Join us for an evening of live music and a lecture featuring a performance by Washer Dryer, a NYC and Florida-based married indie-rock duo, and a talk by Andrew Oliver, founder of Do For One, a nonprofit that builds freely given, one-to-one relationships for socially isolated people with disabilities.
About the lecture:
Community engagement of all kinds has seen a significant drop in recent decades. As neighborhood meetup groups have decreased, neighborhood watch groups have increased. We have become less connected and more suspicious.
Cultural fragmentation, political polarization, and rapid technological change have conditioned us to focus more on what separates us than on what holds us together, making it very hard to want good things for people we disagree with.
Dreaming up an ideal society on the sidelines is not enough. The harder work is naming what "good" we still might have in common, and then committing to the slow, demanding work of weaving the social fabric.
Shaped by a Judeo-Christian perspective, the lecture warmly welcomes people of all worldviews and explores shared themes of community, responsibility, and the common good.
6:30PM - Doors
7PM - 30 minute concert followed by 45 minute lecture