For five Wednesdays beginning August 27th hear from a set of extraordinary professors, artists, storytellers, and philosophers as they bring us a set of ideas with the power to change our city and our lives.
8/27 Mark Miller The Science of Horror and Wellbeing (Tickets)
9/3 Coby Lefkowitz Building Beautiful Cities Is A Choice (Tickets)
9/10 Elli Weisbaum Beyond the Cushion: Mindfulness for Daily life! (Tickets)
9/17 Sherry Ning Shrek, Psychoanalyzed (Tickets)
9/24 Adam Robbert Attention is an Art Form (Tickets)
The Viaduct is the flagship event from the Toronto Society. A biannual lecture series highlighting people and ideas that could transform our city.
Season Two is about crossing—between knowledge and mystery, the imagined and the real, the everyday and the enchanted. Each lecturer will build their own span of ideas for you to walk across: Shrek and the fear of being loved; the psychology of horror and its strange seductions; the art of attention; and more. Each lecture will be preluded by live music played by local artists, from R&B to classical.
We meet to be changed by a sentence that rearranges the mind, a frame that lingers in the dark, a story that can only be told once. Patron ticket holders will join the speakers for a private dinner after each lecture. The season ends with a Regent-era country ball—bring a date, or leave with one.
For tickets and individual lectures descriptions review the full Viaduct calendar on Luma.
You can also see the announcement of the series on Twitter.
If you are excited about the work that the society is doing please share with your networks, friends, and family and invite them to join us for an evening.
As always thank you for being part of this experiment in building a fellowship of ideas.