Museums That Make A Difference
Museums are a focal point of our learning and heritage, often built during the British Empire and occasionally displaying looted heritage from other nations. It’s not always like that though, some museums overly work to make us question how we see the world and what needs to change. For this conversation we welcome representatives from […]
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are […]
Laugh for the Climate: The Flight Free UK Big Comedy Fundraiser
Flight Free UK present a line-up of fantastic comics for your entertainment. Sunil Patel, Annie McGrath, Tom Ward, Kerry Godliman, Tom Mayhew, Jenny Bede and Ken Cheng will take to the stage for a night of zany, irreverent and climate-conscious comedy. They will also be joined by the fantastic earth-pop duo Berne to round the […]
Open House Festival
Discover Conway Hall in a series of exclusive tours for Open House London. Director of Music Simon Callaghan will introduce the sublime acoustics of the Main Hall – home to Europe’s longest-running chamber music series. Discover the Library and Archives with Librarian Olwen Terris, and explore the home of the UK’s most comprehensive humanist archival […]
Swingday Assembly
Get back into the swing of things this autumn with a swing dance party hosted by Sunday Assembly London! We’ve invited a few of our dance friends to show us what they’ve got in a short performance, followed by a dance lesson in which they’ll teach us some of their smoothest moves. After that it’ll […]
This Technicoloured Life
One day, while acclaimed TV chef and cookbook author Sue Kreitzman added the final touches to her 27th cookbook, she had an epiphany- she made a doodle of a mermaid, and fell in love with it. Until that moment, she thought she was incapable of making art herself, only admiring the art of others. Soon […]
Create Communities, Not Cults
Just as the famous Cheers theme tune goes, “you want to be where everybody knows your name”- we all want to feel like we’re part of something bigger than ourselves and that we belong. What does a group of people need to do to feel connected? What kinds of shared values need to be established […]
Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: The dismantling of the world as we knew it
*In-person tickets for this event have sold out, however there are still livestream tickets available.* Join author Arundhati Roy for an evening presentation and discussion at the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Annual Autumn Keynote event. In the twenty-five years since the release of her world-renowned Booker Prize winning novel, The God of Small Things (1997), Arundhati […]
Intangible Value: The Future of Art & Money
‘Throughout history, people have used all sorts of things as money such as gold, feathers and cowrie shells.’ – Bank of England If money is an agreed-upon symbol of credit, then could anything be money? Money could be markings on clay tablets, numbers on paper, bees or an online decentralised digital-only currency such as bitcoin or […]