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SUMMARY:Creative Playground - Let's Create Freedom and Liberation Together
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Freedom Festival\, we invite you to join members of our Monthly Creative Playground for a special workshop to explore\, perform and celebrate freedom and independence. \nDate: July 3rd\, 2024 at 3:30 pm PDT/ 6:30 pm EDT \nWe started the Creative Playground with a collective intent: that exploring creativity together is therapeutic. We have created a space where we foster our creativity\, and develop emotionally as well as artistically. We come together on Zoom the first Thursday of every month. Participants share\, respond to each other and we create with our varied histories\, identities\, stories and emotional responses to living in a world where crisis is the norm. In the Creative Playground we use the expressive arts (theater/improv\, poetry\, movement\, music\, drawing/collage) to create improvised conversations and art together. \nTogether we will explore what it means for people in America and internationally to come together to explore and celebrate freedom from slavery and our ability to collectively self-organize. All people have an experience of what freedom and independence mean to them. Through this festival\, we want to create OUR experience of liberation. \nRegister Here!
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/creative-playground-freedom/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:What to us is the Fourth of July? Does Freedom Ring True
DESCRIPTION:12 pm PDT/ 2pm CDT/ 3pm EDT The Declaration of Independence is one of America’s significant founding documents. On its face\, it is a declaration of war. A look at the structure of the document\, it follows the archetype of 18th century enlightenment thinking\, laying out fundamental principles drawn from the laws of nature and deriving conclusions based on these principles. But over all this\, the document lays out the values that the founders considered to be fundamental to the creation of a government\, and though imperfect\, the values for which the country should continuously strive. \n72 years later\, Frederick Douglass was asked to deliver an Independence Day address to the Rochesters Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The address\, entitled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a lament of the celebration of independence while so many in the US were enslaved. In contrast to the appeal to logic of the Declaration of Independence which strives for lofty goals\, Douglass’s address points out the hypocrisy inherent in the invitation and national celebration. Even so\, Douglass ends his speech “drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence [and] the great principles it contains”.  \nWe invite you all to join us at the Freedom Festival for a collective reading of excerpts from both the Declaration of Independence and Fredrick Douglass’s speech “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?”.  We’ll explore in conversation the relationship between these documents and freedom. Collectively\, we can create together our meaning of freedom and the Fourth of July. \nDiscussion Leaders: Nick Gross\, Rachell Moore\, and Jay Newman \nNick Gross\nJay “Glitch” Newman\nRachelle Moore\n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/what-to-us-is-the-fourth-of-july-does-freedom-ring-true/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Freedom: A Roundtable Exploration
DESCRIPTION:11:00 am PDT/ 1 pm CDT/ 2 pm EDT \nJoin us. What is the philosophy of freedom? Freedomista Joanna Wheeldin is joined by SRJC philosophy instructors Sean Martin and Dr. Alexa Forrester to discuss freedom\, independence and nonviolent resistance. In this zoom meeting\, we’ll dive into texts like Barbara Deming’s On Revolution and Equilibrium and Edouard Glissant’s book chapter “For Opacity.” To join the conversation\, RSVP below. You’ll receive the link in an email. \nRecordings of the festival events will be available on the Freedom Festival Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@FreedomFestivalUSA \nTaking place on July 2nd at 11:00 am PDT/ 1 pm CDT/ 2 pm EDT.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-philosophy-of-freedom-a-roundtable-exploration/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250701T200000
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SUMMARY:Online Embodiment Touching Closeup Love: a leaderless and leaderful embodied racial justice practice group
DESCRIPTION:5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET \n“Hope is invented every day.”\n– James Baldwin quoted in Resmaa Menakem’s book The Quaking of America \nJoin us. We are a group of 8 people who self-organize an online\, bi-weekly\, leaderless and leaderful\, embodied racial justice practice group. We began in response to Resmaa Menakem’s call for people to practice the offerings in his book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies with other people\, and to commit to practicing for the rest of our lives. We are organizers\, healing arts practitioners\, teachers\, facilitators\, artists\, yoga therapists and retirees. We are an intergenerational group\, from our 30s to our 70s\, in Illinois\, New York\, Ohio\, Texas\, Virginia\, and Washington DC-Baltimore. \nAs we near 5 years of practice together\, we want to open our circle up to others interested in experiencing how we gather. We’ll share what has been revealed to us over the course of our time in relationship with each other\, and how we’ve evolved to shape our lives with each other’s partnership. Join us for discussion and practice that tends to our bodies and our mutual development. \nResmaa Menakem calls his landscape of practice Somatic Abolitionism\, which is an embodied response to the problems of white-body supremacy. It is a “living\, embodied\, practice and culture of antiracism”. To learn more about Resmaa’s work\, check out the Black Octopus Society. We are not experts in or teaching Resmaa’s body of work. We are gathering to share our relationships with one another and our commitment to resourcing ourselves\, so we can show up more wholly and effectively in our lives and the conditions that have been created. And so\, maybe\, we can make small (perhaps inconceivable) shifts to these conditions\, in our lifetimes. \nJoin us with a cup of tea and in comfortable clothing. \nJuly 1\, 2025: 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET \nCo-presenters include: C Meranda Flachs-Surmanek\, Vinny Mwano Jeffrey Pulis Jennifer O’Hara Michael Burnham Jen Schneeman Beth Anne Brooks-Mwano\, Barry Feldman
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/online-embodiment-touching-closeup-love-a-leaderless-and-leaderful-embodied-racial-justice-practice-group/
LOCATION:online
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ORGANIZER;CN="C Meranda Flachs-Surmanek":MAILTO:merandissime@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250701T150000
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SUMMARY:Freedom From the Machine: The Uses and Abuses of AI
DESCRIPTION:12 pm PDT/ 2 pm CDT/ 3pm EDT \nJoin us. The increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of “Large Language Models” such as Chat-GPT\, or generative image models such as Dali opens up the possibility of increased productivity as well as individual expression. Much like other tools\, AI also has the potential to be used either carelessly or with malicious intent. To understand both the benefits and the pitfalls\, it is important to understand how AI is implemented\, what tasks it can do well\, what it can’t do well\, and how we can guard against malicious use.  \nJoin us for this session that will introduce some of the fundamentals of AI\, provide some hands-on experience with using these tools\, and open to a discussion about how they may shape our lives in the future. Open to all.  No AI experience necessary.  \nDiscussion Leads: Loretta Cheeks and  Nick Gross
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-from-the-machine-the-uses-and-abuses-of-ai/
LOCATION:online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nicholas Gross":MAILTO:gross@bu.edu
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SUMMARY:The Freedom We Make : Queer Artists on Sound\, Struggle\, and Sanctuary Spaces
DESCRIPTION:12-2pm PDT / 2-4 pm CDT/ 3-4 pm EDT. How do queer artists create spaces of freedom-not just for survival\, but for creative process?   \nAmid the federal administration’s threats to sanctuary jurisdictions\, MovingGround initiated Sanctuary Spaces\, an art-action network to share narratives and shed light on people’s lives directly impacted through conversation\, performance\, and co-creating live and experiential Sanctuary Spaces together.   From Window\, the Black lesbian vocalist and author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories\, to Mister Lady Zen\, an internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Together these artists use sound\, word\, and community to build sanctuaries. Meanwhile\, Najee Rene aka “Casino\,” the Berlin-based musician and podcaster behind BABE: Black American Berlin Expat\, amplifies diasporic voices across borders. \nTogether with Freedom Festival and the Freedomista\, Lisa Aurora Calderon\, co-founder of Naming Gallery and ToMaRo Gallery invited MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio to co-moderate this panel where we ask the panelists to share: How do we create Sanctuary\, Safety\, and Protection? How does art become a tool for peace in the face of chaos? How do we preserve sanity while fighting for liberation? And what does it mean to teach\, create\, and thrive when governments change abruptly? Join us for a conversation on music\, memory\, and the radical act of making room for ourselves. \nIncredible Panelists and Organizers! :: \nCO-ORGANIZERS / MODERATORS:  \n\nLisa Aurora – ToMaRoGallery.com\nKrista DeNio – MovingGround\n\nPANELISTS/ ARTISTS \n\nWindow – Vocalist\, Singer Songwriter\, Artist\, and Author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories.\nNajee Rene aka “Casino” – The Emperor’s Tarot and BABE Black American Berlin Expat\nMister Lady Zen- Internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Learn more about her work here.\n\nRegistration and Fee: \n$5-50 sliding scale. Get tickets below. Additional donations can be made to Venmo | MovingGround; write one word in the payment note that gives or creates in you a sense of sanctuary \n**Please note that your contribution goes directly to paying the artist fees for all panel experts! \n12-2pm PDT / 2-4 pm CDT/ 3-4 pm EDT.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Performing Arts
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250622T140000
DTSTAMP:20260411T153300
CREATED:20250524T184703Z
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SUMMARY:The Freedom We Make : Queer Artists on Sound\, Struggle\, and Sanctuary Spaces
DESCRIPTION:How do queer artists create spaces of freedom-not just for survival\, but for creative process?   \nAmid the federal administration’s threats to sanctuary jurisdictions\, MovingGround initiated Sanctuary Spaces\, an art-action network to share narratives and shed light on people’s lives directly impacted through conversation\, performance\, and co-creating live and experiential Sanctuary Spaces together.   From Window\, the Black lesbian vocalist and author of Black Lesbian Bedtime Stories\, to Mister Lady Zen\, an internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Together these artists use sound\, word\, and community to build sanctuaries. Meanwhile\, Najee Rene aka “Casino\,” the Berlin-based musician and podcaster behind BABE: Black American Berlin Expat\, amplifies diasporic voices across borders. \nTogether with Freedom Festival and the Freedomistas\, Lisa Aurora Calderon\, co-founder of Naming Gallery and ToMaRo Gallery invited MovingGround Artistic Director Krista DeNio to co-moderate this panel where we ask the panelists to share: How do we create Sanctuary\, Safety\, and Protection? How does art become a tool for peace in the face of chaos? How do we preserve sanity while fighting for liberation? And what does it mean to teach\, create\, and thrive when governments change abruptly? \nJoin us for a conversation on music\, memory\, and the radical act of making room for ourselves. \nIncredible Panelists and Organizers!  \nCO-ORGANIZERS / MODERATORS:  \n\nLisa Aurora – ToMaRoGallery.com\nKrista DeNio – MovingGround\n\nPANELISTS/ ARTISTS \n\nWindow – Vocalist\, Singer Songwriter\, Artist\, and Author of Back Lesbian Bedtime Stories.\nNajee Rene aka “Casino” – The Emperor’s Tarot and BABE Black American Berlin Expat\nMister Lady Zen- Internationally acclaimed composer\, cabaret artist\, poet\, and queer elder. Learn more about her work here.\n\nRegistration and Fee: \n$5-50 sliding scale. Get tickets below. Additional donations can be made to Venmo | MovingGround; write one word in the payment note that gives or creates in you a sense of sanctuary. \n**Please note that these contributions go directly to paying the artist fees for all panel experts!
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-freedom-we-make-queer-artists-on-sound-struggle-and-sanctuary-spaces/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250619T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250619T133000
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SUMMARY:Freedom Festival: Opening Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What does it look like to collectively reflect on our journeys to freedom and independence\, Juneteenth to Independence Day? \nThe improvscience Freedom Festival invites people in the US and internationally to come together\, to create and explore organizing for freedom and independence. \nWhat are we celebrating with Juneteenth and Independence Day? What is freedom and independence? How have we come to celebrate Juneteenth?  We celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday because formerly enslaved people and their descendants advocated\, organized and marched for decades to have this day recognized and celebrated. \nIn this Freedom Festival Conversation\, you will meet fellow festival attendees and presenters from around the country; and learn who and how people are sharing their stories and dreams in the Freedom Festival. \nJoin this open\, playful and philosophical conversation led by improvscience founder Raquell Holmes and East Side Institute faculty\, Jessie Fields.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-festival-opening-conversation-25/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T160000
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SUMMARY:Freedom-Makers: Maroons and the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:This hybrid offering will be an in-person/virtual visit to the “Underground Railroad Tree” in the Guilford Woods of North Carolina. The 300-year-old Tulip Poplar tree is a living monument and witness to the freedom-seekers who were part of this eastern seaboard launching point of the Underground Railroad during the early 19th century. The great tree is located in a 350-acre forest in Greensboro\, N.C. We will walk through the woods\, share the history of the area\, read excerpts from primary source accounts (journals and runaway ads)\, look at material culture and discuss the oral history of runaway enslaved people (maroons)\, and explore the ways in which we–people and our living world–create community and connectivity underground\, overground\, everywhere. \nLed by historian Omar H. Ali from UNC Greensboro\, the offering is part of the “Let’s Learn!: The World as Classroom” initiative of Lloyd International Honors College at UNC Greensboro and the East Side Institute in New York\, in partnership with improvscience\, the African American & African Diaspora Studies Program at UNC Greensboro\, and the all-disciplinary honors society Phi Kappa Phi. \nRegister for this event.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-makers-maroons-and-the-underground-railroad-2/
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T170000
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SUMMARY:Freedom\, Liberation and Independence - Creative & Emotional Playground
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Freedom Festival\, we invite you to join members of our Monthly Creative Playground for a special workshop to explore\, perform and celebrate freedom and independence. \nDate: July 2nd\, 2024 at 3:30 pm PDT/ 6:30 pm EDT \nWe started the Creative Playground with a collective intent: that exploring creativity together is therapeutic. We have created a space where we foster our creativity\, and develop emotionally as well as artistically. We come together on Zoom the first Thursday of every month. In the Creative Playground we use the expressive arts (theater/improv\, poetry\, movement\, music\, drawing/collage) to create improvised conversations and art together. \nJoin us as we creatively and emotionally explore what it means for us all to come together to celebrate freedom from slavery and our ability to collectively self-organize and recreate our world. \nAll people have an experience of what freedom and independence mean to them. Through this festival\, we want to create OUR experience of liberation. \nRegister Here!
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-liberation-and-independence-creative-emotional-playground/
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240701T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T153300
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SUMMARY:Inspirational Ladies!
DESCRIPTION:  \n7/1/2024\nStart Time 5:30 PT/8:30 ET \nYou’re invited to celebrate inspirational ladies in your life with us.  \nThe inspirational lady you choose may be anyone in your life. They maybe someone you know well or even someone you just heard about for a few seconds. They are ladies–women who inspired us to be the person that the human race needs. \nTo recognize them\, we all will make a Kudo Board here (https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/75QRMKkF). \nOn the Kudo Board\, we will highlight the life and details of any inspirational lady in your life.\nWe all will come together July 1\, 2024 at 5:30 pm PT/ 8:30 pm ET via Zoom (RSVP below to get the link) and will present our Inspirational Ladies that inspired us.  \nPost on the Kudo Board before or during our session. Take a look and you’ll see one of my Inspirational Ladies\, Harriet Tubman! \nhttps://www.kudoboard.com/boards/75QRMKkF \nStart Time 5:30 PT/8:30 ET \nLed by Andy Anderson Jr. is a long time volunteer and supporter of the All Stars Project. He co-leads the improvscience Uncomfortable Independent Conversations that bring people together around race and class. An architect and passionate builder of community.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/inspirational-ladies/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Arts & Crafts,Conversations,Recording,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T170000
DTSTAMP:20260411T153300
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SUMMARY:Freedom-Makers: Maroons and the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:This hybrid offering will be an in-person/virtual visit to the “Underground Railroad Tree” in the Guilford Woods of North Carolina. The 300-year-old Tulip Poplar tree is a living monument and witness to the freedom-seekers who were part of this eastern seaboard launching point of the Underground Railroad during the early 19th century. The great tree is located in a 350-acre forest in Greensboro\, N.C. We will walk through the woods\, share the history of the area\, read excerpts from primary source accounts (journals and runaway ads)\, look at material culture and discuss the oral history of runaway enslaved people (maroons)\, and explore the ways in which we–people and our living world–create community and connectivity underground\, overground\, everywhere. \nLed by historian Omar H. Ali from UNC Greensboro\, the offering is part of the “Let’s Learn!: The World as Classroom” initiative of Lloyd International Honors College at UNC Greensboro and the East Side Institute in New York\, in partnership with improvscience\, the African American & African Diaspora Studies Program at UNC Greensboro\, and the all-disciplinary honors society Phi Kappa Phi.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/freedom-makers-maroons-and-the-underground-railroad/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Recording
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T113000
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SUMMARY:Play with Science & Arts
DESCRIPTION:Explore experiences in and out of the classroom with tricks and tips for facilitating engagement! Bring your curiosity\, presence\, and authentic selves and co-create with us\, through play and collaborative learning. Join the organizers of Cultivating Ensembles and experience the interactive playful activities and methodology that have built virtual ensembles and produced an interdisciplinary\, inclusive\, and playful community. \nHosts are: Sofya Borinskaya (USA); Marisa Holzapfel (Germany); Jim Martinez (USA); Barbara Natalizio (USA); Carolyn Sealfon (Canada) \nThis event is part of the Global Playshop “PlayTelligence” Session. \nStart Times: 7am PT/ 10am ET
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/play-with-science-arts/
LOCATION:online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Gross":MAILTO:gross@bu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240628T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240628T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T153300
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T165652Z
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SUMMARY:Discord and Harmony: The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues\, Jazz\, Soul and Hip-Hop
DESCRIPTION:At 8pm ET/ 5pm PT: This will be a look at—and a listen to—the role African American music has played in embodying and inspiring the ongoing struggle for freedom and full equality in the U.S.A. The session will be a mix of music video clips (Billie Holiday\, Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder\, among others) and informal conversation led by progressive musician and composer Dan Belmont and life-long grassroots organizer and leader Allen Cox. \nFriday\, June 28\, 5-7pm Pacific / 8-10pm Eastern
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/discord-and-harmony-the-struggle-for-freedom-in-the-usa-through-blues-jazz-soul-and-hip-hop/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Music,Recording
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240625T213000
DTSTAMP:20260411T153300
CREATED:20240601T144241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T170122Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Freedom in Physics
DESCRIPTION:There are a number of works written by leading researchers that “popularize” physics to make it accessible to a general audience. One such text is “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” by Carlo Rovelli which takes the reader through a tour of 20th Century physics leading up to the author’s contributions to quantum understanding which is still one of the “holy grails” of theoretical physics. These treatments of the ‘revolutions’ in physics of the early 20th century lead the reader to an understanding of the world that can be freeing from the confines of space and time\, and of determinism. In contrast\, the work by Wonchull Park and Mackenzie Hawkins\, “ Essential Reality & Time”\, focuses on the outcomes of Newton’s Physics and and its ability to free us from counter-productive illusions about reality and focus on the “essential” reality with which we can interact. \nJoin Dr. Carolyn Sealfon\, Dr. Nicholas Gross\, and Dr. Raquell Holmes for a discussion of these issues that are presented in these and other popularized texts on physics.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/finding-freedom-in-physics/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Lectures & Books,Recording
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Gross":MAILTO:gross@bu.edu
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