• Mon, 26 Sep 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is esotericism? How do you draw on esoteric knowledge in your life?
• Tue, 27 Sep 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What role does the clown play in society today?
• Wed, 28 Sep 2016 1:15 PM
  Gentle Yoga
• Thu, 29 Sep 2016 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Imagine that your family, immediate social circle or workplace is an organized religion. What are its core beliefs or articles of faith? What constitutes a sin?
• Thu, 29 Sep 2016 7:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How did Donald Trump become the Republican U.S. presidential candidate? What if he wins?

• Sat, 01 Oct 2016 1:30 PM
  Saturday Forum | Virtual Tour of Iran
• Mon, 03 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Return to the city-state? Is it time for the Constitution to recognize cities and towns as deserving equals, or are they best kept as mere 'creatures of the province'? What would happen if cities had more autonomy?
• Tue, 04 Oct 2016 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is your life’s work? In what way(s) does that differ from your work/everyday life?
• Tue, 04 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Basic Guaranteed Income: Should everyone be given a basic income? A crazy idea or the solution to automation and inequality?
• Thu, 06 Oct 2016 2:30 PM
  Writing Fundamentals Workshop (55+)
• Thu, 06 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Can Public Engagement Change Systems?
• Thu, 06 Oct 2016 8:00 PM
  The Writer's Studio Reading Series in Vancouver
• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Getting away with it? Duffy, Ghomeshi and the presumption of innocence.
  Meet in room 1510.
• Wed, 12 Oct 2016 1:00 PM
  Ismaili Café | Cultural (mis)appropriation: Is adoption of another group’s cultural practice(s) a sign of respect, or exploitation?
• Wed, 12 Oct 2016 6:15 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Are older people potentially more of a burden on the community than is any other demographic? In what sense? Does it matter?
• Wed, 12 Oct 2016 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Why should we celebrate Grandparents’ Day?
• Fri, 14 Oct 2016 1:30 PM
  Free Forum: Blue State, Red State: Making Sense of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
• Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:00 AM
  Philosophers' Café | How has the tyranny of commercialization changed our lives and the lives of our children?
• Wed, 19 Oct 2016 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Castles or Condos
  Past generations of Canadians dreamed of owning their own detached home. Is this still the case or does the new generation dream of a condo in a dense urban environment?
• Wed, 19 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Inclusive City Café | What do you see more: similarities or differences among cultures?
• Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:30 AM
  Philosophers' Café | Promises, Promises: What obligations do the winners of an election have to carry out their promises in a timely way?
• Thu, 20 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Russian Café | What is consciousness?
  Guest speaker: Dr. Irina Beletskaya
• Thu, 20 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How will the recent changes to the national child care benefits affect child poverty rates in Canada?
• Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Should music deal with social justice issues? Or should it remain detached, above worldly concerns and issues?
  Guest musicians: Alina Khvatova, Tatiana Khvatova, Danielle Marcinek, and Cliff Ridley
• Mon, 24 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is this thing called ageism? How is it manifested? How can we eliminate it?
• Tue, 25 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | If you could start from scratch, how would you reinvent workplace culture?
• Wed, 26 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What do your choices in clothing say about you? How do you manage your perceptions of yourself—and others’ perceptions of you—by what you choose to wear?
• Thu, 27 Oct 2016 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What are the most common fictions/untruths that people tell in your family, immediate social circle or workplace?
• Thu, 27 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Teen Café | The poet Rainer Maria Rilke said, “Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.” What life questions are you ‘living’ now?
• Thu, 27 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How do we build resilience?
• Fri, 28 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What are you learning about being the parent of adult children? What’s critical? Helpful? Irrelevant?
• Sat, 29 Oct 2016 1:30 PM
  Saturday Forum | Poetry of Immigration

• Wed, 26 Oct 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is the value of sharing our vulnerability? Can it give us courage?
• Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Is our love of yoga a case of cultural appropriation?
  Meet in room 1510.
• Mon, 07 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How is leaving a legacy important? Not important? What would YOU like to pass on? How would you do that?
• Tue, 08 Nov 2016 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What question might you ask of your family, immediate community or workplace to shake them up/ignite thought/create change? Why?
• Tue, 08 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Do we know what is causing Vancouver housing prices to go through the roof? Who is responsible for solving the problem?
• Wed, 09 Nov 2016 6:15 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How do you see the future of our current grapple with the issue of euthanasia, its definitions, scope, and eligibility criteria?
• Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:00 AM
  Philosophers' Café | Can we (as a society) overcome hatred and marginalization?
• Wed, 16 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Inclusive City Café | I am not a global citizen and I am happy about it. What about you?
• Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:30 AM
  Philosophers' Café | Our Stories, Ourselves: How can we grow, each of us, as story-keepers and story-tellers?
• Thu, 17 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What are the key qualities of friendship?
• Thu, 17 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Russian Café | What is Biocentrism (Part 2): How does consciousness change the universe?
• Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Can there be objective standards in music? If so, how much do they matter?
  Guest musicians: Alina Khvatova, Tatiana Khvatova, Danielle Marcinek, and Cliff Ridley
• Wed, 23 Nov 2016 1:00 PM
  Ismaili Café | What is pluralism to you? How, in Canada, should we be with it? Construct it? Implement it? Care for it?
• Thu, 24 Nov 2016 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | If you could trade life skills/knowledge/dispositions/virtues the way kids swap hockey cards, who would you trade with and for what skills/knowledge/dispositions/virtues? Why?
• Thu, 24 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Teen Café | What are the primary characteristics of a strong democracy?
• Fri, 25 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is the aesthetic of your ideal world? What aesthetic do you think will dominate the future? What do you think about where technologies will lead us?
• Mon, 28 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Has "technological progress" made things better or worse for humans?
• Tue, 29 Nov 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is the Anthropocene and what do we need to do in this new global ecological reality?

• Mon, 05 Dec 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How can “the system” better support people who live with chronic pain? What isn’t understood? What should be done?
• Mon, 05 Dec 2016 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Digital Storytelling: How can the storyteller and viewers create meaning from stories?
• Tue, 06 Dec 2016 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Given the state of the market system (housing, commodity and other bubbles, a lack of pricing of environmental degradation), is the market system broken? If so, can it be repaired or replaced?
• Wed, 14 Dec 2016 6:15 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What are the obligations and duties, if any, of grandparents to their grandchildren? What roles should grandparents play?
• Wed, 14 Dec 2016 7:00 PM
  Inclusive City Café | Is culture something that one is born into? Can it be learned or borrowed?
• Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:30 AM
  Philosophers' Café | Space Exploration: Have space program commitments in monetary, material and human resources been worthwhile investments?
• Thu, 15 Dec 2016 7:00 PM
  Russian Café | Who was Natalya Gorbanevskaya, poet and human rights activist?
  Guest speaker: Dr. Michael Beletsky
• Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Is a composer’s first responsibility to him/herself, to the musical canon, to society, to the audience, to musicians, or to the divine?
  Guest musicians: Alina Khvatova, Tatiana Khvatova, Danielle Marcinek, and Cliff Ridley

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