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Salon du Chat
UpcomingFriday August 28, 202611:00 – 12:30(90 mins)
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Salon du Chat

11:00Event start time
FridayAugust 28, 2026

“The Picnic's beloved morning ritual: speed debating over tea, coffee and biscuits. Pick a topic from the menu, sit down opposite a stranger and talk — properly. Chat, without the chit. Runs every morning of the weekend.”

This event is part of Leviathan Stage

MindField's public forum, where the weekend's most insightful conversations happen out in the open. Andrew Maxwell hosts the big panels — on America at 250, populism and the broligarchy — while ambassadors, journalists and campaigners take on Europe, Gaza, Amnesty and the housing crisis in between. Mornings open gently with Salon du Chat and the Human Library, where the books are people and the borrowing is a conversation. Come to listen, stay to disagree.

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