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. Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all […]
Victorian Blogging Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Join Conway Hall Library & Archives to edit and add information about nineteenth-century freethinkers and social and political reformers to Wikipedia. Help us to celebrate and raise awareness of the valuable input of humanists to key nineteenth-century reforms and campaigns by improving Wikipedia content about the figures campaigning tirelessly for issues such as women’s rights, […]
The Alex City Quiz 2019
Alex Masterley, the popular cartoon banker from the business pages of the Daily Telegraph, hosts his tenth annual charity quiz evening. On Wednesday May 22nd an assortment of City bankers, brokers, fund managers, lawyers, PR people and financial journalists will gather at Conway Hall, home of the world’s oldest free thought organisation, to compete for […]
Mark Bray’s Anti-Fascist Handbook
“Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present … Focused and persuasive.” — Daniel Penny, The New Yorker Conway Hall, Antiuniversity Now and the London Anti-fascist Assembly (LAFA) invite you to join author Mark Bray, […]
Wellness and Hope Without Religion Conference
The first session of the conference will have former believers discussing their individual experiences of whether religion played a part in gaining and maintaining wellness/wellbeing before deconversion. The session will also discuss maintaining personal wellness after leaving religion. The second session is led by two academic researchers who will discuss their research in finding out […]
GynaeComedy
Get ready for an evening of laughing at things we shouldn’t laugh at and plenty of vagina banter all whilst raising awareness of gynae cancers. Following last year’s remarkable sell-out success, women’s cancer charity, The Eve Appeal, is holding their second, annual GynaeComedy on Wednesday 10th April! The awesome line-up so far includes: Adam Kay […]
The Gardeners
The world premiere of a new chamber opera by Robert Hugill and Joanna Wyld, a concert performance conducted by William Vann (artistic director of the London English Song Festival). Set in a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in a war-torn country amongst the family of gardeners who look after the cemetery, The Gardeners treats the […]
Moving On
An exhibition by Emma Shankland Private view, 6.30pm, Fri 3 May. All welcome. Refreshments served. In this collection of pieces Shankland explores isolation, both physically and emotionally. ‘Moving On’ is a question not a given as figures and scenes are often static, seemingly disconnected from the environment or paused in daily routines that are hampered […]
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. They will contextualise the current climate, Syd will present dark chapters of the grim past […]