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Sunday, October 27 2019 @ 5:30pm
Along Duval Street, behind City Hall

The Longest Table

At the Longest Table we share a meal and get a glimpse into one another’s lives and unique experiences, across the diversity that makes us a vibrant and vital community. A project of the City of Tallahassee, Leon County Government, Leadership Tallahassee and the Village Square.
November 14, 2019 @ 6-7:30 pm | Local Color | The Junction

Remembering our hometown’s painful past on race

Four black men were lynched here. Those events, memorialized at the National Lynching Museum in Montgomery, are the focus of a local initiative seeking to remember our community’s share of the violent legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. As we struggle to stem the rising hatred across America today, we’ll consider the complexity of the task of reconciliation and talk about modern day vigilante justice and mobs.
November 22, 2019 @ Noon | God Squad |
First Baptist Church

The Benedict Option

People of faith in America feel besieged by a secularized culture and see their basic freedom to practice as threatened. Enter “The Benedict Option” – the idea that Christians need to separate themselves further from the culture around them. Whether or not you’re someone who sees a building threat to religious freedom, what cost is there to our communities with further separation?
nominate a local patriot | dinner awards april 28

Nominate a Local Patriot

This entire year The Village Square will look for, talk about – and honor – people who stand up and make things happen where we live right here in Tallahassee. Nominate a local patriot you know — we’ll honor their work and if we choose your nominee, you get two tickets to dinner April 28.
January 28 @ 6 pm | Dinner at the square | St. John's Episcopal Church

A Local Press: Local journalism and the national divide.

In 1798 James Madison wrote of the press: “To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.” In 2020, if Madison was correct then reason and humanity could be in for an even rougher ride.
February 7, 2020 @ Noon |
Good Samaritan United Methodist Church

Political Tribe +
Dissolving community

Measures of connectedness across society are on the decline — including in faith communities where the fastest growing religious preference is unaffiliated — while the sheer destructive power of connection to ideological political tribe is accelerating. Might these two trend lines directly relate to each other?
February 13, 2020 @ 6-7:30 pm | Local Color | The Junction

Tallahassee Lunch Counter Sit-ins at 60

On this date 60 years ago, the Tallahassee Democrat read “The lunch counter in Woolworth’s was closed at noon yesterday when a group of Negroes sat down and asked to be served.” In observance of the Tallahassee Lunch Counter Sit-ins, we’ll talk about how our community has changed and whether we’re sitting together enough at lunch now.
Monday, March 9th 2020 | 6 to 8 PM | WFSU Public Media, 1600 Red Barber Plaza

Our Town Series: Tallahassee Town Hall

Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
March 26, 2020 @ 6-7:30 pm | Local Color | The Junction

Can we transcend political ideology for our kids’ education?

If you’re a person of color in Tallahassee, your kids are more likely in schools with suboptimal educational outcomes. Yet education is just one more topic we seem unable to discuss across the partisan divide. We’ll aim for a conversation that throws off the binary choice between left and right and instead sides firmly with our next generation.
March 27, 2020 @ Noon | God Squad |
St. Thomas More Co-Cathedral

Suicide and Self-harm

Suicide rates are up 30% since the turn of the century, for girls between 7 and 17 it’s up 70%. 72,000 Americans die from the slow suicide of opiate addiction and depression rates are skyrocketing. 50% of Americans say no one knows them well. There is an epidemic quietly playing out in our hometowns — and this hometown is no exception.

Sunday, October 27 2019 @ 5:30pm Along Duval Street, behind City Hall

The Longest Table

November 14, 2019 @ 6-7:30 pm | Local Color | The Junction

Remembering our hometown’s painful past on race

November 22, 2019 @ Noon | God Squad | First Baptist Church

The Benedict Option

nominate a local patriot | dinner awards april 28

Nominate a Local Patriot

January 28 @ 6 pm | Dinner at the square | St. John's Episcopal Church

A Local Press: Local journalism and the national divide.

February 7, 2020 @ Noon | Good Samaritan United Methodist Church

Political Tribe + Dissolving community

February 13, 2020 @ 6-7:30 pm | Local Color | The Junction

Tallahassee Lunch Counter Sit-ins at 60

Monday, March 9th 2020 | 6 to 8 PM | WFSU Public Media, 1600 Red Barber Plaza

Our Town Series: Tallahassee Town Hall

March 26, 2020 @ 6-7:30 pm | Local Color | The Junction

Can we transcend political ideology for our kids’ education?

March 27, 2020 @ Noon | God Squad | St. Thomas More Co-Cathedral

Suicide and Self-harm

Sunday, October 27 2019 @ 5:30pm
Along Duval Street, behind City Hall

November 22, 2019 @ Noon | God Squad |
First Baptist Church

February 7, 2020 @ Noon |
Good Samaritan United Methodist Church

Political Tribe +
Dissolving community

March 27, 2020 @ Noon | God Squad |
St. Thomas More Co-Cathedral