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Ethical Yoga – Introductory Course
Ethical Yoga – Introductory Course
We hear a lot these days, that “yoga” is good for us. But why is that and what it is good for? Can yoga be for anyone? Does it need to be ‘spiritual’ to be of benefit? Over the four-week course, you will be introduced to fundamentals of the yoga “asana”, how to align the body, counter hyper-mobility, improve posture, core strength and safety techniques to ensure your own practice is muscle and not joint based.
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Rhinegold Live: The Allegri Quartet
Rhinegold Live: The Allegri Quartet
Beethoven: Op 18 No. 3 Mvt 1 (Allegro) Mvt 2 (Andante con moto)Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 11Alec Roth: String Quartet No. 3 Mvt 2 Mvt 3Ludwig Thuille: String Quartet No. 2 in G major Mvt 2 – Menuetto Allegretto
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Britain’s Head of State Should be Elected
Britain’s Head of State Should be Elected
In 1215 bad King John was confronted by his rebellious barons and forced to concede them some rights, later enshrined in the Magna Carta. Amazingly, for the next 800 years, apart from a 12 year blip in 1648, the monarchy has continued in this country. Now, in 2015, some rebellious commoners called ‘Republicans' are questioning the UK's claim to be a true democracy unless its head of state is elected. The pros and cons of this issue will be debated, and the degree of audience support for rebellion estimated.
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London Thinks: The Rise of UKIP
London Thinks: The Rise of UKIP
The Rise of UKIP: Where did it come from, and how far can it go in the general election? With just weeks to go until arguably the most unpredictable General Election in a generation, London Thinks invites you to a discussion in which we try to understand the UK Independence Party. We will be discussing the party's origins, who its supporters are and just why its message has been so effective. Will the "UKIP earthquake" continue on to the general election, and what could that mean for the future of British politics?
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A Taste of ACE: experience learning in the style of the School of Tomorrow – David Waldock
A Taste of ACE: experience learning in the style of the School of Tomorrow – David Waldock
A Taste of ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) will give you the experience of learning in the style of the School of Tomorrow. You'll participate in the morning rituals, complete a Taster PACE and gain an insight into how children are viewed in this fundamentalist Christian school system. You'll also hear about the experiences of ACE survivors, and about the impact it has on their lives, sometimes years after they've left. You'll never view the concept of religiously-inspired education the same....
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Behind the Headlines: What’s all the fuss about feminism?
Behind the Headlines: What’s all the fuss about feminism?
Why do some women hate feminism? What is the 'fourth wave' of feminism? Who decides what it means to be a feminist? Can men be feminists? And, with the pay gap still widening and sexism prominent across campus and offices, where has it really got anyone? With gender equality firmly on the news agenda, and comment and criticism from all sides, Guardian Live presents a range of voices from different generations and perspectives.
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Puzzling Body Phenomena
Puzzling Body Phenomena
As the title suggests, this talk is concerned with the living body experience in connection with the philosophical problem of Mind and Body within the existential and phenomenological framework. The focus will be on three different perspectives: how I perceive my body, my relationship to the body of the other and the perception of thedead body of the other which is relevant to discuss here as it provides a contrast to the living body experience.
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Social Equality in Action – Leading Experiential Workshops for Change
Social Equality in Action – Leading Experiential Workshops for Change
Social equality requires respectful ways of relating and awareness of our own and others’ goals and needs. However, whatever our personal or work circumstances or roles, we often find it difficult to exercise our rights and good authority and effectively meet our responsibilities.
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Should People have a Right to know their own Genome?
Should People have a Right to know their own Genome?
Our society produces unprecedented amounts of data today. Some of these data will be used in the health domain. Also the creation of genetic data has become much faster, and much less expensive; the result is that people can get their genome (all their DNA) analysed by private companies, and sometimes even in the clinic.Although experts disagree about whether or not this is a positive development, virtually everybody agrees that we are far away from understanding what our genome data mean. Contrary to the expectation of some people, knowing our genome does not tell us what we will die of, or how long we will live.
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5×15 featuring Jay Rayner, Matt Haig, Laura Bates and more
5×15 featuring Jay Rayner, Matt Haig, Laura Bates and more
5x15: 5 exceptional speakers have 15 minutes each to take to the stage to inform, inspire and entertain. It’s a little known fact that restaurant critic Jay Rayner would take a piano to his desert island. This evening he speaks about jazz piano and hungry jazz.
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Sunday Concerts – Odysseus Trio
Sunday Concerts – Odysseus Trio
Sara Trickey - violin Gregor Riddell - cello Clare Hammond - pianoPre-concert recital at 5.30pm: Adam Brown - guitar Journey to the Amazon: Solo guitar recital presenting a musical journey through South America. Works by Piazzolla, Lauro, Villa-Lobos, Montes and Brouwer will highlight the melodic lyricism and dynamic interplay of Latin America's vibrant musical spirit.
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Sartre and the Anguish of Freedom
Sartre and the Anguish of Freedom
Sartre proclaimed how free we are – able to choose what to do, be and feel. But this freedom is not a liberation but a life-sentence – with hard labour. If we are to follow Sartre’s exacting strictures on avoiding bad faith, then we will always be scrupulously monitoring ourselves for authenticity, and it will be virtually impossible to be sincere – about our emotions, our sexuality, our love.
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Hack Ballet Fashion Mash-Up
Hack Ballet Fashion Mash-Up
Choreographer Briar Adams and the dancers of Hack Ballet celebrate London Fashion Week with an evening of new dance and new fashion. Dancers with strong contemporary and ballet technique are joined in an evening of partnering and improvisation with young designers showing their work on the dancing body.
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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: A Deal that will end our Freedom
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: A Deal that will end our Freedom
Ever heard of TTIP - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership? It is a “Free Trade” deal with the United States currently under consideration by the European Union. Trade deals used to be about removing import tariffs.
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The Story 2015
The Story 2015
The Story is returning to Conway Hall for its sixth (!) year of inspiring talks and interesting stuff. Last year we had Alan Rusbridger on Snowden and the NSA leaks, Bryony Kimmings on creating awesome role models for kids, Gruff Rhys on American Interior, Iain & Jane on making the brilliant Nick Cave film 20,000 days on earth, and the unforgettable Stella Duffy on Fun Palaces.
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Lincé Memorial Concert
Lincé Memorial Concert
Memorial Concert in memory of Mary and Martin Lincé in aid of Help Musicians UK (Registered Charity No 228089). Watch the Chilingirian Quartet perform Haydn's Piano Trio in C Hob. XV/27, Ravel's String Quartet, and Schumann's Piano Quintet in Eb Op.44. All proceeds from this concert will be donated to Help Musicians UK (Registered Charity No. 228089). Help Musicians UK is the working name of the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
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Sarah Rozenthuler – How to Have that Big Conversation
Sarah Rozenthuler – How to Have that Big Conversation
Having life-changing conversations and talking about something that matters is a big threshold to cross. Communicating effectively at work and in your personal life strengthens relationships, opens doors to new opportunities and makes you feel better about yourself and others.
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Space-Time Continuum
Space-Time Continuum
What will we want to keep from today? What would you like to lose? Free fun family art workshops at Conway Hall during the February half term holiday for families with children aged 7 - 11.The artist led workshops, called Space-Time Continuum explore our visions of the future. The workshops offer the opportunity for parents and children to participate in a joint activity.
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Guardian Live – Trade secrets: lifting the lid on TTIP
Guardian Live – Trade secrets: lifting the lid on TTIP
What is TTIP, other than an ugly acronym? And will it boost global prosperity by billions of pounds every year – or just make big business ever more influential and unaccountable? Is the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership – TTIP – between the European Union and the United States simply a free trade agreement, as presented by its political supporters? Or is it something more sinister driven by corporate greed rather than people’s needs?
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Sunday Concerts – Delta Piano Trio
Sunday Concerts – Delta Piano Trio
Mozart: Divertimento in B flat K254 Beethoven: Trio E flat in Op.70/2 Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht Op.4 (arr. Steuermann)The Delta Piano Trio was founded in Salzburg (Austria) by three young Dutch performers: violinist Gerard Spronk, cellist Irene Enzlin and pianist Vera Kooper.
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Is Anarchism Relevant in Today’s World?
Is Anarchism Relevant in Today’s World?
When Tony Blair committed the British government to join the war in Iraq, the huge demonstrations against were unsuccessful. Has society learnt anything from this and, in particular, does anarchism have a role to play?The ideal of anarchism is the abolition of all government and the organisation of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. Indeed, this is the ideal of socialism in general. Authoritarian and anarchistic socialism are associated with the names of Marx and Bakunin.
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The Vanished Self Returns: A Case Study
The Vanished Self Returns: A Case Study
"The Vanished Self Returns: A Case Study" Presented by Annie McDonald. Writer, producer, and psychodynamic psychotherapist, Annie MacDonald, presents an intriguing case study of one of her patients.
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The Conway Cohort
The Conway Cohort
Eight dancers are being given space, mentoring, and performance opportunities as part of an exciting new artists’ residency scheme at London's iconic Conway Hall, funded by Arts Council England. They are: Jade Montserrat, Siân Goldby, Lydia Cottrell, Mark Carberry, Chantal Francis, Briar Adams, Laura Brera and Tania Soubry.
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Where did you come from?
Where did you come from?
"Where did you come from?" by Jeffrey Herrmann."Where Did You Come From? From Genealogy to Genes... From Family History to the History of our Species."Jeffrey has given talks to CLHG in the past, and we are delighted that he has agreed to talk to us again, on one of his favourite topics.
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Sunday Concerts – Werther Ensemble
Sunday Concerts – Werther Ensemble
The Werther Ensemble gave their first performance as a piano quartet in February 2013, when they played Brahms’ op 60 -’the Werther’ - from which they take their name. In May 2013 they made an enormous impact at the inaugural Whittington International Chamber Music Festival, of which James Barralet is the Artistic Director, and were again resident ensemble in 2014.
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So, there is no God. Is that so?
So, there is no God. Is that so?
This event, going against the grain of the Conway Hall Ethical Society, considers two different views of the monotheistic “God”. One is given by Anthony O’Neill, Siemens Professor of Microelectronics at Newcastle University, who will invite us to reconsider the very atheistic foundations on which our Society was formed by saying what being a Christian means to him.
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Close Up II: The Relevance of The Collective
Close Up II: The Relevance of The Collective
The Relevance of the Collective will investigate the role of the collective within the photography industry; from establishing and co-ordinating, to how the collective impacts on an individuals work.Our speakers will discuss their own experiences and opinions of collectives, as well as answer questions from the audience and debate hot topics we face within the world of photography that on a daily basis.
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Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture 2015 On Liberty
Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture 2015 On Liberty
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty and tireless campaigner for human rights, will deliver the 2015 lecture in memory of Corin Redgrave. In the introduction to her recently published best-selling book 'On Liberty' Shami writes: ''These are challenging times for human rights. The ill-judged and misnamed 'War on Terror' has morphed into a permanent state of exception becoming the rule. This has been triggered not only by horrific crimes against people and the terror of collapsing towers but by collapsing markets, economies and institutions. No one is above the law. Yet some have readily decided that the rule of law is too exacting and human rights principles too expensive in times of insecurity and austerity.
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Eyewitness Stories from Occupied Palestine
Eyewitness Stories from Occupied Palestine
Nikki Ray is our first speaker of our 2015 CLHG Talk series. Please note this months talk is on a Friday as we have our AGM on the Wednesday. Nikki recently served as a human rights monitor for three months in the West Bank and will speak of her experiences and how the occupation affects Palestinians daily. 25 year old Nikki recently completed a master's degree in Human Rights Law at SOAS, University of London and was eager to do something practical with her degree. She has been a dedicated anti-arms trade and peace campaigner over the last few years and focused on gender and conflict in her master's degree.
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London Thinks – A Scientist, an Atheist Biblical Scholar and a Vicar walk Into An Ethical Society…
London Thinks – A Scientist, an Atheist Biblical Scholar and a Vicar walk Into An Ethical Society…
Dr Adam Rutherford, Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Rev Giles Fraser in conversation with Samira Ahmed about life, the universe, and everything. Chaired by Samira Ahmed.Religion, science and ethics have always had difficult relationship. From the time of Galileo’s house arrest for heliocentrism during the Roman Inquisition, the Catholic Church’s stance on the use of contraception, religious views on same-sex relationships, among other controversial cases. But are attitudes improving? Scientist - such as Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss - have put forward that a scientific worldview is the right stance for future progress and all religions are irrelevant in the modern world. With the recent abolition of blasphemy law in the UK in 2008, and the Anglican Church’s change in stance on same-sex relationships in 2013, it seems well formed moral and ethical guidance can come from secular as well as religious communities.
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Sunday Concerts – Tippett Quartet
Sunday Concerts – Tippett Quartet
For over a decade and a half, the celebrated Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated, virtuosic performances, and its inspired and attractive programming. The quartet has performed at the BBC Proms and numerous festivals throughout the UK and abroad, and has recently toured Europe, Canada and Mexico.
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The Ethics of Gambling
The Ethics of Gambling
Given that most people who gamble lose most of the time, why on earth do they do it? Chris Bratcher, who has been a regular casino-goer and occasional punter elsewhere for many years, as well as a former Treasurer and Chairman of Conway Hall Ethical Society, examines the reasons for doing it, and losing at it. Risk - and the judgement of risk - is part of life, and can be life-enhancing. The mushrooming variety of forms of gambling and places to do it, with attendant social evils, give gambling a bad name, as the ‘opium of the people’. Chris will attempt to rehabilitate some forms, whilst condemning others, by examining the plethora of gambles on offer that have come to dominate the lives of many.
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