Living Meaningfully: Civility, Technology and Beauty
- Thursday 13 February 2025 | 7.30pm
- The Crown Hotel | Harrogate
- Tickets: £18
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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.
Three expert speakers deliver TED-style talks designed to challenge perceptions and change your life for the better. Showcasing the most stimulating ideas in arts, science, and history, each scintillating speaker has the challenge of engaging their 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
Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts.
Oliver Burkeman takes us on a liberating journey towards a more meaningful life – one that begins not with fantasies of the ideal existence, but with the reality in which we actually find ourselves.
Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Burkeman offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life that he calls ‘imperfectionism’.
To be read either as a four-week ‘retreat of the mind’ or devoured in one or two sittings, Burkeman’s insight will be a source of solace and inspiration, and an aid to a saner, freer, and more enchantment-filled life. In anxiety-inducing times, it is rich in truths we have never needed more.
Dr. Alex Box
Dr. Alex Box is a visionary artist and pioneer of Beauty Futurism, redefining creativity in make-up, beauty and identity.
Blending art, science and technology, Box is a leader in the discussion of how technology transforms identity in both digital and physical worlds. Her innovative and multidimensional approach has established her as the creator of a new visual language – pushing beauty boundaries and inspiring others to do the same.
As an esteemed beauty tech expert, artist, public speaker, identity designer and editor; Dr Alex has helped shape cutting-edge art and fashion magazine King Kong, built internationally renowned brands and collaborated with the world’s leading designers, musicians and tech developers, including Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Lady Gaga and Google.
Professor Louise Mullany
Polite: The Art of Communication at Home, at Work and in Public.
For years, Professor Louise Mullany has been examining the prevalence and power of politeness in our everyday speech and actions and discovering what this says about us.
Are politeness standards really declining? Are women really more polite than men? What is the best way to apologise?
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.
In Polite, Mullany shows how the unseen science of politeness governs everything we do, from what we say to how we act, and reveals how a better understanding of the rules and norms of politeness can help us in all aspects of our work, leisure and home lives.
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