Piano recital ‘For Hope’ – Για την Ελπίδα – Pianist Stavros Dritsas, guest Soprano Katerina Mina.
“Elpida” means hope in Greek, so this recital could not have a more suitable title. Kiki Sonidou and Stavros Dritsas, coming from different professional backgrounds but both being very active in London and abroad, decided to organise this charity event to support children suffering from cancer back in their native, Greece. With a wide and […]
Celebrate Christmas with Beethoven and Others in Style – Claudio Bohorquez & Alberto Portugheis
Come and celebrate Beethoven in style with Claudio Bohorquez (cello) and Alberto Portugheis (piano). This is an exclusive and unique opportunity to experience the performance of two international, well-known and highly respected interpreters of Beethoven, who will join forces in telling the story of the composer’s life through his five Cello and Piano Sonatas, on the […]
Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries of the 19th century
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. —Thomas Paine, Common Sense A six-week course examining the often hidden or forgotten contribution of radicals, rebels, and revolutionaries to the development of ground-breaking ideas and campaigns in the nineteenth century such as human rights, birth control, women’s rights, the right to vote, […]
Thinking on Sunday: The Perils of Perception – Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything
Do you eat too much sugar? Is violence in the world increasing or decreasing? What proportion of your country are Muslim? What does it cost to raise a child? How much do we need to save for retirement? How much tax do the rich pay? When we estimate the answers to these fundamental questions that […]
Thinking on Sunday: Drawbridge Britain – Where Did the Hostile Environment Against Immigrants Come From?
In 1948, the HMS Windrush docked in Essex, carrying hundreds of British citizens from the Caribbean who had answered the call to come and live and work in the UK. Thousands more men, women and children soon followed. Seventy years later, it emerged that our government had started denying healthcare and housing to some of […]
Voice, Visibility and Velocity: Muslim women, past and present
With Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Arif Zaman and Baroness Uddin. Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women’s bodies are veiled and voices silenced. Complicating these perceptions is Siobhan Lambert-Hurley’s new book, Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2018). The re-publication after 74 years of Iqbalunnisa Hussain’s Purdah […]
Speak Up, Speak Out
Teresa Garfield and Sula Bruce will be leading two workshops for women on public speaking and effectively getting your message across. This is an encouraging and deliberately fun workshop to transform what can be an intimidating prospect into one that is exciting. You’ll learn to speak with charisma, presence and authenticity, essential qualities that impact […]
The Ladies Bridge
Most history starts with a find. So what happens when you start with an urban myth? Today the Thames riverboat pilots tell the story of Waterloo Bridge being built by women during the Second World War. After years of trawling through archives, historian Dr Christine Wall discovered official history had no record of this. In […]
‘As though a rock had been lifted and there were green shoots beneath’
As though a rock had been lifted and there were green shoots beneath’ This is how Sara, who we met in the Northern Syrian town of Kobanê, described the 2012 revolution, when the authoritarian Syrian regime withdrew control and the Kurds were able to set up their own autonomous organisations. It is an image of […]