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Conway Hall Annual Ethical Gala
Conway Hall Annual Ethical Gala
Conway Hall is Where Ethics Matter. At our inaugural Ethical Gala – a celebration of what our charity does - guest speakers including Catherine Mayer, Martin Rowson, Safia Minney and John Hegley will each talk briefly on an interesting, ethical subject.
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Unfinished Journey Concert: United Strings of Europe with Héloïse Werner
Unfinished Journey Concert: United Strings of Europe with Héloïse Werner
The United Strings of Europe and the beguiling soprano Héloïse Werner present Unfinished Journey, a programme reflecting on the refugee with works by composers with immigrant backgrounds from Germany, Lebanon, Argentina and New Zealand.
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In Response
In Response
* Until 17 Mar * This exhibition features 22 visual essays from graphic design students at Chelsea College of Arts. Each essay is a personal critical response to the issues and ideas of different Victorian pamphlets held in Conway Hall's library collections. They cover issues such as feminism, racism, disability, futurism and speculation.
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Reweirding: Car Park Life
Reweirding: Car Park Life
Gareth E. Rees believes that the retail car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. He’s out to prove it by walking the car parks of Britain, journeying across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh.
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Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime with Sean Carroll
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime with Sean Carroll
"Carroll leads you so gently and comfortably into his quantum world that you quickly forget you are being given access to the most profound ideas about the nature of reality." – Jim Al-Khalili
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Pre-concert Talk | Breaking New Ground: Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
Pre-concert Talk | Breaking New Ground: Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill returns to Conway Hall to give a FREE pre-concert talk about the evening's programme.
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Thinking and Language
Thinking and Language
Join Adam Ramejkis in a series of six interactive, collaborative workshops using a think-share-explore approach. These workshops will encourage you to think, read, discuss and relate to different topics around the links between thinking and language.
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Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place
Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place
Criss-crossing the British Isles with a haul of statistics, charts and equations, Stuart Newman’s Britain by Numbers vividly bringing our nation to life in new and unexpected ways by showing who lives here, where we work, who we marry, what crimes we commit and much else besides.
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How to Eat Well, Lose Weight & Get Fit: Tom Kerridge in conversation with Toby Young
How to Eat Well, Lose Weight & Get Fit: Tom Kerridge in conversation with Toby Young
Join the Michelin-starred chef, bestselling author and BBC presenter Tom Kerridge for a practical guide to starting the New Year in great shape.
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FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians
FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians
This FREE Pre-Concert Recital, featuring students from the Royal College of Music, will take place before the evening’s Sunday Concert, and will offer a programme of music entirely by woman composers.
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Fidelio
Fidelio
For their first opera production, Fidelio Orchestra are putting on Beethoven’s one and only work for the theatre, Fidelio. The director Andrew Coppin will narrate the story of Florestan, an overworked employee of a billion-pounds tech company, and its liberation at the hands of his wife Leonore.
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Arcis Saxophone Quartet
Arcis Saxophone Quartet
Endless fascinating prairie landscapes; the exciting pulse of the city that never sleeps; the swinging life of the Southern states; stories full of dreams, hopes and love. In 'American Dreams', the Arcis Saxophone Quartet presents a broad musical range of the American way of life.
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Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Fascinating History of the Saxophone
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Fascinating History of the Saxophone
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a free Pre-Concert Talk, exploring the invention of the saxophone.
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Dying on Stage
Dying on Stage
Christodoulos Panayiotou with Jean Capeille will present a new version of his performance, exploring the hierarchical order of literal, metaphorical and symbolic deaths on the stage, as well as the philological concept of ‘tragic irony’, through readings, videos and dance.
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Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Empire, Twenty Years On
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Empire, Twenty Years On
New Left Review editor Malcolm Bull will be in conversation with Michael Hardt, whose article with Antonio Negri in the next issue of NLR examines the contemporary relevance of their classic text on globalization, Empire, twenty years on from its publication.
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DigitalXChange Product Series
DigitalXChange Product Series
DigitalXChange is back in London with two new speakers. Jann Kirchhoff from BMW Motorrad in Munich will talk About petrolheads and mobile apps while Alexander Hipp from N26 in Barcelona will tell us How we set up our team for Continuous Product Discovery at N26.
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Constitution for a co-operative art school
Constitution for a co-operative art school
Come along to contribute your ideas to a draft constitution for a co-operative art school. Using a series of questions as guidelines, we will collectively generate the values, principles, processes and working methods of a co-operative art school. Led by Conway Hall's artist in residence, Sophia Kosmaoglou.
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London’s Lost Rivers Volume 2
London’s Lost Rivers Volume 2
Take a journey in search of London’s lost rivers… Below the pavements, out of sight, a network of secret rivers pulses beneath the capital’s busy pavements. But while they may be hidden from view, clues remain, and this talk will show you how to find them.
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The Three Sisters Who Changed China Forever
The Three Sisters Who Changed China Forever
Wild Swans author Jung Chang presents a true story of love, war and betrayal: the lives of the Soong sisters, who each rose to the heights of power and left an indelible mark on modern China.
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By Any Means Necessary? Diversity of tactics in the fight for life on earth.
By Any Means Necessary? Diversity of tactics in the fight for life on earth.
We are living in the midst of the sixth great extinction. With the clock ticking down, can the modern environmental movement continue to appeal to governments and corporations to change their ways? Or has the time for these tactics passed? If so, what tools are left that have a real chance to save the planet?
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Richard Carlile and His Legacy
Richard Carlile and His Legacy
Champions of secularism throughout history include a wealth of brave and heroic individuals who defied authorities and established opinion to pioneer progressive ideas. One such individual was Richard Carlile. Join us to learn more about the life of Carlile, one of the most important figures in secularist history.
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Self-organisation for co-operative art education
Self-organisation for co-operative art education
A workshop on self-organisation and collectivity in the context of alternative art education. The workshop will begin with a seminar on self-organisation and conclude with a workshop on leadership roles for leaderless groups. Led by Conway Hall's artist in residence, Sophia Kosmaoglou.
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The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It is seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Extinction Rebellion to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosophical and political movement is as relevant as ever.
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