city, people are sitting down to dinner, perhaps with friends, sharing good food, wine and lively conversation. Wouldn't it be fun to score an invitation? Maybe discover a new neighborhood and see what it's like inside those old buildings with the big wooden doors? Better yet, why not just invite yourself?...>>
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Jim Haynes Sunday Dinners Taylor Beidler, Frommers.com, March 9, 2006 They happen almost every Sunday night, they've been happening since the
70's, I've been reading articles about it for years and this time to Paris
I was able to go to dinner at Jim's! |
Sunday dinners in Paris: just call Jim Alex Ninian, PARIS "Get off Metro 4 at Alesia in arrondissement 14eme and head
for No. 83, rue de la Tombe Issoire." |
Yes, he'll get by with a little help... John Lloyd, The Financial Times Weekend January 16/17, 1999 ALWAYS OPEN to every experience and never one to be shamed, Jim Haynes still believes in the Sixties after all these years. John Lloyd reportsJim Haynes is a 1960s man for the connoisseur, for those who saw and see in that period (which lasted to the 1970s) a quite serious and bold venture...>> |
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A lust for life Alan Taylor, Evening News, April 8, 1999 SEX in the city of Edinburgh began in the spring of 1959. We can be so precise about the date because it was at that point that a tall American moseyed into town. His name was Jim Haynes and he inspired a sexual revolution that was to put the ancient, stuffed-shirt Capital at the forefront of the Sixties' counter-culture. Incredible as it may seem...>> |
It's weird, it's wonderful - it must be Edinburgh Andy Lavender, The Times (London), August 2, 1999 With August festival fever about to strike, Andy Lavender looks back
at some of the triumphs and disasters that bear the stamp of the world's
biggest celebration of the arts. |
A message: please ring Jim Haynes in Paris Jeremy Atyah, The Independent (London), May 17, 1998 WOULD ANYONE out there like to meet an American called Jim Haynes? I
am talking about the Jim Haynes who lives in Atelier A-2, at 83 Rue de
la Tombe Issoire in Paris (post code 75014), and whose telephone number
is 00 331 4327 1767. |
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The Human Factor Deborah Courtnell, JIM HAYNES is a seductive bear of a man, a sort of cross between Charles Bronson and Ernest Hemingway, brown jumper tucking neat paunch beneath immaculate cream suit. Not bad for 59. Since he isn't dead, he must be a born-again; a reincarnation from another time when people walked everywhere and talked to each other in the streets. He has roamed across the fractured lands of modern...>> |
Do your own thing: a call to counter-culture Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph, November 6, 1993 WHEN Jim Haynes first arrived in Edinburgh from America in 1956, the city was 'dark, dank, cold - everything under yellow smog'. There was one coffee-house. The Edinburgh Festival featured only classical music and the big national theatre companies. 'There was nothing fringe, off-beat, radical or crazy', he remembers. Jim Haynes made up his mind to put it there...>> |
Your House Is Mine Tara McKelvey, Voice-leisure, review, Jan 12, 1992 The International Monetary Fund official who met me in the Hotel Warszawa restaurant last week had a crisp accent and a scholarly gaze. While describing his background, he mentioned an acronym I didn't recognize - the B.H.I. - but I nodded eagerly, assuming it was a branch of the Manetary Fund that dealt with Eastem Europe...>> |
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Giving a little help to his friends Jenny Brown, The Scotsman, February 24, 1992 The Scots aren't renowned for being the most outgoing race. Strangers are often regarded with suspicion rather than warmly welcomed. I think of a friend stopping in Lochaline, and saying a cheerful hello to one of the locals. Once he'd passed he heard the man mutter "Now, I wonder what he...>> |
A visit to the home front in Poland Nicholas Lezard, The Independent, March 22, 1992 THE FRONTIERS of travel are no longer geographical: if you can rustle up a few hundred pounds you can go almost anywhere. The problem is that as a tourist, contact with the locals means a humiliating exchange of incomprehension and distrust with receptionists, guides, bar staff and waiters. In order to combat this, Jim Haynes has compiled Poland: People to People (Canongate Press, pounds 4.95)...>>
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Life is one big party Raymond Ross, Edinburgh Evening News, August 27, 1992 Raymond Ross meets Jim Haynes, an American in Paris and first chairman of the [Edinburgh] Traverse Theater. IN THE autumn of 1956 a young man by the name of Jim Haynes from Haynesville,
Louisiana, arrived at the US airbase at Kirknewton [outside Edinburgh,
Scotland] to do his [US] military service.
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Karma and smarma Clancy Sigal, The Listener, 16 February 1984 Jim Haynes, the Johnny Appleseed of the Sixties counter-culture in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Paris, disarms criticism by dedicating this 'open newsletter' to me —and several thousand named others, from Abbul to Zwerin. Haynes actually knows this number of people (and more) whom he counts as personal, contactable friends. He is amazing, a true nature's child of the arts with extraordinary 'green fingers'. Almost everything he touched, from Edinburgh's Paperback Bookshop...>>
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Remember Jim Haynes? Edinburgh Evening News, Thursday, February 23, 1984 `I've mellowed.
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Alternative arts man Michael Coveney, Financial Times, March 10, 1984 After he had launched Britain's first paperback bookshop in Edinburgh in 1959, Jim Haynes became a crucial figure in the Performing Arts. He made things happen. He initiated the fringe theatre movement in this country. An ex-member of the U.S. Air Force, he became, along with fellow ex-pats Charles Marowitz and Ed Berman, a key spokesman for...>> |
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20/20 Haynes-Sight Kyle Roderick, Heavy Metal, A whole generation ot artists, punks, non-conformists and poseurs have evolved (or devolved) into these stylishly alienated eighties, totally unaware of the influence that characters like American expatriate Jim Haynes have had on contemporary culture, and hence their lives. A pioneer on the Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam, and Paris art scenes for twenty-seven years, he embodies the libertarian concept of...>> |
Question-Is Jim Haynes really shy? Merritt Clifton, G.L.N., 1984 Jim Haynes is a legend. As with all legends, most who know him recall a wonderful first meeting, a moment when he brought them through the looking glass. I've heard many stories of hellos on buses leading to all-night conversations or making love, and, of course, to creative action-plays, books, films-anything that generates and furthers bright ideas...>>
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