Category: Promotion of Philosophy
A festival to be children again… with philosophy (Bologna, Italy)
The National Festival of Active Philosophy took place in the heart of Bologna under the patronage of the City Council and under the auspices of Neptune. A splendid sunny day, […]
Lecture: “The First Philosophers” (Paris, France)
At Espace Le Moulin, we delved into the origins of Western philosophy, long before Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. In this lecture, which will be followed by a monthly series of […]
Open Class for Living Philosophy (Chicago, USA)
New Acropolis Chicago had an Open Living Philosophy Class open to the public. The participants were introduced to the syllabus as well as some teaser of what the course is […]
Happening “Know thyself” (Pucallpa, Peru)
The New Acropolis centre in Pucallpa organized this activity to make philosophy more accessible to the public with a series of playful and reflective activities. The games were designed to […]
Book Club: The Symposium (Bolivia)
In the latest edition of the Book Club, we had an exciting and enriching exploration of Plato’s “The Symposium”. During three meetings, participants plunged into the depths of this famous […]
Visit to Montessori School (San Cristóbal, Venezuela)
The Montessori school in San Cristóbal decided to promote philosophy to its students last May and, with that aim in mind, invited New Acropolis to give a talk on practical […]
Sourdough Workshop (Menahamiya, Israel)
The ability to observe external processes and connect them internally to us is the ability to grow an inner life. We talked about the principles of doing something not for […]
Changing postponing into proactiveness – Navigating our era’s difficult waters (Practical philosophy series) – Philosophical workshop (Taipei, Taiwan)
On our 2nd workshop “Navigating our era’s difficult waters” we discussed our tendency of postponing things in life. We searched for the deeper root of why we postpone and what […]
Café-Philo: “The Teachings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Karma” (Montreal, Canada)
At New Acropolis Montreal, Catherine Guillerme invited participants to discover the ancient wisdom and esoteric teachings transmitted by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in particular the law of karma and its manifestations […]
Café-philo: Me, you, him, her… How can we be ourselves?” (Montreal, Canada)
At the Café Insiders (Montreal), participants discovered how several great civilizations of East and West were able to develop by proclaiming an ideal of fraternity beyond all distinctions. We can […]
