Ensemble Échappée
Ensemble Échappée’s debut Conway Hall programme explores the theme of “sweet dissonance”, something we experience in life as well as music. Framing the programme are Webern’s fleeting Bagatelles, which were described by his teacher Arnold Schoenberg as “a novel in a single gesture, joy in a single breath”. Heard in this context, the sunny melodies […]
An Undiagnosed Autistic Adolescence
“You just need to stay calm. You should be able to manage. You should have grown out of that by now. You could try harder.” Author and illustrator Eliza Fricker spent her adolescence being told all of these things, until her autism diagnosis as an adult revealed why she may not have met the expectations […]
KONTEKST Film Festival 2026: ENTANGLEMENTS
KONTEKST‘s third film festival comes to Conway Hall this summer, presenting work by emerging practitioners across ethnographic film, experimental moving image, installation, and live performance. Organised by KONTEKST Collective, the festival brings together artists, filmmakers, and researchers working at the intersection of creative practice and social inquiry. ENTANGLEMENTS explores multispecies encounters and relationships: the messy, […]
Hoax: A Ghost, a Witch and a Princess in the Age of Enlightenment
Here lies Fanny Lynes, who, after death, became the notorious scratching ghost of Cock Lane, London. Here swings Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch and apocalyptic prophetess who died a murderer. Here stands Mary Willcocks. Or is it Anne Burgess? Or Princess Caraboo, from the distant island of Javasu? A ghost. A witch. A princess. This […]
Feminism for a World on Fire
As patriarchy rises across the globe, Natasha Walter, Carole Cadwalladr and Aja Barber will be talking about the new threats that women are facing, and what we can do to resist. Natasha Walter’s new book, Feminism for a World on Fire, takes a global look at the challenges faced by women today – from online […]
Karelia Quartet + Pre-Concert Recital with Daniel Schultz & Sejin Yoon
Formed at the Royal Academy of Music, the Karelia Quartet are a promising new ensemble who were recently prizewinners in the CAVATINA Chamber Music Competition. Grieg’s G minor quartet, thought to have been an inspiration for Debussy’s quartet, completes an exquisite programme which also includes Ravel’s quartet, completed when the composer was just 28, and […]
A History of Protest and Public Space in England
Historian Katrina Navickas explores the radical history of the increasing restrictions against protest in England’s public spaces. From the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street and Kinder Scout, as well as sites in towns and rural areas across the country, Katrina reveals how protesters claimed these spaces as their own […]
Ben Goldscheider & Simon Callaghan + Pre-Concert Recital with Dogoda Quintet
“Goldscheider has a natural charisma on stage, holding the attention, and his fluid legato and changes of sound were perfect for the piece… Goldscheider was a pleasure to hear.” – The Arts Desk Ben Goldscheider was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions, Concerto Finalist in the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition, and an […]
Bartholomew LaFollette & Friends
“LaFollette is an easy and graceful performer, and showed a rhythmically nimble facility of movement. He was as free in touching the heartstrings as he was in dashing off dazzling runs.” – Irish Times 2026 Artist-in-Residence Bartholomew LaFollette is joined by two of his dearest collaborators, violinist Hyeyoon Park and pianist Caroline Palmer, in a […]