The Hive Café
The Hive Café Please note there will be reduced opening hours throughout August. We’re open: August 18 • 9am – 4pm August 22, 23 and 24 • 10am – 4pm Our new, ground floor cafe, now officially open to everyone with an appetising variety of food, drinks, hexagonal biscuits and honey… plus a live feed from our rooftop beehive! For more information CLICK HERE
Thinking on Sunday: How to Rig an Election
Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In their exciting and high profile new book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas explain how counterfeit democrats are able to use elections to remain in power, and reveal […]
Thinking on Sunday: The Pink Pound – Do Homosexuality and Capitalism have a History?
Since the onset of the Gay Liberation Movement from the 1970s, LGBTQ men and women have been increasingly targeted as an identifiable market segment assumed to have higher incomes and lower financial responsibilities, greater interest in leisure services and related products, and to act as early adopters of new consumables. But the virtually exponential growth […]
Thinking on Sunday: The Death of the Gods – The New Global Power Grab
The old gods are dying. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. Governments are losing control. The old familiarities are tumbling down and a strange new social order is rising in their place. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots […]
Reel Rock Film Tour – London
Don’t miss an extraordinary collection of adventure and climbing films from some of the world’s best adventure filmmakers. Featuring alpine legends, amazing adventurers and climbing icons, prepare to be transported through the big screen to mountains and cliff faces across the globe as they attempt to achieve their dangerous lifelong ambitions. The films start at […]
Chapman Cohen: The People’s Philosopher
A talk by Bob Forder “Explaining the world by God is like trying to cross a hole in two jumps”. Chapman Cohen In this talk celebrating the 150th anniversary of Chapman Cohen’s birth, Bob Forder will outline Cohen’s fascinating career and provide an insight into his work. Chapman Cohen served as President of the National Secular […]
LSP Summer School 2018
The 4th London School of Philosophy Summer School is being held at Conway Hall over three days between Wednesday 11th of July and Friday 13th July 2018. This year’s theme is ‘Philosophy Past, Present and Future’ with: Wednesday 11th devoted to the Past Thursday 12th the Present and Friday 13th, the Future. You can buy […]
No Asylum with Eva Schloss and Paula Fouce
Alternatives presents a screening of the No Asylum movie and talks by its director Paula Fouce and Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank. Anne Frank is an icon of courage for people everywhere and has become the face of the Holocaust. In No Asylum, the most iconic story of the Holocaust has new light shed on […]
BME Community Assets: People, Places and Next Generation Leadership
The Ubele Initiative in Partnership with Conway Hall Ethical Society invites you to join us for lunch followed by presentations and a conversation! During the afternoon we will: Share the main areas of learning from the Mali Enterprising Leaders project (London and Manchester) Celebrate the project’s achievements Launch the first national Community Business Toolkit for […]