Authentic Happiness – With Mo Gawdat & Anahita Moghaddam
How can we be happier and help create a happier society? At this special event, Mo Gawdat and Anahita Moghaddam will look at how our identities and relationships shape our world. And they’ll share practical ideas that we can all use to live more wisely. * Identity: How can we move beyond polarising views about […]
Labour Heritage AGM
Labour Heritage will hold its AGM business meeting from 2.10-2.40pm followed at 2.40pm by two speakers and discussion: Steve Schifferes on ‘The Rise and Fall of the Labour Correspondent’ and Michael Tichelar on ‘Why is London Labour?’ Non-members welcome.
The Likely Future of Israel in a Self-imposed One-state Situation
Retired open University academic Dr Brian Beeley will consider the effects of President Trump’s rejection of the ‘two-state’ mantra for Israel and the implications if Israel retains control of all of historic Palestine (plus Syria’s Golan Heights). President Trump has changed the elements of the conflict in the Holy Land by supporting Israeli Prime Minister […]
The Courage to be Myself – Overcoming Inferiority Feelings through Social Interest
Azhar Juri first arrived in the UK in 1991 to train as a teacher; he later retrained as a Registered Mental Health Nurse and is currently working as a Registered Manager of a Recovery Care home for working age adults with mental health challenges. He lives and works in Brighton and recently founded a new […]
Live the Values – Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series – By Sunandaji
This year’s lectures on the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ by Sunandaji are about learning to live values in life such as peace, duty, love and knowledge through a systematic and rational exposition of the knowledge of life and living. Values in life such as peace, duty, love and knowledge are well appreciated the world over. However people […]
Piatti Quartet
Our Autumn 2019 series of concerts comes to a close with Schubert’s G major quartet, his last work for the genre. To welcome in the festive season, the Piatti Quartet’s performance begins with Suk’s Meditation on ‘St Wenceslas’, composed when he was second violinist in the Bohemian String Quartet and later arranged for string orchestra. […]
Arcis Saxophone Quartet
‘American Dreams’ Endless fascinating prairie landscapes; the exciting pulse of the city that never sleeps; the swinging life of the Southern states; stories full of dreams, hopes and love. In ‘American Dreams’, the Arcis Saxophone Quartet presents a broad musical range of the American way of life. Reich | New York Counterpoint Dvořák | Quartet […]
Fitzwilliam Quartet & Simon Callaghan
Elgar’s piano quintet is one of three works completed during the summer of 1918 (the other works being the string quartet and the violin sonata), while he was staying at Brinkwells in Sussex, a country cottage rented by the Elgar family, and is dedicated to Ernest Newman, music critic of The Guardian. Simon Callaghan joins […]
Linos Piano Trio
The Linos Piano Trio returns to Conway Hall with the rarely heard Beethoven transcription of his own second Symphony, followed by the trio’s re-imagination of the variations from the Eroica Symphony. Hailed by Schumann as one of the genre’s masterworks, Mendelssohn’s D minor Trio is paired with Ravel’s haunting La Valse. Beethoven (arr. Beethoven) | […]