An Introduction to African Folklore: Tragic Folktales

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Are you are unfamiliar with the mythic imaginations of African peoples? Join Helen Nde, curator of the storytelling platform Mythological Africans, to discover the rich tapestry of traditional folklore from different parts of the African continent. Part 1 of this 3-part series will focus on stories of tragedy, heartbreak and grief. This session will include…

$15.00

How to Read a Novel: IV, Character — The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen

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Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure bookclub-style setting? Join Henry Oliver, who writes The Common Reader for this series on How to Read a Novel. In this series, we will learn how novels…

$20.00

Doing Good / God’s Work II (Workshop)

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There are many phrases we use to describe doing work we feel is meaningful, important, and moral. In this follow-up salon hosted by executive coach Jason Shen, we will continue an earlier discussion co-hosted with Interintellect founder Anna Gát: we will participate in a visualization exercise and discussion to explore our own vision of Good Work…

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An Introduction to African Folklore: Comedic Folktales

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Are you are unfamiliar with the mythic imaginations of African peoples? Join Helen Nde, curator of the storytelling platform Mythological Africans , to discover the rich tapestry of traditional folklore from different parts of the African continent. Part 2 of this 3-part series will focus on stories which make us laugh. The session will include…

$15.00

Excavating Man from Myth: Chaïm Soutine and the Cultural Power of Apocrypha

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Chaïm Soutine's paintings hang in major art museums the world over, and yet much of what is said about the man and his work is untrue. In this salon, writer Celeste Marcus, now at work on the first English language biography of Soutine, will consider the question: does it matter that we don't know the…

$18.00

The Psychedelic Map For Change

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What kind of ancestor do you want to be? Join Marcus Druen and Ruth Veda from The Psychedelic Map For Change and a group of fellow conscious, curious and courageous people for this salon to understand how 'it is' — and how it 'could be.' Exploring the Psychedelic Map For Change through deep dialogue will motivate…

$10.00

What Information Wants, Chapter 9: Narratives and Coordination in the Internet Age

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Rhys Lindmark is writing a book about how information flows and how it’s changing on the internet. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. This is the 10th salon for Rhys Lindmark’s series on What Information Wants. Join us…

$20.00

Web3 and Plurality: Digital Democracy with Glen Weyl

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Web3 leans on Albert Hirschman’s political framing of “exit”: the belief that ultimate freedom to port a person’s life data from one service to another leads to competitive platforms that maximize that person’s benefit. What if, instead, Web3 were to emphasize another of Hirschman’s concepts, “voice”? A pluralistic version of Web3 imagines a network of…

$25.00

*FREE SuperSalon* | Status as a Service: Revisited

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Join guest Eugene Wei and host Nathan Baschez as they discuss Eugene's seminal theory of social networking, Status as a Service, first published in 2019. Much like Clay Christensen's theory of disruption, as a management theory becomes more well known, it can change the behavior of managers. Three years in, it feels like many of… Continue reading *FREE SuperSalon* | Status as a Service: Revisited

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