Oren Slozberg
The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method and school curriculum centers on open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, significantly increasing students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way.
Michael Tilson Thomas
This conversation between San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and Commonweal Board Member Eric Karpeles is an informal and wide-ranging discussion, accessible to music-lovers of all degrees, and in keeping with Commonweal’s ongoing commitment to exploring the role of healing and the arts.
Kate Munger and the Threshold Choir
During this event, Kate talks with Commonweal Executive Director Susan Braun about Threshold Choir—the practice, the history, and the future.
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Michael Lerner speaks with Brother David Steindl-Rast in these four sessions about his life and work, the people and experiences that made him who he is, and his philosophy of living life with gratitude.
David Whyte
Join Michael Lerner in conversation with poet David Whyte, a captivating speaker with a compelling blend of profound poetry and insightful commentary, at the David Brower Theater in Berkeley.
Christine Brandes and Eric Moe
The New School at Commonweal presents Soprano Christine Brandes and pianist/composer Eric Moe, offering a recital of two contemporary song cycles.
Terry Tempest Williams
Join us for a reading by Terry from her latest book, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice.
Tribute to Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich, who died at her home in Santa Cruz on March 27, 2012, was a writer and thinker of enormous stature. Join us for Eric Karpeles’s memorial tribute to this unique and oracular voice of America poetry.
Pauline Tesler
Pauline Tesler, author of two groundbreaking books on the new and revolutionary Collaborative Divorce method that is changing the practice of family law worldwide, joins Michael Lerner to explain Collaborative Law and other dramatic transformations taking place in the legal profession. Pauline will explain how integrative lawyers working in interdisciplinary teams can help people discover […]