Events

Salsa night with Gil and Shelley of Pexava, International championship teachers and performers. Beginners Course at 6.30 – 7.15pm ( registration required on First Thursday of every month at 6.15pm. Classes for other levels 7.15 – 8.15pm. Social 8.15 – 11.30pm).

More information about Pexava Salsa.

Carablanca is London's longest-running tango club.  The friendly, informal atmosphere ensures that beginners and visitors mix easily with the regular dancers. Empanadas and cocktails served throughout the evening!

Dancing in the Main Hall between 7.30 and 11.45pm. Beginners and intermediate class at 7.30pm.

More information at the Carablanca Tango website.

U.S. Philosopher Professor Alex Rosenberg is visiting the UK to talk about his new book ‘The Atheist’s Guide to Reality – Enjoying Life without Illusions’, published by WW Norton.

Entry is free, but this is a small event and there are only a few places available. Places should be booked in advance by e-mail as the room has a strict limited capacity. Please e-mail Atheism UK with your full name.

Find out more about this and other Atheism UK events.

6.30pm in the main hall with performances of:

Beethoven: Quartet in G Op.18/2

Thomas Tomkins: A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes

Maxwell Davies: A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes

Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor Op.80

Martin Robbins takes 'bad science' and dodgy healthcare to task.

In this talk Martin gives a more global view of homeopathy, quacks abroad and bad science in the developing world. He will cover Homeopaths in Haiti and Africa, AIDS denialism, how alt-med props up the Cuban healthcare system, anti-vaccination movements in Africa and Asia, dodgy bomb-detectors, and a plethora of other stories about quacks amok in the third world.

Martin Robbins is a freelance science writer, podcaster and journalist who blogs for The Guardian about science, pseudoscience and the role of science in politics.

£3 on the door/free to SPES members. Please note this talk has been rescheduled from 4 December 2011.      

At school we’re taught that daydreaming is a bad habit that needs a cure – even a moral sin against productivity. If our attention wanders ‘too much’ we’re an air-head. At worst, we’re labelled with an attention deficit disorder. But, in dismissing daydreaming, are we in fact under a collective delusion about how the brain works?

Tony Buzan argues that daydreaming is fundamental to genius and that wandering attention is no disorder. The great figures of history, from athletic champions to Einstein and Martin Luther King, have been clear about the role of dreaming for their inspiration. While most of ask what makes a genius so special, Buzan asks, given the vast potential of each of our brains, why isn’t everyone an Einstein? For him, one answer lies in our attitude to daydreaming.

In his playful sermon, Buzan will show us how to avoid the pitfalls of fruitless mind-wandering and cultivate our creativity and memory while we dream wide awake.

Tony Buzan is a world-leading creativity expert. He is best known as the inventor of Mind Mapping, a ‘Swiss Army Knife of the mind’ that has been credited with bringing about a revolution in developing Mental Literacy and creativity skills. The lessons he will share with us are the result of over 50 years of researching and writing on the creative mind in books such as Use Your Head and The Mind Map Book.

Buy tickets and find out more about the School of Life.

6.30pm in the main hall with performances of:

Dvorak: Trio in F minor Op.65

Panufnik: Piano Trio 

Ravel: Piano Trio

Timothy Orpen (clarinet), Victoria Simonsen (cello) and Daniel Tong (piano).

6.30pm in the main hall with performances of:

Beethoven: Trio in B flat Op.11

Beethoven: ‘Cello Sonata in G minor Op.5/2

Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata

Brahms: Trio in A minor Op.114

Tickets on the door (£8/£4 concessions). Please see the Sunday Concerts page for more details.

6.30pm in the main hall with performances of:

Haydn: Quartet in C Op.76/3

Shostakovich: Quartet No.8 in C minor Op.110

Beethoven: Quartet in F Op.135

6.30pm in the main hall with performances of

Haydn: Trio in E flat HobXV:10

Beethoven: Trio in E flat Op.1/1

Bridge: Phantasie Trio

Faure: Trio in D minor Op.120