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System Change, Not Climate Change – What After COP26?
System Change, Not Climate Change – What After COP26?
If COP26 fired the starting gun, what should a race to global decarbonisation look like and who might the winners and losers be? Chaitanya Kumar discusses the promises made and the challenges that lie ahead.
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The Film Fair
The Film Fair
Film Fans and collectors should head to The Film Fair at Conway Hall with a selection of quality stands loaded with film memorabilia, merchandise and collectables – Classics, Horror, Sci-fi, Cult – DVD – Blu-ray – VHS – Magazines – Books – Posters – Stills – Postcards – Cards – T Shirts – Autographs & Star Guest Signings…
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Thinking On Sunday: God – An Anatomy
Thinking On Sunday: God – An Anatomy
God’s cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society. Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world.
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Open Your Mind
Open Your Mind
Tarsilo Onuluk, our main speaker, is the Managing Director at the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group. He asks that you open your mind to the possibility that psychedelics can do more good than harm. As always, Sunday Assembly London features great talks, poetry, and uplifting group singing.
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Politics and the Imagination: Reflections on Orwell’s Inside The Whale
Politics and the Imagination: Reflections on Orwell’s Inside The Whale
Ian McEwan reflects on George Orwell’s 1940 essay, Inside The Whale, which raises important questions about a writer’s sense of obligation towards issues of the day, social justice and political commitment.
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Ocean Film Festival World Tour
Ocean Film Festival World Tour
Dive into a night of mesmerising ocean adventure. The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is back for 2021 with a brand-new collection of the world’s most incredible ocean films. This event is also on 17, 18, 23, 24 Nov.
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Thinking On Sunday: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor – A 200-Year History
Thinking On Sunday: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor – A 200-Year History
Stewart Lansley charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. What needs to be done to break Britain’s destructive poverty/inequality cycle?
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The Beauty of Struggle
The Beauty of Struggle
Grace Marshall, award-winning writer and coach on productivity, will tell us how we can use our struggles as a force for good. As always, this Sunday Assembly London event will also feature rocking sing-alongs, poetry, and an opportunity to socialise over tea and cake at the end.
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The Haunted Landscape: Witches, Magic and Monsters
The Haunted Landscape: Witches, Magic and Monsters
Join the London Fortean Society and friends for a day of British folklore, cursed paths, giants, witches and more. Speakers include author Syd Moore, Elizabeth Dearnley, Alixe Bovey and Mark Norman of The Folklore Podcast.This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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Empowerment through Enterprise: Entrepreneurship for Women Refugees.
Empowerment through Enterprise: Entrepreneurship for Women Refugees.
What role can entrepreneurship play for women refugees and how can this change society's perceptions of asylum seekers? Kate Allen, Isobelle Ford, Yeukai Taruvinga and Maria Igwebuike explore themes of empowerment through enterprise.
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London Fortean Society: The Birth of the Hoax
London Fortean Society: The Birth of the Hoax
Rapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. As Ian Keable explains, ‘Fake news’, ‛going viral’ and ‛social media’ may be modern terms, but these concepts have been with us for centuries. This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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Ethical Matters: We are “nature” defending itself – Art, Activism and Autonomous zones
Ethical Matters: We are “nature” defending itself – Art, Activism and Autonomous zones
In 2008 Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan went search of post-capitalist utopias. They arrived at an illegally occupied 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. There the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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*POSTPONED* Thinking On Sunday: Women in the Picture – Women, Art and the Power of Looking
*POSTPONED* Thinking On Sunday: Women in the Picture – Women, Art and the Power of Looking
Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history's classics to advertising, while women artists have been overlooked and held back from shaping more empowering roles. Art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again. This talk will be held online only.
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Brother Workmen: Solidarity in Trade Folklore – The Roy Palmer Lecture 2021
Brother Workmen: Solidarity in Trade Folklore – The Roy Palmer Lecture 2021
In the 2021 Roy Palmer Lecture, Jeremy Harte will talk about traditional songs of the workplace, which many artisans used to build humour and camaraderie into their everyday work. *This event is ONLINE ONLY due to rising Covid infections*
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The Subject/Object 2: Exercising Power
The Subject/Object 2: Exercising Power
Hilary Mantel will talk to David Runciman and Helen Thompson for a live episode of the podcast Talking Politics, discussing the Tudor court, revolutionary France, royal bodies and more. This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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Thinking on Sunday: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
Thinking on Sunday: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world. This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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Bloomsbury Festival: Every Body Dance with Sage Dance and friends
Bloomsbury Festival: Every Body Dance with Sage Dance and friends
This performance includes new dance work created during the pandemic plus a Q&A with the choreographers and dancers… and even a chance to try out a few Street Dance moves!
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Café Humaniste: Living at the Intersection of Gender Identity, Race and Belief, with Miss saHHara
Café Humaniste: Living at the Intersection of Gender Identity, Race and Belief, with Miss saHHara
During this Café Humaniste event, Miss saHHara will delve into African Queer and Trans history, celebrating the trans community in Africa.
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Sunday Concerts: The Clements Prize for Composers
Sunday Concerts: The Clements Prize for Composers
Conway Hall's Clements Prize for Composers is re-launched in 2021, with a final round performed by members of the Piatti Quartet and a special exhibition of scores submitted to the competition in the first part of the twentieth century.
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The Rhythm of Life is a Powerful Beat
The Rhythm of Life is a Powerful Beat
Ollie Tunmer, the founder and director of Beat Goes On,, promotes the use of music as a means of encouraging wellbeing, for both individuals and teaching communities. For this assembly, Ollie will tell his story of how he became a music educator, as well as give a short demonstration of his body percussion workshops.
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Bloomsbury Festival: Music & Place ‘Belonging’ with NW Live Arts
Bloomsbury Festival: Music & Place ‘Belonging’ with NW Live Arts
NW Live Arts perform a fantastic melee of different types of music from different cultures interlaced with poetry readings exploring the meaning of ‘belonging’.
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Thinking On Sunday: The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class
Thinking On Sunday: The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class
Guy Standing investigates the precariat, a new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. Are you one of them and how has Covid affected you? This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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Keeping it Reel: A Sunday Assembly London Ceilidh
Keeping it Reel: A Sunday Assembly London Ceilidh
As we come out of our shelters and stretch our creaky joints, it's time to move these bodies once more. 5-1/2 years ago, Sunday Assembly London had its first ever ceilidh, and it was a huge success! We've decided to bring it back in celebration of this beautiful community staying strong.
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Ethical Matters: How to Stop Fascism
Ethical Matters: How to Stop Fascism
Fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. Paul Mason, the bestselling author of Post-Capitalism, offers a guide to resisting the far right. This talk will be held at Conway Hall AND online.
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Why Your Memories Are Wrong
Why Your Memories Are Wrong
Professor Kimberley Wade is a cognitive psychologist whose research explores the causes of autobiographical memory distortions. She will help us to understand how this phenomenon occurs and why it might actually be good for us.
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Premiere of the Fascinatin’ Rhythm Album with Alex Mendham and His Orchestra
Premiere of the Fascinatin’ Rhythm Album with Alex Mendham and His Orchestra
Synonymous across the world with the glamourous era of Art Deco and Jazz, Alex Mendham and his Orchestra invite you to embark on a romantic musical voyage through time as they premiere the Fascinatin’ Rhythm album.
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Ethical Matters: The Authority Gap – Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men
Ethical Matters: The Authority Gap – Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men
Mary Ann Sieghart provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women.
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