Socially Conscious Hangouts

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Join us for an afternoon of Board Games in Islington!

Food and drink can be purchased.

We are a welcoming and positive space for gaming enthusiasts that aims at fostering a community with collaborative playing as well as some healthy competition.

Kindly update your RSVP if your plans change as spaces are limited.

**Also note that we might have to remove people from the group after a few no-shows.
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Some of the games that may be included:

Pandemic
Catan
Ticket to ride
Horrified
Dixit
Stuffed Fables
Coloretto
Coup
The Mind
Hive

Feel free to bring your own games too.

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For our first Socially Conscious Book Club meeting, we've chosen a book about hope in the face of adversity, and about how humans deal with deprivation in all dimensions of life.

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (288 pages) is a fiction novel based on real-life characters and set in Cambodia against the backdrop of the political oppression of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.

Ki Lim and his wife, Sang Ly, live at Stung Meachey, the largest garbage dump in Cambodia, located in the city of Phnom Penh.

Just when things seem worse, Sang Ly learns a secret about the rent collector. A secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.

How did a revolution that claimed to aim at removing classes from society end up with starvation and death and how do the characters deal with this scenario?

What should have changed?

What gives them hope? What gives us hope in our societies conscious of class and individualistic?

Join us for an open discussion about this book while sipping a cup of coffee or tea.

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