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April 2010 

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Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 (tube: Holborn)
tel 020 7242 8032 fax 020 7242 8036

     

Tuesday 6th April 2010

BHA and SPES present: The Voltaire Lecture  2010 on 'The Value of Big Science: CERN the LHC and the exploration of the Universe by Prof. Brian Cox  

Chaired by Polly Toynbee, President of the BHA.

Main Hall, doors open 6pm for 6.30pm start. Tickets for this event are sold out.

www.humanism.org.uk, Tel: 020 7079 3580

Thursday 8th April 2010

SPES Bookclub (every 2nd Thursday of the month)

Cold Comfort by Peter Wilkinson

Discussion starts at 7.30pm, biscuits and tea served from 7pm.

Friday 9th April 2010

Carablanca Tango Club -   Tango dance evening

Intermediate & beginners class

Main Hall 7.30pm - 11.45pm      

www.carablanca.co.uk

Saturday 10th of April 2010

Fresh Network – A raw food event.

Raw food stalls and lecture by America’s ‘Sproutman’ Steve Meyerowitz.

Main Hall, 10.30am – 4pm www.fresh-network.com

PmAm Entertainments present Ceilidh Scottish dancing to the Highlanders band

Main Hall, 6.30pm – 11.45pm. Tickets from ticketweb.co.uk

Sunday 11th April 2010

South Place Ethical Society lecture at 11am in Brockway Room: Gender Relations in the Earliest Societies: Patriarchal or not? Jay Ginn

Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

Callaghan Piano Trio

5.50pm: pre-concert talk given by Laura Ponsonby (great granddaughter of Hubert Parry)

Simon Callaghan (piano), Rebecca Eves (violin), Rebecca Hewes (‘cello)  performing works by:

Mozart  I  BeethovenI  Arensky

6.30pm start. Tickets £7 or £3 for under 18s. No advance booking. Cash only box office opens at 5.45pm

Tuesday 13th April 2010

Piano Auctions – viewing starts Tuesday and auction is on Thursday 15th at noon.

Main Hall, www.pianoauctions.co.uk

Friday 16th April 2010

Carablanca Tango Club -   Tango dance evening

Intermediate & beginners class

Main Hall 7.30pm - 11.45pm      

www.carablanca.co.uk

Sunday 18th April 2010

South Place Ethical Society lecture at 11am in Library: 'The God that failed' Leszek Kolakowski

Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

Chiaroscuro Quartet performing works by:

Mozart  I  Bach I Schubert

6.30pm start. Tickets £7 or £3 for under 18s. No advance booking. Cash only box office opens at 5.45pm

Thursday 22 April 2010

SPES Special Event: 'Is Euthanasia ever morally justified, and does the change in law on Assisted Suicide reflect this? 

Free public debate with Dr. Peter Saunders (Care not Killing), Sarah Wootton (Dignity in Dying). Charles Foster (barrister and author), Brendan O'Neill (Spiked Magazine) and Prof. Simon Blackburn (Humanist Philosophers Group) Chair:TBC

Free event. No need to book. Please contact programme@ethicalsoc.org.uk or call 20 72428031/34 for further information about the event. 

Friday 23rd April 2010

Carablanca Tango Club -   Tango dance evening

Intermediate & beginners class

Main Hall 7.30pm - 11.45pm      

www.carablanca.co.uk

Saturday 24th April 2010

Humanity + UK 2010 -  a one day conference (2 panels, 10 speakers)

Main Hall 9am – 5pm, www.humanityplus-uk.com

Sunday 25th April 2010

South Place Ethical Society lecture at 11am in Library: The Inclusion of non-religious beliefs in religious education, John Tillson

School of Life Sermon on Obliquity by John Kay

Main Hall, 11am, www.theschooloflife.com

Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

Ries Piano Trio - Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), William Stafford (clarinet), James Barralet (‘cello) performing works by:

BeethovenI  Zemlinsky I  Nino Rota I  Brahms

6.30pm start. Tickets £7 or £3 for under 18s. No advance booking. Cash only. Box office opens at 5.45pm

Friday 30th April 2010

Carablanca Tango Club -   Tango dance evening

Intermediate & beginners class

Main Hall 7.30pm - 11.45pm      

www.carablanca.co.uk  

Shaw Society presents

Barrie Addenbrooke and cast of the Tower Theatre Company with an exclusive performance of rehearsed reading of the rarely performed Shaw piece The Dark Lady of Sonnets.

Library 6.30 for coffee and a  7pm start. £2 members, £3 for non-members.

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Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest tube: Holborn)
tel 020 7242 8032
www.conwayhall.org.uk


Event listings are for general information only and are subject to change. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Conway Hall or the South Place Ethical Society. E&OE.