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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.
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
Wu Quartet
Sun 18 Nov 2012, 18.30
- Qian Wu violin
- Edward Brenton violin
- Matthew Kettle viola
- Joe Zeitlin ‘cello
- Mozart: Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’
- Ligeti: Quartet No.1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’
- Dvořák: Quartet in G Op.106
£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30, Start 18.30
Sunday Lecture - Pharmageddon
Sun 18 Nov 2012, 11.00
Come and debate "evidence biased medicine" and how it may harm you.
David’s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.
He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and British regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles.
David’s latest book, Pharmageddon, documents the riveting and terrifying story of how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America and the life-threatening results.
David is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Based Medicine Limited, which operates through its website RxISK.org, dedicated to making medicines safer through online direct patient reporting of drug effects.
Investigative Journalism in the Digital Age – Iain Overton
Tue 20 Nov 2012, 19.00
Central London Humanist Group (CLHG) Presents
Iain Overton the former Managing Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Ian will be joining us to give a talk on his fascinating career as an investigative journalist.
Prior to joining the Bureau he was a commissioning executive at ITN and a senior producer at the BBC.
His work to date includes investigations into the international trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, corporate killings in Iraq, human rights abuses by the Brazilian police and Glasgow gang-land murders linked to security contracts.
Iain has worked in over 85 countries around the world. His work has been recognized with a Peabody Award, 2 Amnesty International Awards, a OneWorld Award, a Prix Circom, a BAFTA Scotland and 3 RTS nominations, amongst others.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is a not-for-profit organization based at City University, London. Since it launched the Bureau has secured over 45 front-page stories and has produced a number of award winning web, radio and TV reports. www.thebureauinvestigates.com
Doors 18.30, Lecture 19.00
Suggested donation of £2
Drinks will be available from our charity wine bar.
Sunday Lecture - The History and Future of Bioethics
Sun 25 Nov 2012, 11.00
Since the late 1960s a new field of inquiry has grown up, bioethics, which examines the ethical, social, legal and policy issues arising in the life sciences and medicine. While several of the topics which are central to bioethics have a long history (notably abortion, euthanasia, and the ethical nature of the doctor-patient relationship), bioethics covers a much broader range of issues. From genetic testing to allocation of high-cost medical treatments, bioethics seeks to analyse problems systematically drawing on methods from philosophy, law, the social sciences – and sometimes theology. One of the most challenging issues for contemporary bioethics is the role of religion in public life. Should bioethics be secular, either in a weak sense (neutral between the claims of different religions) or in a strong sense (substantively atheist or agnostic)? Are claims about the sanctity of life, for instance, only intelligible in religious terms? In this lecture, I will introduce the field of bioethics and some of its key current debates, before turning to the questions : is bioethics secular? Should it be secular? And what are the prospects for a secular bioethics?
Richard Ashcroft is Professor of Ethics at Queen Mary, University of London, he is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Bioethics, Developing World Bioethics, Biosocieties, Health Care Analysis and Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. He is a member of the Ethics and Policy Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council, Director of the Appointing Authority for Phase I Ethics Committees and a member of the Royal College of Physicians working party on tobacco.
Open to all. No need to book in advance.
St Paul's Quartet
Sun 25 Nov 2012, 18.30
- Beatrix Lovejoy violin
- Catherine Morgan violin
- Catherine Musker viola
- Benjamin Chappell ‘cello
- Haydn: Quartet in D Op.64/5 ‘The Lark’
- Shostakovich: Quartet No.8 in C minor Op.110
- Brahms: Quartet in C minor Op.51/1
£8 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.30, Start 18.30
