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Language Exchange
Join us for the weekly Language Exchange!
Language Exchange WhatsApp Chat
https://chat.whatsapp.com/C36TAgOl8Ei5qsWMNPZpHU
Join the weekly Language Exchange (every monday) to work on your language skills, socialize and meet cool and open people.
HOW DOES IT WORK
1. Come to the location (for Spring and Summer the event will take place on a outside)☀️
2. The Event Host will greet you
3. Choose the language flag that interests you and speak the language of the flag
4. Start talking with people around the world and improve your language skill
Let's practice Russian language (B1-B2 level)
Всем привет!
This meetup is for those who learns or learned Russian and are looking for a group to practice it. I am a Russian language teacher and will help you during this event. The event repeats twice a month.
There is a small fee of 5 CHF for the event.
We will play word or board games, read poems, guess what a proverb or an idiom means and I might come up with other activities. If you have any suggestions let me know.
The level of speaking should be B1 or higher.
We will meet in the restaurant&bar of the Ibis Styles Hotel not far from Zurich HB.
See you there!
До скорого!
Russian language class (B1-B2 level)
Please contact me if you want to join the class.
Добрый день! This class is for learners with a level B1 or higher. We will meet one time per week.
Below is an information about the class.
Today's topic and material: to be added..
Cost:
2 students 35 chf per hour, 3 or more student 25 chf per hour per person.
Class Length: 1 hour
Class structure:
• We read a text or a chapter from a book, discuss new words students have. And/or we learn part of grammar and practice using it. We have a good grammar book for that.
• After that we discuss the topic and answer the text follow-up questions.
• I also give homework tasks to make sentences with new words or do a grammar exercises.
• If we finish the exercises earlier, we play word games or have a free chat.
If you have questions send me a message or post it in comments.
How TradFi Giants and Crypto are merging to build the Hybrid Financial System
The “war” between TradFi and crypto is over.
Now comes the **Great Convergence**.
Banks, asset managers, and blockchain infrastructure providers are merging into a new financial system — powered by tokenization, institutional custody, and 24/7 markets.
Join CryptoMondays Zurich for a sharp panel exploring:
✅ Is regulation now a competitive moat?
✅ Which assets move on-chain next after tokenized treasuries?
✅ Will banks dominate custody and infrastructure?
✅ Is global crypto liquidity splitting East vs West?
** Speakers:**
[Nicolas Kuhn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-kuhn-900b0142/) \- Product Manager Digital Assets at [ZKB](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zkb-ch/)
[Ralf Kubli](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-kubli-644393/) \- President EU at [Validation Cloud](https://www.linkedin.com/company/validationcloud/)
**Event Details:**
Monday, 23 February
Tenity Office, Pfingstweidstrasse 110, 8005 Zürich
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Panel & discussion
19:45 Networking
21:00 Finish
For builders, investors, institutions & curious minds shaping digital finance.
Thanks to **[Tenity](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tenity/)** & **[Bitget](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitget-global/)** for supporting this event.
**Follow Us:** **[LinkedIn](https://ch.linkedin.com/company/cryptomondayszurich) \| [Twitter](https://x.com/CryptoMondaysZH)**
**Spread the Word**
Share with your Web3, Crypto & Blockchain network
Hashtags: `#CryptoMondaysZurich` `#TradFi` `#Crypto2026`
Hosted by CryptoMondays Zurich: **[Aliya](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliya-das-gupta/), [Luis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luismoncosilinares/), [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandreflorysamartino/), [Maria](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-romero-von-fedak-374a32b7/) , [Gio](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gio-georgiou-web3/), [Laura](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-kiviharju/)** & **[Robin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-huber-29168413a/)**
⚠️ *By attending you consent to receiving event updates via email. The event will be photographed & recorded for promotional purposes.*
Watercolor Workshop
**⚠️ Ticket needed:** [https://social-circle.ch/](https://social-circle.ch/)
**Craft personalized, unique cards in this hands-on Aquarelle (Watercolor) class!**
In this course, you will learn how to paint with watercolors. The focus is on landscapes.
We use nature as inspiration for our artwork and learn to understand the techniques of fine arts.
Ideal for a creative and inspiring evening or as a solid foundation for painting.
Join our WhatsApp chat to keep up with the event:
[https://chat.whatsapp.com/JPIASNUJGwD23UUweSe0s3](https://chat.whatsapp.com/JPIASNUJGwD23UUweSe0s3)
(if you run into trouble open it in WhatsApp Web on your desktop)
**Please Note:** This ticket is **non-refundable**. Photos may be taken during the workshop for promotional purposes.
Want more events like this? **Join our newsletter:** [https://chat.whatsapp.com/DNCKCapTzlSKqBqS8EQckJ](https://chat.whatsapp.com/DNCKCapTzlSKqBqS8EQckJ)
**No experience is required. Just bring your festive spirit!**
In case you cannot find us here is Ravi's number : +41 76 224 26 99
Hip Hop & Social
**⚠️ Ticket needed:** [https://social-circle.ch/](https://social-circle.ch/)
**Learn some moves, sip mocktails, and vibe together.**
Ready to move, connect, and have fun — even if you think you “can’t dance”? This isn’t a performance class, it’s a **feel-good social experience**.
We’ll kick off with a **beginner-friendly hip hop session** led by **Milica, a professional dancer with years of experience**, where you’ll learn cool moves and an easy choreography. No pressure, no judgment — just great energy.
After the class, we’ll relax with **mocktails, music, and good conversations**.
Come solo, bring friends, or meet new people.
Join our WhatsApp group for updates:
[https://chat.whatsapp.com/EsTccDt6vB2A8z3OXbPUbW?mode=gi_t](https://chat.whatsapp.com/EsTccDt6vB2A8z3OXbPUbW?mode=gi_t)
**Location:** Pop Up Art Tanzstudio
Good vibes only
Mocktails included
No dance experience needed
Photos and short videos may be taken during the event. Let the host know if you prefer not to be in them. **Tickets are non refundable.**
Want more events like this? Join our community! [https://chat.whatsapp.com/DNCKCapTzlSKqBqS8EQckJ](https://chat.whatsapp.com/DNCKCapTzlSKqBqS8EQckJ)
Dégustation de vins Bindella "Vino et Arte" au Kunsthaus
En février, "you don't dry, you try" !
Grande dégustation de vins de la maison Bindella au Kunsthaus.
Nous aurons l'occasion d'admirer les collections du Kunsthaus, un verre à la main. Plus de 40 vignerons italiens seront présents pour faire déguster quelque 200 vins de diverses régions viticoles.
Entrée CHF 20.- via le lien https://eventfrog.ch/de/p/messen/messe/die-winzerinnen-kommen-7396128336001408211.html
15% sur les vins sont proposés durant la soirée. et Rabais des CHF 20 sur toute commande à partir de CHF 100.
https://www.bindella.ch/events/die-winzerinnen-kommen
Rdvs à l'entrée du bâtiment
Book Swap Events This Week
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[Iftar & Reading] Talk & get to know 'Students For Palestine' Group
This acts as an announcement to the public event hosted by **'[Students for Palestine](https://www.instagram.com/studentsforpalzh/)'** in Zurich.
[Students for Palestine](https://www.instagram.com/studentsforpalzh/) warmly invite you to their first Open Plenary of the year on Saturday, 28. February,
18:00 at feministisches Streikhaus (open to all genders).
**Program:**
18:10— Iftar
19:00— Get to know SfP Zürich!
Movement is introduced including working groups, discuss previous events, and address any open questions.
19:30— Reading and discussion of excerpts from Mohammed El-Kurd’s book «Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal». Who are the perfect victims the author is referring to? How to engage with zionist propaganda? How can interactions with the Western narrative on Palestine unconsciously harm the Palestinian cause for liberation?
20:45— Plenary Wrap-Up
If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get to know us and get active, this is it!
Students for Palestine group always aims to provide a safe space for talking about Palestine and sharing emotions.
**Links:**
Event Link: [https://www.instagram.com/p/DU8LDiIDD0y/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DU8LDiIDD0y/)
Language Exchange │ Free Drink
This week, to celebrate the upcoming "mois de francophone" [L'Alliance Française in Zurich](https://afzurich.ch) will be sponsoring our event with a free drink for all participants!
We keep it a fun and practical language exchange. First thing you'll notice is we match you with **fluent speakers** in your target language.
**Event Flow**
**18:45–19:15** → Registration
Scan the QR code to tell us your fluent and target languages.
**19:15–20:30** → Language Exchange
Powered by our **Learn by Flipping** method.
**20:30 onwards** → Stay, chat, or head off — totally up to you
**What is "Learn by Flipping"?**
**Practical** → You speak with fluent speakers in your target language.
**Collaborative** → Every 5 minutes, you switch roles: learner ↔ helper.
**Fun** → Small groups, good energy, and a bar atmosphere — without the chaos.
Save some time by [Signing up to our web app](https://fliplingoes.com/) beforehand.
**Entrance:** 10 CHF (includes a tapa)
**Free drink** (this will be administered when everyone is seated at 7:15pm by way of token, which you can exchange for a drink of the value of 5.90CHF at the bar - beers, coffee, tea, soft drinks, Coca-Cola etc)
Please note, event registration closes after 7:15PM
**Merci beaucoup to our partner school [L'Alliance Française in Zurich](https://afzurich.ch) for sponsoring our event. If you are interested in the French language and culture, we recommend you check out their events calendar for le Mois de la Francophonie, which will be the full month of March — [see here](https://afzurich.ch/mars_2026-mois_de_la_francophonie/).**
[Potluck Dinner] Islamic Philosophy and Contemporary Readings
***Update (2026/2/9):***
***Please not that the event's description and topic has been updated. We will still meet over potluck dinner, but we have decided to host the book discussion as a separate event in March.***
Dear all,
Join us for a social gathering coinciding with the special month of Ramadan. We're coming together for a potluck dinner (Iftar): each person brings food that we'll all share together. And of course, Muslims as well as non-Muslims are equally welcome.
We will meet at the GZ Höngg community center. The description will soon be updated to include the total cost for reserving the venue, which we'll split across everyone attending.
We look forward to seeing you. Please reach out to any of the organizers if you have any questions.
Omar and the team
Let's meet for some conversation in German.
As it is sometimes difficult in Switzerland to practice high german, in 2010 we decided to organize a conversation group that is free to everyone who wants to practice german and socialize.
WhatsApp group for easier contact:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/KmMkpiQxs291vTPv2RBNm4
Regular Trading & Investing Gathering
Hello Capitalists!
This event is the meetup's regular gathering.
Normally the event will be at the Insider Bar on Löwenstrasse, very near to the train station.
https://www.insiderbar.ch/
We will start at 19:00.
Please be constructive in your discussions, do not criticise other people's strategies and be open minded to new ideas.
We're looking forward to seeing new people as well as the regulars.
Thanks a lot!
Andy
Book Swap Events Near You
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March 11th Book Club Meeting
This Month's Book: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen.
Join us for discussion at the Granville Public Library from 6 to 7pm.
Follow us on Instagram: @granvillepridebookclub
February Book Club Meetup
Welcome, readers!
Our February read is **_1984 by George Orwell._**
In 1984, George Orwell imagines a world where the government watches everyone, rewrites reality, and punishes even private thoughts. Winston Smith dares to question this system, believing that truth and love might still exist. His rebellion draws him into a chilling struggle against a power that knows him better than he knows himself. The novel leaves readers asking whether freedom is possible when reality itself can be controlled.
Looking forward to discussing with everyone!
We will meet at Zaftig Brewing Co in their event room in the back. We are welcome to bring in our own food, but **drinks must be purchased at the bar.**
Happy reading!
"A Treachery of Swans" by A.B. Poranek
Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other?
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king’s crown, an artefact with enough power to restore magic. But to enter the palace, she must assume the identity of a noblewoman. She chooses Marie d’Odette: famed for her beauty, a rumored candidate for future queen…and Odile’s childhood-friend-turned-sworn-enemy.
With her father’s help, Odile transforms Marie into a swan and takes her place at court. But when the king is brutally murdered and her own brother is accused, her plans are thrown into chaos. Desperate to free her brother, Odile is forced to team up with none other than elegant, infuriating Marie, the girl she has cursed…and the girl she can’t seem to stop thinking about despite her best efforts.
To make matters worse, there are whispers that the king’s murder was not at the hands of man, but beast. Torn between loyalty to her father and her growing feelings for Marie, Odile becomes tangled in a web of treachery and deceit. To save her kingdom, she must find the true path to magic…and find the real killer before they—or it—strikes again.
An Immense World
This meeting will be an open discussion about the book "an Immense World" by Ed Yong
Bad Girls Book Club March 2026
**Our March pick is *God of the Woods* by Liz Moore.**
**This month’s novel is an award-winning literary mystery that blends family drama with psychological suspense. It explores women’s voices and relationships while delivering an exciting, eerie, and deeply suspenseful story. The book is 576 pages in print or 14 hours and 35 minutes on audiobook.**
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
The Gir With the Louding Voice Abi Dare
Columbus libraries: [https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3262835](https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3262835)
Location: [Knotty Pine Brewing](https://www.knottypinebrewing.net/)
[Menu, scroll to the bottom](https://www.knottypinebrewing.net/menus-1)
Book summary:
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice" -- the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing. But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow, she finds the resolve to speak, however she can--in a whisper, in song, in broken English--until she is heard
"The Enchanted Greenhouse" by Sarah Beth Durst
Come join us for tea and brunch at ZenCha as we discuss our March read, "The Enchanted Greenhouse"!
Book description:
Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium.
This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly baked honey cakes—at least until she’s ready to sail home.
But Terlu can’t return home and doesn’t want to—the greenhouses are a dream come true, each more wondrous than the next. When she learns that the magic that sustains them is failing—causing the death of everything within them—Terlu knows she must help. Even if that means breaking the law again.
This time, though, she isn’t alone. Assisted by the gardener and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she wants to save the island—and have a fresh chance at happiness and love.















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