Night of Ideas San Francisco

A collaborative and interactive seven-hour program of debate, performances, dance, and music featuring top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond. Be part of an international event happening in more than 150 cities in the world.
This seven-hour marathon of philosophical debate, keynotes, panels, performances, and interactive experiences is designed to spur dialogue and creative participation on the theme "Living on the Edge." with each floor devoted to a separate theme including:
Chaos + Creation -
How do we cope with disorder and disruption to fashion new ways to think and be?
Wonder + Worry -
What anxieties about the future weigh on us most, and what fascinations will transform the way we live?
Exclusion + Belonging -
How do we find belonging and identity while making space for differences of lived experience?
Truth + Doubt -
With consensus about history and facts increasingly fractured, what narratives should we affirm?
Circulation + Borders -
How do we transcend limits on movement for a healthy economy and a just society?
Sights + Sounds
The full schedule will be published soon... stay tuned!
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Join thought-leaders, creators, storytellers, dreamers, and change-makers as they address these topics in keynote talks and discussion sessions. See a special live broadcast of KQED's Forum with host Mina Kim. Share your own creative voice and exchange ideas in a range of participatory workshops, activities, or open mics. Enjoy spectacular performances and music by local artists shaping the culture of the Bay Area.
Featuring diverse voices and talent from community organizations:
ACLU, Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, America Magazine, Asian Art Museum, Art in Action, Aurora Performers Bay Area Theater Cypher, Black Benatar (aka Mx. Beatrice Thomas), Burning Man, CAAM, California Humanities, Capoeira Ijexá, Circus Bella, Cultural Odyssey, Destiny Arts, Duniya Dance and Drum Company, Equal Justice Society, French Tech San Francisco, Friends of SFPL, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Institute of Arts and Science at UC Santa Cruz, Institute for the Future, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, KQED, L'Obs, Litquake, Loco Bloco, LoudSpring, Lycée Français de San Francisco, New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus, Noise Pop, Open Austria, Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, Presidio Trust, Qigong Rebecca Grossbard, SETI Institute, The Stud Collective, Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, UC Davis Department of History, World Economic Forum, and more!
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