Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation
If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today’s UK, what would their stories reveal? In this Ethical Matters talk, social scientist Danny Dorling gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain’s most pressing issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the superrich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British […]
(Un)Kind: How ‘Be Kind’ Entrenches Sexism
Using the #JustBeKind trend of the 2020s as a starting point, Victoria Smith, author of the bestseller Hags, explores how traditional beliefs about women’s ‘kind’ nature have been repackaged for an age that remains dependent – socially, politically, economically – on female self-sacrifice while finding the concept outdated and essentialist. Looking at the various guises […]
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 […]
The Art of Belcanto with Mirco Palazzi
In this concert, Italian Belcanto extraordinaire, Mirco Palazzi, leads a selecion of Accademia Dell’Opera Italia’s most talented young singers and repeteurs in a performance of 18th and early 19th century opera arias in the Italian Belcanto tradition. Featuring repertoire from from Handel, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi, this performance will showcase exquisite vocal agility and […]
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 […]