The Perils of Partnership in Public Health
Should exercise classes be funded by soda companies? Or addiction programmes, by opioid companies? Public bodies across the globe are partnering with corporations to address obesity, the opioid epidemic, and other pressing public health problems. Often, corporate “partners” are contributing to the very problems that governments are trying to solve. We are told industry must […]
Not Just a Refugee
A photographic exhibition by Adiam Yemane The exhibition is open all days of the week in the corridor. In celebration of Refugee Week 2019, this exhibition offers inspiring stories of newcomers who entered the UK claiming asylum or as refugees. It celebrates the lives of people who have worked hard to fulfil their potential and […]
Monument for Chelsea Manning
From April 2019, a bronze head and shoulders by John Reardon is on temporary loan to Conway Hall and can be found in The Library. The bust of Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower, sits alongside artwork and objects that celebrate the efforts of campaigners throughout history who have fought for issues such as the freedom […]
Victorian Blogging – The Pamphleteers Who Dared To Dream Of A Better World
Opening event 18:30-21:00, Thursday 12 September. Free, but booking required. The exhibition is open to the public every day of the week in the main corridor. Forgotten at the back of dusty desk drawers, hidden in crumbling box files on library shelves, the pamphlet’s disguise is of something unimportant, ephemeral and of little consequence. However, […]
Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance – a Discussion
How much do we know about the trials of life for the growing number of women forced to live on our streets, in hostels or in homeless shelters? Their presence is not just a personal tragedy, but a social and political act of violence and injustice. To mark the publication of Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma […]
Strategic Antifascism: Where Next for the Movement?
Anti-fascism as a reactive movement seldom has the change to reflect and think strategically about how best to counter a growing and increasingly diffuse fascist movement. Join the team behind the 12 Rules for WHAT podcast for a participatory workshop on fascism, antifascism and the far right as we identify emerging trends in the far […]
Radical Living in a Neoliberal City
Creating Boundaries, Breaking Borders. 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. How can we establish the boundaries that we need to feel secure, […]
Windrush, Migration & Reggae
Marking AntiUniversity Now 2019 & British Black Music Month 2019 History and music industry consultant Kwaku posits that there probably would not be the reggae genre or the global phenomenon that reggae has become, if it was not for the trafficking of Africans from African to the Caribbean, and the voluntary migration of Africans from […]
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, and their development in an austerity-stricken future. Primarily, Reading Room […]