Creative Europe Focus Session – Financial Management and Reporting
Collaboration is a key part of Creative Europe and the funding available provides beneficiary organisations with valuable opportunity to share skills and knowledge and co-develop innovative content over a number of years. Projects are expected to contribute resources to the project in the form of ‘match-funding’ and account for all of the project costs and income generated across the partnership. For the […]
Rhinegold LIVE: Ilona Domnich
Russian-born soprano Ilona Domnich is a rising opera star, chosen by Opera Now in 2014 as one of ‘a new generation of sopranos who are destined to have impressive careers.’ In this recital, Ilona will explore the characters and musical interpretations of her operatic heroines, as celebrated in her recent Signum disc, Surrender: Voices of […]
Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair 2016
We’re delighted to announce this year’s Poetry Book Fair will be held on Saturday 17th September. It should feel just the same (though with a little more space for browsing this year!), with 80+ publishers and free readings and discussions through the day, followed by a lively evening at the nearby Square Pig & Pen […]
Islam and the West: a personal perspective — a lecture by Sir Michael Atiyah, OM FRS
Sir Michael Atiyah will discuss aspects of the relationship between Islam and the West from a historical perspective, building on his personal involvement. He will emphasise the cultural, scientific and commercial interactions over the centuries which brought benefits to both sides. But he will also trace the hostility initiated by the crusades, inherited by the […]
Understand Contemporary Society – Insights from the World Expert in Evolutionary Biology
What can evolutionary biology tell us about gender? Can it provide a better understanding of sexuality? And how can it explain violent and abhorrent cultural practices, such as ‘honour killings’? Robert Trivers, ‘arguably today’s most original thinker in evolutionary theory’ (Richard Dawkins) joins the how to: Academy to apply the theories of evolutionary biology to […]
Kick out the Tories
How do we kick out the Tories? We need our own ‘political revolution’. Fight for Socialist World. Cameron’s weak government is on the ropes. Over the EU referendum, there is a brutal power struggle in the Tory party. An anti-austerity, socialist campaign for Exit could finish it off. Come to our meeting to discuss ideas – and join the Socialist […]
Show Up and Be Seen – Learn How to Connect Deeply with Others and Yourself
We’re Esther and Leah and we can’t wait to welcome you to this workshop to explore these questions. How often do you hold back on telling someone what you really want to say? How often do you come away from events or gatherings annoyed with yourself for not really being YOU? How often do you feel misunderstood […]
Ladybird Books and Constructing the Future Past of Modern Britain
Never mind the fairy stories, the much loved Ladybird Books of the 1950s to 1980s reflect much about post war aspirations and reality in new architecture, urban planning, social attitudes and the world of work. In this lovingly illustrated evening, social and architectural historian and lover of postwar modernism John Grindrod (author of Concretopia) talks us through the dreams […]
Street Epistemology Training – How to talk to Religious People
London Black Atheists will be at Conway Hall for a Street Epistemology training event conducted by Bill Flavell, who has recently been to several West African countries teaching Street Epistemology. Street Epistemology is based on Socratic principles (you simply ask very gentle questions) and it was developed by Professor Peter Boghossian. The purpose of Street Epistemology […]