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TURNING WORLDS dance co.

Signaling to the past whilst waving to the future Semaphore#selfies celebrates our creative dynamic in the ever expanding digital universe.Inspired by quantum physics, the modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller, selfies and the baroque – this production from one of the country's most delightful contemporary dance companies plays with dance and music forms and their notations towards new poetic expression in visual performance.Created in collaboration with Richard Hoadley and through support from Arts Council England.

Rhinegold LIVE: Melvyn Tan

We join Melvyn Tan's 60th birthday celebrations, exploring a new work written for his 60th year by Jonathan Dove, and repertoire featured on his new Onyx disc, due for release September 2016.

Will Self on Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov

Following his sold-out talks on Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka and James Joyce, Will Self is back with another tour de force exploration of Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov.

Albion Quartet

Bach The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 Contrapunctus I Haydn Quartet in C Op.20/2 Schumann Quartet in A minor Op.41/1 Bach The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 Contrapunctus 9 Walton Quartet in A minor

Stepping into Britain: the early human occupation of Europe

Nick Ashton speaks on recent fieldwork on the coast of East Anglia and how it has pushed back the evidence of humans in northern Europe to almost a million years ago. The talk will discuss the new evidence from Happisburgh in Norfolk, including the rich fauna, flora, stone tools and the remarkable survival of footprints.

Queeropolis

Citizens of Queeropolis lend me your dancing shoes! Lana Pillay (Star of Eat the Rich and the Comic Strip presents) requests your presence for a showcase of top entertainers.Featuring headliner and 80s chart topper SONIA. With special guest Mary Portas. Entertainment from David Ryder Prangley, The Beyonce Experience, UK LGBT Poet Laureate Trudy Howson and more.

Portrait Photography: Theory, Process & Practice

In this hands on two day workshop with Grace Gelder and Lorna Robertson you will produce a collection of photographs and develop and/or deepen an understanding of your artistic practice. Through practical exercises and homework, we will experiment with some of the key concepts of portrait photography including performance, self-portraiture and the dynamics of the photoshoot.This course takes place at 10am - 5pm on 25th February and 4th March 2017 with an exhibition at Conway Hall in April 2017 (date TBC).

Life by Design – Discover your Purpose and Make it Happen

Life by Design is a one-day seminar that will take you on a journey to discover or reconnect with your life purpose and help you create a plan on how to make it happen. If you are like most people, you are probably running on ‘auto-pilot’ and have very little time to think of your long-terms goals, the direction that you are going and the other opportunities that you can create for yourself.

The Empty Niche: Film Screening

Premiere film screening of The Empty Niche.The screening will be followed by a Q&A from the director and producer of the film. Trent Burton and Dr Jim Walsh.

Depression: The Key Therapy Issues

At this meet up Professor Windy Dryden will present on key therapy issues for Depression and demonstrate some live CBT sessions with volunteers so that you can see CBT in action and ask questions.

Bee Midtown Conway Hall Walk

Alan, Alec and Bert: A Solo Performance by David Izod

A solo performance written and performed by David Izod.This new 75 minute monologue tells the story of the men who came before David: his Dad, Alan; his grandfather Bert and his grandfather’s best friend Alec, whose sacrifice in the First World War allowed him to have his chance at life.

Ethics & Politics: Does Culture Lead & Parliament Follow

The next collaborative meeting between The Conway Hall Ethical Society and GlobalNet21 in the “Ethics & Politics” series and will be a discussion on whether cultural change is more important than political change through Parliament. Does Culture lead and Parliament follow?

Developing your Presence, Power & Influence

Following on from the sold-out talk by Amy Cuddy, how to: Academy are returning to the theme of developing your Presence, Power and Influence with an unmissable talk by Dr Connson Locke, senior lecturer at the London School of Economics.

Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Adobe Indesign is the industry-standard application for document design – whether it’s intended for print or digital media. Whenever you need to work with a large amount of image or text content it provides a sensible solution that may not be addressed by other programs. With our introductory course you will be creating dynamic and bold page layouts in a short space of time!

The Testing Ground – a Dance Theatre Performance Workshop

Be inspired into performance making with a group of creative people responding to the many ideas resonating throughout the fabric of Conway Hall, the home of innovative thinking and culture creation throughout the Modern era, in this 4 week dance theatre project, which will culminate in a public performance on the evening of Monday March 13th in the Main Hall.

Is the writing on the wall for liberal democracy?

Dr Adrian Pabst will discuss why liberal democracy now struggles to offer a positive politics of identity – the longing to belong and to earn recognition of one’s contribution to society.

Connection & Playfulness

Sunday Assembly London will be speaking about connection and playfulness and have trained fool and cultural entrepreneur Adam Taffler speaking. He will be telling us about his experience of how playfulness crosses political & ideological divides and can serve to unite us and foster harmony, trust, community and joy when practised in everyday situations. Giving practical examples there will be an opportunity to try techniques out on the day and takeaways for the wider world.

Anything-but-beans food drive

Sunday Assembly's regular food bank drive for donations. Items desperately needed by Camden Food Bank. You can donate anything except baked beans (the ratio of beans to other donations is 3:1), but to get you started here are some priority items needed.

Black by Le Gateau Chocolat

Featuring a repertoire ranging from Wagner and Purcell to Nina Simone and Whitney Houston, Black is an intimate and confessional portrait of Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat’s life: his hopes, his fears and his battle with depression.This is a new version of the critically-acclaimed show re-staged with the Psappha New Music Ensemble.

Exam Time!

A Quiz of LGBT & Humanist History. A quiz to mark LGBT History Month. Produced in association with the AHS - Atheist, Humanist and Secular Students

Friday Club

Friday Club meets on or around the last Friday of the month. The goal is to help you to work on whatever it is that makes you nervous about what lies ahead. We want to help you re-frame how you feel so that you can approach whatever it is that is making you fearful with curiosity, playfulness, and interest, and, with the help of the group, enjoy the thing that part of you wishes you could avoid!

The Story 2017

The seventh The Story conference returns to Conway Hall on Friday, February 17th, 2017.

President’s Lecture: Eike König

Join us for the second D&AD lecture of the year - from Eike Eike König.

Eat More Pie

Imagine if you were told that you can have your pie and eat it too. How would you respond? - A workshop from Debbie Smith and Gail Gibson.

Clerical child rapists and their facilitators – are the churches coming clean? by Keith Porteous Wood

Keith Porteous Wood took seven years to get the Vatican examined by the UN for its non-compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly over clerical rape and other violence against children in its care. The UN’s verdict could hardly have been more damning.

Why are some of us so effective at creating anxiety and stress? Pt 2

Camilla Ghazala explores how Individual Psychology offers a practical prevention and treatment model for anxiety disorders.

The Disappearance of Émile Zola

Michael Rosen traces the incredible story of Émile Zola’s escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous Dreyfus Affair

Louise Kemény & Friends

Schoenberg String Quartet No.2 in F sharp minor Op.10 Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Stravinsky Trois Poésies de la Lyrique Japonaise Copland As it fell upon a day Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire Op.21

Children’s Workshop with Catriona McDermid (bassoon)

Particularly suitable for those aged 5-10. Contact us if you are bringing a young person outside this range and we will do our best to accommodate them!

Dystopian Times

Stand Up For Darwin

Stand Up For Darwin returns, featuring: Lawrence Krauss, Jay Foreman, Kate Smurthwaite, London Humanist Choir and special guests.

Positive Psychology – new ideas for happier living

Join Action for Happiness for an inspiring and thought-provoking evening to explore exciting new discoveries from the science of happiness.

New Frontiers in UK Politics?

Discussion Event: Jonathan Bartley (Co-Leader, Green Party), Peter Taheri (Secretary/Chair Nominee, Hampstead and Kilburn Labour Party) and Timothy Barnes (Conservative candidate for Bloomsbury Ward 2018).The new leadership of the Green Party has called for a “progressive alliance” involving Labour, Greens, Plaid Cymru, the SNP and the Lib Dems to take on the Conservatives in a 2020 election. This requires progressives to put aside their differences and unite behind a common new purpose – but are they up to the challenge?Or is the way forward in the UK best left to one of the established main parties? Can they adapt and meet the aspirations of our nation in this new era of political turmoil?

Attraction Matters: Or Does It?

Bi-monthly celebrations of life from Sunday Assembly London, with singing, reflection and a lecture from Social Psychologist Viren Swami about attraction.

London’s Agitators and Protesters for Equality 1880s-1980s

This course will provide information and tell stories from from a selection of these struggles that took place over a 100 year period from the 1880s to the 1980s – from the struggles of women making matches in the Bryant and May factory to the mass protests against apartheid outside South Africa Houses. It will attempt to illuminate how these struggles began, what they were trying to achieve, how they recruited supporters and activists and what they did.

My Death, My Decision?

What is a 'good death'? For some people, it is a medically assisted death, when they feel their life is complete - something denied in the UK.Phil Cheatle will explain the approach of the campaign group 'My Death, My Decision', providing much stronger protection for 'vulnerable people', while rejecting the restriction of assisted dying to those with a life-expectancy of 6 months or less a criterion that attracts criticism from both sides of the debate.

Politic Man

“Can you ever separate the personal from the political? Is it right to stick to your convictions even if it means sacrificing those closest to you?”Following a successful debut at the Loft in the Ugly Duck Creative Space, Bermondsey in December, Three 4 All Theatre Company is proud to announce its London Tour of ‘Politic Man’ at various venues from January 20th. And coming to the Brockway Room, Conway Hall on Sat January 28th.A true story. Poignant. Devastating and highly relevant for today. It tells the story of Bermondsey MP Alfred Salter and his wife Ada and how politics transformed their community yet shattered their private lives.

how to: An Evening with David Salle

An Evening with David Salle. David Salle is the leading American postmodernist painter, the shaping spirit of a movement which provocatively took the entire history of art as its raw material as well as subject matter. His works are mysteriously original, yet everything they contain has had a life elsewhere: in paintings, in advertising, in comics, in photographs, yet somehow the result is all art. To coincide with his new book – How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking about Art– Salle will walk us through the museum without walls that is his world.

Causality in Psychosis

Penny Georgiou lectures in Lacan’s 1946 paper ‘A Presentation on Psychical Causality’.

British Witchcraft Documentaries of the 1970’s

Gary Parsons will be discussing the documentaries made at the height of the British witchcraft revival in the early 70's.

Trio Anima

Dubois Terzettino Hahn Romanesque Ravel Sonatine en trio Fauré Après un rêve Op.7/1 Debussy Syrinx Debussy Children's Corner, arr. Salzedo Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin, arr. Silverthorne Couperin La Superbe Debussy Sonate

What if we could Rebuild the EU?

There are scenarios that could lead to the break-up of the EU. Polls show that the EU is not very popular in many countries. Upcoming elections in several EU countries and informed opinion suggests that disintegration cannot be ruled out. It was formed in a very different era and with the emergence of globalisation and digital technologies, it is no longer fit for purpose. Its economic and social outcomes anyway leave much to be desired. Should our focus now be on creating a brand new EU rather than worrying about soft and hard versions of BREXIT?In this unique and controversial discussion event Lucy Anderson, London Labour MEP, and Professor Keith Pilbeam, an expert in international economics, will address this huge question and others head-on. Come along and be part of it!

Sex Appeal Six

Sex Appeal is an annual star-studded comedy benefit event, with all proceeds going to the young people's sexual health charity Brook.