# Event Details - **Event Name**: Michael Pollan — A World Appears — at Sidwell - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening in conversation with Michael Pollan for his latest book, A WORLD APPEARS.About this EventFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness--what it is, who has it, and why--and a meditation on the essence of our humanityWhen it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature's greatest mysteries. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives--scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic--to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy gray matter could generate a subjective point of view--assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to "plant neurobiologists" searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness.In Pollan's dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own minds, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and our deepest selves.Michael Pollan is the author of ten books, including This Is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. He is also the author of the audiobook Caffeine. A Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellow, Pollan has taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University. In 2010, Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/michael-pollan-—-a-world-appears-—-at-sidwell/100001970733391625 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fmichael-pollan-a-world-appears-at-sidwell-tickets-1970733391625 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 47.57, max: 47.57, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: Sidwell Friends Meeting House - **lat**: 38.9393168 - **long**: -77.07400559999996 - **full address**: Sidwell Friends Meeting House, 3825 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Politics and Prose (https://allevents.in/org/politics-and-prose/17696452) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/ed0e44ada3fb00d607e51ef2d3b3d94716e798e362b815cde3b47d81508ed570-rimg-w1200-h600-dcfea001-gmir.jpg?v=1764750687 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/ec322cedbd5f59374f2b073bdac8fa942de2e61b99432cfc07c8b9c53a56a247-rimg-w400-h400-dcfda001-gmir.jpg?v=1764750686 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Sidwell Friends Meeting House, 3825 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 47.57 up to 47.57 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Politics and Prose - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, health-wellness - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Michael Pollan — A World Appears — at Sidwell ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Michael Pollan — A World Appears — at Sidwell", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/ed0e44ada3fb00d607e51ef2d3b3d94716e798e362b815cde3b47d81508ed570-rimg-w1200-h600-dcfea001-gmir.jpg?v=1764750687", "startDate": "2026-02-27", "endDate": "2026-02-27", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/michael-pollan-—-a-world-appears-—-at-sidwell/100001970733391625", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Sidwell Friends Meeting House", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "3825 Wisconsin Avenue", "postalCode": "20016", "addressLocality": "Washington", "addressRegion": "DC", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.9393168", "longitude": "-77.07400559999996" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for an evening in conversation with Michael Pollan for his latest book, A WORLD APPEARS.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-27", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "47.57", "highPrice": "47.57", "price": "47.57", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/michael-pollan-—-a-world-appears-—-at-sidwell/100001970733391625" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/michael-pollan-—-a-world-appears-—-at-sidwell/100001970733391625", "price": "47.57", "name": "Gen. 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