CONWAY HALL IS WHERE ETHICS MATTER

Russell Davies Presents:

Interesting Conference 2022

Short talks about interesting things.

Antiuniversity Now Presents:

Antiuniversity Festival 2022:
Conway Hall Library Tour

Join Conway Hall's Librarian, Olwen Terris, for an introduction to Conway Hall's Library, including a special pop-up display of rarely-seen printed anarchist materials for discussion and debate.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Ethical Matters:
Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the History of Female Crooks

True crime stories have never been more popular but where are their female equivalents to Ronnie Biggs and the Krays? Caitlin Davies reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the seventeenth century to the present.

Lingua Diversa:
Language courses in Spanish, Italian, French, Brazilian-Portuguese and German

Lingua Diversa Group was founded by Esther and Lucio in 2002. They run lunchtime and evening courses from beginner to advanced level in: Spanish, Italian, French, German and Brazilian-Portuguese. The next term of group language courses runs for 12 weeks from 19 September to 9 December.

Leonard Salzedo Society Presents:

Leonard Salzedo Celebration Concert

A celebration and showcase of Leonard Salzedo's vibrant body of work: brass, songs, strings, percussion & piano played by leading musicians

Stuart Hall Foundation Presents:

Things That Can and Cannot Be Said: The dismantling of the world as we knew it

As we endure an unprecedented global pandemic, governmental inaction in response to the climate crisis, and the intensification of authoritarian practices across the global north and south alike, Arundhati Roy will reflect on how we have arrived at this conjuncture and what might come next.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Primrose Piano Quartet

We are delighted to welcome back the Primrose Piano Quartet who will be opening our autumn series of concerts with a feast of colourful French works, alongside Mozart's evergreen E flat quartet, one of the first works written for this combination of instruments.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Ethical Matters:
Do I Have A Normal Mind?

Sarah Chaney presents the surprising history of how the very notion of the ‘normal’ came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive, colonialist values. Along the way she challenges why we ever thought it might be a desirable thing to be...

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Minerva Piano Trio

The Minerva Piano Trio perform a new arrangement of Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite by Richard Birchall, made to celebrate the ballet suite’s 100th anniversary. We will also hear one of Richard's own compositions and a further new arrangement of Caroline Shaw’s piece by Annie Yim, the trio's pianist.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Ethical Matters:
Intangible Value: Cryptocurrency, NFTs and the Future of Art & Money

Fortunes have been made and lost in crypto coin and NFTs. Are they the future for art and money or a confidence trick and a polluting black economy enabler? Experts Dr. Larisa Yarovaya and Becks Perfect mine to the bottom of the meaning and ethics of intangible value online.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Seeking Utopia

‘Seeking Utopia’: a programme of words and music celebrating the friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams and violist Lionel Tertis, in Vaughan Williams' 150th anniversary year.

Bloomsbury Festival Presents:

Stories of Song

Song could be our most immediate art and is interwoven into our lives from places of worship to campfires, from football stadiums to the workplace. Miki Berenyi, David McAlmont and Sam Lee, three exceptional singers, discuss their own songs, their influences, their passions and their lives as singers.

Bloomsbury Festival Presents:

Daytimers Mehfil: An Evening of South Asian Poetry

Daytimers, the collective at the heart of the re-emerging Asian Underground, present an evening spotlighting and celebrating South Asian poetry. Former Australian poetry slam champion Zohab Zee Khan hosts a line-up filled with some of the most exciting South Asian poets operating in the scene right now.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Greenwich Trio + Pre-Concert Talk

Described by Bernard Greenhouse as "the new Beaux Arts Trio", the Greenwich Trio are earning a formidable reputation. Their performance for Conway Hall foregrounds the contributions made to the repertoire by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, alongside their male colleagues.

Bloomsbury Festival Presents:

Ethical Matters:
Free To Speak: Protest and Survive

The Government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act is a severe threat to protest and freedom of expression. As part of the Bloomsbury Festival, Conway Hall examines the effects of the act and asks what can be done with civil rights barrister Owen Greenhall and Grenfell activist Karim Mussilhy.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
I Musicanti

I Musicanti is made up by distinguished performers in some of the best orchestras. What unites them is their ceaseless musical curiosity, a palpable sense of adventure and an unswerving commitment to excellence.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Jubilee Quartet

"Brilliant and distinctive…fresh and new…makes the music’s architecture expressive in its own right" (The Telegraph). The Jubilee Quartet's recent recording of Haydn drew rave reviews from the press. For their return to Conway Hall, they begin with some Haydn before an exciting combination of Schubert works.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Trio Havisham & Tal Walker

The 2022 CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition First Prize was awarded to Trio Havisham and we are excited to welcome them for their Conway Hall debut. Concert pianist Tal Walker features in a pre-concert recital, performing a selection of French piano Préludes and Nocturnes.

Being Human Festival Presents:

Sing Like A Vagabond: Cries and Songs from the Streets of Victorian London

Historian Oskar Jensen and acclaimed singer of forgotten songs Patricia Hammond combine for an evening exploring what it meant to sing on the streets of Victorian London.

Being Human Festival Presents:

Secular Celebration: Then and Now

Discover the poems and songs that Victorians read to celebrate life events and bring people together outside of the bounds of religion. Visit Conway Hall’s library to learn about nineteenth-century secular celebrations and discover the emotions, themes, and ideas these poems share with those chosen to be part of secular ceremonies today.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Schwarzenberg Trio

The Schwarzenberg Trio's Conway Hall début was one of the casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic, and we are so pleased that we are finally able to welcome this distinguished Austrian ensemble and their "technical finesse".

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Barbican Quartet + Pre-Concert Talk

First prize winners of the 2019 Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition, as well as the 2018 St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet are quickly establishing themselves internationally.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Maria Canyigueral

With performances ranging from Bach to Mompou, Maria Canyigueral's performances at Conway Hall have become a true highlight. Her recital comprises Beethoven's three sonatas of opus 2, the first of his 'magnum opus' of 32 sonatas spanning his whole compositional life.

Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:

Sunday Concerts:
Berkeley Ensemble

The Berkeley Ensemble join forces with Conway Hall's Director of Music, Simon Callaghan, to play two of the most-loved works for clarinet trio. Their programme concludes with a true 'party piece', Dohnányi's Sextet - a truly exuberant way to close our autumn series of concerts at Conway Hall.