Live Listening Audiobook Club

What to Expect This is a small live listening experiment built around shared attention, curiosity, and conversation. Instead of reading beforehand, we’ll experience a story together in real time through audio. The club is built around audiobooks, stage plays, performed literature, audio drama, short stories, and other forms of narrative listening. During the session, we’ll listen together as a group. At any point, anyone in the room can pause the audio to share a thought, ask a question, point out a line they loved, or explore something the story stirred up in them. Some conversations may last thirty seconds. Others may grow into something much larger before we return to the story. The goal isn’t to “get through” a certain amount of material. The goal is shared listening, curiosity, conversation, and attention. Agenda * Brief welcome and introduction * Live listening session * Spontaneous pauses and discussion throughout * Short wrap-up conversation at the end * Group vote on whether to continue the current work in two weeks or begin a new one What to Bring Just bring yourself, your curiosity, and your attention. Feel free to bring a drink or snack from the library café area if you'd like. I’ll be in the café area 30 minutes before the event starts if anyone arrives early and wants to say hello beforehand. We’ll begin promptly at 2pm and end on the nose at 4pm. Group Size Club meetings are intentionally small and limited to seven total attendees, myself included, so the experience stays conversational and interactive. Because seating is intentionally limited, please only RSVP if you genuinely plan to attend. If your plans change, simply update your RSVP as early as possible so another listener can take your place. Location We’ll meet at the Tempe Public Library, Study Room 7. Our Listening Experience *Arcadia* by Tom Stoppard — an LA Theatre Works full-cast audio performance at 2 hours and 57 minutes. *Arcadia* merges…