About us
🤝 A little about us: Wisdom Bar is a social lecture series hosted in cool bars and creative spaces throughout New York City. Each event features a presentation from an expert speaker whose passion for a unique topic guides the room. We'll explore new ideas, exchange perspectives, and learn something new along the way, all in an effort to get curious-minded people together for drinks and thoughtful conversation. If this sounds like something you might enjoy, we'd love to host you. Check out more.
đź’ What topics do the lectures cover?
Truly any. Each event centers around a different topic spanning art, culture, psychology, technology, history, politics, society, relationships, mythology, and science. (Just to name a few). We hope to introduce new perspectives. All our events are shared to our newsletter and meetup community.
Included in your ticket:
- An intimate room of curious people. No lecture hall, no blaring music
- Dedicated Q&A, one-on-one time with the speaker after the talk
- Post-lecture discussions with fellow attendees
- Beverages and food available for order.
đź“Ť Where in NYC do these events happen?
Each lecture is hosted in a different venue across the boroughs. The neighborhood is always provided in the event link's description. The exact address and directions are provided in confirmation emails. Give us an email with any questions.
🎤 A typical evening looks something like this:
6:30pm – Doors open. Grab drinks and snacks before settling into a seat (first come first serve!)
6:50pm – Host welcomes and intros
7:00pm – Lecture begins
8:00pm – Q&A plus dedicated 1-on-1 time with the speaker. Grab another drink and chat about your thoughts with other attendees.
8:30pm – Event concludes
✍️ Who these nights are for:
Anyone! Whether you're deeply familiar with the topic or completely new to it, these talks are designed to feel accessible, approachable, and engaging. (But please note: select talks hosted in bars and spaces where alcohol is served are 21+)
🧠Curious but not sure if it's for you? We save a few seats every night for people who just want to come check it out. At the end of the day, we're not just trying to fill a room. We're trying to build a thoughtful community for people who want more out of their nights out. Message us about it.
Featured event
Lecture & Discussion #4 – Everything You Know on Traditional Marriage is Wrong
💠Topic: “Everything You Know about Traditional Marriage is Wrong”
🎤 Lecturer: Azie Dungey
📆 Date: Wednesday, July 15th
⏰ Doors Open: 6:30PM
đź“Ť Location: Midtown East (exact address provided in confirmation email)
🎟️ Tickets and more information
🤝 A little about us:
Wisdom Bar is a social lecture series hosted in cool bars and creative spaces throughout New York City. Each event features a presentation from an expert speaker whose passion for a unique topic guides the room. We'll explore new ideas, exchange perspectives, and learn something new along the way, all in an effort to get curious-minded people together for drinks and thoughtful conversation. If this sounds like something you might enjoy, we'd love to host you.
🧠About this Event:
What if "traditional marriage" isn't traditional at all? Turns out, the equal partnership we're advocating for in modern relationships? It’s actually more traditional than the gender roles we've come to associate with it — gender equity is the prototype.
For much of human history, women were valued for their contributions as much as men, childcare was shared across the whole community, and the idea that two people alone should raise children and meet each other's every need simply did not exist. It was a series of shifts over the centuries that narrowed everything down to the two-person household we now take for granted. And within that shift, we lost something essential.
Writer and cultural satirist Azie Dungey takes us on a journey through human history to reveal that our partnership ideals are closer to our ancient origins than the "traditional marriage" of 100 years ago — which, it turns out, was a blip.
Azie Dungey is a WGA-nominated writer for her work on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and has been a writer on shows such as Harlem (Amazon Prime), Girls5Eva (Netflix), Rutherford Falls (NBC), and Sweetbitter (Starz). She is best known as writer and star of her critically- acclaimed YouTube series Ask A Slave, a satirical critique of race and gender with over 2.5 million views. For this series she was featured on NPR, BBC World, MSNBC, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post.
A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in drama and anthropology, she has been a visiting scholar to Yale, Brown University, Columbia, and was a Fellow-in- Residence at the Center for the Study of Democracy, St Mary’s College. Azie is African American and Pamunkey/Mattaponi (Virginia Tribes) and she is committed to confronting issues of race, history, and social injustice with grace, compassion, and humor.
We'll explore:
- The resistance, challenges, and social implications we face as we attempt to return gender equality back to its roots.
- How hunter-gatherer societies define gender roles within marital partnerships and family system.
- How traditional courtship roles centered the female desire, and women were considered the more sexually aggressive of the gender even into the age of antiquity
- How the idea of the "nuclear family" (man, wife, children) developed only 150 years ago.
Agenda:
6:30pm – Doors open. Grab drinks and snacks before settling into a seat (first come first serve!)
6:50pm – Host welcomes and intros
7:00pm – Lecture begins
8:00pm – Q&A plus dedicated 1-on-1 time with the speaker. Grab another drink and chat about your thoughts with other attendees.
8:30pm – Event concludes
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Lecture & Discussion #4 – Everything You Know on Traditional Marriage is Wrong
Rodney's Comedy Club, 1118 1st Avenue, New York, NY, US💠Topic: “Everything You Know about Traditional Marriage is Wrong”
🎤 Lecturer: Azie Dungey
📆 Date: Wednesday, July 15th
⏰ Doors Open: 6:30PM
đź“Ť Location: Midtown East (exact address provided in confirmation email)
🎟️ Tickets and more information🤝 A little about us:
Wisdom Bar is a social lecture series hosted in cool bars and creative spaces throughout New York City. Each event features a presentation from an expert speaker whose passion for a unique topic guides the room. We'll explore new ideas, exchange perspectives, and learn something new along the way, all in an effort to get curious-minded people together for drinks and thoughtful conversation. If this sounds like something you might enjoy, we'd love to host you.🧠About this Event:
What if "traditional marriage" isn't traditional at all? Turns out, the equal partnership we're advocating for in modern relationships? It’s actually more traditional than the gender roles we've come to associate with it — gender equity is the prototype.For much of human history, women were valued for their contributions as much as men, childcare was shared across the whole community, and the idea that two people alone should raise children and meet each other's every need simply did not exist. It was a series of shifts over the centuries that narrowed everything down to the two-person household we now take for granted. And within that shift, we lost something essential.
Writer and cultural satirist Azie Dungey takes us on a journey through human history to reveal that our partnership ideals are closer to our ancient origins than the "traditional marriage" of 100 years ago — which, it turns out, was a blip.
Azie Dungey is a WGA-nominated writer for her work on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and has been a writer on shows such as Harlem (Amazon Prime), Girls5Eva (Netflix), Rutherford Falls (NBC), and Sweetbitter (Starz). She is best known as writer and star of her critically- acclaimed YouTube series Ask A Slave, a satirical critique of race and gender with over 2.5 million views. For this series she was featured on NPR, BBC World, MSNBC, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post.
A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in drama and anthropology, she has been a visiting scholar to Yale, Brown University, Columbia, and was a Fellow-in- Residence at the Center for the Study of Democracy, St Mary’s College. Azie is African American and Pamunkey/Mattaponi (Virginia Tribes) and she is committed to confronting issues of race, history, and social injustice with grace, compassion, and humor.We'll explore:
- The resistance, challenges, and social implications we face as we attempt to return gender equality back to its roots.
- How hunter-gatherer societies define gender roles within marital partnerships and family system.
- How traditional courtship roles centered the female desire, and women were considered the more sexually aggressive of the gender even into the age of antiquity
- How the idea of the "nuclear family" (man, wife, children) developed only 150 years ago.
Agenda:
6:30pm – Doors open. Grab drinks and snacks before settling into a seat (first come first serve!)
6:50pm – Host welcomes and intros
7:00pm – Lecture begins
8:00pm – Q&A plus dedicated 1-on-1 time with the speaker. Grab another drink and chat about your thoughts with other attendees.
8:30pm – Event concludes1 attendee
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