{"title": "Aus sich heraustreten – Über Rausch und Ekstase", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philosophy"], "description": "«Aus sich heraustreten – Über Rausch und Ekstase» is a philosophical and cultural-studies panel discussion. On the panel are historian Helena Barop, psychiatrist and philosopher Daniel Strassberg and philosopher Susanne Schmetkamp, with Michael Herzig moderating. The discussion asks what ecstasy is, how it relates to intoxication, and why sober ecstasy is often considered less blameworthy than drug-induced ecstasy. The panel takes place as part of the festival «Substanzen jetzt».", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aus-sich-heraustreten-uber-rausch-und-ekstase-116469/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/rausch-und-ekstase", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0152c8da6a2a331ae6ca0a919d5cde5ef14c9a017db97a2cc58b36d0578a3c3-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. – Stammtisch", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "prix libre", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs"], "description": "The «Substanzen Jetzt. – Stammtisch» is a new, informal format where anyone can ask their questions about psychoactive substances. It is run by the «Substanzen Jetzt.» festival; in an intimate setting and with expert guidance, participants exchange ideas with like-minded people and experts such as doctors, therapists and safer-use specialists. Topics range from set and setting, trip preparation and integration to microdosing, combined use, psychedelics in older age, and how parents can talk to teenagers about drugs. The experts are met at an apéro at the start, and entry is on a pay-what-you-wish basis with a bar service.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-stammtisch-116464/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/stammtisch-14-november", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d241b431c6cd3e73bc02104cbfefb84badda7615cc5217115e46e5afc2c91943-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Schattenseiten – Psychedelika und Erlösungsphantasien", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics"], "description": "A panel discussion on the dark sides of the psychedelic renaissance – how the promise of healing, insight and redemption can turn into new dependencies and power structures. It examines three areas of tension: guru figures and self-inflation, appropriation by right-wing milieus, and the connection with transhumanism and tech elites. The panel brings together political scientist Christopher Coenen, anthropologist Nicolas Langlitz and counsellor Sarah Pohl. The conversation asks what psychedelic experiences actually say about the world and who defines their meaning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/schattenseiten-psychedelika-und-erlosungsphantasien-116468/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/schattenseiten-psychedelika-erloesungsphantasien", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae6592e2087a6559c2007e20bafa9d07909aa9785ed7cda0ee360a7ec5c2ec5c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. Das Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei, 3. Stock", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "art"], "description": "The festival «Substanzen Jetzt.» offers a wide range of formats on psychedelic themes: Psychedelic Art in exhibition rooms, panel discussions on controversial questions, tables with experts, concerts and experimental formats, films and workshops. It is organised by Photobastei. A joint party takes place on the middle weekend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-das-festival-123006/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b33aeb2b0422ba307cf0881c0cff762ecbd3bb631bf293e360f3e75f88a5eace-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Psychedelische Kultur", "start": "2026-11-13T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/drugs/psychedelics", "history"], "description": "A talk introducing the origins and concerns of drug culture. Susanne Seiler, who lived through the sixties and seventies as a hippie, studied sociology and linguistics, and took part in early studies on psychedelic use, guides the evening. She traces how jazz and blues first brought people into contact with the culture in the thirties, how sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll dismantled postwar conformity, and what grew from it. In conversation with the audience she also wants to explore what this means for Generation Z.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/psychedelische-kultur-116463/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/psychedelische-kultur", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c07fa47d04680209c9fd07490fde39d08f30c08041fc53698d90c60e82dfc3f6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Substanzen Jetzt. - Das Festival", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/psychedelic-art", "occasion/festival", "society/drugs"], "description": "On 12 November, the festival \"Substanzen Jetzt.\" opens with a special event at the venue. It marks the start of the festival programme running from 12 to 29 November. The festival offers a wide range of formats: exhibitions of psychedelic art, panel discussions, tables with experts, concerts, films, workshops and a party on the middle weekend. These open up new perspectives and create altered states of consciousness entirely without substances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/substanzen-jetzt-das-festival-116458/", "official_url": "https://substanzen-festival.ch/programm/eroeffnung?ansicht=chronologisch&ereignis=eroeffnung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9992dc377bb8164dd775aa26ce6b8838614445e4104d3a9249fa49f2b632fa97-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Philo-Bar: Philosophieren, Diskutieren, gemeinsames Gedanken-spinnen...", "start": "2026-11-19T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Quartiertreff Fluntern", "address": "Voltastrasse 58, 8044 Zürich, Schweiz", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philosophy"], "description": "The Philo-Bar is a gathering for philosophising, discussing and spinning ideas together. Topics discussed are societal, psychological or philosophical subjects. Those interested are asked to register in advance with Johannes Schmid by email. The gathering takes place at the Quartiertreff Fluntern.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/philo-bar-philosophieren-diskutieren-gemeinsames-gedanken-sp-25419/", "official_url": "https://www.lokalfluntern.ch/event-details/philo-bar-philosophieren-diskutieren-gemeinsames-gedanken-spinnen-2026-10-22-20-00", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Kokaintabu", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Photobastei 2.0", "address": "Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine/psychiatry", "society"], "description": "Das «Kokaintabu» is a panel discussion on the goals, opportunities and risks of cocaine-supported treatment. Geneva psychiatrist Daniele Zullino, who heads addiction medicine at Geneva University Hospital, presents his considerations and discusses them with Romain Bach, co-secretary general of the addiction association GREA; Michael Herzig, former drug commissioner of the city of Zurich, moderates. The event addresses stereotypical assumptions about cocaine and opens a drug-policy window onto French-speaking Switzerland. The discussion is held in German, with translation provided if needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/das-kokaintabu-116467/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e51b68d16032448edbe18e47fe3182d715e182958e02e65558d2307638f8a098-1200.webp"}]}