​THE SOCIETY OF CIVIL DISCOURSE

This year’s event is April 8th, 2017!
FringeArts, 8pm
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A Co-Production Between Team Sunshine Performance and The Philly Pigeon

Calling All:
Talkers, drunk debaters, sidewalk weather reporters, water cooler pundits, backseat philosophers, pseudo intellectuals, haters, hype-men, chatter boxes, gossips, and even the silent types.

Members of the Society of Civil Discourse are coming together in search of new members. All are welcome.

Join us in hating on, loving, philosophizing about and debating, things that don’t matter. Show up on time for our induction ceremony. Discuss silly things with your fellow inductees, then watch and heckle the Great Debate.

What is it?The Society of Civil Discourse is an interactive debate/bullshitting/appreciation event. It’s about style, not substance.

It happens in two phases.

Prelude: Induction to The Society and Explanation of Philosophy

Phase 1: Free Roaming Talking Stations
Find a station and let your trained facilitator guide you into a debate, gripe session, appreciation, or story share. Listen to others. Have a drink.

Phase 2: The Great Debate
Professional Argument Teams engage in a 5 round debate over a secret topic. Watch, heckle, vote for the winners.

Round 1: Opening Statements
Round 2: Personal testimony
Round 3: Mime
Round 4: Fake statistics
Round 5: Closing statements