COMMUNITY & CONVERSATION
LET’S GATHER
Find community events, town talks, and workshops in the St. Louis region. Bring your questions. Meet your neighbors. Leave with a new perspective.
UPCOMING GATHERINGS
New event dates will appear here when they’re confirmed. Ask Joan about the next gathering or suggest a topic you’d love to explore.
YOUR FIRST TOWN TALK
Expect guided conversation, shared stories, and time to hear one another. Our workshops draw on Joan’s teaching experience and books that help us talk across differences.
Each event listing will include its date, Central Time, location or online link, and registration details. Ask us about access needs before you attend.
THE CONVERSATIONS WE’VE SHARED
A community grows conversation by conversation. These events have already taken place; explore their topics and the ideas that brought people together.
September 22, 2025 • 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Central Time • St. Louis County Library Clark Branch. Let’s re-envision the town hall by learning how to talk to one another! We’ll gather and share stories of who we are and why we are choosing to be engaged in Democracy! We’ll give a “book tasting” fro
September 17, 2025 • 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Central Time • SLCL Cliff Cave. Let’s re-envision the town hall by learning how to talk to one another! We’ll gather and share stories of who we are and why we are choosing to be engaged in Democracy! We’ll give a “book tasting” fro
July 23, 2025 • 7:00 PM–8:30 PM Central Time. Bring your brown bag brunch , ( eating together is one the measurements of happiness in this report ) and your ideas to enhance the well-being of our community, as we share the World Happiness Report
July 16, 2025 • 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Central Time • St. Louis County Library – Clark Family Branch. Bring your brown bag brunch , ( eating together is one the measurements of happiness in this report ) and your ideas to enhance the well-being of our community, as we share the World Happiness Report
June 5, 2025 • 7:00 PM–8:00 PM Central Time. Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt Ever wonder how we got to such a dysfunctional political climate? Arthur Brooks lays it out insightfully in this time
June 5, 2025 • 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Central Time • SLCL Clark Branch. Love Your Enemies : How Decent People Can Save America From the Culture of Contempt Ever wonder how we got to such a dysfunctional political climate? Arthur Brooks lays it out insightfully in this tim
May 29, 2025 • 5:00 PM–6:00 PM Central Time. Grab your beverage of choice and join us for follow up discussions. This first one is for the Town Talks Live Opening Workshop! meet.google.com/buq-hawk-aoa
May 28, 2025 • 10:00 AM–10:40 AM Central Time. Grab a latte or whatever gets you going in the morning and join us to Talk! This first one is for the Town Talks Live Opening Workshop! Passcode: LMM7sQ (Write this down in your notes, pls!)
May 14, 2025 • 6:30 PM–7:30 PM Central Time • SLCL Meremac Valley. Fresh off the Indivisable and DNC District 2 Town Halls, without our “No-Show Wagner,” representative, let’s take some time to get to know and talk to one another! At both events, people were there fr
LET’S GATHER. LET’S TALK. LET’S ACT.
Bring a question, a story, or simply your curiosity. There’s a place for you here.
St. Louis roots. Room for every perspective.