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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.
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MusicUpClose
25 September - 30 October 2012
If you have ever said ‘I love music, but I’m not musical’ – this is for you!
A brand new project devised by Simon Callaghan, sound collective and Conway Hall, in collaboration with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Greenwich.
MusicUpClose is a new series of performing events based at Conway Hall. Professional musicians and postgraduate students from Trinity Laban will be helping to illuminate not only specific pieces of classical music, but also the way in which they think about music and performing.
This series is designed for those who have an interest or even a passion for music – but feel they don’t know how it works. If you have ever said ‘I love music, but I’m not musical’ – this is for you!
The interactive series will be presented in a non-patronising fashion, excluding unnecessary technical terms, and will allow the audience to ask questions and explore what goes on in the minds of players during rehearsals and performances. The locations will be intimate and the performers will be – as the title suggests – up close.
Our first series will take place over six weeks and will use Beethoven as a starting point for our exploration of numerous topics. In the final event, a large chamber orchestra will perform Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No.5.
Tickets for each session are priced at £10, or £55 for all six sessions.
They can be purchased in advance for each event, any remaining spaces will be sold on the door that evening.
Session One: Tone Deaf?
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 19.00 – 20.30
Session Two: I Got Rhythm!
Tuesday 2 October 2012, 19.00 – 20.30
Session Three: An Unanswered Question: how do composers ‘compose’?
Tuesday 9 October 2012, 19.00 – 20.30
Session Four: Variations on a theme…
Tuesday 16 October 2012, 19.00 – 20.30
Session Five: Conductors – What’s the Point?
Tuesday 23 October 2012, 19.00 – 20.30
Session Six: Inside the Music!
Tuesday 30 October 2012, 19.00 – 20.30
Sunday Lecture - Our Public Relations, their Propaganda: Engineering Consent in a Democratic Society
Sun 28 Oct 2012, 11.00
Although propaganda is at least as old as civilisation, its modern political and corporate forms were only systematically developed in the United States around the time of World War One. This lecture will explore the reasons for its promotion there at that time and will give a historical account of some of the techniques elaborated and their bearing on the use propaganda in the exercise of democracy today.
Graham Bell is a former schoolteacher and is a current member of South Place Ethical Society (SPES).
Open to all. No need to book in advance.
Mira Quartet / Hiro Takenouchi (piano)
Sun 28 Oct, 2012, 17.50
Hiroaki Takenouchi was born in Japan but is now based in London, where he came in 1997 to study piano with Yonty Solomon and Andrew Ball, composition with Edwin Roxburgh and fortepiano with David Ward at the Royal College of Music. He received the RCM's 'The Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rosebowl' presented by HRH The Prince of Wales. He was a 'Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellow' (RCM) supported by the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
As a soloist, he has appeared on many concert platforms including Tokyo Opera City, the South Bank Centre, Fairfield Halls, Hamburg Laeiszhalle and Steinway Halls in London, Hamburg and Tokyo. He has also given recitals in the UK, Japan, Austria, Germany, Portugal and Italy.
He is an active chamber musician in an extensive range of work. Tonight he will be working with the rising stars of the Mira Quartet: Amy Tress and Joseph Devalle on violins, Natasha Silver on viola and Sergio Serra on 'cello.
- Amy Tress violin
- Joseph Devalle violin
- Natasha Silver viola
- Sergio Serra ‘cello
17.50 - Pre-concert talk: An Introduction to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Brockway Room)
- Bridge: Three Noveletten
- Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet in G minor Op.1
- Dvořák: Quartet in E flat Op.51
£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30, Concert Starts 18.30
MusicUpClose - Session 6
30 Oct 2012, 19.00
Inside the Music!
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be right at the centre of the action to see, hear and feel what the performers encounter? How do musicians communicate and stay together during a performance? Both will be discovered as we delve into the interior of a performance of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.
19.00 - 20.30 (followed by drinks)
Carablanca Tango Club
Spring/Summer
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.
Callaghan Trio
Sun 4 Nov 2012, 18.30
The Callaghan Trio have received high acclaim for their compelling and refined performances. Established soloists in their own right, they have performed in many of the concert halls in Europe and abroad, including Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall. Their extensive repertoire encompasses all the mainstream works for piano trios.
Our musical Director, Simon Callaghan, will be joined by Ben Roskams on violin and Ashok Klouda on ‘cello.
- Ben Roskams violin
- Ashok Klouda ‘cello
- Simon Callaghan piano
Beethoven Piano Trio Cycle: Concert 1
- Beethoven: Trio in C minor Op.1/3
- Beethoven: Variations in E flat Op.44
- Beethoven: Trio in D Op.70/1 ‘Ghost’
£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30, Start 18.30
Sunday Lecture - 8 Principles for Successful Optimists
Sun 4 Nov 2012, 11.00
As the philosopher Mark Bedau says “Change will happen and we can either try to influence it in a constructive way, or we can try to stop it from happening, or we can ignore it. Trying to stop it from happening is, I think, futile. Ignoring it seems irresponsible.”
Which means there is really only one game in town: trying to steer things in a positive direction. But how do you do that? In this talk Mark Stevenson explores the way successful optimists get things done and how we can all learn from them.
Mark Stevenson is an entrepreneur, futurologist and author of "An Optimist’s Tour of the Future". He is co-founder of learning agency Flow Associates, futurologist-in-residence at Primary Energy Research and on the advisory board of Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge. He is a fellow of the RSA, Nibmaster General at the Ministry of Stories and founder of The League of Pragmatic Optimists. “Stevenson wears no blindfold. His tools are curiosity, open-mindedness, clarity and reason.” – Chris Anderson, TED Curator
Open to all. No need to book in advance.
The School of Life Sunday Sermon: David Shrigley on Vice
Sun 4 Nov 2012, 11.00
David Shrigley is making a list of vices and virtues. He’s weighing them up. He’s sketching them out. He’s thinking about what he’s going to say. He doesn’t know yet. But, when he settles his dark eye and mordant wit on his choice of our follies, we can be sure this will be a sermon like no other.
David Shrigley is among the best-loved artists of this generation. His first major survey exhibition, Brain Activity in Spring 2012 at the Hayward Gallery, London, has been hugely well received. His wildly influential crude drawing style comes from his ambition to ‘communicate as simply and directly as possible’. We can recognize ourselves all too easily in his provocative and complex studies of everyday absurdities. An hour spent looking through Shrigley’s eyes changes how we see the world.
SOLD OUT £15.00 - Please us the link below for the waitinglist.
The School of Life will email you if spaces becomes available on this date.
Image © David Shrigley
Monologues and Micro Performances
Wed 7 Nov 2012
The Conway Collective presents:
An evening of performance extremes. Big characters and tiny stages. A celebration of solo and small performance work created at Conway Hall.
Doors open 19.30
The Conway Hall is fast becoming the place for the creation of innovative new performance. The regular workshop programmes run by The Conway Collective and its associate artists are generating some of the coolest work in London town.
Be on trend and come and see what we've been up to while you can still get tickets.
Tickets £10 advance.
