Lingua Diversa Group was founded by Esther and Lucio in 2002. They run lunchtime and evening courses from beginner to advanced level in: Spanish, Italian, French, German and Brazilian-Portuguese.
Maybe it’s time to live. Philosopher John Sellars walks us through the history of Epicureanism, showing us how it can help us think anew about joy, friendship, nature and being alive in the world.
Winners of the prestigious RAM Chamber Music Fellowship, the up and coming Hill Quartet make their Conway Hall debut, performing live and online from our historic Main Hall.
Love-locks is are new custom, demonstrating love and devotion with a padlock attached to a public space, often a bridge or other landmark. They are everywhere: Paris and Taiwan; New York and Seoul; Melbourne and Moscow; London and Westcliff on Sea. Ceri Houlbrook explores the worldwide popu-larity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.
Graham Hutchings offers a vivid, gripping account of 1949: the year in which China abruptly changed course and pulled the rest of world history along with it. The overthrow of Chiang Kai-shek’s government by Mao Zedong reverberated across the world, resulting in long-lasting consequences that are still being felt today.
The Solem Quartet – one of the UK’s up-and-coming quartets – perform a live-streamed concert from Conway Hall’s historic Main Hall.
In 2020 we saw clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to not the colour of their skin. In the words of Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, “there is no freedom without rights and no rights with-out the freedom to exercise those rights.”
The Zoffany Ensemble present a special fundraising concert for Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, introduced by Classic FM’s Catherine Bott.
Forty years of feminism and still women do the majority of the housework. Why? Sally Howard investi-gates how we got here and what the future could look like for feminism’s final frontier: the domestic la-bour gap.
Trio Isimsiz, the 2015 Trondheim Competition winners, perform a live-streamed concert, direct from Conway Hall.
** New date! ** This one day festival will bring together alternative art schools, peer-support groups and collectives in range of events, performances, discussions, installations and workshops on education, pedagogy, peer-support, co-operation, self-organisation, labour and precarity.
As borders multiply, so too must campaigns of resistance. From ‘Detained Voices’ to acts of cross-border solidarity, people are fighting back to break down borders and standing up for everyone’s right to belong.
