Living Meaningfully: Civility, Technology and Beauty
- Thursday 13 February 2025 | 7.30pm
- The Crown Hotel | Harrogate
- Tickets: £18
Please note all bookings are subject to a £2.50 transaction fee.
LIVING MEANINGFULLY: CIVILITY, TECHNOLOGY AND BEAUTY
At our first Berwins Salon North of the 2025 season, Oliver Burkeman, Dr. Alex Box, and Professor Louise Mullany each explore ‘Living Meaningfully’ from different, yet interconnected perspectives, shedding light on how we can embrace the realities of the modern world to create lives that resonate. Expertly hosted by Magic FM’s bookworm Natasha Knight.
Berwins Salon North | Big ideas in intimate spaces
In a world dominated by other people’s opinions, Salon gives you the knowledge to form your own.
This cabaret-style evening will enlighten, entertain and excite your curiosity. Showcasing the most stimulating ideas in science, technology, psychology and the arts, each scintillating speaker has the challenge of engaging the audience within a 25-minute set, interspersed with intervals where you can chat, get a signed book from the speaker, or grab a drink at the bar.
Voted number six in the ‘Top 100 Things to do in the World’ by GQ magazine, Salon is a night out that will enlighten, entertain, excite your curiosity and change your life for the better.
Oliver Burkeman
Oliver takes us on a liberating journey towards building a more meaningful life in a bewildering era– how to get around to what counts in a world of anxieties and distractions. Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Oliver offers a powerful new way to take action: a guiding philosophy of life that he calls ‘imperfectionism’. Oliver’s insight will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life.
Dr. Alex Box
As an esteemed beauty tech expert, artist and identity designer Dr. Alex has collaborated with the world’s leading designers, musicians and tech developers, including Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Lady Gaga and Google; built internationally renowned brands and helped shape cutting-edge art and fashion magazine King Kong. Dr. Alex explores how AI, VR, and AR are transforming the beauty industry, merging creativity with technology while challenging biases and redefining authenticity.
Professor Louise Mullany
Are politeness standards really declining? Are women really more polite than men? What is the best way to apologise? Louise has been examining the prevalence and power of politeness in our everyday speech and actions and discovering what this says about us. Politeness rules our day-to-day lives, whether it’s speaking to colleagues about issues at work, dealing with difficult family members or wondering if you should eat the last piece of pie.
‘Berwins Salon North is unique, I’ve never lived anywhere that had anything like it. It’s great!’
‘Geek chic’
‘I came away feeling just a little bit smarter – and who doesn’t love that?’
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