westminstertownhall

The Westminster Town Hall Forum is Minnesota's longest-running, free national speaker series. Eight to ten times each year, the Forum hosts world-class speakers to give free and open talks in downtown Minneapolis.

In 1980, Diane and Paul Neimann recognized a need in the greater community for an expanded understanding of the complex issues confronting our society and world. They developed the concept of a free, noontime forum where leading thinkers, authors, innovators, and activists could provide ethical reflection on pressing contemporary issues.

A guiding theme for the Forum was established — voices of conscience: key issues in ethical perspective. To ensure that the Forum included a broad range of ideas and opinions, the founders determined that forums would be nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and free and open to the public. Those basis tenets remain essential components of the Forum today.