In open dialogues the guests, in pairs and together with the speakers, reflected on how to dare to live their values.
The four speakers have one thing in common — they understand purpose as an action. And they change the life of the city: they take on significant projects, they know from their own experience what it means to follow their values every day.

Margarita Opalinskaya, founder and leader of the Fenestra Cultural Center for Children and Adolescents, sees her mission as helping children form their worldview through art and learn to accept and respect other cultures and civilizations.

Artist Sofya Grigorieva explained why (although her artworks are often not selected for exhibitions) she remains true to herself. She is convinced that art helps people adapt to the changing world and invites the viewer to deep reflection.

Veronika Antonova, who coordinates more than 60 volunteer projects, including helping wild and homeless animals, caring for children from orphanages and foster houses, residents of nursing homes and single elderly homes, collecting books for rural libraries, shared her formula: to do what’s important and necessary here and now.

The philosophical core of the evening was a short lecture of Ekaterina Davletshina, the head of the New Acropolis in Victory Park. She turned to the ideas of the Stoics that the purpose of human is to become a Human, which is expressed in the development of “arete” — human virtues.

This networking has become a real platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences, for new connections, like the Athenian Agora, a place of favorite meetings of the ancient Greeks.