Tag: symbolism
Art Beat Festival (USA)
This year’s theme was symbolism. Why? We find symbols everywhere. Symbols inform our art. Symbols evoke the imagination and summon our intuition, opening up the gateway to our inner world. […]
Good philosophers are always inspiring! (Nuremberg, Germany)
Stories are told to children to help them fall asleep. And for adults? To help them wake up! A firebird that longs for freedom and the sun, a duckling that […]
Towards Unity through Diversity: From darkness to light (Székesfehérvár, Hungary)
A comparative fairy tale workshop was held in the Székesfehérvár Centre. Three different folktales were narrated with similar motives: the abduction of the sun followed by the state of darkness, […]
The Meaning of Slavic Symbols (Gdansk, Warsaw, Poland)
New Acropolis volunteers from Poland organized a meeting with a visual presentation in Gdansk and Warsaw on Symbols of Slavic Mythology and Culture. The subject of the roots unknown and […]
New Acropolis Sarajevo inaugurated its first ‘Sophia’ book club (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
New Acropolis inaugurated its first Sophia book club with an inspirational discussion on Saint-Exupéry’s timeless classic The Little Prince“. Participants discussed the philosophical aspects of the book and shared their […]
The Power of Symbols (Chicago, USA)
The New Acropolis School in Chicago had the honor of hosting Denis Bricnet, regional coordinator of the New Acropolis schools in North America, for a public event for World Philosophy […]
Mayan Wisdom – A Way of Being (Chicago, USA)
At its core, the Mayan worldview was, and still is, at least as powerful, meaningful, and viable as our modern worldview. At its core is the experience of a spiritual […]
Symbolism of Chivalry (Sofia, Bulgaria)
New Acropolis Sofia organized a workshop on the symbolism of the Knights. Following a debate around the idea of chivalry and whether it is still relevant today, we talked about […]
‘The language of symbols’ workshop (Bulgaria)
New Acropolis organized a workshop about the language of symbols. The program began with a brief lecture about the symbols that humanity has used for millennia to describe in a timeless […]
