At A Glance...
Carablanca Tango Club
11 May 2012
19.30 - 00.00
Carablanca is London's longest-running tango club. The friendly, informal atmosphere ensures that beginners and visitors mix easily with the regular dancers.
The dance evening is an Argentine milonga, preceded by a class. There are also classes for beginners in a separate room. Music is traditional Argentine tango, milonga and vals, played in tandas with cortinas by guest DJs.
TICKETS: price £10 for a class or dancing, £12 for both, paid on entry.
Sunday Lecture - The Neurobiology and Ethics of Voluntary Amputation
13 May 2012
Mo Costandi details the neurological origins and ethical issues arising from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), an extremely rare condition in which sufferers feel an overwhelming urge to amputate an otherwise perfectly healthy limb.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members.
Revolutionary Drawing Room
13 May 2012, 18.30
- Adrian Butterfield violin
- Kathyrn Parry violin
- Rachel Stott viola
- Ruth Alford 'celllo
- Haydn: Quartet in G Op. 77/1
- Haydn: Quartet in F Op. 77/2
- Beethoven: Quartet in D Op. 18/3
£8 tickets on the door, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s), box office opens at 17.30.
Pexava Salsa
12 July, 30 Aug
Gil and Shelley’s Pexava Salsa Social, with international championship competitors and professional teachers and performers. Salsa lessons, shows, club dancing and more!
The last Thursday of the month, your salsa weekend starts early! Experience an amazing central salsa venue with great salsa people.
Fantastic, spacious wooden dancefloor, special touches provided by dancers for dancers, the best salsa DJs on rotation, regular shows, cheap soft drinks.
19.15-20.15 Intermediate/Advanced class: with Gil & Shelley (please note: classes are suitable for experienced salsa dancers only; please see our Pexava website for our beginners courses in other locations)
20.15-23.30 Salsa Social: Dance your socks off on a wonderful floor with lovely people! Shows at 22.30 for “Showtime events”.
TICKETS: £8 on the door including FREE CLASS.
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GALHA: Fighting Homo/Transphobia In and Through Education
18 May 2012
A special meeting for the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), which is marked by over 90 countries on or around May 17th.
Key speakers from the world of education and LGBT Rights will discuss the many issues affecting LGBT school pupils, from the prevention and resolution of bullying, to the need for curriculum development and the role of faith schools.
Illustrated by short films made for a pan European tool kit to combat homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools.
The panel will include:
Tony Fenwick - Co chair of Schools Out and LGBT History Month. Tony has been using educational tools to encourage LGBT issues to be taught in schools around the globe.
Elly Barnes - Music teacher and Diversity Course Leader at Stoke Newington School recently voted NO1 on the Independent's "Pink List" for 2011. Elly has raised the profile of LGBT issues in her school to the extent that the rates of all bullying, including homophobic, have decreased.
Janet Palmer - HM Inspector, Ofstead, National Advisor for Personal Social, Health and Ecomomic Education. Janet is closely involved in ensuring that the new Ofsted frameworks for all aspects of education and care include LGBT issues.
1930 start, all welcome.
Carablanca Tango Club
18 May 2012
19.30 - 00.00
Carablanca is London's longest-running tango club. The friendly, informal atmosphere ensures that beginners and visitors mix easily with the regular dancers.
The dance evening is an Argentine milonga, preceded by a class. There are also classes for beginners in a separate room. Music is traditional Argentine tango, milonga and vals, played in tandas with cortinas by guest DJs.
TICKETS: price £10 for a class or dancing, £12 for both, paid on entry.
Sunday Lecture - Apes Like Us: Towards an Evolutionary Humanism
20 May 2012
Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology Volker Sommer illustrates how studies of great apes challenge our deep-rooted tendency to distinguish "humans" from "animals" - as well as the dualism of "mind" and "body" - and asks whether evolutionary theory must always lend itself to worldviews that embrace materialism and atheism.
11.00, £3 on the door/free to members.
Piatti Quartet
20 May, 2012, 18.30
- Charlottle Scott violin
- Michael Trainor violin
- David Wigram viola
- Jessie Ann Richardson 'cello
- Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat Op. 44/3
- Bartok: Quartet No.3
- Beethoven: Quartet in A minor Op. 132
£8 tickets on the door, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s), box office opens at 17.30.
Can Schools get through to Muslim Boys?
24 May 2012
Philosophy for Educational Renewal Event
Dr Matthew Wilkinson won scholarships to Eton and Cambridge specialising in theology, but then converted to Islam. He is concerned that schools are not making the effort to relate to Muslim boys.
1800 start, please register by emailing Sheila Richards: sheilarichards@aol.com
Carablanca Tango Club
25 May 2012
19.30 - 00.00
Carablanca is London's longest-running tango club. The friendly, informal atmosphere ensures that beginners and visitors mix easily with the regular dancers.
The dance evening is an Argentine milonga, preceded by a class. There are also classes for beginners in a separate room. Music is traditional Argentine tango, milonga and vals, played in tandas with cortinas by guest DJs.
TICKETS: price £10 for a class or dancing, £12 for both, paid on entry.
