Small Publishers Fair 2016
Meet and talk with publishers, writers and artists in the iconic setting of Bloomsbury’s Conway Hall. Browse and buy original and beautiful publications, with prices to suit all pockets. Over 65 publishers from across the UK and from Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden and USA. Longstanding and iconic presses alongside new […]
Live. Learn. Love, with Salema Veliu
Salema Veliu’s ‘live. learn. love’ method reflects the new era of coaching; one that incorporates and combines yoga, meditation, psychology and neuroscience. Her mission is to share the connections between Eastern philosophies and Western science in an accessible and inspiring way. Through sharing how the brain and mind really work, Salema uses this information to […]
Exploring Harm and Evidence
This conference sees the formal launch of the Open University’s Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC). HERC’s research can be summarised as “evidencing harm and harmful evidence” which encompasses a range of areas such as the use of evidence in the criminal justice system and the harmful practices of public and private institutions. The notion […]
Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, an uneasy and rather distant relationship
A talk by Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde’s Women in the Brockway Room. Doors 7pm. Start 7-30pm Entry: £5 pay at the door.
Ethics & Politics – The Education We Want
The next collaborative meeting between The Conway Hall Ethical Society and GlobalNet21 will be on “Ethics & Education” and will be a discussion on whether we need a new approach to education that is “person” based rather than Government and Corporate driven as it is at the moment. Speaking at the meeting will be, Viv […]
Windy Dryden: Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World and REBT
Mahatma Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community’s struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, […]
Dr Meg-John Barker on “Queer! What is it and why is it relevant to everyone?”
In this talk Meg-John Barker draws on their recent comic book Queer: A Graphic History to introduce the idea of queer and to discuss why it’s relevant to everybody, not just to those who we might conventionally think of as being queer. Showing illustrations from the book, Meg-John takes a quick tour through the history of different […]
Dominic Davies on “LGBT+ and Psychotherapy; 35 Years of Change”
Join us for a talk by the excellent Dominic Davies, who will be reflecting on his 35 years as therapist working within the LGBT+ Community and its current and future challenges. Dominic is one of the pioneers of therapy with LGBT+ people in the UK, co-editing the first British textbooks on the subject and then […]
Tom Donald – Art of Improvisation
Australian pianist and composer Tom Donald has been compared to American legend Keith Jarrett in creating mesmerising piano improvisations. At London’s famous Conway Hall on one of the best Bosendorfer Pianos ever to be built, Donald will take the audience on a musical Odyssey. Classical sounds infused with jazz elements, reflecting the unique spirit of […]