Editor’s note: The second annual Paradoxos festival this week in Durham offers a variety of reasons – or excuses – ti break away from work for some entertainment and education. ExitEvent Editor Laura Baverman offers a preview in this latest post that is part of the news partnership between ExitEvent and WRALTechWire.

DURHAM, N.C. - Famous German scientist Georg Lichtenberg once said that each person is a genius at least once a year, but the best geniuses have their brightest ideas closest together.

If that’s truly the case, then the Durham enthusiasts planning the second annual Paradoxos Festival are onto something. They believe they can force that collision of genius into existence by bringing together Durham’s arts, technology, music, maker, entrepreneurial and food communities and proving the city’s sum is greater than its parts.

Not exactly sure what that looks like in practice? Then check out 10 reasons you just might want to witness next week’s festival of events.

The full story can be read online at ExitEvent.