

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Curiosity Café (Revisited)- Paying Attention
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 22 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sun, 22 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Back and Better than Ever, People!About this EventIn the fall, Being and Becoming introduced a new Curiosity Café series, which isn’t actually new at all: Every four(ish) weeks, we will be revisiting a previous Café. In this series, we will be repeating topics, sometimes with a slight twist, sometimes with the same questions (but rest assured, even if you went to the first iteration and the questions were exactly the same, the discussion will change based on who is in attendance. Maybe you’ve even changed too…).We will be hosting our next Revisited  Curiosity Café on Sunday, February 22nd from 2:00-4:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1). Come and hang out with us, grab food, and read through our handout from 2-2:30. Our structured discussion will run from 2:30-4:30pm with a 10 minute break in the middle. We are so grateful to our initial moderators, Alexander de Guzman and Sofia Panasiuk, for creating the materials necessary for this café, including the following event description: Event DescriptionAttention is as curious as it is multifaceted. It has been called a currency, the lack of it has been pathologized, and its span has apparently been decreasing. But what is attention, and what does it share with what are often understood as its synonyms, like ‘focus’, ‘concentration’, and ‘awareness’? What role does it play in our lives and why might we feel like its nature and extent have been changing with rapid technological innovation and the pace of modern life?The phrase ‘pay attention’ is perhaps more appropriate today than ever. Nowadays, if you watch a YouTube video, scroll through Instagram, or even walk down a busy street in your city, chances are you’ll see an ad. Our attention, however brief, is quite literally paying companies who sell our attention to marketing departments. Why is our attention so valuable? How much control do we have when it comes to the object(s) of our attention? How much responsibility do we have over what we pay attention to?Join us at our next Revisited Curiosity Cafe on Sunday, February 22nd, where we will engage in a collaborative exploration of the nature and extent of our attention and why attention is more valuable today than ever. About Ticket Cost:*hey community! Sophia here, Director of Community Programming. We ask that you consider that our ideal recommended amount for a ticket is now $15, and as you choose what to donate within the bounds of your own financial means, we ask that you keep in mind that your donation will go directly towards compensating those involved in making Curiosity Cafés happen so that we can keep doing this for you.Please note that we also still have 5 free tickets available for our attendees. If paying anything at all is not financially feasible for you, or our ticketing system presents some other barrier for you, please contact our Director of Community Programming at sophia@beingnbecoming.org. These tickets will be first come, first served, no questions asked! You can expect to hear back from her within 72 hours.About the Curiosity Café SeriesFor those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.AccessibilitySome accessibility-related information* about our event and the venue:This event involves a verbal discussion, with a handout to guide the discussionThere will be a large-print version of the handout availableWe ask the staff at the Maddy to turn off the speakers playing music in the room we are in. Unless we end up in their “VIP” room upstairs (very unlikely!), this keeps background noise to a minimum.There will be earplugs available to tamper background noiseThere are about five steps up to the entrance of the Madison, and another to get in the door. In order to get upstairs, where we sometimes hold our events, there is another set of stairs that are quite steep. While we hope to be in the downstairs room, we cannot guarantee this until closer to the event date.There are two single stall bathrooms located downstairs that we will have access to. The other bathrooms, located on the main and upper floor, are gendered.Should you be accompanied by a support person, please contact us in advance so that we can add them to our guest list. Their ticket will be included, for free, as part of your pay-what-you-can ticket.*We recognize that this list provides a far-from comprehensive picture of accessibility-related concerns you might have. Please feel free to contact our team at sophia@beingnbecoming.org, or the Madison Avenue Pub (416-927-1722) with any other questions or concerns you might have.
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- **Event Categories**: Nonprofit
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Toronto
- **state**: ON
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Madison Avenue Pub
- **lat**: 43.667827
- **long**: -79.403296
- **full address**: Madison Avenue Pub, 14 Madison Avenue, Toronto, Canada

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- **organizer**: Being and Becoming (https://allevents.in/org/being-and-becoming/23034218)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 22 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Madison Avenue Pub, 14 Madison Avenue, Toronto, Canada
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 CAD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Being and Becoming
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Curiosity Café (Revisited)- Paying Attention ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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