Thinking on Sunday: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
** This event will be held with an in-person audience at Conway Hall *AND* online, via Zoom. Everyone wishing to join this event must register for a ticket in advance, using the “Book Now” link ** 1, 2, 3 … ? The untrained brain isn’t wired for maths; beyond the number 3, it just sees ‘more’. […]
Sunday Assembly: We’re All Valued Equally
How much time do you spend with people who live with learning disabilities? Do you feel apprehensive about socialising with people who are differently abled? Bernice Hardie, co-founder and CEO of the award-winning WAVE for Change, believes that when we create spaces where people of different abilities can socialise together, everyone benefits. In her talk, […]
Bloomsbury Festival: Every Body Dance with Sage Dance and friends
Sage Dance Company, a ballet based company for the over 55s, is joined by: Manifest Nation, a street dance company; Magpie Dance, UK’s leading dance charity for people with learning disabilities; Thomas Page Dances, a contemporary dance company whose work is rooted in socio-political ideas, and dancer /choreographer Fionuala Power to bring you a celebration […]
Bloomsbury Festival: 26 Shining Light Live
Writers from 26 talk about their creative response to Bloomsbury Festival’s events. 26 is for anyone who believes in the power of words – especially those who work with words. Our members take part in unique ‘crowd-writing’ initiatives and are part of a vibrant creative community. 26 is run by its members for its members. […]
Bloomsbury Festival: Talking Mexican Textiles
In this illustrated talk, Birgitta Huse illuminates the vital tradition of textiles and clothes in South Mexico and provides insights into Maya everyday-life. Since conducting her first research project in the Highlands of Chiapas in 1989/90 about textiles, fashion and tourism in a Maya community, Birgitta regularly returns. Over the decades she has witnessed many […]
Bloomsbury Festival: Music & Place ‘Belonging’ with NW Live Arts
NW Live Arts perform a fantastic melee of different types of music from different cultures interlaced with poetry readings exploring the meaning of ‘belonging’. Attab Haddad oud Christina McMaster piano Antonio Romero percussion Toby Carr lute, theorbo and Baroque guitar While the musicians trace the history of the relationship between oud and lute, reimagine Bach, Satie and Ligeti in […]
Bloomsbury Festival: Shades of Light with Ensemble Matters
This concert marks the culmination of Ensemble Matters’s year-long preparation around their theme of the year, “Shades of Light”. The programme boasts two world premieres in response to the theme: composer Amy Crankshaw’s nature-inspired chamber work, Golden Hour, and artist Alondra Ruiz-Hernandez’s short film inspired by Rachmaninoff’s tone poem, Isle of the Dead. Amy Crankshaw’s new work […]
Antiuniversity Festival
Antiuniveristy Now are joining forces with the Anarchist Bookfair in London to bring together a week-long Antiuniversity Festival from the 4th to the 10th of September, followed by the Anarchist Bookfair in London on the 11th and 12th of September. The Antiuniversity is an ongoing programme of self-organised radical learning and mutual education events. It […]
Stop the War! An Event to Mark 20 Years of the War on Terror
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the War on Terror and the founding of Stop the War. We have a number of commemorative events organised and this is one not to be missed. On Saturday 18 September we are hosting a political/cultural afternoon with key figures from the movement, as well as musicians and […]