Why do We Love True Crime?
True Crime has its fingerprints across our imaginations. Michael Boudet, host of podcast Sword and Scales said that 70% of listeners are women between the ages of 25-54. The audience of the All Killa No Filla podcast about serial killers is 80-85 per cent female. A 2010 study also found that women enjoy true crime […]
A Celebration of American Music
Conway Hall presents a night where music transcends boundaries, with Accademia dell’Opera and Amber Trust. Opera, jazz, and Broadway come together in a powerful celebration of music without limits. This charity fundraising concert draws a compelling connection between the impossible loves of Porgy and Bess and West Side Story with the timeless heartbreak of Italian […]
Viva Verdi with Renato Balsadonna
Accademia Dell’Opera Italia presents a standout concert of the open scenes from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, led by star conductor Maestro Renato Balsadonna. This grand celebration of Verdi’s operatic masterpieces will feature ten outstanding young artists performing some of opera’s most thrilling and emotional moments. From the heartbreaking arias of La Traviata to the […]
Midsummer Opera Gala
Join us for a luminous midday celebration of operatic excellence presented by the Accademia dell’Opera Italiana. Baritone and founder Massimo Modoni, together with pianist and co-founder Brian Hughes, return to the stage of Conway Hall with a sweeping programme of Italian operatic masterpieces. From Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, La Traviata and Otello, […]
The Lost Girls of Autism
The history of autism is male. It is time for women and girls to enter the spotlight. When autistic girls meet clinicians, they are often misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, personality disorders, or are missed altogether. Autism’s ‘male spotlight’ means we are only now starting to redress this profound injustice. In this UnMasked talk, renowned brain […]
Art / Magic / Lore: Wild Talents
Art / Magic / Lore returns to Conway Hall this summer with an exploration down the lesser-trodden paths of wild folklore and myth. From pagan counterculture to queer folk tales, rebel villains and roadside magic, discover the thread of activism and resistance that runs through occult history. Featuring: Phil Hine – Delinquent Elementals A fascinating […]
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind-readers, miracle-workers and jinn-summoners—all assured the masses that, just like the newly discovered invisible forces of electricity, radiation and magnetism, unseen spiritual powers commanded a realm of hidden human potential. This was a transnational movement of eccentrics, gurus and prophets, with East […]
8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Françoise Vergès: There Will Be No Future Without Seizing the Present
The Stuart Hall Foundation invites you to the inaugural event of their 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground. We are delighted to welcome political theorist, writer, activist, independent curator and political educator, Françoise Vergès to Conway Hall as the keynote speaker for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation. In Vergés’ keynote, ‘There Will […]
How to Fall in Love with the Future
There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—quantum threads stretching out into the distance. In this special event and launch of his new book How to Fall in Love with the Future, Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually […]