About us
Northern Commons is a community practicing the art of being alive together.
We’re a group of curious people with diverse interests who gather for discussion, meditation, shared meals, music, and play. Some of us love poetry, complexity theory, and math. Some are artists, technologists, scientists, contemplatives, organizers, builders, and wanderers. What matters most is curiosity, sincerity, and a willingness to be changed by encounters with other people and ideas.
Our world is complex and fast-moving. Let’s slow down to cultivate the perspective, presence, relationships, and practical wisdom needed to live thoughtfully, creatively, and courageously.
If that sounds like something you’ve been looking for, come join us!
Upcoming events
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Sunday Morning Meditation
Northern Commons, 308 E Prince St #246, St. Paul, MN, USJoin us for a guided, drop-in meditation session led by Marc Anderson.
Meditation is the practice of slowing down, paying attention, and becoming more intimate with experience itself. By turning awareness toward awareness, we can begin to notice our thoughts, emotions, habits, and relationships with greater clarity and compassion. Over time, meditation can help cultivate both personal insight and the kind of presence that deepens connection with others.
Whether you're trying meditation for the first time, developing a practice, or an experienced meditator, you're welcome to sit with us!
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Northern Commons operates on a gift-based/community-supported model. If you find value in our offerings, you help sustain the space and its programming by contributing here: givebutter.com/NoCo
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Diverse Futures (S1E1): Who Broke the Future?
Northern Commons, 308 E Prince St #246, St. Paul, MN, USRSVP through Luma to reserve your spot.
Suggested donation: $30
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Imagination makes impossible things possible. It jostles us free from our chimeric yolks. What can our future be? Imagine with us. Imagine a future where diversity is embraced rather than quashed. Imagine a future grounded in caring for each other and our planet.
Northern Commons is hosting a series of lectures and discussions. Each session in the Diverse Futures series features a different presenter and their view of what the future can be.
Our first presentation in this series will be Who Broke the Future? with T. Aaron Cisco:
“Who broke the future? That’s not a rhetorical question. It’s the question I want us to sit with. Because many of us grew up on visions of tomorrow that felt expansive, hopeful, and full of possibility. Futures shaped by stories like Star Trek and Doctor Who, where curiosity mattered more than fear, and difference was something to explore rather than suppress.
“Those stories taught us that the future could be better. More just. More inclusive. More human. And yet, somewhere along the way, that promise started to feel incomplete. Or distant. Or broken.”
Cisco is an Afrofuturist writer and lifelong nerd. Their talk will move between personal storytelling, reading excerpts and speculative worldbuilding, and cultural reflection. Cisco will share how his own work wrestles with questions of power, memory, and responsibility, and how fandom itself can be both a refuge and a battleground for imagining who gets to exist in the future.
Note: If this event is full, try RSVPing on Luma.
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