SKIP THE SMALL TALK: THE EMPTY CHAIR
When was the last time you had a serious conversation with someone you genuinely disagreed with?
Most of our important conversations happen among people we already know — friends, colleagues, people with similar backgrounds or ways of seeing the world.
And increasingly, disagreement happens somewhere else: online, at a distance, reduced to positions we defend rather than people we encounter.
The Empty Chair creates another kind of public conversation.
How does it work?
Three provocative statements will be revealed over the course of the evening. You won't know them in advance.
Each conversation begins around small tables, among people who may see the world very differently.
Then the Empty Chair opens.
If something from your table deserves to be heard by the whole room — an argument, a disagreement, a story, a question — take the chair.
No panel. No experts telling the room what to think. No need to reach consensus.
Because public life doesn't only happen in parliaments, universities or on our screens. It also happens when ordinary people sit across from one another and take each other's ideas seriously.
Three statements. A room of strangers. One empty chair.
Come with your convictions. Leave some room for doubt.
Practical details
📍 Location: Šv. Mikalojaus g. 7, Vilnius
📅 Saturday, 17 October 2026
⏰ Time: 18:30 (doors open at 18:20)
👥 Participants: Maximum 30 people, to keep the conversations intimate.
💶 Contribution: €5
☕ Venue: The evening takes place at a café. Please grab yourself a drink when you arrive and join us around the tables.
Registration
Places are limited to 30 participants.
Payment details
€5 per participant.
Payment instructions will be provided separately.
Films and Coffee • Šv. Mikalojaus gatvė 7, 01133 Vilnius, Vilniaus apskritis, Lithuania
