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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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Carablanca Tango Club
Spring/Summer
19.30 - 00.00
Carablanca is London's longest-running tango club. The friendly, informal atmosphere ensures that beginners and visitors mix easily with the regular dancers.
The dance evening is an Argentine milonga, preceded by a class. There are also classes for beginners in a separate room. Music is traditional Argentine tango, milonga and vals, played in tandas with cortinas by guest DJs.
TICKETS: price £10 for a class or dancing, £12 for both, paid on entry.
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
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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.
The Callino Quartet
14 Nov 2012, 19.30
John Whibley “Holidays with Music” presents
The Callino Quartet
The Callino Quartet is widely considered to be one of the finest young ensembles to have emerged in Europe in recent years. They were formed at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in 1999 where they immediately felt a deep musical affinity. Since then they have impressed audiences and critics both at home and abroad with their fresh and enthusiastic performances.
- Sarah Sexton violin
- Tom Hankey violin
- Rebecca Jones viola
- Sarah McMahon 'cello
Performing -
Haydn op. 64 no. 3 “The Lark”, Janacek Quartet no. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata, Schubert Quartet in A minor “Rosamunde”
Tickets £15
Box Office 01663 746578
Small Publishers Fair
Fri 16 - Sat 17 Nov 2012
The Research Group for Artists Publications presents
The Small Publishers Fair
The international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers; together with a programme of readings and talks. With more than 50 publishers taking part there will be thousands of books and other editions to browse and buy!
Admission free. Open from 11.00-19.00
