• Thursday, March 28

    2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
    Free; by donation

    Christina Baldwin and Host Michael Lerner

    Writing as Legacy: What Do We Leave in the Earth for the Future to Find?

    Join Michael Lerner in conversation with storyteller and storycatcher Christina Baldwin, talking about Christina’s lifework and her beautiful forthcoming novel, The Beekeeper’s Question, that chronicles life on the Homefront during World War II and the social issues stirred.

  • Saturday, March 30

    2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
    Free; $20 donation suggested (no one turned away)

    Jane Hirshfield and Host Michael Lerner

    Living by Poems

    Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in person or via webinar for a reading and conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield, a lay-ordained practitioner of Soto Zen.

  • Monday, April 29

    9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
    $20 donation suggested; no one turned away

    Deepa Patel and Host Serena Bian

    What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 1)

    In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.” 

  • Wednesday, May 29

    10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
    $20 donation suggested; no one turned away

    Aljosie Aldrich Harding and Host Serena Bian

    What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 2)

    In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.” 

  • Saturday, June 8

    12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
    $25 suggested donation, no one turned away

    Peter Coyote and Host Steve Heilig

    Things As It Is

    Join Host Steve Heilig as we bring back author, actor, and local celebrity Peter Coyote to The New School. They will talk about Peter’s recent books—Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is and Tongue of A Crow—and ramble across many other topics.

  • Tuesday, June 25

    10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
    $20 donation suggested; no one turned away

    Kalyanee Mam and Host Serena Bian

    What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 3)

    In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”