Depression: The Key Therapy Issues
Windy Dryden on “Depression: The Key Therapy Issues” Plus Live CBT Sessions. At this meet up Professor Windy Dryden will present on key therapy issues for Depression and demonstrate some live CBT sessions with volunteers so that you can see CBT in action and ask questions. In this seminar Professor Dryden will cover • Key interventions […]
The Empty Niche: Film Screening
Premiere film screening of The Empty Niche. The screening will be followed by a Q&A from the director and producer of the film. Trent Burton and Dr Jim Walsh. When Conway Hall was built in 1929, a niche was built into the very fabric of the building, right at the entry. This niche was designed […]
Deception Day: Hoaxes, Lies and Fake News
The 1st of April is the traditional day for hoaxing and japes but deception and deceit riddles everyday communication. From hoax hip-hop stars and haunted houses to military deception and fake news: join the London Fortean Society and Conway Hall Ethical Society for a day of unreal things. Those are charming, others are terrifying. Fake […]
Mensheviks and Bolsheviks 1917 – 1923
Why did the Russian revolution turn out the way it did? How did Russian revolutionaries themselves perceive their revolution? What were the alternative visions of revolution, socialism and the future of the Russian empire propounded in 1917? This talk focuses on the Menshevik wing of Russian social-democracy – the losing faction in 1917 – and […]
SOD THIS (for a laugh)!
Ariadne presents in association with Conway Hall, Streetlink and The Connection at St Martin in the Fields: SOD THIS (for a laugh)! starring Sara Pascoe and friends An evening of fun, friendship and fundraising in aid of homelessness in London. On New Year’s Eve a kind, popular man called Paddy died of natural causes, exacerbated […]
20 millisieverts per year
20 millisverts per year An exhibition about Fukushima by Lis Fields 2 March – 30 April 2017 Film screening, The Brockway Room, Mon 24 April. Drinks served from 6pm, screening from 7pm – 9pm. All welcome Little Voices from Fukushima documentary by Hitomi Kamanaka 119 min, Japanese with English subtitles To coincide with the “20 millisieverts per […]
President Trump: 100 days Debate
For those who voted Donald Trump into power, the 2016 election was the rejection of a political system which has misgoverned since 9/11, whose cure for the financial crisis it caused has doubled two centuries of accumulated national debt in seven years and lost 15 million workers in the process. A period during which America […]
Anything-but-beans food drive
While February is a hard time for food banks with fewer donations than other months, the need of those needing food banks doesn’t lessen. So since this is the month of love we thought we’d send some anonymous valentines in the form of items desperately needed by Camden Food Bank. You can donate anything except […]
An Afternoon with Jacqueline Wilson
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