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![*ONLINE* Reweirding: Unofficial Britain – Journeys Through Unexpected Places]()
*ONLINE* Reweirding: Unofficial Britain – Journeys Through Unexpected Places
*ONLINE* Reweirding: Unofficial Britain – Journeys Through Unexpected Places
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie on the margins, left behind. A Britain in the cracks of the urban facade where unexpected life can flourish. Welcome to Unofficial Britain.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Rebel Cell – A New View of Cancer]()
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Rebel Cell – A New View of Cancer
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Rebel Cell – A New View of Cancer
Cancer has always been with us. Dr Kat Arney takes us to the dawn of life on planet earth right up to the present day to get to the heart of what cancer really is and how by better understanding its evolutionary journey we might one day overcome it.
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![*ONLINE* Wanderers: A History of Women Walking]()
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![*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts Fundraiser: Jubilee Quartet]()
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts Fundraiser: Jubilee Quartet
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts Fundraiser: Jubilee Quartet
Beginning with the 'Father of the String Quartet' and concluding with Beethoven's late essay, the Jubilee Quartet's programme offers an opportunity to hear three of the great quartet composers in the warm, intimate acoustic of Conway Hall.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: From Russia with Blood – Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West]()
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: From Russia with Blood – Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: From Russia with Blood – Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West
Heidi Blake tells the untold story exposing the Kremlin’s assassination campaign as part of Putin’s ruthless pursuit of global dominance-and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed.
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![*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: Ashok Klouda & Simon Callaghan]()
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: Ashok Klouda & Simon Callaghan
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: Ashok Klouda & Simon Callaghan
In the second of our livestreamed 'preludes' to our autumn season, Ashok Klouda joins Simon Callaghan in a programme of much-loved cello works, concluding with Beethoven's joyous, lyrical and virtuosic A major sonata. In celebration of Beethoven's anniversary year, there will be the opportunity to hear Beethoven's complete cello sonatas in one evening on 29 November.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Crime Dot Com – From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global]()
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Crime Dot Com – From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Crime Dot Com – From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global
Geoff White, one of the UK’s leading technology correspondents, charts the astonishing development of hacking, from its conception in America’s hippy tech community in the 1970s, through its childhood among the ruins of the Eastern Bloc, to its coming of age as one of the most dangerous and pervasive threats to our digital world.
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![*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: Fenella Humphreys & Simon Callaghan]()
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: Fenella Humphreys & Simon Callaghan
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: Fenella Humphreys & Simon Callaghan
We look forward to welcoming you to our first concert using new, state-of-the-art livestreaming equipment. Fenella Humphreys' online performances during lockdown have drawn praise from audiences and critics alike. Her programme, with Director of Music Simon Callaghan, spans more than 200 years and will be the perfect occasion to bring back to life our extraordinary hall.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: How to be a Failure and Still Live Well]()
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: How to be a Failure and Still Live Well
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: How to be a Failure and Still Live Well
The model of ‘the good life’ and its formulas for success ignore the haunting possibility that one may not succeed and as a result be deemed ‘a failure’. Beverley Clack explores that often-neglected theme of failure, not just as the opposite of achievement but also how it has been conflated with loss.
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![Festival of Alternative Art Education]()
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![*Online* Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon]()
*Online* Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon
*Online* Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon
Join us via Conway Hall’s Zoom channel to celebrate alternative art education and launch the first issue of URgh! Zine. Meet members of the alternative art education community and participate from the comfort of your living room. Turn on, tune in, get involved, start your own art school!
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![*ONLINE* Coronavirus and Populism: Is this the end of the nationalist uprising?]()
*ONLINE* Coronavirus and Populism: Is this the end of the nationalist uprising?
*ONLINE* Coronavirus and Populism: Is this the end of the nationalist uprising?
Editor of politics.co.uk Ian Dunt takes stock of the post-Coronavirus world and asks if maybe, with a bit of luck, we're seeing the end of the nationalist uprising.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Acts Against God – A Short History of Blasphemy]()
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Acts Against God – A Short History of Blasphemy
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Acts Against God – A Short History of Blasphemy
Professor David Nash explores the crime of blasphemy: as an act of individuals but also as a widespread and constant presence in cultural, political and religious life.
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![A Concert of Great Schubert Fantasies]()
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![Ethical Matters: How to be a Liberal – Five Ideas To Fight Back]()
Ethical Matters: How to be a Liberal – Five Ideas To Fight Back
Ethical Matters: How to be a Liberal – Five Ideas To Fight Back
Ian Dunt sets the principles and practices of liberalism and shows why it remains our most powerful weapon to shatter the shiny lies of populists. Ian Dunt is the editor of Politics.co.uk, and the author of Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now and How to be a Liberal (May 2020).
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![*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Display It Like You Stole It – Museums and Ethics]()
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Display It Like You Stole It – Museums and Ethics
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Display It Like You Stole It – Museums and Ethics
It’s well past time for museums to be honest about their acquisitions history and how objects arrive in their collections in the first place. Alice Procter seeks to resist triumphalist nostalgia with art history. How did the narratives of Empire come into being? Who controls them?
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![*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers]()
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
Sarah Scales takes an anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery - both terrestrial and cosmic.
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![*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Monumental Memories – Indigenous Memory and Stonehenge]()
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Monumental Memories – Indigenous Memory and Stonehenge
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Monumental Memories – Indigenous Memory and Stonehenge
Without writing, indigenous elders memorised a vast amount of information on which survival depended both physically and culturally. Does this explain the purpose of ancient monuments including Stonehenge, Easter Island and the Nasca Lines? Can we use these memory methods in contemporary life? Dr Lynne Kelly explains.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Ethical Case for Basic Income in a Pandemic]()
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Ethical Case for Basic Income in a Pandemic
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Ethical Case for Basic Income in a Pandemic
Today in one the richest countries in the world, 60% of households in poverty have people in jobs, inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years, climate change threatens our extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of precarity. The solution? Basic Income, says Guy Standing.
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![*Oculi Ensemble*]()
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![The Playing Human Conference and Laughter Yoga 25 Anniversary]()
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![*Postponed* Trio Sōra]()
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![*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Idea of the Brain – A History]()
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Idea of the Brain – A History
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: The Idea of the Brain – A History
This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge.
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![*ONLINE* Reweirding: The Alchemy of Us – How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another]()
*ONLINE* Reweirding: The Alchemy of Us – How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
*ONLINE* Reweirding: The Alchemy of Us – How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Ainissa Ramirez shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal - whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.
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![*Postponed* United Strings of Europe & Simon Callaghan]()
*Postponed* United Strings of Europe & Simon Callaghan
*Postponed* United Strings of Europe & Simon Callaghan
We welcome the United Strings of Europe to give the world premiere of a new work by Rodgman, flanked by two Beethoven masterpieces. They appear again at Conway Hall on 6 June, as part of their New Horizons series.
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![*ONLINE* Ethical Matters: No Visible Bruises – What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us]()
*ONLINE* Ethical Matters: No Visible Bruises – What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
*ONLINE* Ethical Matters: No Visible Bruises – What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Love, desire, intimacy — we all know what these are meant to look like. But what happens when they descend into violence? Rachel Louise Snyder’s perceptions changed on domestic violence changed when she began talking to the victims and perpetrators.
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![*Postponed* Zoffany Ensemble]()
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![*Postponed* Pre-Concert Recital: Musicians from Royal College of Music]()
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![*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Miracles of Our Own Making – A History of Paganism]()
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Miracles of Our Own Making – A History of Paganism
*ONLINE* London Fortean Society: Miracles of Our Own Making – A History of Paganism
Ranging widely across literature, art, science and beyond, Liz Williams debunks many of the prevailing myths surrounding magical practice, past and present, while offering a rigorously researched and highly accessible account of what it means to be a pagan today.
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![*Postponed* Robert Max – Bach Cello Suites]()
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![*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: An evening with Robert Hugill & Maria Canyigueral]()
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: An evening with Robert Hugill & Maria Canyigueral
*ONLINE* Sunday Concerts: An evening with Robert Hugill & Maria Canyigueral
In the first Sunday Concerts live, online event, we present an evening with writer/composer Robert Hugill and international pianist Maria Canyigueral, hosted by our Director of Music Simon Callaghan.
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![*Postponed* Pre-concert talk | In Search of Bach]()
*Postponed* Pre-concert talk | In Search of Bach
*Postponed* Pre-concert talk | In Search of Bach
In this free pre-concert talk, Robert Hugill explores the mystery of Bach's cello suites. We know neither when, nor for whom they were written. There is even dispute about the exact instrument for which they were written.
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![*Postponed* Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 2]()
*Postponed* Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 2
*Postponed* Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 2
Director of Music Simon Callaghan is joined by Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and Ashok Klouda in the second of three concerts traversing the complete piano trios of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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![(Postponed) Pre-concert Recital: Musicians from Royal College of Music]()
(Postponed) Pre-concert Recital: Musicians from Royal College of Music
(Postponed) Pre-concert Recital: Musicians from Royal College of Music
Witness the future generation of music stars, as students from the internationally-renowned conservatoire take to the Conway Hall stage.
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![*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Murdoch – The Man Who Owns the Media]()
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Murdoch – The Man Who Owns the Media
*ONLINE* Thinking On Sunday: Murdoch – The Man Who Owns the Media
Tom Roberts traces the life of the Murdochs, how Rupert Murdoch's view of the world was formed, and assesses its impact on the media that influences our politics today.
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![*ONLINE* World Press Freedom Wikithon]()
*ONLINE* World Press Freedom Wikithon
*ONLINE* World Press Freedom Wikithon
The freedom of the press has been centrally important in the history of humanism. Many of humanist heritage's key individuals have fought for press freedom as writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Join Humanists UK to improve representation of these figures on Wikipedia.
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![*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: Many Voices, One Song]()
*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: Many Voices, One Song
*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: Many Voices, One Song
If you have a voice, you can sing. You don't need anyone's permission. And singing is even more enjoyable when done with others. Something powerful happens when we join our voices, as guest speaker James Sills will demonstrate.
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![(Postponed) Piatti Quartet]()
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![*ONLINE* Hubble Telescope 30th Anniversary with Kathryn Sullivan, Astronaut]()
*ONLINE* Hubble Telescope 30th Anniversary with Kathryn Sullivan, Astronaut
*ONLINE* Hubble Telescope 30th Anniversary with Kathryn Sullivan, Astronaut
Launched on 24th April 1990, The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised our understanding of the universe. Drawing from her book, Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan will talk about her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible.
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![(Postponed) How To Succeed In Your Career (Without Betraying Your Values) with Viv Groskop]()
(Postponed) How To Succeed In Your Career (Without Betraying Your Values) with Viv Groskop
(Postponed) How To Succeed In Your Career (Without Betraying Your Values) with Viv Groskop
The acclaimed comedian, podcaster and coach returns to How To Academy for a masterclass in building a career in today’s fast paced world – without betraying your values.
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![(Postponed) Clothes… and Other Things That Matter with Alexandra Shulman in Conversation with Hannah MacInnes]()
(Postponed) Clothes… and Other Things That Matter with Alexandra Shulman in Conversation with Hannah MacInnes
(Postponed) Clothes… and Other Things That Matter with Alexandra Shulman in Conversation with Hannah MacInnes
What stories do our clothes tell? What do they mean to us? Join the former editor of British Vogue for a self-deprecating, honest and moving reflection of her life to date.
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![*ONLINE* Ethical Matters: Split – Class Divides Uncovered]()
*ONLINE* Ethical Matters: Split – Class Divides Uncovered
*ONLINE* Ethical Matters: Split – Class Divides Uncovered
How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? From 'scroungers' to 'strivers' we need a new class story says Ben Tippet. Now is the time to fight back.
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![(Postponed) Galliard Ensemble / Simon Callaghan]()
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![*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Feminism, Interrupted – Disrupting Power]()
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Feminism, Interrupted – Disrupting Power
*ONLINE* Thinking on Sunday: Feminism, Interrupted – Disrupting Power
Reclaiming feminism from the clutches of the consumerist, neoliberal model Lola Olufemi shows that when 'feminist' is more than a label, it holds the potential for radical transformative work.
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![*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: How To Have More Fun By Flying Less]()
*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: How To Have More Fun By Flying Less
*ONLINE* Sunday Assembly: How To Have More Fun By Flying Less
Could you take a year off flying? After writing three books about cycling, lifelong cyclist and environmentalist Anna Hughes turned her attention to another mode of transportation: flying. In 2019 she founded Flight Free UK, a campaign that asks people to take a year off flying for the sake of the environment.
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![*ONLINE* Shapeshifters: A History]()
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![*Postponed* Trio Khnopff]()
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![*Postponed* Pre-concert Talk | A Tale of Two Friendships]()
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