No Gods No Masters: Compact Whole Weekend Course
TWO DAY COURSE: Sat 14 Oct + Sun 15 Oct Course Outline: London’s radicals, secularists, suffragists and pacifists. This whole weekend course will look at some remarkable people and movements who spoke up and campaigned for progressive ideas and social change in London from the 1790s-1940s. It will tell their individual and collective stories, explore […]
The Testing Ground Showcase
A unique opportunity to experience a wide range of new performance work made in and inspired by the wonders of Conway Hall. An evening of new creations including: Yumiko Seki – Gekka Shourin Zu a Butoh influenced solo, inspired by the Japanese 16 century painting ‘Gekka Shourin Zu’ (The Pine Forest Under the Moon). The […]
Live Art Workshop: Over the Edge
For performance and visual artists, writers, dancers, philosophers, sociologists, mathematicians, poets, historians, theologians, and others interested in creating live art. Participants may bring in pieces that they are working on, or use this workshop to begin new work. We’ll develop short performance pieces that can stand on their own, be joined together to create longer […]
Testing Ground: Dance Theatre Performance workshops
THREE DATES: TUE 31 OCT, MON 06 NOV + MON 13 NOV Be inspired into performance-making with a group of creative people responding to the many ideas resonating throughout the fabric of Conway Hall, the home of innovative thinking and culture creation throughout the Modern era, in this 4 week Testing Ground dance theatre project. […]
e-PERFORMANCE: Publishing, podcasting and other alternative lives for your show
This two day event takes place on Sat 23 Sep AND Sun 24 Sep. — It takes a lot of time, energy, and resources to put on a show. There are many great show ideas that never see the light of day because their creators do not have the capital or resources to get them […]
Janice Perry – Not Just Another Pretty Face: a retrospective
“One of the World’s Most Respected Performance Artists” – BBC Radio Janice Perry laughs us through her 35+ years as an international performance artist and political satirist. Free-ranging from Pope to Pop, from Marilyn Monroe through a few Gulf Wars, High Fashion, Erotica, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Mapplethorpe’s naked men and Arts censorship. Described as […]
So They Call You Pisher! Michael Rosen in conversation with Daniel Hahn
Michael Rosen has a new memoir, So They Call You Pisher! In this conversation with Daniel Hahn, Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. Born in the North London suburbs, his parents, Harold and Connie, both teachers, first met as teenage Communists in the 1930s Jewish East End. The family home was filled with […]
The Playing Human Conference
This year’s conference, The Playing Human, is taking shape and will take place on 27-28 September 2018. “The idea for the title of this conference came from an article I read only recently on the topic of playing as adults, and my mind wandered back to an exhibition I visited in my teens at the […]
Creating a happier world – with Jeffrey Sachs
Join us for an inspiring evening with Jeffrey Sachs as he explores the causes of happiness and unhappiness in modern Western culture and shares his vision for a better culture and a happier world. What factors really matter for wellbeing? Why has happiness fallen in some countries even as the economy has grown? What is […]