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Surprise birthday gift to me and now, from me to you!

This year, we’re doing something unique with a person who helped write the city’s after-hours history.

On Sunday, March 29, The Brilliance Exchange is hosting a Vinyl & Book Swap with as our headliner + lecturer.
Since 1991, Cozy has been putting his heart and soul into every groove. Since 1997, he’s been one of the quiet architects of Atlanta nightlife — from Concourse to Botanical Gardens, , Argosy, Maune Contemporary, Buteco, , , and more.
If you’ve danced in this city over the last 25+ years, you’ve probably moved through one of his sets.

I’m excited to hear Shawn’s story and his approach to not only building a set but also a legacy.

Bring you favorite book and vinyl to swap. Trade. Or Buy!

🧬 EARLY BIRD IS LIVE — $5 OFF ALL TICKETS UNTIL SUNDAY 🧬

The Brilliance Exchange returns Sunday, March 15 with a new Lecture:
— “Life as an Information Technology.”

For this gathering, we’re treating life itself as a memory system.
DNA, culture, family dynamics, objects, and stories are all “information technologies”
that compose, store, and iterate who we become.

✨ WHAT’S HAPPENING ✨

We’re building a Memory Lab in a third-space

at 323 Walker St SW:
• A live lecture by Ellex Swavoni (artist + world-builder)
• Ritual objects + reading guides you can take home
• A “Laboratory Hour” with our host

The flow of the night:
1️⃣ Welcome Ritual – Tea, grounding, and context for “life as information.”
2️⃣ Provocation Lecture – Ellex maps how memory systems (DNA, culture, artifacts) shape reality.
3️⃣ Think Together - About the systems running our lives.
4️⃣ Artifacts – You leave with reading materials and access to the Lab via the Are.na app.
5️⃣ Nüro Laboratory Hour (for Keepers & Architects) – Sound + conversation inside the Memory Lab.

🎟 TICKET TIERS — ALL $5 OFF YOUR FIRST TICKET PURCHASE UNTIL SUNDAY 🎟

• Seeker – for the intellectually curious
Full event access (6–8PM), printed reading guide, digital archive of our community “memory tokens.”

• Keeper– for people who want to stay in the Lab
Everything in Seeker + access to the Nüro Laboratory Hour (8:20–9:30PM),

• Architect – for people who want to help build the project
Everything in Keeper + a small, focused Discord session after the event, where we help shape a community Are.na project and support a random participant to pitch to the Are.na Annual (with a $200 honorarium on the line).

This is not a conference and not a networking mixer.
It’s a civic thinking ritual: a night where we treat ideas as culture,
and truly support our lecturers for their intellectual labor and brilliance.

📍 323 Walker St SW, Unit A (2nd floor) – Atlanta
📅 Sunday, March 15
⏰ Doors at 6:15 PM – Program 6:30–8 PM (Nüro Hour to 9:30 PM)
🎫 $5 OFF all tiers until this Sunday – link in bio.

Come if you’ve been wanting a place to think together, again.

Blessed beyond measure.

Beautiful day in the A. Thank you for all things true, through and through. 🌎🌏🌏

We support educators.
We build third spaces.
We reinvest in classrooms.

The Brilliance Exchange isn’t just talks.
It’s circulation.
Support moving toward the people who do the teaching, the thinking, the work that holds communities together.

With , .worldwide, .co, .xyz, and backing us, we’ve launched paid lectures, created reading guides, and activated spaces where learning feels like what it should be: intentional, accessible, given from care.

Now we’re raising support to keep it going and grow it.

20% of what comes in goes straight to teachers and students. Not eventually.

Before school ends.

If you believe knowledge should move, not sit still, this is where you show up.

Sponsor a teacher. Support a student. Build the exchange with us.

DM for sponsorship packages. Link in bio for further support.