Children’s Workshop with Calum Huggan (percussionist)
The perfect way to kick off our new season of workshops, Calum will get everyone on their feet in rhythm games, body percussion and much more in this exciting introduction to the world of percussion. Particularly suitable for those aged 5-10. Please contact us if you are thinking of bringing a young person outside this […]
The Science of Attraction & Relationships
Want to know what women and men are really attracted to? Confused about what’s happening in your relationship? Wondering why you always go for the wrong kind of man/woman? Want to know if your partner is the unfaithful type? Come along to this unique and fascinating one-day workshop led by Dr Mairi Macleod, evolutionary biologist […]
Phil Hine – A Phallic (K)night
In 1786 Richard Payne Knight – collector, arbiter of taste, and gentleman scholar published “A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus” – the first book to propose that all mythology and religion (including Christianity) is derived from primitive fertility cults. In such cults, he asserted, the male and female genitalia symbolise procreative power, and the […]
City Music Foundation Showcase
The City Music Foundation offers a two year programme providing education, networking and support to exceptional musical talent; helping outstanding musicians build and sustain rewarding and profitable careers and ensuring the future of quality music in the UK and beyond. The foundation is one of the leading programmes of its kind in the UK, and […]
The Penultimate Curiosity: Science, Religion and the Big Questions
The Penultimate Curiosity sets out to answer one of the most profound questions about the development of human thought: why is it that throughout the long journey from cave painting to quantum physics what we now refer to as ‘science’ and ‘religion’ have been so closely entangled? On the 2nd October the artist Roger Wagner […]
Le Grand Meaulnes – a reverie
London 1905 … a girl playing the piano … dancers at a Fête Mystérieuse … a bewitched young Alain-Fournier yearns for lost love. An outpouring of poetry, letters and song sow the seeds of his great novel, Le Grand Meaulnes, published in 1913, a year before he was killed in the Great War. Created by Tyrone Landau and […]
World Burlesque Games 2016
Chaz Royal presents World Burlesque Games 2016 5th Annual International Competition of Burlesque & Variety for two Nights Only! 6 Competing Categories! Presented by Chaz Royal & The London Burlesque Festival, The WORLD BURLESQUE GAMES returns with 6 spectacular competing events run over 2 nights at at the historic Conway Hall **1 TICKET GETS YOU […]
Mental Boundaries
Sunday Assembly London are feeling beyond lucky to announce that Kasper van der Meulen, a Dutch author and lifestyle adventurer is coming from Holland to speak. He wow’d us at the Sunday Assembly Conference Called Wonder in Utrecht this year and has agreed to come to London to speak to us about how a young deaf […]
Myth of the Hyper Sexual Black Man
“Sex I like it, I love it, I want it all the time. (sex) I crave it, I needs it, it’s always on my mind,” so sings Ginuwine, (Ginuwine, 2003). Warped to be proud of his sexual prowess? Or as historically coming from polygamous societies is predisposed to engage in numerous sexual relations as a […]