Come to the “Meetings of Opposites” Program on March 16

The “Meetings of Opposites” programs bring together people with opposing views on politics and other issues. Henry McHenry will lead the Saturday March 16 program taking place at the Gordon Avenue Library meeting room from 1-3pm. The workshop will be timely given today’s perception wars:

After a video demonstrating the mechanism of perception which produces optical illusions and prevents accurate assessment of visual information, we notice that the same mechanism seems to be at work in the ways we interact with each other. We are swamped in perception wars, because the assumptions that keep us in our positions, Us-Against-Them, reside in narratives that own us and that we can’t see out of. To experience a way of being together different from the one perception enables and enforces, we will engage with each other in physical exercises and activities, some as simple as a handshake.