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 […]
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic
What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person’s mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do we enjoy experiencing what seems clearly impossible, or at least beyond our powers of explanation? In this […]
You Are What You Read – With Jodie Jackson
There are so many positive things happening in our world – from daily acts of kindness to life-changing breakthroughs. Yet despite living in the greatest era of progress mankind has arguably ever seen, the news we consume daily has a ‘negativity bias’, which convinces us the world is falling apart. We all know the saying ‘you […]