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Pexava Salsa
Last Thursday Monthly
Gil and Shelley’s Pexava Salsa Social, with international championship competitors and professional teachers and performers. Salsa lessons, shows, club dancing and more!
The last Thursday of the month, your salsa weekend starts early! Experience an amazing central salsa venue with great salsa people.
Fantastic, spacious wooden dancefloor, special touches provided by dancers for dancers, the best salsa DJs on rotation, regular shows, cheap soft drinks.
19.15-20.15 Intermediate/Advanced class: with Gil & Shelley (please note: classes are suitable for experienced salsa dancers only; please see our Pexava website for our beginners courses in other locations).
20.15-23.30 Salsa Social: Dance your socks off on a wonderful floor with lovely people! Shows at 22.30 for “Showtime events”.
Tickets: £8 on the door including free class.
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Callaghan Trio
Sun 4 Nov 2012, 18.30
The Callaghan Trio have received high acclaim for their compelling and refined performances. Established soloists in their own right, they have performed in many of the concert halls in Europe and abroad, including Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall. Their extensive repertoire encompasses all the mainstream works for piano trios.
Our musical Director, Simon Callaghan, will be joined by Ben Roskams on violin and Ashok Klouda on ‘cello.
- Ben Roskams violin
- Ashok Klouda ‘cello
- Simon Callaghan piano
Beethoven Piano Trio Cycle: Concert 1
- Beethoven: Trio in C minor Op.1/3
- Beethoven: Variations in E flat Op.44
- Beethoven: Trio in D Op.70/1 ‘Ghost’
£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30, Start 18.30
Sunday Lecture - 8 Principles for Successful Optimists
Sun 4 Nov 2012, 11.00
As the philosopher Mark Bedau says “Change will happen and we can either try to influence it in a constructive way, or we can try to stop it from happening, or we can ignore it. Trying to stop it from happening is, I think, futile. Ignoring it seems irresponsible.”
Which means there is really only one game in town: trying to steer things in a positive direction. But how do you do that? In this talk Mark Stevenson explores the way successful optimists get things done and how we can all learn from them.
Mark Stevenson is an entrepreneur, futurologist and author of "An Optimist’s Tour of the Future". He is co-founder of learning agency Flow Associates, futurologist-in-residence at Primary Energy Research and on the advisory board of Richard Branson’s Virgin Earth Challenge. He is a fellow of the RSA, Nibmaster General at the Ministry of Stories and founder of The League of Pragmatic Optimists. “Stevenson wears no blindfold. His tools are curiosity, open-mindedness, clarity and reason.” – Chris Anderson, TED Curator
Open to all. No need to book in advance.
The School of Life Sunday Sermon: David Shrigley on Vice
Sun 4 Nov 2012, 11.00
David Shrigley is making a list of vices and virtues. He’s weighing them up. He’s sketching them out. He’s thinking about what he’s going to say. He doesn’t know yet. But, when he settles his dark eye and mordant wit on his choice of our follies, we can be sure this will be a sermon like no other.
David Shrigley is among the best-loved artists of this generation. His first major survey exhibition, Brain Activity in Spring 2012 at the Hayward Gallery, London, has been hugely well received. His wildly influential crude drawing style comes from his ambition to ‘communicate as simply and directly as possible’. We can recognize ourselves all too easily in his provocative and complex studies of everyday absurdities. An hour spent looking through Shrigley’s eyes changes how we see the world.
SOLD OUT £15.00 - Please us the link below for the waitinglist.
The School of Life will email you if spaces becomes available on this date.
Image © David Shrigley
Monologues and Micro Performances
Wed 7 Nov 2012
The Conway Collective presents:
An evening of performance extremes. Big characters and tiny stages. A celebration of solo and small performance work created at Conway Hall.
Doors open 19.30
The Conway Hall is fast becoming the place for the creation of innovative new performance. The regular workshop programmes run by The Conway Collective and its associate artists are generating some of the coolest work in London town.
Be on trend and come and see what we've been up to while you can still get tickets.
Tickets £10 advance.
Hedgehog’s Home - Children's Opera
9 - 11 November 2012
Please meet Hedgemond the Hunter - a brave and stubborn little hedgehog. Down in the wild woods he proudly tends his beloved house, but there are some animals who just can’t understand what the fuss is about. Find out just how Hedgemond proves to the grumpy bear and the greedy boar that there is no place like home.
‘Hedgehog’s House’ is a story about caring for the place you call home. Set in the unspoilt environment of the forest, we find the wild creatures arguing about what home means: is it simply a place we should take for granted or is it something to be cherished and protected? Despite the persuasions of charming Miss Fox and the jeers of the angry wolf, Hedgemond steadfastly proves that his home is his castle, reminding us all to be true to ourselves and safeguard what we care for.
Told through the universal language of music and poetry, this seemingly simple story from a far-away country actually holds an enduring and important message that we would all do well to remember.
The musical adaptation was developed by the highly talented composer, song-writer and musician, Emily Leather, in cooperation with the Creative Director, Elinor Moran.
Dates for the final performances of the show:
Friday 9 November 2012 - 12.00 & 14.00
Sunday 11 November 2012 - 14.00
Adult - £8:00, Concessions - £5:00 (child, OAP, family of performers)
Friend of Hedgemond - £50:00 (for those wishing to support the project and attend the after-show reception)
Peter Tatchell: The Unfinished Battle for LGBT Human Rights
Fri 09 Nov 2012, 19.30
The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Society (GALHA) presents.
Peter Tatchell: The Unfinished Battle for LGBT Human Rights
Human Rights Campaigner and “Secularist of the Year”, Peter Tatchell asks if the battle for LGBT Human Rights has already been won.
Admission Free. No booking required, but you are advised to arrive early because of interest in this meeting.
Aristotle Ensemble
Sun 11 Nov 2012, 18.30
- Xuan Du violin
- Colin Callow violin
- Amanda Denley viola
- Jonathan Few ‘cello
- Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor D703
- Mendelssohn: Quartet in E minor Op.44/2
- Janáček: Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30, Start 18.30
Conway Memorial Lecture 2012 - Seeing Signals from Before the Big Bang
Mon 12 Nov 2012, 19.00
SOLD OUT
Prof. Sir Roger Penrose, University of Oxford.
Chair: Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson, Imperial College, London.
In this year’s Conway Memorial Lecture, Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, will put forward an alternate view of the history and origin of the universe.
The annual Conway Memorial Lectures are given in honour of Moncure Conway, the American abolitionist and biographer of Thomas Paine, who also gives his name to Conway Hall. The lectures have been given almost annually since 1910 and past speakers include many luminaries of the humanist movement and some of the most distinguished philosophers, scientists and cultural commentators of the last century, including Israel Zangwill, Bertrand Russell, Leonard and Julian Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacob Bronowski, James Hemming, Bernard Williams, H.J. Blackham, Fenner Brockway, A.J. Ayer, Herman Bondi, David Starkey, A.C. Grayling and Steve Jones.
Sir Roger Penrose is an Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute & Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford.
Chairing the lecture will be Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson; Professor of Astrophysics at The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London. He has been a past President of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Gresham Professor of Astronomy.
PLEASE NOTE THAT AS THIS EVENT IS FREE, TICKETS ARE LIMITED TO TWO PER PERSON
Image CC-BY-SA Festival della Scienza
The George Ross Memorial Lecture
Tue 13 Nov 2012
Philosophy Now & Philosophy For All Presents.
The George Ross Memorial Lecture given by author Lesley Chamberlain on 'A Goethean in Postmodern London'
And the ‘Philosophy Now Award for Contributions in the Fight against Stupidity’ ceremony featuring award winner Ben Goldacre and Philosophy Now editor Rick Lewis.
The event will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Lesley Chamberlain is a novelist, journalist and author of non-fiction books including "Nietzsche in Turin" and "The Philosophy Steamer".
http://www.lesleychamberlain.co.uk/
Dr Ben Goldacre is the author of the "Bad Science" book and long-running Guardian newspaper column, as well as his new book "Bad Pharma", which casts a critical eye over the pharmceutical industry.
Doors 18.30. Tickets to this event are Free.
