Join us for San Francisco's Night of Ideas 2025, where the theme "(Un)Common Ground" invites us to reflect on the individual and shared challenges facing our country and the global community in a rapidly changing world.
This year's theme explores the vital role of civil society in mediating our differences and charting a shared destiny. It challenges us to reconsider the values that form the foundation of our communities-whether territorial, social or emotional-and how we can repair our social fabric amid increasing polarization. How can we rebuild a sense of the common good and what is necessary to realize it in a time of deep division? In an era dominated by AI and social networks, how do we forge meaningful interpersonal connections and preserve the essence of shared values? How can we find common ground, if there is any?
We also welcome back Afternoon of Ideas, a family program ahead of the main event welcoming younger generations to participate in crafts, performances and workshops with popular children's book authors, artists, performers and educators from 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Free
Presented by San Francisco Public Library
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This year's theme explores the vital role of civil society in mediating our differences and charting a shared destiny. It challenges us to reconsider the values that form the foundation of our communities-whether territorial, social or emotional-and how we can repair our social fabric amid increasing polarization. How can we rebuild a sense of the common good and what is necessary to realize it in a time of deep division? In an era dominated by AI and social networks, how do we forge meaningful interpersonal connections and preserve the essence of shared values? How can we find common ground, if there is any?
We also welcome back Afternoon of Ideas, a family program ahead of the main event welcoming younger generations to participate in crafts, performances and workshops with popular children's book authors, artists, performers and educators from 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Free
Presented by San Francisco Public Library
Join us for San Francisco's Night of Ideas 2025, where the theme "(Un)Common Ground" invites us to reflect on the individual and shared challenges facing our country and the global community in a rapidly changing world.
This year's theme explores the vital role of civil society in mediating our differences and charting a shared destiny. It challenges us to reconsider the values that form the foundation of our communities-whether territorial, social or emotional-and how we can repair our social fabric amid increasing polarization. How can we rebuild a sense of the common good and what is necessary to realize it in a time of deep division? In an era dominated by AI and social networks, how do we forge meaningful interpersonal connections and preserve the essence of shared values? How can we find common ground, if there is any?
We also welcome back Afternoon of Ideas, a family program ahead of the main event welcoming younger generations to participate in crafts, performances and workshops with popular children's book authors, artists, performers and educators from 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Free
Presented by San Francisco Public Library
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This year's theme explores the vital role of civil society in mediating our differences and charting a shared destiny. It challenges us to reconsider the values that form the foundation of our communities-whether territorial, social or emotional-and how we can repair our social fabric amid increasing polarization. How can we rebuild a sense of the common good and what is necessary to realize it in a time of deep division? In an era dominated by AI and social networks, how do we forge meaningful interpersonal connections and preserve the essence of shared values? How can we find common ground, if there is any?
We also welcome back Afternoon of Ideas, a family program ahead of the main event welcoming younger generations to participate in crafts, performances and workshops with popular children's book authors, artists, performers and educators from 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Free
Presented by San Francisco Public Library
show less
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