Upcoming Events
Upcoming Curiosity Café: TBD
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 6:00-8:30pm
Our next Curiosity Café will be held on Tuesday, November 5th from 6:00-8:30 pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, M5R 2S1). Stay tuned for more information!
Being and Becoming’s Philosophy Festival
Date: November 19th-23rd, 2024
About the Festival: Can’t get enough of philosophy? Get ready for a week-long philosophy festival in Toronto with workshops and socials from November 19th-23rd, organized by yours truly in celebration of World Philosophy Day.
Throughout the festival week, evening seminars and workshops on different methods of inquiry and dialogue will be on offer. The final evening of the festival, on Saturday, November 23rd, will be a social with interactive programming centred on collaborative exploration and curiosity.
Experimental Event Series
Stay tuned for our next event.
Date: TBA
About the Series: The experimental series is a collection of curated events that introduce novel and perhaps surprising ways to collaboratively explore questions that don’t necessarily lend themselves to the traditional café format.
Past Events
Collective Phenomenology: A Workshop on Shared Experience
On July 3rd, we hosted the second event of our experimental event series: Collective Phenomenology: A workshop on shared experience!
At this workshop, we did a series of perceptual experiments, embodied experiments, and concrete phenomenology. Together, we explored what these experiences were like by sharing them with one another, developing our own perspectives and attending to how and where our perspectives converged and diverged.
Experimental Series: Midwifing a Wisdom Commons
Our inaugural Experimental Series event! In collaboration with Peter Limberg of The Stoa we met on April Fool’s Day (April 1st) to create a wisdom commons, with an emphasis on exploring our foolishness.
Public Philosophy Soiree
Thank you for coming to our Philosophy Soirée and the official launch of Being and Becoming: A Community for the Curious on January 19th! We are so grateful that you joined us and contributed to the community we are building here in Toronto.
Check out the keynote speeches and panel Q&A on our YouTube channel.
Curiosity Café: Bi-weekly discussion on the questions that matter
Every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave) for Curiosity Café, a collaborative exploration of a chosen topic or question. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about that week.
Posters from our past Cafés are below. To read about the discussions we had, check out the recaps available in our newsletter.