Sunday September 8th, 2024 – [Online] Solitary Confinement

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on the topic of solitary confinement. This topic and the video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302923021/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday September 1st, 2024 – [Online] Making Knowledge Accessible – Quantum Physics for 7 Year Olds

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TEDx talk by physicist Dominic Walliman. This topic and the video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302790380/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday August 25th, 2024 – [Online] Contemplating Surrealism

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing select YouTube videos about Surrealism. This topic and the videos were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302652220

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday August 18th, 2024 – [Online] How Language Shapes the Way We Think

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TED talk by Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. This topic and video were selected and will be introduced by Tanya Long, a Toronto Oasis participant.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302514505

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday August 11th, 2024 – [Online] How to Have a Good Conversation

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TEDx talk by Celeste Headlee, a reporter, host and correspondent who has worked in public radio since 1999. This topic and video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302388261

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday August 4th, 2024 – [Online] Re-Thinking Food: Transforming Food Systems for People and Planet

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TEDx talk by Frank Eyhorn, the CEO of Biovision, a Swiss foundation promoting and supporting ecological development in Africa, Switzerland and globally. This topic and video were selected and will be introduced by Tanya Long, a Toronto Oasis participant.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302253233

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday July 28th, 2024 – [Online] A “Spirituality” Challenge

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing select videos by Nuseir Yassin, a self-identified Muslim Israeli-Palestinian vlogger known on YouTube as Nas Daily. He has embarked on a 6-month personal journey to learn about 6 religions. This topic and the videos we will be watching and discussing were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Toronto Oasis Code of Conduct (http://torontooasis.org/code-of-conduct).

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/302118235

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday July 21st, 2024 – [Online] The Influence of Science Fiction

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing a TED talk by Canadian filmmaker James Cameron. This topic and the video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/301977927

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday July 14th, 2024 – [Online] UFO’s and WTF’s

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be watching and then discussing an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO). In this episode, John Oliver “explains why we need honest inquiry into UFO sightings, and why those inquiries should be data-driven, fact-based, and – crucially – boring as f***.” This topic and the video were selected and will be introduced by John Shannon, a Toronto Oasis volunteer.

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/301835587

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!

Sunday July 7th, 2024 – [Online] Why Do We Sleep?

This will be an online Zoom meeting.  Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link.  See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.

We will be listening to and then discussing a TED talk by Russell Foster, a circadian neuroscientist who studies the sleep cycles of the brain. This topic and the video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.

Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:

https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/301695266/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!