The Agora.
Leizu does not offer paid trial classes. The Agora is the open seminar. Free. Open. Where prospective students see how the work happens.
About Leizu Academy →An open seminar within the practice. Each session has a text. The willingness to be wrong out loud is the ticket.
About Seminar Schools →A seminar held in person or online, open to anyone who reads ahead.
The Agora is a philosophy seminar modelled on the original sense of the word. A place where people come together to think out loud about what they have been reading.
The format is straightforward. A text is announced in advance. Anyone who wants to attend reads it before the gathering. We meet either in person at the Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre or online over Google Meet. We take turns reading passages aloud. We discuss.
A room of readers reaches an understanding that none of them could reach alone.
The philosophical commitment behind the Agora is that some kinds of understanding are collective. They are not private achievements reached through solitary effort. They are something a group can briefly arrive at together. The group has to have read the same text. The members have to be willing to speak honestly with each other.
The Greek word agora named the public space. Citizens gathered there to argue about what mattered. The seminar form inherits the same shape at smaller scale. A circle of readers. A common text. The willingness to be wrong out loud.
The Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, Earl Bales Park, or online over Google Meet.
Each session is held either in person or online. The mode is announced with the date. When in person: Earl Bales Park sits in North York, Toronto, and the Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre is an open-air stage area within the park, with seating built into the landscape. Bring a cushion if the stone seats are unkind to you. When online: a Google Meet link is shared with everyone who has signed up.
- Address
- 4169 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON
- Nearest TTC
- Sheppard West Station, then bus 7
- Parking
- Free park lot off Bathurst
Each session is convened when participants gather. Dates announced ahead of time.
The Agora is convened as participants gather. There is no fixed cadence. Each session is announced ahead of time with the text, the date, and the mode. Email me to be added to the announcement list, or subscribe to the >rss_feed_ in any RSS reader.
Each gathering has one text. Read it before you come.
Texts are chosen for portability rather than prestige. Something short enough to carry. Dense enough to talk about for two hours. Accessible enough that someone walking in for the first time can follow.
Free.
The Agora is hosted as part of the Seminar Schools practice. There is no admission. If the gatherings have been useful and you want to support upcoming ones, you can buy a coffee. Entirely optional. The seminar remains free either way.
Read the text. Show up. Sit. Speak when you have something to say.
No registration is required. No introductions are needed. The seminar method does not depend on who is in the room. Only on whether the people in the room have read.
Writing
Pieces written from the Agora gatherings.
- No pieces yet.