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Ethical Matters:
Wild City: Living with Urban WildlifeConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
Wild City: Living with Urban WildlifeExplore the city where red kite and parakeets thrive alongside bluebell and yarrow. Peregrine falcons nest on the ledges of tower blocks and mosquitos native to the London Underground. Join Florence Wilkinson and Meryl Pugh to consider cohabiting and protecting the animal life of the city.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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Sunday Concerts:
Carducci QuartetConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Carducci QuartetThe Carducci Quartet displays "playing of constant variety, a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose." (The Strad) Their performance features a Conway Hall premiere of a new work by popular TV series composer, Peter Gregson.
In person | No Option
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Ethical Matters:
How To DisagreeConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
How To DisagreeIan Leslie reveals the secrets of how to disagree – without fighting – and shows how mastering the techniques of productive disagreement can transform every aspect of our lives.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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Sunday Concerts:
Chaos QuartetConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Chaos QuartetRecently awarded prizes at a number of prestigious music competitions, the Chaos String Quartet is quickly establishing itself on the international music scene. Their Conway Hall début programme includes some early works by Mozart, Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, and György Kurtág’s 1989 quartet.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
Berkeley Ensemble & Simon CallaghanConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Berkeley Ensemble & Simon CallaghanThe Berkeley Ensemble join forces with Conway Hall's Director of Music, Simon Callaghan, to play two of the most-loved works for clarinet trio. Their programme concludes with a true 'party piece', Dohnányi's Sextet - a truly exuberant way to close our autumn series of concerts at Conway Hall.
In person | No Option
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Yule Rock
Sunday Assembly London Presents:
Yule Rock
Come one, come all to Sunday Assembly London's annual seasonal sing-along, Yule Rock! We're decking the halls and jingling our bells as we return to Conway Hall for the most festive night of the year. All your favourite Christmas classics will be included, from Elton to Wizzard, plus a few surprises, as always.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
Maria CanyigueralConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Maria CanyigueralWith performances ranging from Bach to Mompou, Maria Canyigueral's performances at Conway Hall have become a true highlight. Her recital comprises Beethoven's three sonatas of opus 2, the first of his 'magnum opus' of 32 sonatas spanning his whole compositional life.
In person | No Option
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Ethical Matters:
Bad DataConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
Bad DataPoliticians make vital decisions every day that rely on official data. But should all statistics be trusted? Georgina Sturge draws back the curtain on how governments of the past and present have been led astray by figures littered with inconsistency, guesswork and uncertainty.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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Spotlight Live ‘Unplugged’ – Evening
CrazySexyCoool Entertainment Presents:
Spotlight Live ‘Unplugged’ – Evening
We champion talent - join us to witness awe-inspiring backing-singers bringing Soul, Blues & Jazz music to life and a guest chef curating a Tasting Menu for your pleasure. Come feast on the music and food.
In person | No Option
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Spotlight Live ‘Unplugged’ – Early Show
CrazySexyCoool Entertainment Presents:
Spotlight Live ‘Unplugged’ – Early Show
We champion talent - join us to witness awe-inspiring backing-singers bringing Soul, Blues & Jazz music to life and a guest chef curating a Tasting Menu for your pleasure. Come feast on the music and food.
In person | No Option
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The London Lasses ‘LL25’ – 25th Anniversary Album Launch
Irish Music and Dance in London Presents:
The London Lasses ‘LL25’ – 25th Anniversary Album Launch
This internationally renowned band deliver a wealth of traditional material from all over Ireland, including songs in Irish and English, plus the full gamut of Irish dance tunes, from the venerably ancient to the newly composed. This year marks their 25th Anniversary and the band are proud to release their 6th album ‘LL25’ in celebration.
In person | No Option
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London Fortean Society:
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & MagicLondon Fortean Society:
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & MagicArchivist Victoria Jenkins presents her major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive. This talk offers in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy, secret societies, folklore and more.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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Sunday Concerts:
Barbican Quartet + Pre-Concert TalkConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Barbican Quartet + Pre-Concert TalkFirst prize winners of the 2019 Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition, as well as the 2018 St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet are quickly establishing themselves internationally.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
Schwarzenberg TrioConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Schwarzenberg TrioThe Schwarzenberg Trio's Conway Hall début was one of the casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic, and we are so pleased that we are finally able to welcome this distinguished Austrian ensemble and their "technical finesse".
In person | No Option
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Ethical Matters:
What’s in a Doughnut Hole? (And Other Philosophical Food for Thought)Conway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
What’s in a Doughnut Hole? (And Other Philosophical Food for Thought)Does a doughnut hole exist? Using food to explore classic philosophical puzzles and paradoxes about how we know things, abstract ideas about our world, language and about how we define the truth, Suki Finn will get your brain whirring and your stomach grumbling.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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The First Rule of Mental Fight Club…
Sunday Assembly London Presents:
The First Rule of Mental Fight Club…
Ian McCartney and Neil Coles will talk about Mental Fight Club, an open, welcoming group which puts on exciting, well-organised and inspirational creative events and projects. Its aim is to narrow the divide between the ‘ill’ and the ‘well’ through social engagement.
In person | Virtual event
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Looking Bach: 300 Years Since the Well-Tuned Keyboard
Vache Baroque Festival Presents:
Looking Bach: 300 Years Since the Well-Tuned Keyboard
An exciting collection of musicians and artists will showcase two timeless collections by Johann Sebastian Bach compiled around 300 years ago: his ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ Book 1.
In person | No Option
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Secular Celebration: Then and Now
Being Human Festival Presents:
Secular Celebration: Then and Now
Discover the poems and songs that Victorians read to celebrate life events and bring people together outside of the bounds of religion. Visit Conway Hall’s library to learn about nineteenth-century secular celebrations and discover the emotions, themes, and ideas these poems share with those chosen to be part of secular ceremonies today.
Library | No Option
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London Fortean Society
The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Monsters and GhostsLondon Fortean Society
The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Monsters and GhostsThe Haunted Landscape calls again with demons in the landscape, kings sleeping beneath the ground and the ghosts that have followed us through all of human history. Join the London Fortean Society at Conway Hall for a day of talks and short films on the folklore of Britain and beyond.
In person | Virtual event
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Sing Like A Vagabond: Cries and Songs from the Streets of Victorian London
Being Human Festival Presents:
Sing Like A Vagabond: Cries and Songs from the Streets of Victorian London
Historian Oskar Jensen and acclaimed singer of forgotten songs Patricia Hammond combine for an evening exploring what it meant to sing on the streets of Victorian London.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
Trio Havisham & Tal WalkerConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Trio Havisham & Tal WalkerThe 2022 CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition First Prize was awarded to Trio Havisham and we are excited to welcome them for their Conway Hall debut. Concert pianist Tal Walker features in a pre-concert recital, performing a selection of French piano Préludes and Nocturnes.
In person | No Option
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North London COP
Camden New Journal & Islington Tribune Presents:
North London COP
Join us for this special climate summit, our very own North London COP, with some of the key thinkers shaping the climate debate. We are hosting a series of debates and panel discussions along with stalls and performances.
In person | No Option
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Ethical Matters:
Museums That Make A DifferenceConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
Museums That Make A DifferenceMuseums are there to educate us, to broaden our vistas of the world. But can some help us to change the world for the better? We invite two radical museums, the Migration Museum and the Museum of Neoliberalism, to discuss their visions, ethos and logistics of making a place that makes a difference.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe
London Fortean Society Presents:
The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe
Join renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock, in conversation with artist and art writer Matthew Collings, as he presents a pan-global collection of remarkable and arresting images drawn from the history of art to explore the ancient belief that the cosmos is reflected in all living things.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
Jubilee QuartetConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Jubilee Quartet"Brilliant and distinctive…fresh and new…makes the music’s architecture expressive in its own right" (The Telegraph). The Jubilee Quartet's recent recording of Haydn drew rave reviews from the press. For their return to Conway Hall, they begin with some Haydn before an exciting combination of Schubert works.
In person | No Option
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Ethical Matters:
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate UpheavalConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate UpheavalGaia Vince presents an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live. Migration is not the problem – it is the solution.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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Dig Into The Past
Sunday Assembly London Presents:
Dig Into The Past
Let's go on a DigVenture! Maiya Pina-Dacier is an archaeologist and Head of Community at DigVentures, an organisation that helps ordinary people experience the excitement of going on an archaeological dig. She will tell us all about how this incredible organisation got started and what you can do to support their work.
In person | Virtual event
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An Eye for Ethics:
Thirteen with Screen QueensConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
An Eye for Ethics:
Thirteen with Screen QueensFeminist film critics Screen Queens team up with Conway Hall for a screening of the teen cult classic, Thirteen, by Catherine Harwick and Nikki Reed. After the film, the Screen Queens will host an interactive conversation, delving into the ethical questions that the film brings up for them.
In person | No Option
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AEG Presents:
PJ Harvey with Frank Skinner – Orlam: A ConversationAEG Presents:
PJ Harvey with Frank Skinner – Orlam: A ConversationIn this spoken-word, non-music event, PJ Harvey will recite poems from her new book, and joins in conversation with the renowned English comic and writer Frank Skinner. Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as a gifted poet – whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
I MusicantiConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
I MusicantiI Musicanti is made up of distinguished performers in some of the best orchestras. What unites them is their ceaseless musical curiosity, a palpable sense of adventure and an unswerving commitment to excellence.
In person | No Option
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Small Publishers Fair 2022
Small Publishers Fair 2022
The Small Publishers Fair brings to Conway Hall sixty nine publishers from across the UK and further afield. It is a snapshot of some of best small press publishing around today and includes artists’ books, fine press editions, poetry pamphlets and zines.
In person | No Option
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Small Publishers Fair 2022
Small Publishers Fair 2022
The Small Publishers Fair brings to Conway Hall sixty nine publishers from across the UK and further afield. It is a snapshot of some of best small press publishing around today and includes artists’ books, fine press editions, poetry pamphlets and zines.
In person | No Option
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Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Philippe Sands
Waterstones Presents:
Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Philippe Sands
Join Andrey Kurkov to celebrate the publication of Diary of an Invasion. As one of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, this journal is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey will be in conversation with author Philippe Sands.
In person | No Option
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Sunday Concerts:
Greenwich Trio + Pre-Concert TalkConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Sunday Concerts:
Greenwich Trio + Pre-Concert TalkDescribed by Bernard Greenhouse as "the new Beaux Arts Trio", the Greenwich Trio are earning a formidable reputation. Their performance for Conway Hall foregrounds the contributions made to the repertoire by Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, alongside their male colleagues.
In person | No Option
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Ethical Matters:
Free To Speak: Protest and SurviveConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Ethical Matters:
Free To Speak: Protest and SurviveThe Government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act is a severe threat to protest and freedom of expression. Civil rights barrister Owen Greenhall will feature alongside writer and activist Shanice Octavia McBean to examine the effects of the act and ask what can be done.
Brockway Room | Virtual event
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Words and Deeds – Natalie Harper & Alex Pearson
Bloomsbury Festival Presents:
Words and Deeds – Natalie Harper & Alex Pearson
Performed by Natalie Harper and Alex Pearson, Words and Deeds is a selection of Suffrage Plays written when women had to fight to speak their minds about the inequality of society, and linking across time to the women of today, who are still continuing the fight.
Library | No Option
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Death of an Orange
Bloomsbury Festival Presents:
Death of an Orange
Death of an Orange is a new bi-lingual play based on Ekjon Komolalebu (To Be An Orange). This play was written in celebration of the anniversary of 50 years of Bangladesh Independence and is translated from Bengali by Amy Parsons.
In person | No Option
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Resisting Through Rest – Black Indies and the Pandemic
Bloomsbury Festival Presents:
Resisting Through Rest – Black Indies and the Pandemic
Onyx Magazine’s discussion will be based around incorporating rest into organisational structures and the concept of a Fallow Year, looking at how indie publications have reacted to the pandemic with care and compassion.
Brockway Room | No Option
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From Thoughts to Paper – Writers Workshop
Bloomsbury Festival Presents:
From Thoughts to Paper – Writers Workshop
Join an intimate writing workshop with experienced professionals from various writing backgrounds. An open space to ask questions, participate in group and solo activities, alongside connecting with other writers.
Brockway Room | No Option
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Words and Deeds – Natalie Harper & Alex Pearson
Bloomsbury Festival Presents:
Words and Deeds – Natalie Harper & Alex Pearson
Performed by Natalie Harper and Alex Pearson, Words and Deeds is a selection of Suffrage Plays written when women had to fight to speak their minds about the inequality of society, and linking across time to the women of today, who are still continuing the fight.
Library | No Option
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Daytimers Mehfil: An Evening of South Asian Poetry
Bloomsbury Festival Presents:
Daytimers Mehfil: An Evening of South Asian Poetry
Daytimers, the collective at the heart of the re-emerging Asian Underground, present an evening spotlighting and celebrating South Asian poetry. Featuring performances from poets Azan Ahmed, Jay Mitra, Rupinder Kaur Waraich, flute duo 2 Flutes and DJ Sway of the Verses.
In person | No Option
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Land of Promise: Rediscovering the Roots of a New Society
Town and Country Planning Association Presents:
Land of Promise: Rediscovering the Roots of a New Society
‘Land of Promise’ is a words and music presentation from Chris Ellis and Rosie Toll, which journeys through three and a half centuries of radical thought, writing, and song about the connection between art, social justice and the living environment.
In person | No Option
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Bloomsbury Festival:
Stories of SongConway Hall Ethical Society Presents:
Bloomsbury Festival:
Stories of SongWe're thrilled to welcome two exceptional singers Miki Berenyi (Lush) and David McAlmont (McAlmont & Butler), for an evening filled with live performance and conversation about their songs, influences, passions and experience of navigating their industry as artists.
In person | No Option
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