Art-Making Workshop: Something Out of Nothing

Online

Join an art-making workshop with an experimental artist, Anne Ross, and make art from anything! All levels of artistic ability, from never-tried it to professional, are welcome. If you have ever wanted to create art, unleash your inner artist and join this workshop, where we will make art from anything! Creating art is a bliss for the…

$15.00

Existential Epistemology: Clear and Meaningful Thought

Online

Is epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is practical? Yes, and this salon series by Arkadiusz Synowczyk will prove why and how. Join us for its second episode, where we will delve into the issue of clarity and meaning, unravelling their significance and exploring their impact on our understanding of life's complexities. Throughout the session, we will embark…

$15.00

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class – Author Talk with Dr. Blair LM Kelley

Online

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Blair Kelley about her book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class, which illuminates the adversities and joys throughout the long history of the Black working class in America. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white…

Free

The Art of Hosting Salons Online: Learning and Practice with Anna Gát

Online

Believe me, no Interintellect host is born with the magical knowledge of how to run a successful, engaging, friendly online salon (or offline social) - but these skills are easy to learn! Join our discussion about the hosting basics and leave feeling empowered to set up your own events. If you're not a host yet, you…

Free

Read Something Wonderful – A portal to timeless internet writing

Online

Join Ben Springwater, Co-Founder and CEO of the Matter reading app, to discuss novelty bias in our social media feeds, showing us what's new, not what's best, and why they built ReadSomethingWonderful to be a portal to timeless internet writing. A members-only fireside chat, moderated by Nicky Buttigieg. "Most of the best writing was not…

Free

The Trials and Triumphs of Making Friends as an Adult

Online

Join fellow Interintellect (and Interintellect fellow) Vidhika Bansal in this salon exploring the joys, challenges, and how-tos of making friends as an adult. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival." (C. S. Lewis)   Friendship is a beautiful thing:…

$20.00

London IRL with Anna Gát – Travel as Self-Growth

London, Barbican

Join Interintellect founder Anna Gát at this offline London social for a discussion of travel in relation to self-growth.   Things to read prior to the discussion: The Case Against Travel by Agnes Callard We have a new word for that feeling when travel makes everything new The Philosophy of Travel and The Experience of Otherness…

Free

Thinking about Not-knowing #7: Connecting Actions and Results

Online

Join Vaughn Tan in building a better relationship with the not-knowing that surrounds us. Please note that this salon will run at a different time from previous salons (17h-19h CEST). Making good strategy is hard when you don’t know how particular actions are connected to particular outcomes — in other words, when there is not-knowing about causation. At…

$15.00

Community Meet & Greet

Online

The photo was taken at an IRL salon hosted by Bryan Kam in London. Have you recently become a member of the Interintellect community? Join fellow newcomers for a casual hangout to be welcomed into our global community and foster new connections. Hosted by Nicky Buttigieg. If you recently joined the Interintellect community as a…

Free

Tales of Darkness and Music: Discussing ‘Tár’

Online

Todd Field's new movie Tár, starring the formidable Cate Blanchett, feels like more than just a cinematic experience: it is topical, physical, and deeply cerebral, raising questions around power, morality, and talent that are very often uncomfortable. In this casual salon, we will talk about the movie from all these angles, and compare our various interpretations…

$15.00

What’s Next? Cities, Sci-fi, Communities with Eliot Peper and Visa Veerasamy

Online

Sci-fi author and strategist Eliot Peper, whose thought-provoking novels exploring the intersection of technology and society captivated readers worldwide, and Internet philosopher Visakan Veerasamy join community and friends to discuss and explore the future of cities! Drawing on the expertise of Eliot Peper, gained while writing novels such as Bandwidth, Veil, Cumulus, and Reap3r, we will…

$25.00

Existential Epistemology: Imagining Different Conceptual Worlds

Online

Is epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is practical? Yes, and this salon series by Arkadiusz Synowczyk will prove why and how. Join us for its third episode where we will discuss how, given the previous advice, one should approach concepts – the building blocks of our thoughts. In this episode, we will discuss the nature of…

$15.00