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Our Place in the Universe: The Story of Modern Cosmology
Our Place in the Universe: The Story of Modern Cosmology
Dr Doddy Marsh describes advances in modern cosmology relating to theories of the size and origin of the Universe and Dark Matter, and how these theories are grounded in observational facts. The progress of cosmology has been collaborative, and also full of interaction and debate among competing ideas.
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Anthropomorphic and Naturalist Taxidermy Workshops
Anthropomorphic and Naturalist Taxidermy Workshops
In these classes you will be introduced to the processes and techniques behind basic taxidermy. You will learn how to skin, prep, preserve, mount and position your animal. You can choose to mount it realistically or anthropomorphically (ie wearing clothes) and at the end of the day you can take your stuffed creation home to occupy pride of place on your mantelpiece.
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Urban Curiosity Walkshop: Bloomsbury
Urban Curiosity Walkshop: Bloomsbury
On your Bloomsbury Urban Curiosity Walkshop you will reclaim time and headspace for creativity.Best of all?You will leave inspired by London's literary locale and be armed with practical tips to reframe your digital life and cultivate every day curiosity.
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Gef the Talking Mongoose
Gef the Talking Mongoose
Christopher Josiffe & Chris Hill On the eve of his 165th birthday (“I was born June 7th 1852, near Delhi, India…”), the London Fortean Society at Conway Hall present for your delectation the strange story of Gef the Talking Mongoose.
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How to: An Evening with Evgeny Kissin: Memoirs and Reflections
How to: An Evening with Evgeny Kissin: Memoirs and Reflections
Evgeny Kissin in conversation with Gilead Cooper, to mark the publication of Memoirs and Reflections, Kissin’s vividly personal account of a life in and beyond music, including the people and events that have nurtured and challenged him.
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Voice Collective: Advanced Working With Voices
Voice Collective: Advanced Working With Voices
Those of us who support children and young people who hear distressing or difficult voices are constantly developing, finding new ways to approach voice-hearing with young people and support them towards their self-defined recovery.Each young person and family is unique - one size does not fit all.
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An Introduction to User/Survivor Research in Mental Health
An Introduction to User/Survivor Research in Mental Health
One Day Course with Jayasree Kalathil, a researcher, writer and activist in mental health with over 15 years of experience. She runs the virtual collective, Survivor Research www.survivor-research.com
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Simrit: Songs of Resilience Global Unity Tour London
Simrit: Songs of Resilience Global Unity Tour London
Hailed world-wide for her haunting voice, music and rare ability to transmit deep humanity and pure love through her sound, Simrit has topped World Music Charts including iTunes at #1 for consecutive weeks at a time, many times over, and Billboard Music.
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American Carnage: Does Trump threaten the world?
American Carnage: Does Trump threaten the world?
Authoritarian. Narcissist. Sexist. White nationalist. Terribletweeter. These are just some of the epithets hurled at the 45th president of the United States since his shock election victory.Join our panel of experts to uncover what Donald Trump really wants – and how he plans to get it. Will he “make America great again”? Or should he make the rest of us very, very worried?
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Carpe Diem Regained
Carpe Diem Regained
We're welcoming the popular philosopher Roman Krznaric to our gathering to talk about this big old life topic. He will base his talk on his new book 'Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day', which explores the life-changing potential of carpe diem. He says that he will "delve into its many interpretations, from the grasping of opportunities to wild hedonism and calm living in the moment, and examines its hijacking by consumer and digital culture."
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Prospects for a solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict
Prospects for a solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict
This talk will review the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the reasons why the international effort for a two-state solution based on the Oslo parameters has failed and seems likely to continue to fail.
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The Green Children of Woolpit
The Green Children of Woolpit
One summer in the 12th century harvesters in the fields of the Suffolk village of Woolpit were amazed when two children suddenly appeared, as if out of the ground. Their skin was green, and they spoke an unintelligible language. Later, when they had learnt enough English to communicate, they said they came from a land called St Martin’s Land, where the sun never shone.
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Radicals – Outsiders Changing the World
Radicals – Outsiders Changing the World
The world is changing in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once considered extreme is now the mainstream. But what is the real power of radicals? And what does the future hold? Jamie Bartlett discusses these areas in his new book.
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Friday Club – May 2017
Friday Club – May 2017
Friday Club meets on a Friday. Our goal is to help you to work on whatever it is that makes you nervous about what lies ahead. We want to help you re-frame how you feel so that you can approach whatever it is that is making you fearful with curiosity, playfulness, and interest, and, with the help of the group, enjoy the thing that part of you wishes you could avoid!
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Psychologically Informed Environments: Therapeutic Regeneration
Psychologically Informed Environments: Therapeutic Regeneration
In this provocative talk Dr. Dean Whittington, author of Wrenching Open the Doors of Perception, Beaten into Violence and Psychologically Informed Environments (amongst others), talks about how to generate therapeutic regeneration of those groups previously written off.
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Beating the hell out of Fake News
Beating the hell out of Fake News
What is “fake news”? Are we really living in a “post-truth” society? Dr Sander van der Linden, who has recently attracted great media interest in his approach to responding to this hugely concerning phenomenon, will discuss how false memes can spread from one mind to another and explore the latest research on whether it is possible, amazingly, to develop a psychological “vaccine" against fake news.
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Stages of Self
Stages of Self
This exhibition presents the work of eight London based photographers, who came together at Conway Hall in February 2017 to explore the theme of the portrait: Jason Boxall, Sisi Burns, Jo Clemens, Romy McCarthy, Niaz Maleknia, Robert Raynard, Lydie Salima and Timothy Stubbs Hughes.
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The Art of Thinking – an exhibition of sketchbooks
The Art of Thinking – an exhibition of sketchbooks
An exhibition which aims to reveal the preliminary processes - through sharing a range of ways to record, explore, reflect and develop creative work. The Art of Thinking showcases the wide range of ways in which students from across University of the Arts London use sketchbooks to explore and develop their creative work. Co-curated by UAL students, the exhibition reveals the sources of inspiration, the experiments, the trials and the errors, and how they form a vital part of the creative journey.
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