80 episodes
Trampoline Hall Trampoline Hall
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- Arts
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4.8 • 54 Ratings
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Trampoline Hall is a barroom lecture series that has been delighting audiences every month in Toronto for fifteen years, where it has sold out every show. Praised by The New Yorker for “celebrating eccentricity and do-it-yourself inventiveness,” it asks lecturers to take a vulnerable, theatrical risk and speak on a subject they’re not professionally expert in. Subjects range from absurd and arcane obsessions to heartbreakingly personal stories. Quick-witted host Misha Glouberman conducts a Q&A between the speaker and the audience after each talk. Invented by author Sheila Heti.
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Nenad Jovanovic - Flea Circuses, Both Real and Fraudulent
Nenad lectures on the life and death of the flea circus
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Vida Beyer - Horror for Children and the Era of Don Bluth Aesthetics
Vida lectures on kid's cinema
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Chase Joynt - On Having a Penis
Chase Joynt lectures on the meaning and significance of having a penis
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Adil Dhalla - Sleepovers at the Office
Adil discusses the art of sleeping at work
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Stephen Thomas - Personal Identity
Stephen lectures on searching for his true self
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Suzanne Carte - Fighting
Suzanna Carte lectures on the veracity of pro wrestling
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Customer Reviews
Quirky and entertaining
Mostly funny, autobiographical lectures
Clever and strange
Each episode is sidelong and tasty. In life, my favourite conversations are with people who have been thinking really intricately about one thing and want to tell me about it. Trampoline Hall's speakers are like those conversations, mesmerizing and human, deeply curious about the implications and facets of a topic--meta or mundane. Misha Glouberman is the best kind of moderator for the Q+A, which breaks away from the standard non-question questions and posturing I've come to expect from them. Instead, they're as funny as the lectures.
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