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 […]
Stories of Song
As part of Bloomsbury Festival, we’re thrilled to welcome two exceptional singers, Miki Berenyi and David McAlmont, to reflect on their love of music, songwriting and experience of navigating their industry as artists, hosted by Holly Elson, our Head of Programmes. In an evening filled with live performance and conversation about their songs, influences, passions and lives as […]
Secular Celebration: Then and Now
Since the nineteenth century, groups associated with Conway Hall have held secular ceremonies to mark births, deaths, and marriages. Join researcher Dr Clare Stainthorp and the Library and Archives team at Conway Hall to discover how people have celebrated life events outside of religious traditions, in Victorian times and today. Drawing upon nineteenth-century anthologies of […]
Sing Like A Vagabond: Cries and Songs from the Streets of Victorian London
Historian Oskar Jensen and acclaimed singer of forgotten songs Patricia Hammond combine for an interactive evening’s entertainment, exploring what it meant to sing on the streets of Victorian London. Come and discover the art and adventures of the city’s ballad-singers, and the hidden musical histories their stories reveal – from grisly deaths and executions, to […]
Free To Speak: Protest and Survive
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 seeks to criminalise “serious annoyance”, increase police powers to restrict protests, and give the Home Secretary discretion over what types of protests are allowed. The Act also brings in conditions that makes effective protest illegal. Protest is an essential democratic right that cannot be lost. Conway Hall […]
Language courses in Spanish, Italian, French, Brazilian-Portuguese and German
Lingua Diversa Group was founded by Esther and Lucio in 2002. They run lunchtime and evening courses from beginner to advanced level in: Spanish, Italian, French, German and Brazilian-Portuguese. The next term of group language courses will start in the week beginning 19 September and last for 12 consecutive weeks until week ending 09 December 2022. […]