Musical Potluck: Fortune

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Russel Ramos continues his members-only track series where participants can each contribute a song for a musical tasting session, based on the theme of the month. During the musical potlucks, we will explore the vibrancy of musical tastes, aspects of listening, and emotional resonances lovingly baked into each song offering. March’s theme – Fortune  …

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The Future We Need: Discussing Labor with Erica Smiley (Jobs With Justice) and Sarita Gupta (Ford Foundation) | New Labor Book Series #1

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Join us to discuss the future of labor organizing with Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, on the eve of the release of their new book: The Future We Need –…

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Community Play Reading: The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertold Brecht

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Interintellect community members and hosts once again gather for a casual play-reading séance. At this time we will be reading a beautiful, timely text on heroism, motherhood, justice, and war, by Bertold Brecht.  Brecht’s play is set within the context of a dispute over land claimed by two communes in the Soviet Union after World War II. The main action…

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Reading Beowulf: Grendel’s Mother + Translating Beowulf

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Join host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. In this session, we'll talk about Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother. We'll also examine the different choices translators have made in translating Beowulf: verse or prose? archaic or modern? strange or familiar? Reading…

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Prophets or Cassandras: Ayn Rand vs Hannah Arendt

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In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the lessons that these two twentieth century thinkers offer for those of us hurtling through the twenty-first. This salon is the third of three in a mini-series comparing the thinkers Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt.  And hurtling we are. This ride is not slowing down—it’s faster and weirder from…

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