I spent a week teaching a workshop at an art academy in a small city in Denmark. Many of the students complained that the city was uninteresting. I also found that most of the local community didn't know anything about the art academy. In response to this dynamic I asked all of the students to go out into the city and find someone to do a ten minute lecture on the topic of their choice. We then had a public event with free food and drinks and about fourteen guest lecturers who spoke on a variety of topics including furniture polishing, scuba diving, care of the elderly, skateboarding, playing music on the street, itinerant fruit picking, etc. The event last over four hours and was, I thought, extremely fascinating.