Lecture Classes in NYC, New York

Encyclopedia Commedia is a fast-paced and hilarious exploration of all the knowledge in the world (more or less [markedly less]). Come witness a ragtag assortment of bitter tastemakers, impure thought leaders, genuinely accomplished comedians and the occasional marching band as they pummel your cranium with information until you’re weeping with...

How can we find and consume food that’s healthy for us and the environment? Food production impacts more than what goes on your plate. According to the World Economic Forum, a third of our global carbon footprint is from the food we consume and an estimated $940 billion per year is lost globally as a result of food waste. What You’ll Learn ...

An introduction to the Internet, including getting connected, using a web browser, and navigating web pages. Learn how to find information online using search engines and subject directories. These are registration based classes and spots may fill up quickly. If for any reason we're unable to accommodate your registration, we will let you know as...

In this long-running monthly show, two short, entrancing science lectures inspire sets of hilarious, never-to-be-seen-again improv comedy. Featuring veteran improv team Thank You, Robot, whose members’ credits include Veep, This American Life, The Onion, SNL Weekend Update and more. Plus a different special guest team every month, and lectures curated...

Yeah She Did is keeping it homegrown for Women's History Month. We're celebrating the badass women who built this city from the ground up. She Built This City highlights femme founders, public servants, and protesters who were as bold, bright, and brassy as NYC. YEAH SHE DID is a storytelling series that shines a light on the sheroes that should have...

Learn how to protect your computer from viruses and perform regular maintenance functions to keep it running smoothly. These are registration based classes and spots may fill up quickly. If for any reason we're unable to accommodate your registration, we will let you know as soon as possible.

“An unexamined life is devoid of color and meaning,” says instructor Dr. Viji George. From time immemorial, philosophers, religious scholars from all faiths and literary figures have explored the meaning of life. These reflections have taken on difficult questions such as: Is death the final frontier? Does love actually conquer all? Is there evil...

Explore what actually happens to our mind, bodies, and emotions when we meditate. A meditation practice has the power to dissolve stress through profound, deep rest, transforming our physiology on a cellular level, and we will dive into the neurochemistry behind this phenomenon. What shifts can we expect to experience and what is the tangible impact...

“Love yourself first,” is a common self-help platitude, but what that means is rarely clear, and all too often it evolves into narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir saw narcissism as “a process of alienation: the self is posited as an absolute end, and the subject escapes itself in it.”  In other words, narcissists set up an image of the self...

Full Course Name brunchwork w/ Andrew Yang (2020 U.S. Presidential Candidate) You're invited to an unforgettable brunch with 2020 US Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang. Enjoy an intimate conversation with Andrew, curated connections, a business challenge and pitch off... over a seasonal, farm-to-table meal.

The Happier Hour is a monthly event series bringing philosophy out of the ivory tower of academia and into our modern day agora: the bar. It’s like the self-help section– only way funnier, smarter, and with booze. And now it’s a podcast too! 

Profiled seeks to dispel the myth that talking about race has to be uncomfortable by featuring comics who humorously discuss their experiences with racial profiling while your host Marcela Onyango also entertainingly share statistics about difficult topics like mass incarceration and the war on drugs. Featuring: Keisha Zollar  Zubi...

There's something fishy happening here. Rooted in illusion and invention, the artist-as-trickster archetype is found all over the world and has endured for millennia. Manifesting as Coyote in North America, Hermes in Greece, Krishna in India, Loki in Scandinavia, the Monkey in China, and the Zulu trickster Thlokunyana in Africa, creative destruction...

You're invited to an unforgettable brunch with the entrepreneur, author and podcast host James Altucher and Mrs. Dow Jones Creator Haley Sacks. Enjoy an intimate conversation with James and Haley, curated connections, and a business challenge and pitch off... over a seasonal, locally-sourced meal. 

Discuss the first seven of Ben Franklin’s virtues — Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity — and answer two questions: How can we improve ourselves and how can we improve our world? In regular small group discussions, Circle members use Franklin’s classic 13 civic virtues to spark discussion about members’...