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The Likely Future of Israel in a Self-imposed One-state Situation
The Likely Future of Israel in a Self-imposed One-state Situation
Retired open University academic Dr Brian Beeley will consider the effects of President Trump’s rejection of the ‘two-state’ mantra for Israel and the implications if Israel retains control of all of historic Palestine (plus Syria’s Golan Heights).
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Reading Room Launch
Reading Room Launch
Join Leonie Rousham,Ishwari Bhalerao, Bea Macdonald and Sally Plowman for the launch of Reading Room as a means of creating connections and opening dialogue about the function, aesthetic and user culture of library collections and small press production in the age of digital information.
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The Gardeners
The Gardeners
World premiere of a new chamber opera by Robert Hugill & Joanna Wyld, conductor William Vann.The graves belong to the Dead, who once invaded the land in which they lie. Tensions rise between three generations of family who look after war graves in a politically divided region.
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Ending the War on Drugs – for Workers, for Justice
Ending the War on Drugs – for Workers, for Justice
This panel discussion led by Health Poverty Action brings together speakers from trade unions, racial justice campaigners, farmers working in the drugs trade to discuss what legal regulation could look like.
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Authentic Happiness – With Mo Gawdat & Anahita Moghaddam
Authentic Happiness – With Mo Gawdat & Anahita Moghaddam
How can we be happier and help create a happier society? At this special event, Mo Gawdat and Anahita Moghaddam will look at how our identities and relationships shape our world. And they'll share practical ideas that we can all use to live more wisely.
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Windrush, Migration & Reggae
Windrush, Migration & Reggae
Join Kwaku for this relaxed presentation on the development of reggae through migrations, over and beyond the one Windrush voyage from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948. There will be ample opportunity for participants to ask questions and contribute to the narrative.
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I is for Insult: questioning “Borderline Personality Disorder”
I is for Insult: questioning “Borderline Personality Disorder”
Mind in Camden's one-day workshop will cover both practical and theoretical approaches to the disputed diagnosis of “Borderline Personality Disorder”, facilitated by someone with lived / living experience of these issues.
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Thinking on Sunday: Lowborn – Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Thinking on Sunday: Lowborn – Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Kerry Hudson discusses her book Lowborn with James Bloodworth, author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain. Lowborn is a powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on poverty in Britain – a unique book that we all need to pay attention to.
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Radical Living in a Neoliberal City
Radical Living in a Neoliberal City
How does one live well in a city almost designed to make you feel isolated, tired, anxious and poor? Artists/activists/teachers/amateur thinkers Sam Siva and Sam Berkson lead a discussion on how to live radical lives in a neo-liberal city.
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Radical Spaceflight Group
Radical Spaceflight Group
This workshop with Giles Bunch is for people who are already interested in space exploration, as well as anyone new to the subject who wants to learn more in a supportive, friendly environment. The session will centre around the theme of “the ‘frontier’ in deep space”.
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Labour Heritage AGM
Labour Heritage AGM
Labour Heritage will hold its AGM business meeting from 2.10-2.40pm followed at 2.40pm by two speakers and discussion: Steve Schiffereson ‘The Rise and Fall of the Labour Correspondent’ and Michael Tichelar on ‘Why is London Labour?’ Non-members welcome.
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Trans and Queer Approaches to Prison Abolition
Trans and Queer Approaches to Prison Abolition
This panel will include members of London Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee, Community Action on Prison Expansion and Bent Bars, who will discuss prison abolition from a trans and queer perspective, followed by a strategy workshop.
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Space to Play: A Workshop Led by Learning Disabled Artists
Space to Play: A Workshop Led by Learning Disabled Artists
A workshop led by Spare Tyre exploring play, performance and the body in space led by learning disabled artists. You will be guided through how to make performances and create a space to play in, with experimentation with sounds, movements, touch, vibrations, colours.
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The Courage to be Myself – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings through Social Interest
The Courage to be Myself – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings through Social Interest
Azhar Juri applies Adlerian perspectives to his experience of growing up, supporting his single mother raising 6 sons, and tells the story of how he found the courage to discover and practise his lifestyle goals, overcome his inferiority complex and find his individual significance and mastery of his own life.
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Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
The scientific study of magic reveals intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the mysteries of the human mind. In this talk Dr Gustav Kuhn examines the psychological processes that underpin our experience of magic.
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Live the Values – Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series – By Sunandaji
Live the Values – Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series – By Sunandaji
This year's lectures on the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ by Sunandaji are about learning to live values in life such as peace, duty, love and knowledge through a systematic and rational exposition of the knowledge of life and living.
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Wellness and Hope Without Religion Conference
Wellness and Hope Without Religion Conference
The conference will examine personal experiences of what roles religion plays in gaining and maintaining wellness / well-being of believers and those with faiths. The session will also look into what roles religion played in wellness / well-being of those who have left organised religions and those who no longer have faith.
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An Evening with Faith Ringgold
An Evening with Faith Ringgold
Artist, activist, educator and author Faith Ringgold will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at Serpentine Galleries, to discuss her practice and the different series of works she created over the past 50 years that are included in her exhibition at Serpentine Gallery, her first solo exhibition in a European public institution.
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London Mental Health, Children and Young Adults Seminar
London Mental Health, Children and Young Adults Seminar
This event will feature myriad speakers discussing mental health in relation to carers, children and young adults. There'll be time for questions and a panel discussion in the afternoon. All attending will also receive a mental health handbook filled with exclusive articles, interviews and resources.
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Simon Callaghan and Friends: Sunday Concerts Fundraising Night
Simon Callaghan and Friends: Sunday Concerts Fundraising Night
Director of Music Simon Callaghan takes to the stage with leading fellow musicians, in a colourful programme to close our Spring 2019 season. Funds raised will support the continuation of our concert series.
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Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
Thinking on Sunday: Who Owns England?
From secret military islands to tunnels deep beneath London, writer and activist Guy Shrubsole unearths truths concealed since the Domesday Book about who is really in charge of this country – at a time when Brexit is meant to be returning sovereignty to the people.
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Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet
Morgan Szymanski & Benyounes Quartet
Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski was highlighted as 'one to watch' by Gramophone magazine. For his second Conway Hall concert, he comes together with the Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than two hundred years.
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250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Manchester United
250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Manchester United
The final night of this year’s LFFW sees award-winning journalist Daniel Storey discuss his latest book which explores one of the most infamous incidents in Premier League history - that Cantona kung-fu kick. Daniel will be in conversation with United fan Carl Anka in what promises to be an insightful, engrossing and unforgettable end to the Festival.
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Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism with Geert Lovink and Emily
Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism with Geert Lovink and Emily
Pluto Live and Conway Hall are delighted to host the official book launch for Geert Lovink's new book Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism published by Pluto Press. Geert will be joined by chair Emily Reynolds.
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Witch Hunts Today: From Matthew Hopkins to Twenty-First Century Persecution
Witch Hunts Today: From Matthew Hopkins to Twenty-First Century Persecution
Harmful practices due to belief in witchcraft have seen a huge increase in the past six years both globally and in the UK and Kirsty Brimelow QC and author and campaigner Syd Moore have joined forces to expose this phenomenon.
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The Alex City Quiz 2019
The Alex City Quiz 2019
At a time when the question of Brexit is stumping the country, cartoon banker Alex Masterley invites you to answer some much easier questions at the tenth annual Alex City Quiz, hosted by Alex creator Russell Taylor and journalist and writer Marcus Berkmann.
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World Bee Day comes to London
World Bee Day comes to London
Conway Hall, the Slovenian Embassy and Bee Midtown are hosting an event in celebration of World Bee Day. The aim of World Bee Day is to raise awareness of the importance of bees and other pollinators for their contribution to sustainable development, food security and biodiversity.
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Thinking on Monday: YouTubers – How YouTube shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars
Thinking on Monday: YouTubers – How YouTube shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars
Chris Stokel-Walker lifts the lid on YouTube's culture and influence based on his book 'YouTubers'. The first independent, in-depth book investigating YouTube. He investigates the past, present and future of the world’s most popular video sharing website and its impact on society.
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Women of Westminster – The MPs Who Changed Politics
Women of Westminster – The MPs Who Changed Politics
In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Rachel Reeves MP writes of the inspirational achievements of women in parliament over the course of the past 100 years.
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Monument for Chelsea Manning
Monument for Chelsea Manning
*Every Tue • Wed • Thu until Oct 2019* Monument for Chelsea Manning is on temporary loan to Conway Hall Library and is an ongoing project by artist John Reardon. Reardon is artist in residence in the Politics Department at Goldsmiths, London.
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Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
Conway Hall, Antiuniversity Now and the London Anti-fascist Assembly (LAFA) invite you to join author Mark Bray, who will talk about the growing threat of global fascism and discuss possible directions towards building a coordinated, strong and sustainable antifascist movement.
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Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Gene Editing: Future People and Future Worlds
Professor John Harris has been working on the ethics of influencing evolution and indeed on the nature of “persons” since around 1973. In this talk he will argue that we have good reasons to embrace revolutionary technologies in germ line modification, including CRISPR/CAS9 and MRT.
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Five Secrets to Happy Children
Five Secrets to Happy Children
An evening discussion session, looking at 5 aspects of parenting that will help those with care of children to develop strategies that work to build respect, resilience, independence and resourcefulness – all essential qualities and strengths needed both in parents and children to make raising children an experience where everyone feels good!
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Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
Thinking on Sunday: Examining Intelligence – Novelists on Education and Mental Ability
How do you rate your own intelligence? In these three short talks Dr Michael Collins, Dr Sara Lyons and Dr Natasha Periyan will discuss how novelists such as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain think about intelligence both in and out of the classroom.
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One World
One World
One World is new choral theatre written by award-winning songwriter Helen Yeomans. The show illuminates the crossroads at which the human race presently stands and how we relate to each other and our environment. Powerful, fresh and uplifting. “One of the most moving musical events I have ever experienced”.
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This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
This is Shakespeare – A Night of Big Ideas and Theatrical Magic
What does Romeo and Juliet say about #MeToo? Or Julius Caesar about Donald Trump? Michael Pennington, Natascha McElhone, Jonathan Forbes and Oxford’s Emma Smith star in a dazzling tribute to the greatest playwright of the 21st or any other century.
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