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![Labour Heritage AGM]()
Labour Heritage AGM
Labour Heritage AGM
Labour Heritage will hold its AGM business meeting from 2.10-2.40pm followed at 2.40pm by two speakers and discussion: Steve Schiffereson ‘The Rise and Fall of the Labour Correspondent’ and Michael Tichelar on ‘Why is London Labour?’ Non-members welcome.
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![Trans and Queer Approaches to Prison Abolition]()
Trans and Queer Approaches to Prison Abolition
Trans and Queer Approaches to Prison Abolition
This panel will include members of London Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee, Community Action on Prison Expansion and Bent Bars, who will discuss prison abolition from a trans and queer perspective, followed by a strategy workshop.
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![Space to Play: A Workshop Led by Learning Disabled Artists]()
Space to Play: A Workshop Led by Learning Disabled Artists
Space to Play: A Workshop Led by Learning Disabled Artists
A workshop led by Spare Tyre exploring play, performance and the body in space led by learning disabled artists. You will be guided through how to make performances and create a space to play in, with experimentation with sounds, movements, touch, vibrations, colours.
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![The Courage to be Myself – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings through Social Interest]()
The Courage to be Myself – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings through Social Interest
The Courage to be Myself – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings through Social Interest
Azhar Juri applies Adlerian perspectives to his experience of growing up, supporting his single mother raising 6 sons, and tells the story of how he found the courage to discover and practise his lifestyle goals, overcome his inferiority complex and find his individual significance and mastery of his own life.
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![Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic]()
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
The scientific study of magic reveals intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the mysteries of the human mind. In this talk Dr Gustav Kuhn examines the psychological processes that underpin our experience of magic.
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![Live the Values – Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series – By Sunandaji]()
Live the Values – Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series – By Sunandaji
Live the Values – Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series – By Sunandaji
This year's lectures on the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ by Sunandaji are about learning to live values in life such as peace, duty, love and knowledge through a systematic and rational exposition of the knowledge of life and living.
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![Wellness and Hope Without Religion Conference]()
Wellness and Hope Without Religion Conference
Wellness and Hope Without Religion Conference
The conference will examine personal experiences of what roles religion plays in gaining and maintaining wellness / well-being of believers and those with faiths. The session will also look into what roles religion played in wellness / well-being of those who have left organised religions and those who no longer have faith.
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![An Evening with Faith Ringgold]()
An Evening with Faith Ringgold
An Evening with Faith Ringgold
Artist, activist, educator and author Faith Ringgold will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at Serpentine Galleries, to discuss her practice and the different series of works she created over the past 50 years that are included in her exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, her first solo exhibition in a European public institution.
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![How to Own the Room]()
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![London Mental Health, Children and Young Adults Seminar]()
London Mental Health, Children and Young Adults Seminar
London Mental Health, Children and Young Adults Seminar
This event will feature myriad speakers discussing mental health in relation to carers, children and young adults. There'll be time for questions and a panel discussion in the afternoon. All attending will also receive a mental health handbook filled with exclusive articles, interviews and resources.
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![Creative strategies for peer support engagement]()
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![Simon Callaghan and Friends: Sunday Concerts Fundraising Night]()
Simon Callaghan and Friends: Sunday Concerts Fundraising Night
Simon Callaghan and Friends: Sunday Concerts Fundraising Night
Director of Music Simon Callaghan takes to the stage with leading fellow musicians, in a colourful programme to close our Spring 2019 season. Funds raised will support the continuation of our concert series.
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![Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?]()
Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
From secret military islands to tunnels deep beneath London, writer and activist Guy Shrubsole unearths truths concealed since the Domesday Book about who is really in charge of this country – at a time when Brexit is meant to be returning sovereignty to the people.
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![Lord Browne: How to Make the Future]()
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![Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet]()
Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet
Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet
Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski was highlighted as 'one to watch' by Gramophone magazine. For his second Conway Hall concert, he comes together with the Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than two hundred years.
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![250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Manchester United]()
250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Manchester United
250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Manchester United
The final night of this year’s LFFW sees award-winning journalist Daniel Storey discuss his latest book which explores one of the most infamous incidents in Premier League history - that Cantona kung-fu kick. Daniel will be in conversation with United fan Carl Anka in what promises to be an insightful, engrossing and unforgettable end to the Festival.
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![LFFW | Bookfair]()
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![Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism with Geert Lovink and Emily]()
Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism with Geert Lovink and Emily
Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism with Geert Lovink and Emily
Pluto Live and Conway Hall are delighted to host the official book launch for Geert Lovink's new book Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism published by Pluto Press. Geert will be joined by chair Emily Reynolds.
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![Witch Hunts Today: From Matthew Hopkins to Twenty-First Century Persecution]()
Witch Hunts Today: From Matthew Hopkins to Twenty-First Century Persecution
Witch Hunts Today: From Matthew Hopkins to Twenty-First Century Persecution
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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![The Alex City Quiz 2019]()
The Alex City Quiz 2019
The Alex City Quiz 2019
At a time when the question of Brexit is stumping the country, cartoon banker Alex Masterley invites you to answer some much easier questions at the tenth annual Alex City Quiz, hosted by Alex creator Russell Taylor and journalist and writer Marcus Berkmann.
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![World Bee Day comes to London]()
World Bee Day comes to London
World Bee Day comes to London
Conway Hall, the Slovenian Embassy and Bee Midtown are hosting an event in celebration of World Bee Day. The aim of World Bee Day is to raise awareness of the importance of bees and other pollinators for their contribution to sustainable development, food security and biodiversity.
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![Thinking on Monday: YouTubers – How YouTube shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars]()
Thinking on Monday: YouTubers – How YouTube shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars
Thinking on Monday: YouTubers – How YouTube shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars
Chris Stokel-Walker lifts the lid on YouTube's culture and influence based on his book 'YouTubers'. The first independent, in-depth book investigating YouTube. He investigates the past, present and future of the world’s most popular video sharing website and its impact on society.
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![Sergio Patria & Elena Ballario]()
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![Women of Westminster – The MPs Who Changed Politics]()
Women of Westminster – The MPs Who Changed Politics
Women of Westminster – The MPs Who Changed Politics
In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Rachel Reeves MP writes of the inspirational achievements of women in parliament over the course of the past 100 years.
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![Victorian Blogging Wikipedia Edit-a-thon]()
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![Monument for Chelsea Manning]()
Monument for Chelsea Manning
Monument for Chelsea Manning
*Every Tue • Wed • Thu until Oct 2019* Monument for Chelsea Manning is on temporary loan to Conway Hall Library and is an ongoing project by artist John Reardon. Reardon is artist in residence in the Politics Department at Goldsmiths, London.
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![Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook]()
Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
Conway Hall, Antiuniversity Now and the London Anti-fascist Assembly (LAFA) invite you to join author Mark Bray, who will talk about the growing threat of global fascism and discuss possible directions towards building a coordinated, strong and sustainable antifascist movement.
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![Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds]()
Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Professor John Harris has been working on the ethics of influencing evolution and indeed on the nature of “persons” since around 1973. In this talk he will argue that we have good reasons to embrace revolutionary technologies in germ line modification, including CRISPR/CAS9 and MRT.
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![Five Secrets to Happy Children]()
Five Secrets to Happy Children
Five Secrets to Happy Children
An evening discussion session, looking at 5 aspects of parenting that will help those with care of children to develop strategies that work to build respect, resilience, independence and resourcefulness – all essential qualities and strengths needed both in parents and children to make raising children an experience where everyone feels good!
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![Crazy Talk: a comedian’s take on mental health]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability]()
Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
How do you rate your own intelligence? In these three short talks Dr Michael Collins, Dr Sara Lyons and Dr Natasha Periyan will discuss how novelists such as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain think about intelligence both in and out of the classroom.
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![One World]()
One World
One World
One World is new choral theatre written by award-winning songwriter Helen Yeomans. The show illuminates the crossroads at which the human race presently stands and how we relate to each other and our environment. Powerful, fresh and uplifting. “One of the most moving musical events I have ever experienced”.
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![This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic]()
This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
What does Romeo and Juliet say about #MeToo? Or Julius Caesar about Donald Trump? Michael Pennington, Natascha McElhone, Jonathan Forbes and Oxford’s Emma Smith star in a dazzling tribute to the greatest playwright of the 21st or any other century.
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![New Statesman Podcast Live – with Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush]()
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![Truth, Love and Clean Cutlery]()
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![Robert Hugill in Focus]()
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![Sunday Assembly]()
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![Boring IX]()
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![Exploring Mindfulness and Voices]()
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![Moving On]()
Moving On
Moving On
*Ends 31 May 2019* In this collection of pieces Shankland explores isolation, both physically and emotionally. 'Moving On' is a question not a given as figures and scenes are often static, seemingly disconnected from the environment or paused in daily routines that are hampered or impossible to achieve. All the while there is tension and buckling in the fabric reinforcing the idea of turmoil and conflict. As voyeurs we watch and wait.
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![Finding Acceptance: LGBT and Apostasy]()
Finding Acceptance: LGBT and Apostasy
Finding Acceptance: LGBT and Apostasy
In this discussion panel event from Faith to Faithless, survivors who have escaped these abuses and are now living free from harm will talk of their experiences. Experts who work with victims will also raise awareness of these highly sensitive issues.
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![Winston Churchill – How to Walk with Destiny]()
Winston Churchill – How to Walk with Destiny
Winston Churchill – How to Walk with Destiny
Everyone thinks they know the real Winston Churchill. But now his biographer Andrew Roberts has uncovered new sources – including the private diaries of King George VI – that reveal this towering figure as we’ve never seen him before.
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![Edwin Curley on “Spinoza, Enlightenment, and Religious Liberty”]()
Edwin Curley on “Spinoza, Enlightenment, and Religious Liberty”
Edwin Curley on “Spinoza, Enlightenment, and Religious Liberty”
What can Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) teach us about how to manage the ferocious divisions of identity, culture, ideology, and faith that riddle our politics today? Join us for a public lecture by world-renowned philosopher, Edwin Curley, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan.
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![Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty]()
Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty
Edwin Curley on Spinoza, Enlightenment and Religious Liberty
What can Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) teach us about how to manage the ferocious divisions of identity, culture, ideology, and faith that riddle our politics today? Come to this public lecture by world-renowned philosopher, Edwin Curley, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan.
In person | Virtual event
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![Hiro Takenouchi Mozart Finale]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: London Housing – Corruption and Crisis]()
Thinking on Sunday: London Housing – Corruption and Crisis
Thinking on Sunday: London Housing – Corruption and Crisis
Despite a widespread acceptance that we are living through a housing crisis, little seems to be being done to improve the living conditions of Londoners. George Turner discusses what is driving London's housing market to dysfunction and reveals how the house building industry has managed to exploit the crisis in order to turn an enormous profit.
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![Womens’ Theatre in the 1970s and 80s]()
Womens’ Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
Womens’ Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
Come and celebrate womens’ theatre in the 1970s and 80s with an illustrated talk with extracts from performances of the period. Part of Feminism in Camden in the 1970s and 80s, an exhibition of posters curated by Susan Croft.
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![Feminist Film of the 1970s and 80s]()
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