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Host Training: Salon Host Survival Guide – What Can We Learn from Moderating User Research Sessions and Apply It to Our Salons?

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In this special host training session with Olena Bulygina,  we will discuss potentially "tricky", challenging or unpredictable situations that can arise during one's salon — and together crack them through possible steps and approaches for resolution. As hosts, we bring our hearts, minds and imperfections, and this is what makes us different and, well, us.…

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How to Read a Poem

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In this Interintellect salon, Hollis Robbins invites you to consider reading poetry. Especially if you're not a regular poetry reader (yet!) Are you secretly insecure about poetry? Wish you could tell what makes a good poem "good," a great poem "great," and a bad poem "bad" (it is not just a matter of opinion)? Don't know the…

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$10.00

“Masks” and Meaning – Improv Games (Round Two!!!)

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In the second offering of this improv workshop, Interintellect Maybe Gray invites you to explore the meaning of "masks" in theatre, psychology and spirituality.  The use of tangible masks has existed throughout the history of dramatic performance. We all recognize the most iconic symbol of drama itself to be a pair of masks with exaggerated…

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$30.00

Ted Chiang Part 5: Tweaks to the Human Mind

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In Part 5, we discuss deliberate modifications to human psychology. What if we could affect the way we perceive attractiveness, or the way we remember things? Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though…

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$15.00

Exploring Collage Techniques and Visualising Our Stories

At this Interintellect salon/workshop Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion about collage techniques and ways of expression via images, photographs, drawings, paintings. The salon will start with a short presentation with emphasis on well-known artists that used collages as means of expression (Schwitters, Picasso, Matisse, Gris, among many others) and an introduction to the most… Continue reading Exploring Collage Techniques and Visualising Our Stories

$9.00

Members Only: How We Can Ask for More and “Sell” Ourselves – For Introverts!

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Interintellect Bronwyn Williams hosts an introverts guide to asking for what you want. You (yes, even you) can get better at self promotion - even when you really don't want to! We will discuss the magical art of asking for exactly what you want and being surprised at how often you actually get it. We…

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The Only Child

In this Interintellect Salon, Indy Neogy will host a conversation on the experience and meaning of growing up as an only child. For most of history, the norm has been for families to have a number of children. It is only post 1945 that changing economic and societal circumstances has in general slowly led to more…

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$15.00

Luxury Values – Veblen Goods (and Bads) and the Leisure Class – A Dead Economists Salon Series

The Dead Economists Society Salon series continues as Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin investigate Veblen goods: products that become more desirable as they become more expensive. "With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper." ~ Thorstein Veble In this Dead Economists Society Salon, we will…

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$20.00

Networked Minds: The History and Future of Collaboration (Part 2)

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Interintellect hosts Bryan Kam and Isabela Granic continue with the second part of their salon series that aims to understand both the history and potential futures of networked thought. "And he refused to specialize in anything, preferring to keep an eye on the overall estate rather than any of its parts ... And Nikolay’s management…

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$15.00