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Hey Ojai! The Agora Foundation free community seminars are beginning again at the Ojai Library, 1:00-2:00PM on Tuesdays, beginning February 10. The Tao Te Ching, and poetry from Rumi and Mary Oliver. Visit https://www.agorafoundation.org/current-seminars for all of the details. Happy New year!

The Agora Foundation is launching a new online series - The Beat Movement - beginning February 4. Partial scholarships available. Get full details at www.agorafoundation.org

On Saturday, December 13, from 12:00-2:00PM PST The Agora Foundation will host an online seminar on "Male and Female - A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World" by Margaret Mead. We will read and discuss portions of the foundational text in online seminars about one month apart, eventually completing the entire book. Attend a seminar as our guest! Visit www.agorafoundation.org for all of the details or email [email protected].

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Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard thought that human experience is the tension between "the finite and the infinite, the possible and the necessary", and to become a true "self" one must be conscious that the source and ground of this "self" is love.

The Agora Foundation is offering an 8-week online series on The Sickness unto Death by Kierkegaard, taking place Wednesday evenings - October 22 to December 17, 2025
5:30-7:00PM Pacific. Join us as we carefully read and discuss this challenging text, in the spirit of camaraderie, civil discourse, and sincere inquiry. Partial scholarships are available.

Click here for full details and to register: www.agorafoundation.org/kierkegaard-thesickness-unto-death-online-intensive

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View the Free Onsite Ojai Chautauqua Panel Series
The Future of Ojai - What is Special About Ojai? -
What should be nurtured, protected, or expanded?
Thursday, July 31, 2025
https://youtu.be/8nr25RQCspY?si=PYCBsOpdLBXQlnSw

The Agora Foundation's Ojai Chautauqua project is embarking on a series of onsite panel discussions that will take place in 2025 and 2026, entitled The Future of Ojai. The goal of the project is to bring together knowledgeable and varied points of view in the spirit of learning, shared inquiry, and civil discourse. Panels will take place about two months apart with each focusing on a different topic such as housing, our economy, sustaining our environment, the state of education, the arts, and more. Events will have different moderators and panelists, representing our diverse community. As with all of our prior events, we hope to bring thoughtful conversation to complicated areas that affect us all, both today and in the future.

All panels will be free and open to the community. This is the first event in the series, intended to set the stage for future offerings.

​Location: El Roblar Hotel
122 East Ojai Avenue in Ojai

Panel Moderator:
Kimberly Rivers - Journalist and Editor

Panelists:
Emily Ayala – Co-Owner of Friend’s Ranch
Andra Belknap - Journalist and Commentator
Atticus Ford-Reyes - Board President of Ojai Unified School District
Andy Gilman - Mayor of Ojai and Agora Foundation Director
Saw Naing - Co-Owner of The Dutchess and Joplin’s
Fabiola Sosa - Mother and Ojai Community Farmers Market team

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