Category: Culture
Young people in the city: History and ecology to cultivate beauty (L’Aquila, Italy)
On Earth Day, students and volunteers from New Acropolis, with the patronage of the Town Hall, cleaned the green area of the Via Strinella – an abandoned area for years […]
Talk and discussion: “Games of Thrones” at a downtown pub (Jerusalem, Israel)
Inspiring lecture by the director of New Acropolis in Jerusalem, Eli Mitrani, in a pub in the center of the city. An interesting analysis of the main problems that modern […]
Cultural tour (Serbia)
Cultural walk to the monastery and the Manasija fortress, one of the most significant monuments of medieval Serbian culture. Volunteers prepared an exhibition on the School of Resava – well known […]
“Stories for the Soul”. Staged Zen tales (Medellin, Colombia)
New Acropolis Medellin offered a theatrical adaptation of the famous tales of the Zen Tradition – a compilation of Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki – for two weekends. Attendees enjoyed […]
“Symbols and myths in the Star Wars saga” (Vitória, ES, Brazil)
The speaker, Priscila Costa, spoke about this heroic saga in a philosophical light, as a modern myth that contains very practical symbols for life. Among these, the relationship between master […]
Students visit a Buddhist Temple (São Leopoldo- RS, Brazil)
The students of the San Leopoldo branch visited the Chagdud Gonpa Khadro Ling Buddhist Center, which offers meditation teachings and practices from the Nyingma tradition of Vajraiana Tibetan Buddhism, located […]
First International Congress of “Philosophy and Education” (Metepec, Mexico)
New Acropolis along with Universidad Azteca, ITUEM Institute, OPENBOOK and ICAEF organized the first International Congress of ‘Philosophy and Education’. With the participation of almost a hundred people, 16 speakers […]
Visit to the Barolo Palace, a living book (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
An organized visit to the Barolo Palace, one of the iconic buildings of Avenida de Mayo. This building built at the beginning of the twentieth century, is an architectural symbol […]
Talk on Freedom (Balvanera, Argentina)
Talk entitled “Are we really free?”: A presentation of the teachings of Seneca, Abraham Lincoln and Marcus Aurelius – three of the most important advocates and practitioners of Roman Stoicism […]
Lecture: “Leonardo da Vinci, uniting Art, Science and Philosophy” (Alajuela, Costa Rica)
A talk about Leonardo, a renaissance and universal man, whose entire life was a synthesis of search and discovery; and for whom nature and life were great Teachers.
