Is there anything that’s really impossible for us to change, or impossible for us to understand?

Things like nationalism? Or capitalism? How about extinction?

We’ll chat about these big heady topics with community members, experts, and other folks who are too smart for their own good, and also get involved with some things that might be impossible (but maybe not as mind-blowing), like trying to out-lift local strongmen, conduct genetic experiments, or beat a chess master!

Extinctions

Are they natural occurrences or is someone to blame?

Come touch a giraffe, hippo, and bald eagle!***

We’ll have loads of hands-on fun to start off the evening with our friends from the Denver Zoo and the Botanic Gardens. We’ll also have some examples of de-extinction (yes, bringing back the Woolly Mammoth), pretty damn near extinct video games to play, some photogram activities, and then the expertise of some really incredible people in our community.

Some extinctions sound pretty good: Mean dinosaurs, the busy signal on the phone, tie-dye t-shirts.. But what about newspapers, pensions, neighborhoods, or people in our community that might go extinct? What can we do about these?