The Midnight Library and the Ministry of Awe

Join LeeAnn to explore one of Philadelphia's most curious new spaces paired with a book that share the same theme: "You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it." Ministry of Awe is a six-story immersive art experience inside a 19th-century Old City bank — but this bank doesn't deal in money. It deals in the human spirit: what you value, what you've invested in, what you've spent, what you've lost, what you still have time to claim. Over lunch we'll discuss The Midnight Library will have you thinking about choices made and unmade, doors not explored — and a reckoning with what makes life worth living. Sounds heavy but it's actually so inspiring!

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11:00am 🏦 THE ADVENTURE: Ministry of Awe
27 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia (Old City)
Several floors of murals, sculpture, interactive technology, secret passages, and performance art inside a Frank Furness–designed bank that's been vacant forever and has been reborn. This bank with no money, where the only currency is human experience: curiosity, imagination,
connection, and awe, asks a central question: What do we actually value?

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FEES: $29 - adult ($27.21 for adult 65+)(pays for your entry ticket - lunch is pay on your own) First pay goes.

HOW TO PAY: Use friends and family option/non-business option please.

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12:30(ish)🥗 LUNCH: TBD

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📕THE NOVEL: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Genre: Fantasy

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

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Kayaking on a river with book lovers and books through Philadelphia pine barrens is such a fun way to make new friends and be social with book loving book club members who like to read and explore outdoor adventures areas and try new activities such as hiking, biating, reading, craft, hobbies, museums and more! It's especially fun for a book club to go in nature on outdoor adventures with all the book club friends who like to explore and try new hobbies and be social with new friends

Happy Reading!