[In-person] Curiosity Café: Beauty (Tickets on Eventbrite)

Beauty is all around us: we find it in music, in poetry, in visual art, in landscapes, in people, and even in sports and mathematics. But what exactly is beauty, and why do we experience it so differently? The mysterious nature of beauty has made it a subject of fascination among philosophers, and we’re sure that many of you are no different.

At our next Curiosity Café, we’ll engage in a collaborative exploration of beauty in all its forms. In the first half, we’ll explore questions like:

• What was your last experience of beauty? Was it something in nature or something human-made?
• What makes a moment, or object, feel beautiful to you?
• How does beauty show up in our everyday lives? What sets those moments apart from others?

In the second half, we’ll zoom out and examine the nature of beauty itself:

• What is beauty, really?
• Is it something we all experience the same way, or is it completely subjective?
• Can something be aesthetic without being beautiful, like a dissonant song or a grotesque piece of art?
• How does culture shape what we see as beautiful?

Join us on September 9th for a thoughtful, and perhaps even beautiful discussion with our very own Adrian Ma and Marybel Menzies about the nature of beauty.

Space is limited! Please obtain a “Pay-What-You-Can” ticket from Curiosity Café at this link (click here) to attend this event. You need a ticket to be admitted. See the above link for more info about tickets and other options including a limited number of free tickets. Come and hang out with us, grab food, and read through our handout from 6-6:30pm. Our structured discussion will run from 6:30-8:30pm with a 10 minute break in the middle.

Hope to see you there!

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This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.

By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Find out more about Being and Becoming here.

About the Curiosity Café Series:

For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.