Archived Events
Our Events
Our Events
-
-
-
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Cinderella Effect – A History of the Piano Quartet
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Cinderella Effect – A History of the Piano Quartet
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a free Pre-Concert Talk, exploring the impact of Mozart's first piano quartet.
In person | Virtual event
-
How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
In the 2010s socioeconomic factors led to the widespread and increased disenfranchisement of poorer people from the mainstream media and the institutions shaping it. To put it plainly: the vast majority of people now tasked with creating our media simply lack the sensibilities that have always driven artistic innovation.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
How to Reach Your Goals and Create the Life You Want
How to Reach Your Goals and Create the Life You Want
Learn to overcome self-imposed limitations and harness your innate limitless potential in this masterclass from the bestselling author of The Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
Better Answers to the Biggest Challenges of Our Time | with Esther Duflo
Better Answers to the Biggest Challenges of Our Time | with Esther Duflo
Immigration and inequality, slowing growth and climate change – these are sources of anxiety across the world. Award-winning MIT Professor Esther Duflo has bold new answers.
In person | Virtual event
-
The Healing Power Of Life Alignment
The Healing Power Of Life Alignment
Join Dr Jeff Levin, a visionary Master Healer and the founder of Life Alignment for a free evening of enlightening, life changing demonstrations. Experience this multi-dimensional healing system that assists in our quest towards optimal health and wellness.
In person | Virtual event
-
Apostasy and Illegal Schools
Apostasy and Illegal Schools
The school inspectorate, Ofsted, recently revealed that there are around 6000 children at potential risk in illegal schools in England. Those with a religious character are particularly pernicious, with children generally provided with an extremely narrow, faith-based curriculum and often exposing children to homophobic, misogynistic, and extremist literature.
In person | Virtual event
-
Dirty Dancing and Me: Katy Brand in Conversation with Hannah MacInnes
Dirty Dancing and Me: Katy Brand in Conversation with Hannah MacInnes
Award-winning comic Katy Brand pays homage to her obsession – a monster hit and work of genius with much to say about sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities: Dirty Dancing.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
Reflection: Conway Photography Group Exhibition
Reflection: Conway Photography Group Exhibition
The Conway Photography Group presents Reflection; an exhibition of work that is inspired by and connected with the local area around Conway Hall, personal projects and moments on the journey of Brexit.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
-
FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians – Eumelia Trio
FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians – Eumelia Trio
This FREE Pre-Concert Recital, featuring students from the Royal College of Music, will take place before the evening's Sunday Concert. Performing a programme of music entirely by woman composers, this week's ensemble will be the Eumelia Trio.
In person | Virtual event
-
The Irrational Ape: Why flawed logic puts us all at Risk, and How Critical Thinking can save the World
The Irrational Ape: Why flawed logic puts us all at Risk, and How Critical Thinking can save the World
In a world where fake news, mistrust of experts, prejudice and ignorance all too often hold sway, we can all too easily be misled over issues such as vaccinations, climate change or conspiracy theories. Knowing how to think clearly and critically has literally helped save the world.
In person | Virtual event
-
Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
The definitive history of how evil magic has survived into the present day from the largely rural world of Georgian Britain and the time of the British Empire to the multicultural present.
In person | Virtual event
-
Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed
Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed
Natalie Fiennes invests in a radical, inclusive and honest sex education, taking us beyond learning about the 'birds and the bees', to identifying inequality that stands in the way of sexual freedom.
In person | Virtual event
-
Chamber Philharmonic Europe
Chamber Philharmonic Europe
The unusually dissonant introduction to Mozart’s Quartet K465, dedicated to Joseph Haydn, opens a colourful programme of works for string quartet, spanning almost 150 years and featuring Janáček’s 1923 work inspired by Tolstoy’s novella.
In person | Virtual event
-
Pre-Concert Talk: Peter Quantrill – Small Steps and Giant Leaps
Pre-Concert Talk: Peter Quantrill – Small Steps and Giant Leaps
In this free pre-concert talk, o tie in with the Bloomsbury Festival, musicologist Peter Quantrill talks about the evening’s programme in the context of the development of the string quartet and its pioneers.
In person | Virtual event
-
Being and Believing: Questioning Religious Attitudes Towards LGBT People
Being and Believing: Questioning Religious Attitudes Towards LGBT People
LGBT people have contributed greatly to the society of Bloomsbury and enjoy a degree of freedom in London which is celebrated at the annual Pride festival. However, in many parts of the world, people still often experience a tension between their sexual identities and the attitudes which predominate within established religious institutions. In this discussion, we hear the stories of those from several faiths and cultures who have joined the quest to find a spiritual home, including those who have embraced secularism.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Truth to Power Cafe
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Truth to Power Cafe
London Artists Projects present a new International performance event mixing memoir, image, poetry, music and live testimony from participants speaking truth to power in response to the question ‘who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Compassion in Politics Visioning Workshop
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Compassion in Politics Visioning Workshop
We all know and feel that the political system is broken – or at least, it isn’t working as well as it should be. But what would a better or new one look like? We’re going to use this exciting opportunity to map out a new vision for our political system and how we will get to it.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Off World Living
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Off World Living
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of The Moon Landing. 50 years later we have yet to make it back, but there’s more than hope that this might change – and soon. Making it back to the Moon is seen as a stepping stone to the prospect of putting people on Mars – and they may settle there.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: A Little Light (Pain) Relief
Small Steps… Big Ideas: A Little Light (Pain) Relief
It’s not easy being a scientist. Most of what we do ends in utter failure and when our experiments do work no one really wants to know about it. UCL Professor of Pharmacy Ijeoma F. Uchegbu does not promise you a tale of a ground breaking event but a simple tale of small particles trying to make it big up someone’s nose and making them feel less pain.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Londoners
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Londoners
What does it mean to be a young Londoner today? This short documentary challenges mis-conceptions and celebrates the diverse individual and collective identity of a group of young Londoners, through first-hand interviews and a montage of experimental, archive and personal imagery.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Thinking Through Plastic
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Thinking Through Plastic
Join the team from UCL’s Plastic Waste Innovation Hub – one of eight world-leading research projects exploring new and different ways of making, using and recycling plastics – for an informative discussion about the current state of plastics and how to use it more sustainably.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Layers of London
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Layers of London
A panel discussion with Layers of London and invited guests on the theme of recording local history, lesser told stories, pioneers, democratising history, activists, and stories of change and development in the Bloomsbury area.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Layers of London – Collecting Histories
Small Steps… Big Ideas: Layers of London – Collecting Histories
Come along and explore Layers of London’s crowd-sourced history map of London. You can find stories and histories about your local area, delve into geo-referenced historical maps showing the city in different eras and add your own histories to contribute to this growing online platform.
In person | Virtual event
-
Small Steps, Big Ideas
Small Steps, Big Ideas
We are so thrilled to be bringing you this weekends Sunday Assembly as part of the Bloomsbury Festival. Small Steps, Big Ideas is a celebration of endeavour, progress, and pioneering achievements. Our speakers this week are from Jangala, a UK-based charity dedicated to enabling internet access for people in need of urgent humanitarian aid or longer-term development assistance.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
Bring Them Home
Bring Them Home
An award-nominated space adventure set in an alternate 1970s where players are put right into the heart of the age’s great space agencies. There is a tentative global alliance between America, Russia and Europe, and all hopes rest on one astronaut.
In person | Virtual event
-
AAAAAAAAAARGH!!! A Cartoon Anatomy of Contemporary British Politics
AAAAAAAAAARGH!!! A Cartoon Anatomy of Contemporary British Politics
Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist and writer. He gave a talk to Central London Humanists six years ago and we are delighted that he has offered to come and talk to us again and give us the cartoonist’s take on contemporary British politics!
In person | Virtual event
-
RETHINKING HAPPINESS – with Karen Guggenheim & Prof. Paul Dolan
RETHINKING HAPPINESS – with Karen Guggenheim & Prof. Paul Dolan
Karen Guggenheim and Professor Paul Dolan share inspiring insights and the latest research to help us rethink the prevailing view of happiness and discover a more authentic and meaningful way of living
In person | Virtual event
-
How to Be a Marxist: An Evening with Martin Hägglund & Lea Ypi
How to Be a Marxist: An Evening with Martin Hägglund & Lea Ypi
If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Yale philosopher Martin Hägglund and LSE philosopher Lea Ypi will consider some of the deepest questions of existence, arguing that only by stripping away their subtle illusions can we discover the true value of our earthly freedom.
In person | Virtual event
-
“Beyond Bulls*** Jobs”: Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with David Graeber
“Beyond Bulls*** Jobs”: Elizabeth Anderson in conversation with David Graeber
Join two of the world's leading intellectuals for an exploration of the history of our modern ideas of work - and how we can do it better.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
In Praise of Walking: The New Science of how we Walk and why it’s Good for us
In Praise of Walking: The New Science of how we Walk and why it’s Good for us
Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species and it’s this overlooked ability that could make unbelievable changes to us as individuals and to society, if we embraced it. Shane O’Mara celebrates this miraculous ability.
In person | Virtual event
-
Judging Religion: A Dialogue for Our Time
Judging Religion: A Dialogue for Our Time
John Holroyd will discuss his book Judging Religion: A Dialogue for Our Time with Anja Steinbauer, editor of Philosophy Now. His book has been reviewed as being ‘clearly written, carefully argued, motivated by universal goodwill yet unafraid of tackling bitterly controversial topics.’
In person | Virtual event
-
-
-
How to Own the Room: A Masterclass for Women in Public Speaking
How to Own the Room: A Masterclass for Women in Public Speaking
In this talk on the oratorical skills of a variety of brilliant women from Michelle Obama to Virginia Woolf, Viv Groskop will pinpoint exactly what it is that these women do to get their audience to sit up and really listen – and then advise you how to apply their qualities to your own lives.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
An Incomplete History of the LRB
An Incomplete History of the LRB
The London Review of Books invites readers behind the scenes for the first time, reproducing a fascinating selection of artefacts and ephemera from the paper’s archives, personal collections and forgotten filing cabinets, to bring an idiosyncratic slice of Bloomsbury’s heritage to life.
In person | Virtual event
-
-
Our Incredible Oceans
Our Incredible Oceans
We are so excited to have Caroline Riggs along to speak with us for this assembly! As the granddaughter of a lighthouse keeper she innately loves the seas. The ocean covers 71% of the earths surface and contains some of the most amazing creatures on this planet. Lets take some time during this assembly to wonder at just how incredible they are.
In person | Virtual event
Read more about how we use Cookies in our Privacy Policy.
We need your help!
We host talks, concerts, performances, community and social events. However, we are an independent charity and receive no funding from the government. Everything we do is dependent upon our commercial activity and the generosity of supporters like you.
Donate Now