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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

A 5-session introductory course led by Nigel Warburton. Maximum class size 35. Teaching style: a mixture of lectures and discussion. No prior knowledge of philosophy assumed. This course runs for 5 consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning 13th January 2015 (13th, 20th, 27th January, and 3rd and 1oth February). The course will run from 8.10pm - 9.40pm.

Italian “taster” lesson for beginners

The Lingua Diversa Group was founded by Esther and Lucio in 2002. In this introductory lesson they offer you the chance to have a first exposure to the Italian language and learn some basics.Come and see for yourself how enjoyable and interesting it is to learn Italian with communicative and fun activities!The next lesson will be on Tuesday 13 January from 19:35 to 20:35. This event is very popular so book your place in advance as there are only maximum 10 students in each group.

An Introduction to Existentialism

An Introduction to Existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre. A 5-session introductory course led by Nigel Warburton. Teaching style: a mixture of lectures and discussion. No prior knowledge of philosophy assumed.

German “taster” lesson for beginners

The Lingua Diversa Group was founded by Esther and Lucio in 2002. In this introductory lesson they offer you the chance to have a first exposure to the German language and learn some basics.Come and see for yourself how enjoyable and interesting it is to learn German with communicative and fun activities!

Spanish “taster” lesson for beginners

The Lingua Diversa Group was founded by Esther and Lucio in 2002. In this introductory lesson they offer you the chance to have a first exposure to the Spanish language and learn some basics.Come and see for yourself how enjoyable and interesting it is to learn Spanish with communicative and fun activities!The next lesson will be on Tuesday 13 January from 18:30 to 19:30. This event is very popular so book your place in advance as there are only maximum 10 students in each group.

Sunday Concerts – Fibonacci Sequence

Bring Back Capital Punishment?

Rock, Chalk and Sausages

Film Screening: Out in the Dark

City Academy Voices: A Winter’s Song

Dreaming a New Dream

The School of Life Christmas Sing-along

Deck the halls. Rock around the Christmas tree. Come all ye faithful – and not so faithful. Join us for the very first School of Life Christmas Sing-along. Singing some of the most beautiful and rousing (secular) Christmas songs, we’ll come together for a cosy evening of music, mulled wine, mince pies and good company. In the safe hands of our much-loved choir leader, Jessie Maryon-Davies - who has led us in song at our Secular Sermons for many years - experience the beauty and fun of a carol service in a non-traditional setting.

City Academy Songbirds: When You Wish Upon A Star

After their sell out summer concert, the City Academy Songbirds return to bring you an evening of songs to get you in the festive mood. Join us on the 16th December when The Songbirds will be joined by a live band to send you smiling into the New Year. This year The Songbirds are delighted to be joined by a very special guest direct from the current cast of Les Miserables. There will be something for everyone to enjoy...so come down, support the choir and feel the Christmas spirit.

City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Monthly Meet-up

We meet every third Tuesday of the month, usually in the Bertrand Russell room. We welcome guests to our monthly meetings and we usually play a few records during the evening or have a guest speaker who will entertain us with a topic relating to recorded music or the machines used to play records or cylinders.

NOW Live Events: Dr Nina Burrowes – Be The Person You Want To Be

A self-development workshop in partnership with Psychologies Magazine. Do you know who you really are? Are you living your life as the person you want to be or as the person you are expected to be? Join psychologist, author, illustrator and speaker Dr. Nina Burrowes for an evening of working out who you would like to be, and how to find the courage to be that person.

Sunday Concerts – Pentagon String Ensemble

Thinking on Sunday – How humanity might avoid devastation

Population growth, destruction of natural habitats and rapid extinction of species, vast inequalities of wealth and power around the globe, the lethal character of modern war, pollution of earth, sea and air, and above all the impending disasters of climate change; all these looming global problems indicate we face a grim future. In order tackle these problems intelligently, effectively and humanely, requires that our institutions of learning, our universities and schools, are rationally designed and devoted to the task. At present, they are not. We have inherited from the past a kind of academic inquiry so grossly irrational that it has actually contributed to the genesis of these problems. The great intellectual success of modern science and technological research has made possible, even caused, all these global crises.

Martin Rowson’s “The Coalition” Christmas Talk

fter the historic General Election of 2010, Britain ended up with a Tory-Lib Dem coalition government. While the media has reported on its highs and lows, no one has captured the cabinet's actions better than Martin Rowson, who has been documenting his own version of events in cartoons for The Guardian, The Mirror, The Morning Star and other publications. 'The Coalition Book' collects his best, most brutally funny and visceral cartoons from the last four years.

Sunday Concerts – Bridge Quartet

Thinking on Sunday – Should we Spend Billions Looking into Deep Space?

GALHA Gala Comedy Evening

A ‘New Magna Carta’?

London Thinks – Ben Goldacre: I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That!

Sunday Concerts – Trio Petrus

Has human prosperity peaked already?

Will the future bring only greater poverty and more turmoil? Is it too late for us to take preventive action? Do we have any real leadership in the world, or are we merely drifting? These questions sound hyperbolic and we must hope they will prove just that. But the signs are frightening. We are not reversing climate change and the population of the world, particularly in the tropics, continues to grow rapidly.

Larger than Life: creating solo performance

For performance artists, dancers, visual artists, philosophers, sociologists, mathematicians, poets, and others interested in creating new performance-based work.

Alastair Creamer – Am I in the Right Job?

A self-development workshop in partnership with Psychologies Magazine.

NOW Live Events: Alastair Creamer – Am I in the Right Job?

Looking for Common Ground

Sunday Concerts – Fitzwilliam Quartet

Money Talks with John Lanchester

New Scientist Live – How the universe began

The North Face Summit

Kelsier Trio

Corpus

Peter Tatchell: Organised Religion is the greatest threat to human rights

Small Publishers Fair 2014

Dean Whittington – The Perpetual Treadmill

London Thinks: Nate Phelps – Leaving Hate Behind

A very special evening in which we hear from Nate Phelps, in an incredibly moving talk on the Westboro Baptist Church, the childhood he spent growing up in, and how he came to leave his family behind at the stroke of midnight on his 18th birthday.

Neo4j GraphDay

MusicUpClose – Music Under Fire in Paris and London

Rhinegold Live: The Stages of Love

Pro Corda – Gala Concert

British Entomological and Natural History Society Annual Exhibition

Finders Keepers Losers Weepers

MusicUpClose – In Memoriam – bells and sounds of War

Mainstreaming Psychedelics