Dazzling Spark Kicks Off New Literary Series at Serenity Café with Novelist Gaellen Quinn
Dazzling Spark Arts Foundation launched a new literary series with featured author Gaellen Quinn reading from her novel, The Last Aloha, at Serenity Café in Edinburgh, on Saturday, September 14th.
This epic tale of US missionaries in 19th-century Hawaii plotting against the royal family for control of the island, with its resulting transcendence, explores complex moral, spiritual and cultural questions relevant for peoples everywhere.
When she’s not writing novels, Gaellen Quinn works as a consultant to social economic development projects in such far-flung parts of the world as the Amazon, Cambodia, Tanzania and Austin, Texas.
As part of our commitment to more caring and inclusive communities, health and healing, Dazzling Spark is pleased to partner with Serenity Café for this new literary series. Serenity is the UK’s first recovery café, with superb, affordable lunches including vegetarian dishes and other café fare in a congenial family atmosphere, with lots of space, comfort and toys for the kids. Nestled between the Scottish Poetry Library and the offices of the BBC in Edinburgh, this café is a relaxing oasis with rotating menus throughout the week.
All proceeds from this series go directly to support the work of the Comas Foundation, proprietors of Serenity Café, helping people recover from drug and alcohol dependencies in this volunteer work community.
So if you’re ever in the Edinburgh area, please check this site for future events in this series.
The Dazzling Spark Foundation works to foster arts in service to humanity. It seeks to carry forward a vision of oneness and global civilization through excellence in the arts.