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Bi-weekly discussions Bi-weekly discussions

on the questions that matter.

Home Events Society Being and Becoming hosts Curiosity Café

Being and Becoming hosts Curiosity Café

Every two weeks, Being and Becoming hosts Curiosity Café, a collaborative exploration of a chosen topic or question. Presented at the Madison Avenue Pub.

Come hang out, grab food and read through the discussion handout from 6:00 to 6:30 PM. Then, structured discussions usually run from 6:30 to 8:30 PM with a 10-minute break in the middle. Past Curiosity Café topics have included The Ethics of the Family, The Value of Love, Epistemic Injustice and Friendship. Through these events, Being and Becoming aims to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful and meaningful lives.

They’ve also started a Curiosity Café (Revisited) series, where they repeat previous topics, sometimes with a slight twist, sometimes with the same questions.

About Being and Becoming

Being and Becoming: A Community for the Curious is a Toronto-based non-profit organization founded and led by students of philosophy. The organization aims to create a community around the philosophical exploration of ideas, questions and experiences. By offering activities, spaces and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, they hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, they believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures and backgrounds. Read more about them here.

Poster image featuring text and painting. Top: Being and Becoming Presents Curiosity Café. Bi-weekly discussions on the questions that matter. Painted image of two women in period dress in a park, one sitting and holding a small bouquet of flowers and one bent over looking at something on the ground. Bottom: Friendship.

(Photo credits: Being and Becoming.)

 

Event details

Hosted by: Being and Becoming

Type of event: philosophical discussion

Topic questions up for discussion and moderator(s): Please consult the specific event you’re attending.

Date: Every two weeks – please consult the website for specific dates.

Start time: 6:00 PM ET (doors @ 6:00 PM & discussion starts @ 6:30 PM)

Duration: 2 hours & 30 minutes (ends @ 8:30 PM ET, 10-minute break in the middle)

Cost: Pay-what-you-can (PWYC): C$15.00 donation suggested

Please note: They’ll also have five free tickets available for attendees. If paying anything at all is not financially feasible for you, or their ticketing system presents some other barrier for you, please contact their Director of Community Programming at sophia@beingnbecoming.org. These tickets will be first come, first served – no questions asked! You can expect to hear back from her within 72 hours.

Location: Madison Avenue Pub, 14 Madison Ave., Toronto, ON, M5R 2S1, Canada

Booking link: Book your tickets here by clicking on the specific event you wish to attend.

Contact details: Being and Becoming; info@beingnbecoming.org, beingnbecoming.org

 

Content warning: For participants 19+.

Accessibility: There are about five steps up to the entrance of the Madison, and another to get in the door. To get upstairs, where they sometimes hold their events, there is another set of stairs that are quite steep. While they hope to be in the downstairs room, they cannot guarantee this until closer to the event date. There are two single-stall bathrooms located downstairs that they’ll have access to. The other bathrooms, located on the main and upper floor, are gendered. For other accessibility details (like content formatting), please see the link to the specific event you’re attending. Please feel free to contact the Being and Becoming team at sophia@beingnbecoming.org, or the Madison Avenue Pub at (416) 927-1722, with any other questions or concerns you might have.

Refund policy: No refunds.