Grassroots Protest – Activism from Below
Change begins from below. Conway Hall and Bloomsbury Festival host two grassroots activists as they describe their protests and outcomes of their campaigning. Join Leila Hassan and Andy Worthington, as they discuss marching against racism in the 1980s, protesting the New Cross Fire murders, seeking justice for British Guantanamo detainees and much more. Leila Hassan […]
She Who Struggles – Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World
Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones, and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao, and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories in which they figure remain unjustly dominated by men. In this talk, activists Sorcha Thomson and Marral Shamshiri set the record straight, revealing how women have contributed to revolutionary movements across the […]
Thinking in Pictures – Adventures in Trying to be Smart
Why think in pictures? Short answer: because the words seem to need help. If you sample the many big ideas books to hit the shelves recently, they all promise a smarter, more rational you. But if the books are that good, why are there so many? Using illustrations and photographs, Michael Blastland shows how pictures […]
Free and Equal – What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
Taking a humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, Daniel Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for a progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better. Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it – rich or poor, man or woman, gay […]
CANCELLED: Hysterical – Exploring the Myth of Gendered Emotions
*We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the speaker being unwell.*
Zoffany Ensemble
The Zoffany Ensemble performs many of the greatest works in the chamber music repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, alongside music by more neglected composers such as Farrenc and Arensky. To close our autumn 2023 season, we welcome them back in a colourful programme of works for large ensemble: an early Divertimento […]
CANCELLED: London Piano Quartet
We are sorry to announce that this concert has been cancelled due to illness. All tickets previously purchased will be automatically refunded.
Halcyon Quartet
For the Halcyon Quartet’s début performance at Conway Hall, they offer a rare opportunity to hear the third quartet by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, dating from 1947, when the composer was living in Paris and enjoying life as a renowned violinist. Bacewicz’s quartet is flanked by two ‘greats’ of the quartet repertoire: Haydn, the ‘father […]
‘My Songs Are My Diary’: Discovering Josephine Lang
The career of Josephine Lang, a largely-forgotten nineteenth-century singer, pianist and composer, was constrained by the societal limitations of her time. This ‘portrait in music’ traces her life and gives voice to her music through her letters and songs, as well as music by Johannes Brahms and her friend and mentor Felix Mendelssohn. Brahms Die […]