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CREATING A COMMUNITY WHERE ALL BELONG

Healing Start Here Initiative Launches in Tallahassee

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release August 15, 2023 Media Contact: Liz Joyner, Founder & CEO 850.264.8785 Who: The Village Square What: “Healing Starts Here” Initiative begins with August 25 Screening of “Join or Die” Movie ($10 or free) When: August 25, 6:45 PM Where: Challenger Learning Center […]
Cross-governmental discussion with City and County Commissioners

The Village Square Hosts 6th Annual ‘Tallahassee Town Hall’

A unique cross-governmental discussion about where Tallahassee is as a community, where we’re going, and what challenges we face in getting there.
our founder + ceo liz joyner nominated

Joyner Nominated
for National
Civic Collaboration Award

Liz Joyner, founder of the Village Square, has been named a finalist for this national award in honor of her tireless efforts to help overcome polarization and foster civic renewal.
New Village Square project embraces race, politics and humanity

Local Color: Gathering Across Color, Creed & Ideology

The goal of this project is to provide a framework for meaningful discussions about race, politics and life in America – with a particular focus on drawing Millennials into citizenship that is engaging and authentic.
Village Square announces new season

“Through the Looking Glass of Modern Politics”

The 2016-17 series begins this year with “Tumbling
Down a Rabbit Hole: A Citizen’s Election Season
Survival Guide.”
faith food friday launches 6th season

Season Six launches for “Faith, Food, Friday”

A diverse group of local clergy affectionately known as “The God Squad” will begin its sixth year on September 23 of talking about the topics your mother warned you to never discuss in polite company: politics and religion.
Forum Focuses on New Projects, Business and Ideas Around Town

The Village Square Continues ‘Fast Forward Tallahassee’

Hometowns with a “sense of place” are vibrant, engaged, growing and economically successful. They are places people want to live and raise families. There are new reasons every day why this describes Tallahassee.
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Pulitzer-winning biographer and historian Jon Meacham to speak

Pulitzer-winning biographer and historian Jon Meacham to speak on “Lessons from the American Presidency” at Florida State University, hosted by the Florida Humanities Council and co-sponsored by the Village Square, Leadership Florida and Florida State University.
VILLAGE SQUARE PRESENTS CONVERSATION ON AMERICA’S FOUNDING IDEALS

The Thomas Jefferson Hour Live Audience Taping

On October 15, The Village Square will present humanities scholar and host of the nationally syndicated radio program The Thomas Jefferson Hour Clay Jenkinson for a special evening to celebrate American ideals, measure our progress toward a more perfect union and consider the work still to do.
Village square receives statewide award

The Village Square awarded Leadership Florida Award

Leadership Florida has presented The Village Square Tallahassee with its 2015 Florida Impact Award, recognizing the organization’s efforts to bring together those with opposing viewpoints by using civil, respectful, fact-based discourse.
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Village Square Salt Lake City Announces Its Formation

We are excited to announce the creation of a Salt Lake City chapter of The Village Square.
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Baptist Pastor Discuss Morality

Village Square Concludes ‘The Asteroids Club’ Season with ‘Seven Deadly Sins’

“Seven Deadly Sins” will look at the gaping difference in the way that liberals and conservatives perceive morality – from each side of the divide – and why their inability to understand what they have in common prevents progress in addressing moral problems.
Join the asteroids club

The Village Square partners with NYU’s Jon Haidt

Imagine there is a giant asteroid heading to earth, expected to destroy life as we know it. We’d stop the incessant partisan bickering and do everything within our power to deflect the asteroid, right? Like in the movies?
Professor, author Jonathan Haidt offers
insight into ailing civic discourse

“The Righteous Mind”
author visits Village Square

Haidt has become an authoritative voice on what’s behind America’s deepening, angry partisan divide and what we can do to improve it. Turns out it has a lot more to do with the basics of human nature and our moral reasoning habits than we’d care to admit.
Dinner at the Square: Ten Years after September 11

Ten Years Time: 9/11, the Heart of America and the Shadow of the Middle East

The 2016-17 series begins this year with “Tumbling
Down a Rabbit Hole: A Citizen’s Election Season
Survival Guide.”
Tallahassee’s Protests at 50 - Why They Still Matter

Civil Rights Veterans to Headline Village Square Forum on Civility

“The Tallahassee civil rights protests aren’t just a meaningful moment in our hometown’s history. They have everything to do with where we find ourselves as a country today.”
FSU, Village Square Host Author Bill Bishop

Author of ‘The Big Sort’ Explores Deep Divide

In 1976, less than 1/4 of Americans lived in places where the presidential election was a landslide. By 2004, nearly 1/2 of all voters lived in landslide counties. Americans had been moving close to others who voted just like they voted. Bishop will explain this phenomenon he calls “The Big Sort.”
Village Square feels your pain

The Village Square releases Election Season Survival Guide

It’s election season and the assaults to our values, intelligence and patience are out again in full force. If you’re among the majority of Americans who feel the tone of our civic conversation sounds like five‐year‐olds at recess, The Village Square offers you their “Citizen’s Election Season Survival Guide.”
Village Square hosts filmmaker John Marks for screening and pizza

Purple State of Mind’ Screening + Filmmaker Discussion

The Village Square, FSU’s Student Life Cinema and the Tallahassee Film Festival host a special screening of the film “Purple State of Mind: Finding Middle Ground in a Divided Culture,” Audience Choice Award winner in the 2009 Tallahassee Film Festival.
village square receives knight grant

Village Square + CFNF:
“We the People”

In a highly competitive national grant contest, the Community Foundation of North Florida is one of 24 community and place-based foundations recently selected to receive a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

CREATING A COMMUNITY WHERE ALL BELONG

Healing Start Here Initiative Launches in Tallahassee

Cross-governmental discussion with City and County Commissioners

The Village Square Hosts 6th Annual ‘Tallahassee Town Hall’

our founder + ceo liz joyner nominated

Joyner Nominated for National Civic Collaboration Award

New Village Square project embraces race, politics and humanity

Local Color: Gathering Across Color, Creed & Ideology

Village Square announces new season

“Through the Looking Glass of Modern Politics”

faith food friday launches 6th season

Season Six launches for “Faith, Food, Friday”

Forum Focuses on New Projects, Business and Ideas Around Town

The Village Square Continues ‘Fast Forward Tallahassee’

PRESS RELEASE

Pulitzer-winning biographer and historian Jon Meacham to speak

VILLAGE SQUARE PRESENTS CONVERSATION ON AMERICA’S FOUNDING IDEALS

The Thomas Jefferson Hour Live Audience Taping

Village square receives statewide award

The Village Square awarded Leadership Florida Award

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Village Square Salt Lake City Announces Its Formation

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Baptist Pastor Discuss Morality

Village Square Concludes ‘The Asteroids Club’ Season with ‘Seven Deadly Sins’

Join the asteroids club

The Village Square partners with NYU’s Jon Haidt

Professor, author Jonathan Haidt offersinsight into ailing civic discourse

“The Righteous Mind” author visits Village Square

Dinner at the Square: Ten Years after September 11

Ten Years Time: 9/11, the Heart of America and the Shadow of the Middle East

Tallahassee’s Protests at 50 - Why They Still Matter

Civil Rights Veterans to Headline Village Square Forum on Civility

FSU, Village Square Host Author Bill Bishop

Author of ‘The Big Sort’ Explores Deep Divide

Village Square feels your pain

The Village Square releases Election Season Survival Guide

Village Square hosts filmmaker John Marks for screening and pizza

Purple State of Mind’ Screening + Filmmaker Discussion

village square receives knight grant

Village Square + CFNF: “We the People”

Joyner Nominated
for National
Civic Collaboration Award

Professor, author Jonathan Haidt offers
insight into ailing civic discourse

“The Righteous Mind”
author visits Village Square

Village Square + CFNF:
“We the People”