The Dali Dinners

The Dali Dinners were a series of Art-Event/Dinner Parties given in Atlanta, Georgia during the years 1977-82. They became progressively more elaborate, culminating in the final party given in remembrance of the passing of Gala Dali in 1982.

Dali Dinner #1 - Rupley House - 1977

The Surrealist Dali Dinner Manifesto 1977

1st invitation

1977- guests: Phyllis Melton,Nanci Dubin,Judy Aycock,Chip Jamison,George Nikas & Jaff & Michael


Michael Slagle & I...hosting




Alison Mclaughlin in her performance of Veiled Isis with Velveeta Cheese Offerings



2nd Dali Dinner - Roxboro Rd. - Atlanta 1978












guests - Chip Jamison,Judy Aycock,SharonGorman,Arthur Offen,Nanci Dubin,Peter & Anne Hudson and The Mystery Woman...hosts -Jaff & Michael




  3rd Dali Dinner - Argonne Ave. - Atlanta 1979






guests: Deborah & Randal Speckler, Nanci Dubin, Alison McLaughlin,Judy Aycock,
Chip Jamison,King Tackston, Phyllis Melton and Michael Slagle/Jaff Seijas hosting



4th Dali Dinner -  63 17th St. Atlanta 1980











guests - Alison McLauglin,David Sheppard,Patricia Deck,Chip Jamison,Judy Aycock,Mike Murry,Sheila Beardsly,Nanci Dubin...and Michael & Jaff hosting

Dali Dinner 5 - Kipling Dr. - Atlanta 1981 - (alas, I lost all but three of the photos I had of this event)








guests: Nanci Dubin,Phyllis&Wynn Huff,King Thackston,Chuck Haines,Sharon Gorman,Arthur Offen,Chip Jamison,Judy Aycock,David Widmere,Don Cooper...hosts - Jaff & Michael




Dali Dinner 6 - or The Gala Dali Dinner - in honor of the passing of Gala Dali in 1982





guests: Nanci Dubin,Forrest Moses,Bob Thomas,King Thackston,Denis Duncan,Gibbs Hasty,Phyllis Melton,Bryan Kirkland,Jack Owen,Chip Jamison,Judy Aycock & hosts Jaff & Michael



The Meaning of the Last Dali Gala Dinner



(May be sung to Harp accompaniment)


Joy can only follow those who go too far in excess.
Those who push to the limit their sadomasochistic palette to the gilded razored fork…

Mixing blood and fish flesh…the reddest of snappers…lashing cold tongues with the sanguine flow of Christian guilt.

Are we not those fearful spoiled children, in non-reflective garments of red and black Samurai terrors…bound in anorexic adolescent vaporous frenzy…blind and helpless…white mice in a maze of psychological salad-daze?

The room now wreathed in white and funerary décor weeps in perfect static Classical sorrow…as the sugar-coated soul of Gala ascends to an obscure culinary heaven…her apotheosis accented by Doric visual paeans… sweeping garlands of white roses swaying into clouds of awe as we …the bereaving spirits of 13 mourners sigh and sigh again…

Hostilities, exhalations and nervous mental windmills spin upwards…as the vanities, tensions and rivalry we have all shared…is underscored by the knowledge of our deeds and their consequences! Oh forgive us Gods of Art!

Food for thought indeed!

The dinner bell punctuates our human ironies   and a toast will be made…or is it a prayer? Only we 13 can say…..








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