About us
Profs and Pints brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in Profs and Pints.
Regards,
Peter Schmidt, Founder, Profs and Pints
Upcoming events
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Profs & Pints Denver: An Introduction to Accent Acquisition
Woodie Fisher Kitchen & Bar, 1999 Chestnut Pl #100, Denver, CO, USProfs and Pints Denver presents: “An Introduction to Accent Acquisition,” on the science of learning to speak like others, with Miranda Guettlein, linguist, dialect coach, former instructor of voice, speech, and accents to theater students at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, and editor-in-chief of Voice and Speech Review.
[Doors open at 5 pm and the talk begins at 6:30. Advance tickets $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/denver-accent-acquisition ]
The ability to speak in different accents can seem like magic, but it’s accomplished with predictable rules and practicable skills that anyone can learn.
Join Miranda Guettlein, who has coached actors for Brigadoon, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, and dozens of other theatrical performances, for a talk that will demystify the process of learning any accent and give you a rich understanding of what accents convey and how they’re acquired.
Drawing from research in linguistics, performance, and psychology, she’ll discuss the social and cultural implications of specific accents and what an accent tells us about the speaker.
You’ll learn how, historically, “standard” accents were taught as a way to grant prestige to “educated” professional voice users. However, under the Knight-Thompson Speechwork methodology, all accents and their features have equal value, and what is “good” or “correct” is context dependent.
We’ll explore all of the possible ways in which accents can vary and how these components are combined to form different speech patterns. We’ll look at how to manipulate the vocal tract to achieve ease and efficiency in different accents and how these physiological components interplay with pronunciation and resonance.
You’ll gain a sense of the musicality of accents in terms of their pitch, length, duration, and timbre, and you’ll learn how the combination of these features creates meaning in discourse.
It’s a lecture that will leave you talking—in many different ways. (Doors: $17, or $15 with student ID.)Image: Audrey Hepburn in a publicity shot for the 1964 film My Fair Lady (public domain photo).
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