The women musicians of Conway Hall’s past
Join us for a special concert as we celebrate the special platform that Conway Hall provided for women musicians during the first few decades of the Sunday Concerts, since it began in 1887 under the previous name of the South Place Sunday Popular Concerts. Simon Wallfisch (voice) Eulalie Charland (violin) Emanuela Buta (violin) Judith Busbridge […]
Conway Hall Book Club – Julia and the Bazooka by Anna Kavan
With two independent publishers – Istros Books and Peter Owen – and a wonderful library on our premises, we thought it a good time for a new literary initiative: a monthly book club for members and friends, where we discuss some of the titles produced by our resident publishers, as well as the occasional guest sessions hosted by […]
The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Legends
Spring-heeled Jack, Slender Man, underground lore and the Crying Boy. Join the London Fortean Society in London’s dark heart for a day of modern monsters and urban myth. Our cityscapes are full of strange wonders, terrors and tales. Come hear of them. Mike Dash – Spring-heeled Jack Ever since his earliest appearances in 1837, Spring-heeled […]
Transforming Early Memory Metaphors in Psychotherapy
Alfred Adler (1870-1937) proposed that we will only remember images from our early childhood that confirm and support our current view of ourselves and the world. Early Memories are therefore understood as metaphorical constructions; not used as a means to explain a person’s childhood but to provide information about how a person perceives the world […]
Making London Conference
The Conference for Creators One day of stories and conversations with groundbreaking inventors, designers, creators and doers from companies like Instagram, Vice, adidas and more. Come, engage and be inspired to start Making. In the spirit of the theme, we’ll be donating 100% of the ticket sales to We Are Stripes, the organisation that works […]
SPEED COACHING: A Spin Class For Your Mind
The first in a series of unique experiences run by www.TheGuerrillaExperience.com BRAND NEW Speed Coaching: A Spin Class For Your Mind Is right now, the moment you’ve always dreamed of? Is your life full of purpose, happiness and positivity? Are you doing a job that brings you genuine fulfilment? If the answer to all the […]
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT: The Evolution of Humanist Thought on BBC Radio in the 1990s
Humanist speakers fill your mind with big ideas, brilliant imagery, and a new understanding of the society in which we live. Enjoy key moments in an audio replay of recordings from the BBC World Service series ‘Pause for Thought’, broadcast originally between 1997-1999. In 1996, the RPA managed to negotiate with the BBC World Service to produce […]
Sunday Assembly: Grief
How do we grieve for someone? How does it change and evolve as we get older? Cariad Lloyd’s father died when she was 15 leaving her with emotions she had no language for. So, she created Griefcast for herself and other comedians to talk, share and laugh about the weirdness of grieving and death. Each […]
Sunday Assembly: OK Computer?
Come and join us for a demystifying gathering all about the sometimes very scary and sometimes mega cool science of artificial intelligence! We have data scientist, mathematician and all round AI geek, Jonny Brooks-Bartlett, joining us. Jonny is passionate about all things AI, science and the history of the people behind the science. At this […]