ROOM 707 is a space for writers, poets, and creatives to gather in secret to share their work. Historically, public spaces are not safe spaces for artists to share their ideas. Therefore, these private gatherings will be held in secret to protect creators.
We hear Virginia Woolf’s voice echoing from the past: we all need a room of our own.
The internet has transformed from a site of total freedom to a social-market laying siege to our daily inner lives. Now we are monitored for our safety and our wallets---where our smart cars travel, artless algorithms populate our playlists, a thousand business profiles tentatively connect to our shopping carts, each social interaction quantified and stored for its money potential, and on and on ad infinitum.
You do not surf the web. The web surfs you.
Is there nowhere to go?
Yes. We reclaim our private sphere in Room 707. We take heed of the Invisible Committee’s charge. We will be most creative and most alive in our anonymity and privacy.