Café dialogue Tuesday at Second Cup Wednesday at Vendome

Tuesday August 21 at Second Cup in Kensington / Sunnyside, across from Safeway; and Wednesday August 22 at Vendome. The dialogues start at 6 PM.

“Rat school” was hugely successful last Wednesday so we’ll do rat school again next Wednesday. You know the rules: Pick a topic, do some research, then do a 5 minute presentation at Vendome. CBC radio recently had a segment on Amber Valley https://bit.ly/2PlpLtk and it’s part of Alberta history, so I might do something on that, or improvise something else.

Last Tuesday, we discussed the following question: Assuming you (like everyone else) are facing some challenges at this time of your life, do you find you are easily able to meet those challenges or do you find yourself stressed out trying to deal with them? We also took a glimpse at the summer of 1816, when gloomy weather (sort of like ours the past week) prompted the English poet Lord Byron and friends (Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others) to spend several days on Lake Geneva writing stories suitable for the weather. A vampire story and the origin of Frankenstein came out of that rainy-day creativity. Writing horror stories in gloomy weather! Hey, what a great idea for us!

Based on my experience with the café dialogues so far, I think Calgary is indeed becoming a moveable feast, exactly what we had intended.

Arthur