At A Glance...
Virulent Experience
6 - 31 August 2012
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Final date: 31 Aug
Virulent Experience, a theatre event and art exhibition that combines immersive performance, art installation and interactive investigation.
Audience members will be free to explore and investigate the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, to the imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London.
Performance times and Tickets
Virulent Experience is a three hour immersive event, lasting from 7:30pm until 10:30pm with two entry points.
There are three cycles of the performance that audience members allowed to stay as long as they please. Filming will be taking place at some of these events.
Performance Entrance Times: 7.30pm & 8:15pm
Tickets: £20 (£15 concessions)
Pay What You Can Tuesdays (from 6.30pm on the door - limited and subject to availability)
FoolishPeople's Virulent Experience:
“Your journey into the mid 21st century will take you from the museum’s basement to the roof, and past a dizzying array of disturbing art and challenging performances…I found ‘Virulent Experience’ both confusing and exhilarating in equal measure, the most intense theatrical event I’ve attended this year – believe me, it is way, way out there!”
“An intelligent and quick-paced piece of theatre…at times it feels similar to Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty. FoolishPeople are dangerous and exhilarating.”
“Fans of twist-laden dense drama like The Prisoner, Lost and Fifty Shades of S&M will want to dive into new immersive theatre show Virulent Experience at Conway Hall…There are no plot holes, just unseen episodes, so go explore and find areas and scenes you may have missed the first time around”
“The acting was slick and powerful and seamless….This show blew my mind and I can’t really explain why or what or how it did it…but that you should see it for yourself as it is too good to miss”
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Carablanca Tango Club
10 August 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.
Secret Screenings @ Conway Hall Court
14 August 2012
Secret Screenings, from Future Cinema, the creators of Secret Cinema, is a new film club happening bringing back mystery films to the UK for one night only.
Secret Screenings bring back a sense of community, discovery and collective experience to cinema giving audiences access to incredible unseen films combined with one of a kind unforgettable experiences.
Secret Screenings re-launched in July 2012 with one of the most remarkable unseen films of the year – Searching for Sugarman followed by an incredible performance by the subject of the film - Rodriguez.
Lets come together to uncover, discover and promote incredible stories. Lets find vital beautiful and incredible films and send them out into the world.
The Secret Screenings community shall become a powerful force in catapulting vital cinema to the forefront. Discovering incredible films together in events across the nation.
Secret Screening will build a global dialogue around film allowing audiences the opportunity to become part of a unique shared experience. As ever, the identity of the film will remain secret until the credits roll…
Screenings from 18.00 and 21.00
An evening with Ruby Wax
15 Aug 2012
ACTION FOR HAPPINESS PRESENTS...
An evening with Ruby Wax
Join us for an entertaining and thought-provoking evening as comedian and broadcaster Ruby Wax gives us an exclusive preview of her new show about how learning to be "mindful" can help us cope better with the pressures of modern life.
In her own unique style, Ruby will share what she's learnt about why people "burn out", how this relates to the inner workings of the human brain, and how learning a skill like mindfulness can help us cope better with life's ups and downs.
About Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax is one of Britain’s best-loved comedians, writers, and mental health campaigners and has spent three decades working on stage, television and radio.
Ruby has done a huge amount to raise awareness of mental illness and help end the stigma associated with depression. She has spoken openly about her own battles with depression and is an ambassador for the Time to Change campaign.
Doors open at 18.45. Program starts at 19.00
Vegan Summer Fête
25 August 2012
Conway Hall welcomes the return of the Summer Vegan Fête for all the family.
Over 20 stalls and activites spanning the morning and afternoon including; face-painting, craft workshops, music workshops, a henna tattoo parlour, sweet making, organic specialists, a vegan bakery and much, much more...
Entry £1, (Under 12s go Free)
Batuke 2012 - International Afro-Latin Festival
25 Aug 2012
The Batuke 2012 - International Afro-Latin Festival presents...
MYTHS & LEGENDS 2012! @ Conway Hall
FOOD: From 8pm Afro-Portuguese Buffet from £5 only!
All proceeds from the buffet to go to reg. charity UMARU!
SHOW: At 10pm, new production 2012 'Myths & Legends' A Theater-style show of 60 min. - Concept by Iris De Brito!
PARTY: Dance, dance, dance - With DJ Marito & guests!
The finest selection of Afro-Latin styles until 3am!
DRESS CODE: Heavenly White - show your inner god(ess)!
Dance until 3am!
Pexava Salsa
Last Thursday Monthly
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.
Kindness Behaviour Training: How to live a richer and more meaningful life
6 Sep 2012, 19.00
Action for Happiness Presents
Dr Paramabandhu Groves - Kindness Behaviour Training
How can we live a good life in a transient world where pain is inevitable?
Kindness Behaviour Training (KBT) is a new approach which helps us learn to be kinder to ourselves and others and lead a life which is richer and more meaningful.
Join us for this special opportunity to learn about and experience KBT with its founder Dr Paramabandhu Groves, a highly experienced NHS consultant psychiatrist and mindfulness teacher at Breathing Space.
Memory Lane London 2012
8 September 2012
A presentation will include a film show featuring British dance bands in the lunch-time period, and in the afternoon Michael Law’s Piccadilly Dance Orchestra will play for entertainment and dancing.
A bar and a complimentary buffet lunch will be available. Enjoy a fabulous afternoon in London in convivial company.
12.00 - 17.00
Tickets: £20/25 can be booked from the website.
School of Life: Copying And Originality
9 Sept 2012, 11.15
Mark Earls will explore the lie of originality in all its aspects and show the value of 'social learning' (copying, to you and me) to help us put unoriginality back in its rightful place. And of course most of what he says will be other people's ideas.
Mark Earls is a leading thinker and actor in changing how we behave as a group. He is the author of the vastly influential Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature (2009) and co-author of I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social Behaviour (2011).
Doors 11.15
The School of Life Sermons are strictly secular events which explore the values we should live by today. We ask maverick cultural figures to give us their take on the virtues to cling to or the vices to be wary of in order to better navigate life in our complex modern world.
