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Ethical Matters:
Losing It – Sex Education for the 21st CenturyConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
Losing It – Sex Education for the 21st CenturyClueless about everything from her own anatomy to relationships, Sophia Smith Galer’s sex education classes left her with more questions than answers.
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Ethical Matters: Losing It – Sex Education for the 21st Century
Ethical Matters: Losing It – Sex Education for the 21st Century
Sophia Smith Galer presents an urgent, myth-busting talk that dismantles sex misinformation and reimagines a sex education that would access the world of sexual freedom through our own physicality, pleasure and consent. Sophia is an award-winning reporter, author and TikTok creator.
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The Uneggspected: Tales of Lost and Found
The Uneggspected: Tales of Lost and Found
Rina Atienza, our main speaker, is a lecturer at Kingston School of Art who will talk about the hidden 'easter eggs' that can be found in art and irreverently guide us to explore what we might be missing about Easter rituals. We will also have an eggcelent time singing along with the Sunday Assembly Band.
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Thinking On Sunday: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
Thinking On Sunday: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
More than one-fifth of children want to become influencers and it’s easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet’s attention? The reality is much murkier: Symeon Brown exposes the fraud, exploitation, bribery, and dishonesty at the core of the influencer model.
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Sunday Assembly’s Got Talent
Sunday Assembly’s Got Talent
Now's your time to shine in Sunday Assembly London's first-ever talent show! This all-ages event will be made by you and for you. We're looking for a wide range of acts, from poets and storytellers to magicians and musicians. This is a fundraising event for Sunday Assembly London, but all are welcome.
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Sunday Concerts: Tippett Quartet & Emma Abbate
Sunday Concerts: Tippett Quartet & Emma Abbate
The Tippett Quartet regularly appear at Kings Place, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Bridgewater Hall and frequently perform on BBCRadio 3. Their programme sees them join pianist Emma Abbate in Elgar's much-loved masterpiece.
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Mind Your Language
Mind Your Language
Keith Kahn-Harris, author of The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language believes that the messy diversity of language shouldn't be a source of conflict, but of collective wonder. In addition to our main speaker’s talk, the Sunday Assembly Band will use the language of music to bring us together.
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Primadonna Prize – Live
Primadonna Prize – Live
Lenny Henry in conversation with Kit de Waal about My Name is Leon, coming soon to BBC1. Plus live comedy, readings, poetry and more, with compere Sandi Toksvig. And the awarding – live! – of this year’s Primadonna Prize for unsigned writers.
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Ethical Matters:
The Meat ParadoxConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
The Meat Paradox‘Should we eat animals?’ was, until recently, a question reserved for moral philosophers and an ethically minded minority, but it is now posed on restaurant menus and supermarket shelves, on social media and morning television.
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Ethical Matters: The Meat Paradox
Ethical Matters: The Meat Paradox
Should we eat animals? This was once a question reserved for moral philosophers and an ethically minded minority. Rob Percival, an expert in the politics of meat, searches for the evolutionary origins of the meat paradox, asking when our relationship with meat first became emotionally and ethically complicated.
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Sunday Concerts:
Maria Włoszczowska, Tim Ridout, Steffan Morris & Jâms ColemanConway Hall Sunday Concerts Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Maria Włoszczowska, Tim Ridout, Steffan Morris & Jâms ColemanAn opportunity to hear Brahms' horn trio in a different setting, with the composer's own re-working of the natural horn part for viola.
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Sunday Concerts: Maria Włoszczowska, Tim Ridout, Steffan Morris & Jâms Coleman
Sunday Concerts: Maria Włoszczowska, Tim Ridout, Steffan Morris & Jâms Coleman
A truly star-studded line-up of musicians garnering increasing international renown, this programme places Brahms' evergreen Horn Trio alongside exquisitely colourful works by Britten and Fauré - not to be missed!
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Thinking On Sunday:
Mistress Ethics – On the Virtues of Sexual KindnessConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Thinking On Sunday:
Mistress Ethics – On the Virtues of Sexual KindnessThe figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial. She provokes intense reactions, ranging from fear, to disgust and revulsion, to excitement and titillation, to sadness and perhaps to some, love.
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Thinking On Sunday: Mistress Ethics – On the Virtues of Sexual Kindness
Thinking On Sunday: Mistress Ethics – On the Virtues of Sexual Kindness
Victoria Brooks offers an unflinching look at the lived experience of the mistress. Here she is recast as a potentially loving, free, intimate 'other' woman. She asks what happens when we opt for an ethics of sexual kindness and learning from mistresses, both straight and queer.
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Detoxing Masculinity
Detoxing Masculinity
From violence against women and girls, to shocking mental health outcomes for men - how do we heal masculinity to create a better world for all people? There's a lot of toxicity out there blocking the way to self-work, but the work is happening. So join us for a positive experience of masculinity.
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Compassion in a Time of Covid: Bridging the Gap Between Opposing Viewpoints
Compassion in a Time of Covid: Bridging the Gap Between Opposing Viewpoints
Compassion-Focused Therapy is a means to improving mental health and contentment. Using this approach, Dr Rebekah Honey attempts to answer the question: can compassion bridge the gap between opposing viewpoints?
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Sunday Concerts:
Consone QuartetConway Hall Sunday Concerts Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Consone QuartetThe first period instrument quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and early romantic repertoire.
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Sunday Concerts: Consone Quartet
Sunday Concerts: Consone Quartet
The first period instrument quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and early romantic repertoire.
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Thinking On Sunday: How We Became Postmodern
Thinking On Sunday: How We Became Postmodern
Beneath the glitzy surface of postmodernism there is a dirty secret: it is the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. Stuart Jeffries tell a radical new history of a dangerous idea.
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Sunday Concerts: Callum Smart, Ben Goldscheider & Richard Uttley
Sunday Concerts: Callum Smart, Ben Goldscheider & Richard Uttley
A trio comprising three leading young musicians, this performance culminates in Brahms' trio for horn, violin and piano, written to commemorate the death of the composer's mother.
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Thinking Like A Woman
Thinking Like A Woman
In celebration of International Women's Day, George Halfin will speak to us about what she learned from listening to women who had been in difficult situations, and how they motivated her to bring their inspiring stories together in her book, A Life Less Serious.
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Ethical Matters:
The Generation Myth – Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You ThinkConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
The Generation Myth – Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think28 Feb 2022 - 19:30 @ Conway Hall - (opening time 19:10) Ethical Matters: The Generation Myth - Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think
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Ethical Matters: The Generation Myth – Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think
Ethical Matters: The Generation Myth – Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think
Are you bored or annoyed by the clichés about you and your generation? Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z—we like to define people by when they were born, but Bobby Duffy, explains why we shouldn't.
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Thinking On Sunday:
What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its DiscontentsConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Thinking On Sunday:
What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its Discontents20 Feb 2022 - 15:00 @ Conway Hall - (opening time 14:30) Thinking On Sunday: What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its Discontents
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Thinking On Sunday: What do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents
Thinking On Sunday: What do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents
From Men's Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates, it's easy to see that, while men still rule the world, masculinity is in crisis. Nina Power explores how men and women can live together in a world where capitalism and consumerism has replaced the values that used to give our lives meaning.
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Sunday Concerts: Chamber Ensemble of London Anglo-Italian Evening
Sunday Concerts: Chamber Ensemble of London Anglo-Italian Evening
The Chamber Ensemble of London present a concert of the most celebrated English and Italian composers, including Elgar, Vivaldi and Puccini. This is the first of their three international projects at Conway Hall in 2022.
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Ensemble Augelletti CD Launch Concert – The Library of a Prussian Princess
Ensemble Augelletti CD Launch Concert – The Library of a Prussian Princess
Ensemble Augelleti have been heralded as ‘rising stars in the early music world’ and have performed on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ and across several UK Arts Festivals. This event launches the ensemble's debut recording of trio sonatas, found in the personal library of Prussian Princess, Ann Amalia.
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Sex on the Brain
Sex on the Brain
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Zoe Cormier, science communicator and author of Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science, will share some amusing anecdotes which reveal deeper truths about human desire. Sunday Assembly is a secular community that celebrates life.
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Ethical Matters: Five Frontiers to Revolutionise Public Health
Ethical Matters: Five Frontiers to Revolutionise Public Health
Public health expert Christopher Thomas argues that we must emerge from Covid-19 on the offensive - with a bold, new vision for our health and care. He imagines a radical expansion of the principles put forward by Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, over 70 years ago.
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Thinking On Sunday: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes and the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience
Thinking On Sunday: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes and the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience
Ewan Forbes was born in 1912 and assigned female at birth. Nevertheless, his true identity was clear. Zoe Playdon reveals the life story of a Scottish trans man — whose secret 1968 legal case had a profound impact on trans rights for decades.
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