There are no online events scheduled at this time.

• Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:00 AM
  TWS Community Workshops: Getting to Open
• Mon, 25 Sep 2017 3:00 PM
  FLASHPOINT: The Failure of Venezuela's Bolivarian Republic
• Tue, 03 Oct 2017 6:00 PM
  #SFUdatacafe
• Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is systemic racism and how does it operate?
• Wed, 25 Oct 2017 9:30 AM
  Writing an Essay for the Liberal Arts Certificate (55+)
• Sat, 04 Nov 2017 9:45 AM
  End of Life Expo 2017
• Sat, 04 Nov 2017 10:00 AM
  TWS Community Workshops: Exposition - A Better Way to Tell
• Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Morally good. Ethically right. What is the difference?
• Sat, 25 Nov 2017 1:30 PM
  The Making of a Dictator: Putin’s Rise to Power
• Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What can reason do for you?
• Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:00 AM
  TWS Community Workshops: Research for Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:00 AM
  TWS Community Workshops: Chapbooks

• Wed, 11 Oct 2017 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Can people say, "My God is Mother Earth?”
• Mon, 16 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What does food security mean to you?
  How do communities ensure their ongoing food supply and what are possible disruptions? How do climactic or political change and instability impact our access to food? Is food shortage really an issue, or is it more of a problem with food waste?
• Thu, 19 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What would you like to hear in your eulogy?
  What are the qualities of living in the world that we would like people to remember about us and celebrate?
• Wed, 08 Nov 2017 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Do we need a Canadian grandparents film festival?
• Thu, 16 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What needs to happen to achieve world peace?
  Are there crucial conditions that would contribute to the realization of peace in our time?
• Mon, 20 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Water: is it a human right?
  Does government owe safe drinking water to its residents? What can we rightfully expect from our government as population increases and densifies and infrastructure ages? What can we, as residents, do to conserve water?
• Wed, 06 Dec 2017 6:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Is our public education system promoting assimilation?
• Mon, 11 Dec 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Jobs in the pipeline: who are the winners and losers in the battles over pipelines?
  What is the connection between jobs and oil pipelines? Are there job losses to match the job gains? What are the broader social priorities when jobs and land are at stake?

• Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:00 AM
  Philosophers' Café | In what ways would we add meaning and shape to our lives by simplifying it?

• Thu, 12 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is the role of myth in the modern life?
  Ancestral cultures used myth to describe and define their realities. Did we lose something when we dispensed with a defining mythology?
• Thu, 09 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Where is the line between free speech and hate speech?
  Who defines what is hateful speech and what rights do victims of hate have? What responsibility do institutions have to those who have been affected by hate and discrimination to create a safe space, even if it curbs the right to free speech for others?
• Thu, 14 Dec 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What stories do we tell each other? Are they important? Does it matter if they are true or fabrication?

There are no events scheduled in New Westminster at this time.

• Mon, 16 Oct 2017 1:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Indigenous culture: appropriation versus appreciation
  What is cultural appropriation? How might we, as individuals, play a role in Indigenous cultural appropriation? What are the positive ways forward to build cultural appreciation? With guest moderator Shain Jackson.

• Wed, 11 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Don’t blame me—my brain did it!
  Behavioural economist, Dan Ariely's research shows that our intuition fools us repeatedly in irrational and consistent ways. Despite scientific or fact-based knowledge, we often make decisions irrationally or intuitively. If we know that the brain can fool us into making poor decisions, do we still feel in control? What does this say about free will?
• Wed, 08 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How would you describe your fundamental role as a parent?
  Do you share this role with anyone else in your community?
• Wed, 06 Dec 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | The moral problems of charity
  Is charity an appropriate method of delivering social services? How do we choose what is worthy of funding and what isn’t? Knowing that not all desired services can be paid for through taxes, is it feasible for charitable organizations to fill the gaps? If so, which services? If not, how do we ensure the government can afford to pay for all necessary services? How do we choose?

• Mon, 25 Sep 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Do consumers have a moral obligation to know where their products come from?
  How often do you think about the conditions under which the products or services you buy are made? If we as consumers know that there is a good chance the products we buy are made under unsafe conditions what can, and should, we do about this?
• Mon, 30 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What purpose does marriage serve today?
  Marriage has been a crucial tradition for political, religious, economic and social reasons for many centuries. Today, many people choose to get married as an expression of love. Has marriage become a measure of love, or are we blindly following an outdated tradition? How does society view adults who are married versus those who are not?

• Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:30 AM
  Punjabi Café | Aging gracefully
• Thu, 19 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Russian Café | Charles Chaplin: the great stranger
  «Чарли Чаплин – великий незнакомец». Документальный фильм кинорежиссера Владимира Иванова.
• Thu, 16 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Russian Café | Christianity and atheism: discussion in letters from the exile of a physicist and a priest
  «Христианство и атеизм: дискуссия священника и физика (письма из лагеря)». Др. Михаил Белецкий.
• Thu, 21 Dec 2017 7:00 PM
  Russian Café | Modern notions about human genesis
  «Современные представления о происхождении человека». Др. Нелля Шварёва.

• Thu, 05 Oct 2017 6:30 PM
  Teen Café | Racism at school: is it individual or is it systemic? How do we confront it?
• Thu, 02 Nov 2017 6:30 PM
  Teen Café | The media: how does it affect the way we speak, act, treat ourselves and each other?
• Thu, 07 Dec 2017 6:30 PM
  Teen Café | High school: confronting the issues of heavy workloads, difficult relationships with school staff, and coping with stress and bullying.

• Wed, 27 Sep 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Has ayahuasca tourism popularized this indiginous medicine?
  Is ayahuasca a plant ally or a dangerous drug? Should legal exemptions be created in Canada for the religious use of psychedelic plants such as peyote and ayahuasca?
• Thu, 28 Sep 2017 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is language?
  What are the languages you understand, use and enjoy? What features, forms or functions define them?
• Wed, 04 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is shamanism?
  Is shamanism a distinct religion and what is the history of the term? How does shamanism compare to neo-shamanism? What are altered states and how are they present in religion and art?
• Thu, 05 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Exploring existential anxiety
  How do we find meaning and a sense of calm in our lives knowing that death is inevitable?
• Thu, 05 Oct 2017 8:00 PM
  The Writer's Studio Reading Series in Vancouver
• Thu, 05 Oct 2017 8:00 PM
  The Writer's Studio Reading Series in Vancouver
• Wed, 18 Oct 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | How has practicing yoga changed your life?
  What is the history of Buddhism and yoga in North America? What is the role of psychedelics in Buddhism and yoga? What is Tantra?
• Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Should the government fund music and the arts?
  Guest musicians: C. Ridley, D. Marcinek, A. Khvatova and T. Khvatova
• Thu, 26 Oct 2017 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is something that needs to be said? Why?
• Wed, 01 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What is permaculture and what is its role in urban farming?
  How can the principles of permaculture be applied to urban farms and the creation of green spaces in Metro Vancouver? What are the pros and cons of monoculture farming and GMOs?
• Thu, 02 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Self-esteem: where does it come from?
  How do we know we have a strong sense of identity and self-worth?
• Tue, 07 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | What makes a place a home?
• Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Mental illness and creativity
  Why did so many of the great composers and artists struggle with mental illness? Guest musicians: C. Ridley, D. Marcinek, A. Khvatova and T. Khvatova
• Wed, 29 Nov 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Is there a difference between religion and spirituality?
  What is a religion of no religion? Have religion and spirituality become commodified in our contemporary culture of capitalism?
• Thu, 30 Nov 2017 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Rigged: How is the universe, the “system” and your life, rigged or not?
• Wed, 06 Dec 2017 7:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | Has information technology made the world a better place?
• Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:30 PM
  Philosophers' Café | The symphony orchestra in the 21st century: relevant, or a dead, lumbering dinosaur?
  Guest musicians: C. Ridley, D. Marcinek, A. Khvatova and T. Khvatova
• Thu, 28 Dec 2017 2:00 PM
  Philosophers' Café | SFU Philosophers' Cafe': where next? How? Why?

• Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:30 AM
  Philosophers' Café | Viewing Canada's First Nations through the language used to describe them.
  Why do we use the different terms First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Aboriginal, Indigenous, status, treaty? What is the politically correct terminology for "Indigenous" People in Canada? How did the words used in the past serve to limit our First Peoples and how can the language of equality be used to heal our past relationships?
• Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:30 AM
  Philosophers' Café | Statue of limitations? If a celebrated hero seriously loses public favour, should their honour(s) be withdrawn?
• Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:30 AM
  Philosophers' Café | What evidence supports the contention that humans are basically good?
  Who defines and determines what is good in people? Is it possible for someone to be “good” and also consistently serve their own self-interest?

There are no events scheduled in White Rock at this time.