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Ethical Matters:
Why is Tomorrow’s Technology Still Not Here?
Ethical Matters:
Why is Tomorrow’s Technology Still Not Here?
We dream about a sci-fi utopia, with flying cars and bionic humans. Why are we living in a future that is more flat-pack than jet-pack? Nicole Kobie shows how history always proves us wrong and how what lies ahead may not be what we imagine, but so much better.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Reweirding:
A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season
Reweirding:
A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season
Through the changing seasons, Lara Maiklem scours the banks of the tidal Thames looking for the objects – lost or discarded – that tell forgotten stories of the people of London. Join Lara and poet Tom Chivers as they discuss mudlarking through the year; uncovering the river's treasures and aligning with the changing elements.
In person | No Option
Explaining Atheism:
Between Beliefs: Film Screening and Q&A
Explaining Atheism:
Between Beliefs: Film Screening and Q&A
Sunday Sessions presents an exclusive screening of two new short films exploring belief and dialogue between religious believers and non-believers in the UK today.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
Battle for the Museums: Fighting Back Against Cultural Colonialism
Ethical Matters:
Battle for the Museums: Fighting Back Against Cultural Colonialism
Museums can be both a valuable educational and cultural resource, and perpetrators of cultural colonialism, gatekeeping, and theft. In this Ethical Matters talk, journalist Rachel Spence and digital activist Chidi Nwaubani explore the underlying dark nexus of capital, art and power―and radical resistance movements fighting fiercely for exhibition spaces that serve today’s public.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Conway Hall Open House Tour
Conway Hall Open House Tour
Discover Conway Hall in a series of exclusive tours around our Grade II listed building, featuring both Art Deco and Arts and Crafts styles. Experience the Main Hall’s sublime acoustics, home to Europe’s longest-running Chamber music series; delve into the Library and Archives; and learn how Conway Hall makes ethics matter today.
Conway Hall | No Option
September Songs: Celebrating Eliza Flower
September Songs: Celebrating Eliza Flower
Join Electric Voice Theatre and music historian Oskar Jensen in Conway Hall's historic Library, as we celebrate the launch of our new website dedicated to Eliza Flower, Conway Hall’s most important radical feminist composer.
Library | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Patrick Hemmerlé
Sunday Concerts:
Patrick Hemmerlé
Join Patrick Hemmerlé at Conway Hall for an evening of Bach, Beethoven and an exploration of Spanish music. Hear renditions of Debussy, Albeniz's Iberia, Séverac and Granada's' El Pelele for his Conway Hall début.
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
The Invention of Good and Evil
Ethical Matters:
The Invention of Good and Evil
For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil'. Hanno Sauer traces humanity's fundamental moral transformations from our earliest ancestors through to the present day. Hanno asks: where will the evolution of morality take us next?
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Sunday Concerts:
Heath Quartet & Ben Goldscheider
Sunday Concerts:
Heath Quartet & Ben Goldscheider
The Heath Quartet formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music. For their long-awaited return to Conway Hall, they are joined by horn player Ben Goldscheider, who has recently given recitals at major concert halls across Europe including at the Concertgebouw, Köln Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall, among others.
In person | No Option
Explaining Atheism:
What Does the First Atheist Age Mean for the UK?
Explaining Atheism:
What Does the First Atheist Age Mean for the UK?
For the first time in our history atheists have begun to outnumber theists in the UK. Are we entering the first ‘atheist age’? What might this mean for our political and civic lives? Join us for a panel discussion exploring what it means to live in an atheist society.
In person | No Option
Life Lessons from Historical Women
Life Lessons from Historical Women
What can we learn from the stories of past women? Comedian Eleanor Morton celebrates the not so-ordinary women whose decisions and accomplishments in their everyday lives resonate with us today. Louise Raw and J Draper join the conversation with their favourite heroines from history.
In person | No Option
London Fortean Society:
Into the Uncanny
London Fortean Society:
Into the Uncanny
Danny Robins is on a mission to solve the greatest of all mysteries – do ghosts exist? Danny tells the stories of ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary things and want to understand them. Joining Danny for this talk are Uncanny crew members Chris French and Deborah Hyde.
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
Public Art and Resistance in the City
Ethical Matters:
Public Art and Resistance in the City
What is graffiti—vandalism, ornament, art? Rafael Schacter shows us why graffiti demands our urgent attention as a form of expression that challenges power structures by questioning whose voices are included in—and whose are excluded from—public space.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Sunday Concerts:
Brompton Quartet & Simon Callaghan + Pre-Concert Recital
Sunday Concerts:
Brompton Quartet & Simon Callaghan + Pre-Concert Recital
Alongside Haydn and Bacewicz, the Brompton Quartet join Artistic Director, pianist Simon Callaghan in a performance of Dvořák's much loved quintet. This performance will be preceded by a pre-concert recital with the Tondo Duo.
In person | No Option
UnMasked:
The Politics of Neurodiversity
UnMasked:
The Politics of Neurodiversity
As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there is no such thing as a ‘normal’ brain. Jodie Hare argues that it is time to redefine the politics of who we are and build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking
Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking
Join Ru Callender, author of What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking in conversation with Evie King, author of Ashes to Admin, to delve into a day in the life of an undertaker and what we can change about our approach to death, grief and the funeral.
Library | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Gildas Quartet
Sunday Concerts:
Gildas Quartet
Alongside canonic works by Haydn and Debussy, the Gildas Quartet's concert programme includes William Alwyn's first String Quartet, with echoes of Dvořák, Janáček and Smetana, and Strum, by 2024 Grammy-winning composer, Jessie Montgomery.
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
Boris Johnson: What Happened to Serious Politics?
Ethical Matters:
Boris Johnson: What Happened to Serious Politics?
What do the falls, rises, scandals, controversies and parties tell us about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson? Who is he? What does he really want and how does he go about getting it. Boris Biographers Anthony Seldon and Lucien Young wonder what can be done about this turbulent Prime Minister?
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters & Bloomsbury Festival:
How Crowds Made the Modern World
Ethical Matters & Bloomsbury Festival:
How Crowds Made the Modern World
In this Ethical Matters talk, Dan Hancox shows how crowds are the ultimate force for change: the bringer of conviviality and euphoria, mass culture and democracy – and a place where we find not just joy and solidarity, but something fundamental about what it is to be human.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Sunday Concerts & Bloomsbury Festival:
Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea
Sunday Concerts & Bloomsbury Festival:
Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea
Reflecting on 'human' qualities and 'kindness', violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea have created a programme that teases out the fantastical and the familial.
In person | No Option
Bloomsbury Festival:
Answers from the Archive
Bloomsbury Festival:
Answers from the Archive
Yesterday’s objects can be the answer to today’s problems. Join us in Conway Hall’s historic Library for a discussion on how archival objects can offer us new insights in addressing the challenges we face today.
Library | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Magnard Ensemble + Pre-Concert Talk
Sunday Concerts:
Magnard Ensemble + Pre-Concert Talk
The combination of solo voice and wind instruments is a challenging one, but the rarely-heard works by Ruth Gipps and Vaughan Williams, performed by the Magnard Ensemble, demonstrate that such a challenge can produce naturally distinctive music that enhances the chosen texts. This concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk with Robert Matthew-Walker.
In person | No Option
Smoke Hole: Ancient Myths for Modern Times with Martin Shaw
Smoke Hole: Ancient Myths for Modern Times with Martin Shaw
Celebrated mythologist, author and wilderness guide Martin Shaw invites us to use ancient stories to help find ‘a commons for the imagination, a place to breathe deeper, feel steadier and become acquainted with rapture.’
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
Ethical Matters:
A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, and a reach much too close to home. Matt Kennard reveals the evidence and where to find the resistance.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Sunday Concerts:
London Haydn Quartet
Sunday Concerts:
London Haydn Quartet
One of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets, the London Haydn Quartet was born out of a passion for Haydn. Their Conway Hall programme offers a wonderful opportunity to witness the quartet's unrivalled classical expertise in three masterpieces of the eighteenth century.
In person | No Option
Being Human Festival:
Doers, Dreamers, Place Makers: A Virtual Visit to Conway Hall
Being Human Festival:
Doers, Dreamers, Place Makers: A Virtual Visit to Conway Hall
For nearly a century, Conway Hall’s doors have been thrown open to freethinkers and creatives of all kinds—hosting debates, discussions, performances and meetings for a dizzying array of doers and dreamers. Join us online for a virtual journey through this Grade II listed building, and share your own stories of the landmarks in your life.
Virtual event | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Amatis Piano Trio + Pre-Concert Recital
Sunday Concerts:
Amatis Piano Trio + Pre-Concert Recital
Founded in Amsterdam in 2014 and now based in Salzburg, the Amatis Piano Trio offer a 'classic' programme for their Conway Hall return, including masterpieces by Beethoven, Haydn and Mendelssohn alongside an exquisite arrangement of Franz Liszt's La Vallée d'Obermann, from Années de pèlerinage.
In person | No Option
Ethical Matters:
Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose
Ethical Matters:
Game Changers: Video Games with Purpose
The videogame industry, now larger than the film and music industries combined, has a proven ability to challenge the status quo. In this Ethical Matters talk, we explore what we can learn about goodness in games, with industry insiders Marijam Did and Daniel Griliopoulos.
Brockway Room | Virtual event