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DIY Village Square | stretch your summer reading list

Join our Summer Swim
Against Tribe

Summer is here and we know you have plans – fishing, sunbathing, a summer read or two? Whatever you’re up to, we say you add just one more to-do: “Save the planet by escaping the echo chamber.” Doable, right?
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Lunch Across the Aisle:
“Let Friendship Redeem the Republic”

Eat Lunch. Get Swag. “…You and I ought not to die until we have explained ourselves to each other.” — From John Adams end-of-life letters to lifelong political foe Thomas Jefferson
all year | in partnership with bridge alliance

Host or Attend a Jefferson Dinner

Early legislators came to work “in the spirit of avowed misunderstanding, without the smallest wish to agree.” Jefferson’s solution? He invited diverse lawmakers to dinner and was widely credited with saving democracy. Maybe we can too?
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Book Club on Race

The Book Club on Race a tool to help diverse people better understand each other. If you’re not sure why that’s important please see the news on any channel and in any newspaper any day of the week.
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Join the Asteroids Club: Common Threats Make Common Ground

The Asteroids Club is an approach to communicating about the civic problems that polarize – and paralyze – us. The concept grew out of the field of moral psychology, which tells us that people are more likely to find common ground when they unite to fight common threats.
DIY Village Square

Living Room
Conversations

Living Room Conversations are intimate six person
conversations co-hosted by friends with different views
that create space for people to talk about significant topics and truly listen to each other.
Tallahassee's very own Motown
recording artist Royce Lovett

Royce Lovett presents: The Living Room Series

Hosted by you, featuring Tallahassee’s own Motown recording artist Royce Lovett, The Living Room Series brings groups together together to change the world, one living room at a time. Click to learn more.
past event | January 2019

Here’s to you Jackie Robinson Local Color Crossover

Jackie Robinson would be 100 next week. On April 15th 1947, he stepped onto Ebbets Field as a Brooklyn Dodger, breaking the color barrier in a segregated sport. In celebration of the 100th year of his birth, we’ll talk about issues swirling in the sports world around race and we’ll consider the progress made through sports.
returning spring of 2018

Fast Forward

Part civics, part sporting event and all fun, Fast Forward Tallahassee is one of our most popular program, drawing citizens from every corner and sector of town to celebrate the latest and coolest happenings around town.
January 25, 2019 @ Noon | God Squad | Temple Israel

Can we change the conversation on abortion?

No issue has more deeply and durably divided us than abortion. But that was before The God Squad. Is there a way to step outside of the political anger and move the needle on abortion rates together? And in this roiling political climate and the substantial changes on the Supreme Court, what happens if Roe is overturned?

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