Hosted by Stuart Smithers, Brendan Kiley The Rubicon Foundation’s annual Symposium is a weekend of inspiring and challenging presentations, explorations, exchanges, and discussions with an audience of 200 to 250 Northwest thinkers, artists, teachers, and organizers—the people who shape and build our communities. The presentations take place in an open-air barn on the edge of […]

Hosted by Stuart Smithers, David Shapiro, Carl Lehmann-Haupt Rubicon Foundation’s annual philosophy, yoga, and meditation retreat is led by professors Stuart Smithers and David Shapiro. The name “Camp Zero” comes as a double reference: as philosophers, we constantly return to the fact that we begin with nothing, discarding all our current “knowledge” in favor of […]

Hosted by Adam Nishimura, Sarah Smith, Kyle Nunes, Mia Palomo, May Ackerman, Micah Stanovsky Find out more and get contact info at http://www.sawhorserevolution.org/ The Sawhorse Revolution builds upon the sturdy foundation of two youth construction Fortnight Camps held at the Rubicon Foundation’s rural Smoke Farm, and a successful after school pilot program. Over the past […]