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Brexiles - English Comedy Night in Zurich Kreis 4
Join three of Switzerland's sharpest comedy imports, all the way from the UK, as they navigate life post-Brexit in the land of cheese, chocolate, and punctuality. Expect a side-splitting evening of biting wit, dark satire, and self-deprecating British humour, as these three exiles attempt to make sense of their Swiss existence while grappling with the baggage of their homeland.
**Tickets: [https://eventfrog.ch/brexiles/](https://eventfrog.ch/brexiles/)**
Do all British people have terrible teeth? Are they all actually addicted to tea? Are the royal family actually peadophile lizards? Does anyone actually care anymore? Come along for answers to these questions and more, and pose your own to our panel of cultural experts\* to win a free drink!
\*mid-aged comedians who used to read the news in the early 2000s
Featuring:
**[Harry Fücks](https://www.instagram.com/harryf.cks/)** is a half-German who grew up in the UK, where he witnessed too many late trains provoking wristwatch-staring fits from his German genes. He later moved to Switzerland, the last place in Europe where trains run on time, to avoid constant triggering. Now over 50, a single dad, and failing to live up to his name, Harry uses comedy as his coping strategy.
**[Jack Roberts](https://www.instagram.com/jackrobertscomedy/)** comes from a long line of pale, broke, miserable northern bastards. Growing up in Manchester he is also exceptionally cool with impeccable taste in music and football. As difficult to understand in English as he is in German, he endeavours to speak clearly about all that is troubling him - join him for crazy antics, high jinks and fun!
**[Shawn Jay](https://www.instagram.com/shawnjaycomedy/)** is a stand-up comedian, writer, and wandering vagabond philosopher who escaped the grim north of England in his early 20s and never looked back. He has toured all over Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe, including a full run at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he premiered his solo show 'A Fun Guide to Nihilism'. Now a regular on the European circuit, his unique brand of thought-provoking humour swings from silly to surreal, tickling your funny bones as well as fingering your brain.
With over 20 years collectively in the biz, this show is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, and whether you love or hate the British, there is something for everyone.
**Reparations Spot**: Each show will feature a guest comedian from a country which was formerly colonised by the British. This is our way of personally apologising for the hundreds of years of murder, subjugation, and terror inflicted upon the peoples of the planet. We hope you agree that we are even now.
**Tickets: [https://eventfrog.ch/brexiles/](https://eventfrog.ch/brexiles/)**
I've been talking to the ship's computer. It hates me.
**Our first outdoor meetup of the year! With a new location.**
We are getting together to talk about whatever science fiction, new and old, got us excited lately! Movies, books, games; everything goes.
This is an outdoor meetup. Feel free to bring your own picnic blanket, food and drinks. We'll be gathering near the tallest trees.
**IF IT RAINS: We'll coordinate an alternative meetup space on the WhatsApp Group and update this page.**
If this is your first meetup with this group:
There is no fixed subject or theme, just feel free to discuss whatever you would like to share about anything Science Fiction. The lingua franca is English, as it is the language we all have in common. However we also switch languages, whenever convenient. We look forward to meeting you.
We have a closed chat group on WhatsApp. Not a member? Ask for the invitation link.
See you soon!
Visualizing Women in Politics by Hahn+Zimmermann
Hahn+Zimmermann will present their project «Women in Politics», a visual investigation into the representation of women in government in 193 countries since 1950, offering insights into its development from concept to execution. The presentation covers the motivation behind this self-initiated project, design decisions, and the challenges encountered along the way. A particular focus will be on their cross-media approach, which extends the project beyond the website to include printed materials and textiles.
**Speaker:**
[Hahn+Zimmermann](https://hahn-zimmermann.ch/) is a design studio specialized in communication design and information graphics based in Bern.
**Agenda**:
17:00 Doors open
17:00–17:30 Drinks & chats
17:30–18:30 Presentation
18:30–19:00 Drinks & chats
19:00 Goodbye!
**Format**:
This session will be a presentation followed by a plenary conversation for questions and answers with our speakers.
**Language**:
Please note, this presentation will be held in German.
**Streaming:**
If you can’t be with us in person, you can join the livestream at 17:30 on Zoom. **You don’t need to register on Meetup to join virtually.**
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82762945983
Interactive Things will provide drinks and snacks and moderate the presentation.
Workplace & Security Ninja User Group Switzerland 2606
Wir freuen uns, euch zum zweiten Event im Jahr 2026 einzuladen. Durchführung wie gehabt, in den Räumlichkeiten von Microsoft Schweiz im Circle.
An dieser Stelle ein grosses Dankeschön an unsere Sponsoren Microsoft, baseVISION und Epic Fusion, welche es uns ermöglichen den Event für euch kostenlos anzubieten.
**Sessions & Agenda**
* 08:30 - 09:00 Coffe & Registration
* 09:00 - 09:20 Intro by Janic & Nicola
* 09:20 - 10:10 Azure Arc Server Management – Extending Azure to
Your On-Premises Environments - Stefan Johner & Pascal Wechsler
* 10:10 - 10:30 Break
* 10:30-11:40 From Prompt to Playbook: Automating SOC Response with AI in Microsoft Sentinel - Alain Schneiter
* 11:40 - 13:00 Lunch Break (Individuell)
* 13:00-13:50 The Jurassic Park of Intune - Niklas Tinner
* 13:55-14:45 Discover the power of EPM - from first steps to real-world mastery - Mads Christian Mozart Johansen
* 14:45 - 15:00 Break
* 15:00-15:50 Speed up voluntary patching with KQL - Florian Kohler
* 15:55-16:45 Windows 365 Unlocked: The Agent's Quick‑Start Guide - Enrique Roo Moares
* 16:45-18:00 Closing & Apero
Falls du eine Session machen möchtest, gib diese gerne auf Sessionize ein: [https://sessionize.com/wpninja-ug-ch/.](https://sessionize.com/wpninja-ug-ch/)
**Anmeldung**
* Für die Anmeldung bitte mittels Meetup auf 'Teilnehmen' klicken. Die Anmeldung ist *kostenlos.*
* **Bitte stellt sicher, dass ihr im Meetup euren vollen Vor- und Nachnamen hinterlegt habt!** Die Angaben werden für die Microsoft Zutrittskontrolle benötigt.
* Die Anmeldung wird eine Woche vor dem Event geschlossen.
**Unsere Motivation**
Nebst spannenden Sessions run um die Themen Endpoint Management, Identity und Security von nationalen und internationalen Speakern möchten wir bewusst eine Platform schaffen, um sich mit gleichgesinnten bei einer lockeren Atmosphäre auszutauschen.
Aber nun subito: **17\. Juni im Kalender blockieren** und für den Event **Anmelden**. Wir freuen uns auf dich!
**Socials**
* [https://twitter.com/wpninjasch](https://twitter.com/wpninjasch)
* [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9585518/](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9585518/)
An MLIR Pipeline for ComputeRAM: Enabling Compute-in-Memory IP
Hendrik Klug is joining us to give a talk on the work he has been doing at Synthara to enable their in-memory compute IP using an MLIR-based stack.
As usual there will be pizza, snacks, beer, and soft drinks after the event for participants, sponsored by Prof. Zhendong Su and the Advanced Software Technologies (AST) Lab at ETH Zurich.
**Abstract:** Licensing custom accelerators as IP to chip makers comes with all sorts of challenges for the compiler. In particular, compute-in-memory hardware moves computation into the memory hierarchy, which requires a different kind of scheduling than conventional compilation pipelines usually perform. Synthara's computeRAM is an in-memory compute IP that is integrated into a wide range of targets, from smartwatches to datacenter accelerators, and each chip maker brings their own toolchain. So computeRAM has to come with a compilation pipeline flexible enough to plug into whichever platform compiler the chip maker is developing, schedule the memory hierarchy and compute capabilities exposed by the hardware, and stay maintainable as the IP evolves. MLIR's dialect and transformation model lets us integrate into the customer's compilation pipeline rather than replace it, and the same pipeline can be retargeted as the integration surface changes from one chip maker to the next. In this talk we walk through the MLIR pipeline we have built around computeRAM at Synthara: the hardware and the platforms it integrates into, the lowering pipeline to both LLVM and EmitC, and the optimizations we do for computeRAM. Throughout, we share what we learned: the good, the bad and the ugly of what's available upstream.
**Location:** The event is taking place in the room G51 in the CAB building of ETH Zurich at the Zentrum campus. Enter from Universitätstrasse 6.
Angular Zurich June 2026
Hey Zürich, we are not slowing down! Angular Zürich is back with another evening of exciting talks exploring the future of Angular, modern developer experience, and where the framework is heading next. And for the first time ever, we’ll have three speakers sharing their insights, ideas, and real-world experiences with the community.
**Talks:**
*Even moar Angular skills for agentic development*
*by Tomas Trajan*
AI agents are quickly becoming part of the Angular development workflow - generating components, refactoring code, writing tests, and even orchestrating full features. But getting reliable results requires more than good prompts. In this talk, I’ll share the Angular patterns, architecture decisions, and tooling techniques that make agentic development actually productive at scale. You’ll see how strong typing, standalone APIs, signals, and clear project structure dramatically improve AI-generated code quality, and learn practical workflows for collaborating with coding agents without sacrificing maintainability or developer control.
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*From Typos to Type Safety — Building a Typed Router for Angular*
*by Dominic Bachmann*
Route enums, path constant objects, flat route trees to avoid nesting complexity — Angular developers have invented all kinds of workarounds to bring some safety to navigation. But they all share the same problem: a second source of truth that you maintain by hand. In this talk, I'll share how I built angular-typed-router, a drop-in replacement that infers every valid path directly from your route configuration. You'll see the developer experience in action — full autocomplete, compile-time validation — and learn how interface augmentation, template literal types, and recursive conditionals make it work at zero runtime cost.
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*Angular 22: The Great Simplification*
*by Mateusz Halada*
Angular has spent the last few releases removing complexity piece by piece - and Angular 22 takes that vision even further. In this talk, we’ll explore how the framework is evolving toward a leaner, more intuitive developer experience with simpler APIs, stronger defaults, and less boilerplate across everyday application development. You’ll see what’s new, what’s been streamlined, and how modern Angular patterns around signals, control flow, routing, and reactivity fit together into a much more cohesive mental model. By the end, you’ll understand not just the new features, but the bigger direction Angular is heading in.
**Agenda**
* 18:00 - 18:15 – **Intro**
* 18:15 - 18:45 – **Tomas Trajan** \- Even moar Angular skills for agentic development
* 18:50 - 19:30 **Dominic Bachmann** \- From Typos to Type Safety \- Building a Typed Router for Angular
* 19:35 - 20:05 – **Mateusz Halada** \- Angular 22: The Great Simplification
* 20:05 - 21:00 – **Networking**
Mattia Ferrini - Type Driven Development for human and AI reasoning
AI is changing the way we develop software. Mattia’s talk takes a fresh look at **Type-Driven Development** (TDD), and how types facilitate not only the work of human developers but also **LLM reasoning**.
The talk with be hands-on with code examples and open discussions
Agenda:
* What is Type-Driven Development
* An overview of F#’s type system
* How TDD facilitates human developers with AI tools
* LLM Tooling with types
* LLM reasoning with types
* Compositionality and reasoning traces
Mattia is a data scientist fighting a losing battle: replacing Python with languages featuring richer type systems. As the co-founder of Entropy42, a Zurich-based startup, he specializes in the verification of ontologies and mathematical optimization programs. There, Mattia leverages type systems and provers to sharpen the performance of specialized small language models.
Mattia will use F#, but his talk does not require any prior experience with the language.
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Magic: The Gathering – Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease@Kabooom Comic Shop
## PLAYERS ASSEMBLE!
## An all-star roster of heavy hitters jumps from the comics to the battlefield. Build your dream super team of Heroes and Villains, then suit them up with iconic gear and unleash earthshaking abilities.
## Hold the power of the Marvel Universe in your hands!
Don't miss the call to assemble your favorite super heroes! Sign up now!
Get a first look at the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe before the global release. Whether you want to lead the **Avengers**, conquer with **Doctor Doom**, or explore the multiverse with the **Fantastic Four**, your journey starts here.
### 📅 Event Details
***
* **Date:** Friday, 19th of June, 2026
* **Format:** Sealed Deck (Build a 40-card deck from your Prerelease Kit)
* **Entry Fee:** CHF 45.–
* **Doors Open:** 17:00
* **Tournament Start:** 18:00 SHARP (Kit distribution and deck building)
* **First Round Pairing**: 19:00
* **Rounds played:** 3
### What’s Inside?
Every player receives a Prerelease Kit containing **6 Marvel Super Heroes Play Boosters** and a foil-stamped Promo card. This set introduces incredible new mechanics like **Power-up**, **Shield counters**, and the brand-new **Plan** enchantments.
Will you master the **"Avengers Assemble"** synergy, or will your strategy be as calculated as **Wakanda Forever**? Open your packs, find your "Kabooom" combo, and prove you have what it takes to be Earth's Mightiest Planeswalker.
For every entry, there will be 2 German Marvel Super Heroes Play Boosters added to the Price Pool!
Please be here 10 - 15 mins prior, so we have enough time to register you.
For the registration, you'll need the Magic Companion App, and an Account on the App
(You can use your Arena Account to set it up)
Floating Down the Limmat Together
Floating down the Limmat is back to kick-start your summer! 💙💙💙
Bring your boat, air mattress, or inflatable sea creature and tighten your life jacket for an adventure downstream.
🔥🔥🔥At the end of the event, where we end the floating, there is a public grill you can use it to grill or a restaurant where you can order foods and drink.
We'll gather on the grass at Wipkinger Park from 13:00 to prepare for a chill ride down the river. We'll start to depart around 14:00, so we have an hour to socialize and inflate our fleet before we slowly drift our way down to Glazenberg (Grillplatz Allmend).
If you have empty spaces on your boat and are looking for a pirate crew, then please post it on the WhatsApp chat. There are always people looking for a ride ☠️
📱 Join our WhatsApp chat to keep up with the event (everyone can text two days before the event):
https://thislink.bio/c/ow8o2yl6
If you cannot access the chat, try opening the link on the WhatsApp web version on your laptop.
Here's what you should bring:
* Tasty food & refreshing drinks 🍹
* Sunscreen to ward off those pesky UV rays 🧴
* Rope (you never know when you’ll need it!) 🛟
* Life vest (Safety first - One per boat) 🦺
* Comfortable flip-flops for land transitions 🩴
* Watertight bags for your precious belongings 👜
* And most importantly, a sunny mood! 🐬
🔱 Disclaimer: Your safety is your own responsibility. Please ensure you can swim and remember to drink responsibly. Our team will guide you down the river, especially through one or two tricky spots, but it's important to follow instructions when given.
TechLegion Summer School: Claude AI Cerified Architect!
Want to become a certified Claude AI Architect?
Spend this summer learning skills that employers are actively looking for.
AI Architects, AI Agents, MCP, prompt engineering, and agentic systems are becoming some of the fastest-growing areas in tech. Want to be part of it?
TechLegion Summer School 2026 was created to help you learn these skills, prepare for an official certification, and connect with a community of professionals doing the same.
As a partner in the Claude Partner Network, TechLegion offers members the opportunity to prepare for and earn official Anthropic certifications through our dedicated study cohort.
🤖 Registration for cohort: https://linkly.link/2kCF8
The study cohort is free for TechLegion members. Please note that TechLegion membership is required to join the programme, as participants receive a TechLegion email account and access to member resources under our domain.
Learn together. Get certified. Build your AI skills this summer!.
VOYAGE - healing ecstatic dance
**An evening to move, release, reconnect — and return to yourself.**
What if one evening could become a doorway?
A doorway back into your body.
Back into your heart.
Back into the joy, softness, wildness and aliveness that already live inside you.
**VOYAGE** is not just an ecstatic dance.
It is a healing movement journey — a carefully held experience where music, dance, energy work, sound and human presence come together to guide you inward.
This is a space to let the body speak.
To shake off what has become heavy.
To breathe deeper.
To feel more.
To remember your own lightness.
## **What makes VOYAGE unique**
Unlike a traditional ecstatic dance, **VOYAGE includes live energy healing throughout the evening.**
Two experienced healers will hold the energetic field of the group and offer gentle, consent-based hands-on energy work during selected moments of the journey. Through intuitive touch, presence and energetic guidance, they support release, grounding, realignment and deeper integration.
The dance opens the body.
The energy work supports what wants to move.
The sound healing brings everything back into stillness.
Together, these elements create a rare and powerful experience:
**a dance floor that becomes a healing temple.**
## **During the evening, you will be invited into:**
• **Healing ecstatic dance** to free the body and release stored emotions
• **Live energy healing** with two healers in a safe and respectful space
• **Sound healing** to slow down, soften and integrate
• **Healing dance** to explore movement as medicine
• **Consensual healing hugs** to reconnect with warmth, care and human presence
• **Deep integration moments** to land, breathe and receive
There are no steps to learn.
No performance.
No need to look a certain way.
No pressure to be anything other than exactly who you are.
Just your body.
Your breath.
The music.
The moment.
And a warm, alcohol-free space where you are invited to feel, move, release and reconnect.
Come as you are.
Leave lighter, softer, more aligned — and deeply recharged.
**VOYAGE – Healing Ecstatic Dance**
📅 **21.06**
📍 **Rampe 70**
**Tickets: [https://eventfrog.ch/Voyage](https://eventfrog.ch/Voyage "https://eventfrog.ch/Voyage")**
Alcohol-free · Warm atmosphere · Safe held space
**This is your invitation to travel inward.**
**Your body already knows the way.**
Improv Dating Night [Singles only, 25-40y]
**⚠️ [>>Ticket needed (click here)<<](https://link.social-circle.ch/Nr1O) or**
**[tickets.social-circle.ch](http://tickets.social-circle.ch/)**
First dates are awkward because everyone's trying so hard not to be. We do the opposite:
A room full of people being a bit daft on purpose, which drops the pressure and lets the actual person show up. 😌
No interview across a coffee table, no scripts to learn. Just a run of quick, silly games that get you talking, laughing and meeting most of the room. It's the fastest way to skip past "so, what do you do" and find out who's actually fun to be around.
No experience needed, and nobody gets put on a stage. You're always playing games with other people, never performing in front of them. Bring a relaxed head and a sense of humour and you're sorted. 🙌
📲 Join the WhatsApp group for this and other dating events:
[https://link.social-circle.ch/wz7V](https://link.social-circle.ch/wz7V)
**The evening:**
* 16:45 Doors open, grab a drink and settle in
* 17:15 Easy warm-up games to learn a few names
* 17:30 Group games and mixers that get everyone moving and meeting, building up to quick bits in pairs and small groups. Light, low pressure.
* 18:15 Short break and chance to chat
* 18:30 More games and a few playful challenges
* 19:00 Wind down with snacks and coffee, then carry on to a drink nearby if you fancy it
**What to bring**
Just yourself and a willingness to have fun.
Photos and short videos may be taken during the event. Let the host know if you'd rather not be in them. Tickets are non refundable.
Get weekly Zurich updates for all of our activities on WhatsApp:
[https://link.social-circle.ch/vh14](https://link.social-circle.ch/vh14)
Lorzentobel und Höllgrotten
Durch ein grösseres Waldstück erreichen wir die Lorze. Wir überqueren sie und stehen vor den Höllgrotten, 6000 Jahre alten Tropfsteinhöhlen. Wir folgen wir dem Lauf der Lorze, die durch Wildheit und Schönheit besticht. Der Rückweg führt uns vorbei an der Burgruine Wildenburg durch ein Waldstück namens Himmelrich.
Wie immer mit Meditationsübungen in der Natur.
Eintrittspreis für die Höllgrotten 14 CHF.
Spendensammlung für Pro Natura.
Mehr Fotos und Tourenblatt **[HIER Klicken](https://www.bernhardeisenbarth.ch/meditation/meditatives-wandern/#cc-m-header-15002150427)**
Psychedelic Medicine: Preparation & Integration Circle
PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE: PREPARATION & INTEGRATION CIRCLE
Trust · Surrender · Integrate
The medicine begins long before the ceremony.
And it continues long after.
Location details: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/eKbgGXLr7tyQKfox7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/eKbgGXLr7tyQKfox7)
What truth are you afraid to meet inside yourself?
What rises in you when you stop running from yourself?
[Please get a mandatory free or paid ticket on Eventfrog](https://eventfrog.ch/en/p/health-spirituality/spirituality/psychedelic-medicine-preparation-integration-circle-7470493204678222570.html).
Inspired by the living wisdom of the AI'Kofan, Wixarika, Yawanawá, and the Andean cosmovision – with deep respect for the wisdom of these traditions and cosmovisions.
A weekly circle for those preparing for psychedelic medicine and for seekers wanting deeper understanding through mysticism, somatic work, shadow exploration, science-based grounding, and the wisdom of indigenous tribes.
Includes:
• group sharing
• somatic grounding
• intention support
• honest conversations
• Q&A
• gentle integration / elaboration support
This is a fully sober space — no substances are used here. The work is preparation, integration, and inner clarity.
About András
András brings over 25 years of experience in human transformation, emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, coaching, and ecstatic mysticism. His work is rooted in presence, intuition, grounded compassion, and an embodied understanding of inner pathways shaped by grief, renewal, indigenous teachings, and the raw honesty of the human heart.
He is also a student of the Ecstatic Mysticism program by AWE, which blends psychology, transpersonal insight, embodied practice, indigenous wisdom, and ritual work across pathways such as psychedelic medicine, sexuality, death and grief, and liminality — grounding expanded consciousness into real, lived transformation.
Lovingly,
András / Psysoul
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CAPA Summer Movie: PRETTY WOMAN at the Ohio Theatre!
Join us as we get together for a CAPA Summer Movie event to see the romantic, funny, heartwarming, feel-good classic, PRETTY WOMAN! Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in this modern-day fairy-tale romance! Here’s a description, trailer and plan for this event:
DESCRIPTION: A wealthy corporate raider hires a Hollywood escort as his date for a week of high-society business events. But what starts as a business transaction blossoms into genuine love, challenging both of their lives and leading to an unexpected romance. The film is directed by Garry Marshall and stars Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Héctor Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy (in his final performance), Laura San Giacomo and Jason Alexander.
MINI TRAILER: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JghOdhAwc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JghOdhAwc)
SHORT BONUS CLIP #1 - DIRECTOR GARRY MARSHALL Recalls Famous Scenes from the Film: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpIMOzieGPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpIMOzieGPs)
SHORT BONUS CLIP #2 - RICHARD GERE on the Film’s Impact all these years later: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0T3O94dAA8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0T3O94dAA8)
SHORT BONUS CLIP #3 - JULIA ROBERTS Remembers a Gift from Director Garry Marshall: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4AZSjbMsA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4AZSjbMsA)
BUZZ & ACCLAIM: A huge box office hit at the time of its release, PRETTY WOMAN has since gone on to become a modern-day classic! The film catapulted Julia Roberts to superstardom and earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress and her first Oscar nomination! Critics praise Julia Roberts’ star-making performance, the undeniable chemistry between her and Richard Gere, and its warm, funny feel-good story about kindness, self-worth and transformation! The film’s “intelligence and wit,” “first-class performances” and “sharp, funny script” have made Pretty Woman a classic and truly “something special!”
THE OHIO THEATRE: The Ohio Theatre is located at 39 E. State Street, between 3rd and High Streets, across the street from the Ohio Statehouse. From classical music to modern dance, yearly family traditions to hot concerts, the world’s best artists come to the 2,791-seat, historic Ohio Theatre. The breathtaking details (including the 21-foot-high chandelier!) of its opulent, Spanish-Baroque architecture make any night at the Ohio Theater an event to remember!
PRE-SHOW ENTERTAINMENT: Now celebrating his 33rd year as featured organist for the CAPA Summer Movie Series, Clark Wilson will again provide pre-show entertainment at the keyboards and controls of the Ohio Theatre’s treasured “Mighty Morton” theatre organ 30 minutes prior to each screening.
PARKING: Parking is available at Columbus Commons Parking Garage off 3rd or Rich Streets or in Statehouse Parking Garage off 3rd Street. You can find out more about parking in Downtown Columbus by visiting the Downtown Columbus website.
PLAN: Purchase your ticket for the 7:30pm showing and we’ll meet outside the theater between 6:50 and 7:00pm. We’ll head in at 7pm to get good seats and enjoy the pre-show organ music!
TICKETS: Tickets just $6 adult / $5 senior! Parking is available under the Capital building, in the nearby garage, or on the nearby streets. You can purchase your ticket at the box office on the day of the event or online here: [https://www.capa.com/capa-summer-movie-series/](https://www.capa.com/capa-summer-movie-series/)
Look forward to seeing you there, Dan
"Metal Slinger" by Rachel Schneider
Join us as we discuss our June pick: Metal Slinger by Rachel Schneider!
Book description:
Even though she's not one of them, Brynn has spent her life among the Alaha, training to be a guard and waiting for the chance to attend the annual market hosted by the Kenta–the very same people who exiled her adopted community to a life at sea. Going to the market is a rite of passage eagerly anticipated by all young guards, but Brynn does not anticipate breaking a century-long peace treaty while there. Nor does she plan for the intense encounter with an enemy soldier that now threatens to unwind the fragile coexistence between their people–and everything Brynn once believed about herself to be true.
Brynn's loyalty to the Alaha is tested when the truth of her identity is brought to light by this soldier who's taken an oath to bring her back to where she belongs. Narrowly escaping death on the violent high seas, Brynn's connection to the Alaha is further tested when she learns about the world of magic she's been denied. She was once certain of her fate and where she belonged, but the dark, knowing eyes of this stranger have her questioning everything, including her heart.
Packed with knife fights and seafaring adventure, METAL SLINGER is the smash-hit start to the romantic fantasy duology, the Fire & Metal series
Super Friday: SUPERGIRL at Cinemark Stoneridge!
Join us for an Opening Night showing of the super-hero action-adventure, SUPERGIRL! Get in early because this series is just getting started! Hot on the heels of last year’s excellent SUPERMAN comes what should be another fun adventure! Here’s a description, trailer and plan for this event:
DESCRIPTION: Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home. The film is directed by Craig Gillespie, written by Ana Nogueira, and stars Milly Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet and Jason Momoa.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-pfiVMKAs
PLAN: Please purchase your ticket for the 7:00pm showing and meet in the lobby area between 6:40 and 6:50pm! It’s in their largest theater on their biggest screen but advance ticket purchase is advised for this Opening Night showing! Once you have yours, please list your seat number in the Comments below. Possible pre-show bite. That part will be confirmed/announced as the date gets closer.
Look forward to seeing you there, Dan
Columbus Comedy Improv Meetup at Gresso's!
Whether you've never done improv before, or you've done it for so long you were quoted in *Truth in Comedy*, or anywhere in between, come join us! Swing by *Gresso's* for the **Columbus Improv Comedy Meetup**!
The idea behind improvised comedy is to create entire scenes from scratch. A suggestion is taken from the audience and laughter is built on the spot. This can be done in game form, like *Whose Line Is It Anyway, Make Some Noise,* or *Wild 'n Out*; it can also be done in a longer way, to tell a complicated story, like *TJ & Dave*.
Our meetup, which is central Ohio's longest running (and FREE!) weekly comedy event, brings the games for you to play in a safe, supportive, and compassionate environment. Afterward, many members will hang out in *Gresso's* itself and get to know each other. Not only is this a lot of fun, but you get to work on thinking faster on your feet, your public speaking, plus it's an excellent way to meet new people and build relationships that will last a lifetime, and you do that while laughing your butt off!
Ask yourself if you want to join the **Columbus Improv Comedy Meetup**, and say "*Yes, And*" that you'll have a blast!
Discount Tuesday: DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD vs TOY STORY 5 at Marcus Crosswoods!
Join us for a Discount Tuesday / Choose Your Movie event to see your choice of the A24 thriller THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD or the latest animated adventure in the always great series, TOY STORY 5! Should be a winner either way! Here are details, trailers and our plan for this event:
THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD: This thriller from A24 is being called a dark adaptation of the 17th-century ballad Robin Hood's Death. It follows an aged Robin Hood in the hands of a mysterious woman after being critically injured as he grapples with his past life of crime and murder. The film is written / directed by Michael Sarnoski and stars Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlSDDuWxO_0&t=1s
TOY STORY 5: The fifth installment of what is quite possibly the best animated series ever! With something for everyone, this animated adventure faces a new crisis as 8-year old Bonnie has become enamored with the new favorite plaything, a frog-like tablet named Lilypad! The film stars returning cast members Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Tony Hale, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Annie Potts, Bonnie Hunt, Keanu Reeves, and Melissa Villaseñor, along with newcomers Greta Lee, Conan O'Brien, Craig Robinson, Matty Matheson, Jeff Bergman, Anna Vocino and Ernie Hudson. TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51ND9Hdbw0
PLAN: For those seeing TOY STORY 5, please purchase your ticket for the 7:00pm showing and meet in the bar area starting at 6:30pm! For those seeing THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, please purchase your ticket for the 7:10pm showing and meet in the bar area starting at 6:30pm! Discount Tuesday ticket prices are $6 for ROBIN HOOD and $8 for TS5 (because it’s on their Ultra Screen) when you join Marcus Rewards and use the app. Marcus Rewards is FREE and also includes a FREE popcorn on Discount Tuesday showings. Tickets moving FAST so advance ticket purchase as soon as possible is advised! Once you have yours, please list your movie of choice and seat number in the Comments section of this event.
Look forward to seeing you there, Dan
Stalker
Based on the novel Roadside Picnic, it is NO picnic, but rather one of the masterpieces of world cinema. Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet sci-fi classic, recounts the expedition of a writer and professor led by a mysterious guide called "The Stalker." to a futuristic wasteland called "The Zone." Dripping with existential dread, it continually presents strange occurrences that will have us debating the meaning of what we've just viewed right through the ending.
*Stalker* (1979) can be streamed for free on HBOMax, the Criterion Channel or Kanopy. It's also available for rent on Amazon Prime and AppleTV. The Columbus Library has two copies on disc.
Drunken Philosophy: Where Is Everybody? The Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter
Welcome to Drunken Philosophy, a casual, curious, social discussion club. Come grab a drink and a seat at The Oracle.
**Optional topic for this meetup: Where is everybody?**
In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi was talking about aliens over lunch and asked a question that still has not gone away: if the universe is so vast and so old, and even a fraction of those billions of stars have planets, where is everyone? By the numbers the galaxy should be crowded with civilizations. Instead we look up and hear silence. That gap between "they should be everywhere" and "we see no one" is the Fermi Paradox.
One of the most unsettling answers is the idea of a **Great Filter**: somewhere on the road from dead chemistry to a galaxy-spanning civilization, there is at least one step that is almost impossible to get past. Maybe the filter is behind us. Maybe life starting at all, or simple cells becoming complex, or intelligence ever evolving, is the freak accident, and we already cleared the hard part. Or maybe the filter is ahead of us, and advanced civilizations reliably wipe themselves out before they spread.
Here is the part that messes with people. If we ever found life somewhere else, even pond scum on Mars, most people would call it the greatest discovery in history. But it might be the worst possible news. It would mean life is common, the early steps are easy, and the hard step is still in front of us. So the eerie silence overhead might actually be the best sign we could ask for.
**Questions to wrestle with:**
* Is it better to be alone? Would you rather we find alien life and learn we are not special, or find nothing and quietly improve our odds of surviving?
* Where do you bet the filter sits, behind us or ahead of us, and why?
* If it is ahead of us, what is it? Nuclear war, climate collapse, AI, something we cannot even picture yet? And can we do anything about a filter we cannot see coming?
* Does any of this change how you live, or how humanity should be spending its time and money right now?
As always the prompt is optional. Come for the conversation, stay for the drinks, and bring your own questions.













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