Excerpt from: Michael Palin interviewed by Michael Cathcart on Books + (Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 7 July 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/michael-palin/4107646 Michael Palin is perhaps best known for his role in ‘Monty Python’s Flying...
Conversare is for people who wish to open up their lives. People who recognise that these novel events are an exciting and intriguing way of doing this, whatever their stage of life. What can...
Conversare bubbles along at the Whitmore pub in the city of Adelaide on the last Monday of the month. The next event is on 25th June, 2012. ( I would add for readers outside...
We hear the word ‘community’ used a lot these days without being clear what the users have in mind. With the term ‘conversing community’ I suggest that, through being a participant in a Conversare...
The title here comes from this comment: “The mood [in the new pastry shop in my neighbourhood] among the customers was unusually good humoured. As I stood there, enjoying the pastry smells and the...
The American comedian, Joan Rivers, by asking her signature question, “Can we talk?” invited all of us both explicitly and implicitly to confront the question, “Can you and I talk?” The history of her...
The first of these novel events in Australia happened on 26 March 2012. The company was lively and friendly. The venue, the Whitmore Hotel in Adelaide, was beautifully set up for the occasion and...
Have you had the experience of going to social events such as birthday and housewarming parties and finding that people hived off into little nooks and seemingly only mixed with those they already knew?...
Hello again To let you know that there will soon be substantial changes to this site, both in design and content. These are related to remarkable developments associated with my being back in Adelaide...
There are several dimensions of Conversare gatherings which may be considered ‘magical.’ For the way in which all participants interact with each other is very different from that in more common kinds of socialising....
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