Free public talk: Thinking out loud together with novelist and professor Randy Boyagoda and CBC's Adam Walsh
Join Randy Boyagoda in conversation with CBC’s Adam Walsh for an exploration of dialogue, disagreement, and discourse in the 21st century.
March 19: Conversation about overcoming division at Halifax Central Library
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CBC’s Adam Walsh (left) will be in conversation with Randy Boyagoda at a free public talk at Halifax Central Library on Wednesday, March 19. (CBC)Join novelist and professor Randy Boyagoda in a conversation with CBC's Adam Walsh about overcoming division at Halifax Central Library on Wednesday, March 19. The conversation will:
Explore dialogue, disagreement, and discourse in the 21st century
Offer perspectives on why dialogue and discourse matter
Explain how civil discourse can help increase shared understandings of important issues and ideas
"Civil discourse provides a way for people to recognize and reckon with difference and disagreement, and because it contributes to the common good, advances knowledge, and supports the pursuit of truth," says Boyagoda.
Singer, trumpeter and composer Paul St. Amand along with Holly Arsenault (piano), Jamie Gatti (upright bass), and Geoff Arsenault (drums) will provide musical entertainment throughout the evening.
This free event is open to the public as part of the Hear Me Out conversation series, a partnership between CBC and Halifax Public Libraries that explores challenging and timely topics with an open mind. There will be an audience Q&A.
Listen to the conversation:
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"My biggest fear is not protest, it's not anger, it's not division - it's apathy." So starts Randy Boyagoda's thoughts on finding common ground to talk to each other in deeply partisan times. Hint: it involves putting aside the smartphone and getting curious about others lives. A talk for everyone wondering where we go from here, and how.
Randy is a writer, thinker and advisor for civil discourse at the University of Toronto. This talk was recorded live at the Halifax Central Library, with the CBC's Adam Walsh, as part of the Hear Me Out conversation series.
More about the speakers
Randy Boyagoda is the author of four novels, and the University of Toronto's advisor on civil discourse for an exploration of dialogue, disagreement, and discourse in the 21st century.
Adam is an award-winning, multi-platform journalist who has spent over a decade with the CBC, helping people tell stories that have resonated locally, regionally and nationally. He is currently the host and producer of Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial lunch hour radio program, The Signal.
With a rare combination of soulful vocals and a soaring trumpet sound, Paul St-Amand charts a unique course through Halifax, Nova Scotia's vibrant music scene.
More about the Hear Me Out series
A partnership between CBC and Halifax Public Libraries, this free conversation series invites big thinkers and creators to host meaningful conversations, encouraging us to broaden our perspectives, listen, and build understanding.
Hear Me Out talk #2 featuring acclaimed authors Rhaina Cohen, francesca ekwuyasi and Elamin Abdelmahmoud in February, 2025. (CBC)
Hear Me Out talk #1 featuring bestselling author and global scholar Irshad Manji in February, 2024. (All rights reserved, Evanston Photographic Studios Inc.)
