Category: Cultural Activities
Games night (Montevideo, Uruguay)
New Acropolis Montevideo volunteers organized a games night at the central branch of Pocitos. A friendly and playful encounter with games from different periods and cultures together with popular Uruguayan dishes […]
Workshop: How to foster creativity? “Flow” (Chicago, USA)
Using simple team exercises of creativity, we tried to answer the questions: Where does creativity come from and can we nurture it in ourselves?
“Try Philosophy!” series of lectures (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Tel Aviv organised a mini marathon of lectures of approximately 30 minutes each on happiness, a recurring theme in our minds. We talked about the source of happiness and if […]
Lecture: Intelligence of the heart (Canada)
The recent scientific discoveries about the human heart are revolutionary. Academic researchers even say that the human heart, with its thousands of neurons and its intense electromagnetic field, is a […]
‘New Acropolis’ Book Club (Tirana, Albania)
New Acropolis Tirana organized a Book Club meeting, which was opened for everyone appreciating books and having the educational objective of promoting a healthy relationship between books and readers. This […]
Sharing philosophical ideas (Somerville, USA)
Young and old alike enjoyed spinning the Wheel of Wisdom at the Art Beat Festival this summer where participants spun for a quote from one of the great philosophers of […]
The Papyrus of Ani, the voyage of life after death (Mumbai, India)
The director of New Acropolis Mumbai, Yaron Barzilay, presented a talk to an audience of about one hundred participants about the ‘Papyrus of Ani’ in collaboration with The Indian Express […]
Exhibition ‘Ukrainian Philosophers’ in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine)
A major cultural project was launched by the Ivano- Frankivsk branch of New Acropolis in Ukraine, called ‘Ukrainian Philosophers’. The exhibition of the same name included 20 stands dedicated to […]
Lecture on Maya cosmovision (Montreal, Canada)
The speaker, Denis Bricnet, allowed the public to meet the soul and the spirit of the Mayan world. In this richly illustrated lecture, we explored almost 2000 years of history […]
Bushido: The code of honor of the samurai (Uruguay)
Mauricio Puentes (4th Dan in Taekwon-do) and Juan Pablo Romanelli (2nd Dan in iaido) spoke about the deep meaning of the philosophical path and the code of honor of the […]
