Socrates in the City with Jonathan Pageau

SITC host Eric Metaxas welcomes special guest Jonathan Pageau for an interview on What is the Meaning of Meaning? The Influence of Symbolism and Art on Culture. The event will take place at the Union League Club in Philadelphia, PA.

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General Admission: Theater-style seating in a beautiful, private club hall to watch the main event interview with a book signing afterwards.

VIP Admission: Before the main event, join the host and his guest for cocktails and passed hors d'oeuvres.

Dinner: After the main event, join the host and his guest for a coursed dinner, conversation, and Q&A. Tickets include an invitation to the VIP reception. Limited availability.

Live Stream: If you cannot join us in NYC, watch the interview as it happens — before we get to edit out the flubs and fluffs — and host friends to join you for your own private SITC event wherever you are! Watch at socratesinthecityplus.com.

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is a renowned liturgical artist (icon carver), writer, editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal, and public speaker. Through his popular YouTube channel The Symbolic World (subtitle "rediscovering the symbolic patterns that inform the cosmos" channel has 242k subscribers), he has become a sought-out interpreter of the deep patterns in stories. One commentator, Bradley Anderson, described Pageau's iconographic work as a response to the "dead ends" of modernism, offering instead art that invites people into community "with reverence and humility." Writer Grayson Quay has described his work as initiating viewers into "the symbolic world" of myth, legend and Scripture. In addition to creating religious artwork, he teaches seminars in wood carving and iconography. He began publishing online videos on spirituality, art and symbolism from 2017.

With his 2022 publication of God's' Dog: Monster, a graphic novel, Jonathan proved himself a powerful storyteller in his own right. The project’s successful crowdfunding encouraged him to continue his efforts to reclaim the storytelling landscape by starting a publishing company called Symbolic World Press. SWP’s maiden publication is The Tale of Snow White and the Widow Queen, the first of an eight-book series of fairy tales in which Pageau explores a new way of telling fairy tales: one which is both aware of our cultural moment and simultaneously committed to honoring the deeply celebratory of the roots these stories have planted in our common imagination.

Host or Publisher Socrates in the City