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 10:30 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 TEDx talk by Malavika Varadan, who worked in radio and was host of a primetime breakfast show in Dubai. In this TEDx talk, Varadan challenges the societal norm that “we should not speak to strangers” by presenting 7 ways to make conversation with anyone. The topic and video were selected and will be introduced by Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer.
We will also be having live music this Sunday! Our featured musician will be Kathryn Merriam. Described by audiences as ‘other-worldly’ and ‘transcendent’, Kathryn Merriam’s songs interweave melismatic melodies with soaring lyricism, evoking flavours of Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush. Accompanying herself on the guitar and harp, Kathryn explores the intersections between folk song tradition and mystical music – making subtle observations of the human experience, and musing on reality, perception, meaning, healing, and purpose. You can check out her music here: https://soundcloud.com/kathryn-merriam
Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/298182481/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
The guest musician was recorded in two parts: Part 1: GMT20240225-170705_Recording_640x360.mp4 and Part 2: GMT20240225-173413_Recording_640x360.mp4