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Bloomsbury Festival’s Big Night Out at Conway Hall
Bloomsbury Festival’s Big Night Out at Conway Hall
Explore Conway Hall and experience a night-at-the-museum atmosphere for Bloomsbury Festival’s take-over, with performances throughout the building on the main stage, in the lovely Library, on staircases, in the foyer, and more.
Conway Hall | No Option
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
London Fortean Society:
Divination Day: Astrology, Tarot, Tomorrow and Us
London Fortean Society:
Divination Day: Astrology, Tarot, Tomorrow and Us
When the future is uncertain people have turned to occult and cosmic guidance in the forms of astrology, Tarot cards, phrenology and other ways of truth seeking. Join the London Fortean Society for a deep-dive into learning the future through magic and not-quite-science.
In person | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Bartholomew LaFollette & Caroline Palmer
Sunday Concerts:
Bartholomew LaFollette & Caroline Palmer
In a recital postponed from our summer 2024, we are pleased to welcome back Bartholomew LaFollette and Caroline Palmer in a selection of lyrical, dramatic and virtuosic works for cello and piano.
In person | In person
London Fortean Society:
Cannibal Error: A Social History of the ‘Video Nasty’.
London Fortean Society:
Cannibal Error: A Social History of the ‘Video Nasty’.
In the early 1980s, the videocassette forever changed the face of home entertainment. All manner of films depicting unbridled sex and violence without any moderation were available to all viewers and horror films were perceived as a threat to society. David Kerekes discuses the social history of the Video Nasty.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Ethical Matters:
Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Ethical Matters:
Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern day. Helen King examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women's organs. Was the clitoris ever truly lost?
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Sunday Concerts:
Calathea Quartet
Sunday Concerts:
Calathea Quartet
The Calathea Quartet is a vibrant emerging ensemble comprised of distinguished musicians from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and England. We are delighted to welcome them for their Conway Hall debut, in three exuberant, romantic works for quartet.
In person | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Fundraising Recital with Zoffany Ensemble
Sunday Concerts:
Fundraising Recital with Zoffany Ensemble
Much-loved regulars at Conway Hall, the Zoffany Ensemble return to perform beautiful music in aid of our Sunday Concert series, in the intimate and atmospheric setting of Conway Hall’s Library.
Library | No Option
Ethical Matters
Know Your Place
Ethical Matters
Know Your Place
Faiza Shaheen presents a personal and statistical look at how our current system keeps us locked into an ugly hierarchy. It’s a powerful call for collective fighting to reinvent things as we want them to be; finding hope and not staying in your place. This is how can change things.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
Sunday Concerts:
Christian Elliott & Robin Green
Sunday Concerts:
Christian Elliott & Robin Green
Undoubtedly a highlight of our autumn 2024 season will be the opportunity to hear all five of Beethoven's Cello Sonatas, which span the whole of his compositional life, performed in one evening by cells Christian Elliott and pianist Robin Green.
In person | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Kyan Quartet + Pre-Concert Talk
Sunday Concerts:
Kyan Quartet + Pre-Concert Talk
For another Conway Hall debut this season, the Kyan Quartet begin each half of their programme with a short work by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, as a a prelude to two 'classics' of the repertoire. This performance will be preceded by a pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill.
In person | No Option
Sunday Concerts:
Primrose Piano Quartet
Sunday Concerts:
Primrose Piano Quartet
To close our season we are delighted to welcome back the Primrose Piano Quartet, much-loved regulars in our concert series. They begin with Mozart, before Schubert's masterpiece, and Brahm's exhilerating Hungarian-inspired G minor piano quartet, providing an appropriately rip-roaring finale to our 2024 concerts!
In person | No Option
