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![Sunday Assembly: Global Goals]()
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![Concert of Chamber Music]()
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![*POSTPONED* Ruisi Quartet]()
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![Pexava Salsa Specials]()
Pexava Salsa Specials
Pexava Salsa Specials
Join us for our Saturday Salsa Special. With one of the best dance floors around. If you have never been to one of our socials in this venue, please come join us for a great night of dancing! Starting with a class from Gil and Shelley, dancing until 2 am!
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![How to Lead in an Age of Uncertainty with Margaret Heffernan]()
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![*Postponed* Phacelia Ensemble]()
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![Thinking On Sunday: Unspeakable – The Things We Cannot Say]()
Thinking On Sunday: Unspeakable – The Things We Cannot Say
Thinking On Sunday: Unspeakable – The Things We Cannot Say
As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year, retreating into herself and communicating only when absolutely necessary. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language and in this talk she asks what makes us silent?
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![The Secret is Out]()
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![Book Launch: Urban Claims and the Right to the City]()
Book Launch: Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Book Launch: Urban Claims and the Right to the City
This book launch and photographic exhibition focuses on how grassroots urban activists and professionals in London and Salvador da Bahia express issues of urban rights and inequalities, explored through texts and photos. It is the outcome of a research collaboration between Just Space, Lugar Comum and University College London.
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![Stephen Hawking’s brief answers to the big questions]()
Stephen Hawking’s brief answers to the big questions
Stephen Hawking’s brief answers to the big questions
Explore the extraordinary mind of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking as we are joined by an all-star panel of scientists and comedians to talk about Hawking’s legacy and what he had to say about some of the biggest questions facing humanity.
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![The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain]()
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain
Described by a former senior Intelligence official as a 'long-term thorn in the side of the intelligence establish-ment', and winner of numerous awards for his journalism Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his for-ty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall.
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![Ethical Consumption: Should we change how we eat?]()
Ethical Consumption: Should we change how we eat?
Ethical Consumption: Should we change how we eat?
Join Councillor Asher Craig, deputy mayor, Bristol City Council; Guardian columnist Tom Hunt; Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University; and author Carolyn Steel as they discuss the issues we face on the environmental impact of our food consumption and production.
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![The Medicalization of Love]()
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![Solem Quartet]()
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![What Are Machines Learning?]()
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![The World According to Physics with Jim Al-Khalili]()
The World According to Physics with Jim Al-Khalili
The World According to Physics with Jim Al-Khalili
In this evening lecture, Jim Al-Khalili will discuss the fundamental concepts of space, time, energy, and matter, and then describes the three pillars of modern physics - quantum theory, relativity, and thermodynamics - showing how all three must come together if we are ever to have a full understanding of reality.
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![The World of AI-Powered Creativity]()
The World of AI-Powered Creativity
The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Arthur I Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans - and someday will surpass us. This is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.
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![Lates: Synaptic Symphonies]()
Lates: Synaptic Symphonies
Lates: Synaptic Symphonies
Sunday Assembly Lates is back! Zoe Cormier, a science communicator raised in the music industry, will explain how and why humans are able to create music. Did it give us an evolutionary advantage? Why have all civilisations throughout history made music? And why don't other animals understand music?
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![Tailleferre Ensemble Celebrate International Women’s Day]()
Tailleferre Ensemble Celebrate International Women’s Day
Tailleferre Ensemble Celebrate International Women’s Day
The Tailleferre Ensemble will play a concert of wind music by women to mark International Women’s Day, and explore the variety of music composed by women since the Suffragette movement through to today.
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![Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 1]()
Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 1
Simon Callaghan & Friends – Beethoven Trios: Part 1
In a fundraiser for our "affordable for all" Sunday Concerts series, our Director of Music Simon Callaghan, concertmaster Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and leading cellist Ashok Klouda traverse the trios of Beethoven.
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![Pre-concert Recital: Musicians from Royal College of Music]()
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![Rankings That Rankle]()
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![Forum: The W Awards Shortlist in Conversation]()
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![My Life in Outer Space – An Astronaut’s Story of Invention Kathryn Sullivan In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes]()
My Life in Outer Space – An Astronaut’s Story of Invention Kathryn Sullivan In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes
My Life in Outer Space – An Astronaut’s Story of Invention Kathryn Sullivan In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes
She is the first American woman to walk in space – a pioneering NASA scientist and astronaut living and working at the final frontier. Now she joins us to tell her astonishing story.
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![The Primadonna Prize Award]()
The Primadonna Prize Award
The Primadonna Prize Award
Join the Primadonnas and some very special guests for a unique night of literature, drama and poetry as we announce the winner of the first ever Primadonna Prize, with Lemn Sissay, Joanne Harris and Neil Hegarty. Followed by Notes To The Forgotten She-Wolves performances from Winsome Pinnock, Athena Stevens and Catherine Mayer.
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![Tippett Quartet / Héloïse Werner]()
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![Paying it Forward]()
Paying it Forward
Paying it Forward
Gulwali Passarlay’s journey to the UK, as told in his autobiography, "The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half The World", shaped his future and inspired an insatiable determination and commitment to raise awareness and make a difference for other refugees by co-founding the charity organisation My Bright Kite.
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![Amit Yahav: Piano Recital for Safe Passage UK]()
Amit Yahav: Piano Recital for Safe Passage UK
Amit Yahav: Piano Recital for Safe Passage UK
Internationally acclaimed pianist Amit Yahav presents a programme of music by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin in aid of Safe Passage UK, a charity that aims to help refugee children find legal routes into the UK.
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![The Science of Living Longer Better]()
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![The Art of Rest – with Claudia Hammond]()
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![Lydia Shelley & Nicolas Stavy]()
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![Pre-concert Talk | The History of the Cello Sonata]()
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![Among the Women of Isis]()
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![City of London Soloists: Conway Hall Debut Concert]()
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![Free Verse: The Poetry Book and Magazine Fair]()
Free Verse: The Poetry Book and Magazine Fair
Free Verse: The Poetry Book and Magazine Fair
Free Verse celebrates the vitality of contemporary poetry in the UK – it’s a day full of sales and conversation, where publishers and promoters of every scale and stripe display and sell their work directly to the public.
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![Exhibition: Urban Claims and the Right to the City]()
Exhibition: Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Exhibition: Urban Claims and the Right to the City
* Until 19 Mar * This photographic exhibition focuses on how grassroots urban activists and professionals in London and Salvador da Bahia express issues of urban rights and inequalities, explored through texts and photos. It is the outcome of a research collaboration between Just Space, Lugar Comum and University College London.
In person | Virtual event
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![Ethical Matters: People Like Us – Social Mobility, Inequality and Making It in Modern Britain]()
Ethical Matters: People Like Us – Social Mobility, Inequality and Making It in Modern Britain
Ethical Matters: People Like Us – Social Mobility, Inequality and Making It in Modern Britain
The single greatest indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents. Power and privilege are concentrated among the 7% of the privately educated population. Hashi Mohamed tell his story of social mobility and inequality - and a searching analysis of what needs to change.
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![Leadership is Language — How to Empower Your Team Through Better Communication]()
Leadership is Language — How to Empower Your Team Through Better Communication
Leadership is Language — How to Empower Your Team Through Better Communication
‘David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation… His ideas and lessons are invaluable’ – Simon Sinek
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![The Ethics of Debt and Finance]()
The Ethics of Debt and Finance
The Ethics of Debt and Finance
A philosopher aims to clarify the concept of debt so we can find better answers to important moral and political questions. How can we resist the stratification of society into a creditor caste and a debtor caste?
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![Gould Piano Trio]()
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![Sunday Assembly: Ways We Connect]()
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![Origins: How the Earth Made Us]()
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![The Science of Sleep and Rest]()
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![The 1944 Education Act and its legacy]()
The 1944 Education Act and its legacy
The 1944 Education Act and its legacy
The National Secular Society’s Secular Education Forum chair Keith Sharpe's talk will look at the history of the 1944 Education Act, its impact and its legacy for the role of religion in state schools today.
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![Simon & Raphael Wallfisch with Edward Rushton]()
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![Thinking On Sunday: Witch Hunts Today]()
Thinking On Sunday: Witch Hunts Today
Thinking On Sunday: Witch Hunts Today
Harmful practices due to belief in witchcraft have seen a huge increase in the past six years both globally and in the UK and Kirsty Brimelow QC and author and campaigner Syd Moore have joined forces to expose this phenomenon.
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![Third Stuart Hall Public Conversation: Resistance]()
Third Stuart Hall Public Conversation: Resistance
Third Stuart Hall Public Conversation: Resistance
The Third Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation explores the theme of resistance in the context of our present social and political upheavals, featuring guest speakers Jack Shenker, Bahia Shehab and Nikki Yeoh.
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![Instrumental ensemble leadership workshop with Martyn Brabbins]()
Instrumental ensemble leadership workshop with Martyn Brabbins
Instrumental ensemble leadership workshop with Martyn Brabbins
A workshop from Making Music, the UK’s organisation for leisure-time music groups. Observe Martyn Brabbins, Music Director of the ENO, as he guides five conductors in rehearsing a leisure-time orchestra.
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