Fragile Filters
Fiona Larkin and Kate Noakes explore the poet’s breath, its free flow, its disruptions and distresses, reading new and recently published poems focused on tuberculosis, asthma and other breathings. Fiona Larkin will read from her recent pamphlet Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022), which looks at the world through the fragile filter of the lung. She […]
The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Monsters and Ghosts
The Haunted Landscape calls again with demons in the landscape, kings sleeping beneath the ground and the ghosts that have followed us through all of human history. Join the London Fortean Society at Conway Hall for a day of talks and short films on the folklore of Britain and beyond. Irving Finkel – The First […]
PJ Harvey with Frank Skinner – Orlam: A Conversation
In this spoken-word, non-music event, PJ Harvey will recite poems from her new book, and joins in conversation with the renowned English comic and writer Frank Skinner. Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as a gifted poet – whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other. Orlam is not only […]
(CANCELLED) Dream.Risk.Sing: Elevating Women’s Voices
This event has been cancelled. dream.risk.sing is a recital programme which gives voice to women’s experiences which are rarely heard in song. Curated and performed by soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode, the programme highlights five specific aspects of a woman’s life: growing up, love and lust, motherhood, career and legacy. The programme features […]
Bloody Funny
Bloody Funny is back for its sixth year! A stellar line-up of female comedians will take to the stage of London’s Conway Hall on Thursday 22nd September, highlighting the worsening issue of period poverty and raising essential funds for charity Bloody Good Period. Comedian, writer and actor Jen Brister reprises her role as MC and […]
The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe
A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between all parts of the universe and inspiring personal contemplation regarding our own place within it. Join renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock, in conversation with artist and art writer Matthew Collings, as he presents a pan-global collection of remarkable and arresting […]
Thirteen with Screen Queens
Feminist film critics Screen Queens team up with Conway Hall for a screening of the teen cult classic, Thirteen, by Catherine Harwicke and Nikki Reed. In Hardwicke’s award-winning directorial debut, honor student Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) has a troubling home life, but she is close to her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). While trying to […]
What’s in a Doughnut Hole? (And Other Philosophical Food for Thought)
Does a doughnut hole exist? What makes a sandwich a sandwich? Can the baker, who only bakes for those who don’t bake for themselves, bake for herself? Using food to explore classic philosophical puzzles and paradoxes about how we know things, abstract ideas about our world, language and about how we define the truth, this […]
Bad Data
**In-person tickets are now SOLD OUT for this event, but there are still online tickets available** Our politicians make vital decisions and declarations every day that rely on official data. But should all statistics be trusted? In her book Bad Data, House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge draws back the curtain on how governments […]