Once Upon a Time: Narrate Your Story! – With Anwar AlKandari

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In this salon, Anwar AlKandari will dive into: storytelling and our constant urge to seek meaning, forms of narratives we use, and digital storytelling. “In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah." They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each…

Networked Minds: The History and Future of Collaboration

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Interintellect hosts Bryan Kam and Isabela Granic join forces with a new salon that aims to take a deep dive into the history and potential of networked thought. “The great driver of scientific and technological innovation the increase in our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people, and to borrow other people’s…

Fear and Trembling: Why We Are Scared and How to Use This Feeling for Good

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On April 29, Interintellect founder Anna Gát hosts an intimate discussion about our fears and how to use them to work for, instead of against, us in our lives How many things do you do during one day because of fear? We close windows, blow out candles, look around before changing lanes, cross the street when we…

Nature vs. Nurture Part 2/2: Nurturing Our Nature and Cultivating Talent (with Harry Ramsay)

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In Part 2 of this two-part salon, Harry Ramsay will lead the conversation beyond mere definitions of talent into an expositional, participatory dialogue about how we can best cultivate what talents we have - in our friends, our children, and (of course) ourselves. --- Having already deliberated the nature of talent in Part 1 of…

A Conversation On Synchronicity – The Search for Meaning in Coincidence

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Interintellect Patricia Hurducas will lead a discussion on synchronicity from the Book of Changes to Carl Jung and to our own encounters with these “meaningful coincidences”.   Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.” – Carl Jung   Jung defined synchronicity as an “acausal connecting (togetherness) principle,” “meaningful coincidence”, “acausal…

Writer’s Corner: Short Fiction in Theory and Practice — Session 3: Gabriel García Márquez

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Welcome to Writer’s Corner where we talk about and practice the craft of writing. Join Sylvia R for this session on Gabriel García Márquez. The salon will include three sections:   Section 1: Discuss We’ll dive into the formal qualities of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (see pre-salon reading materials). We’ll discuss structure…

Dead Economists Salon Series : Degrowth, Doughnuts, Postalgia and Progress

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In this meeting of the Dead Economists Salon Series we discuss the benefits and challenges with degrowth and doughnut economics that preference social and economic sustainability over economic growth and shareholder value. Hosted by: Bronwyn Williams and Peter Isztin. We question … if the limits required in terms of social safety nets and resource usage ceilings could exacerbate feelings of postalgia (the feeling that today…

“Masks” and Meaning – Improv Games

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In this improvisational acting 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 expressions of joy and sorrow,…