Berkeley Ensemble with Simon Callaghan
To close our season, Conway Hall’s Artistic Director of Music Simon Callaghan joins the Berkeley Ensemble in a performance of Elgar’s only Piano Quintet, composed in a particularly fruitful period during which Elgar also produced his Violin Sonata and the famous Cello Concerto. Before the interval the ensemble will showcase English composer Dorothy Howell (1898-1982), […]
Conspiracy Theory and Culture
Conspiracy Theory states that nothing is how it is reported, that everything you know is wrong and sinister forces are controlling everything for their own, dark motivations. Opposing this dark pantomime are the lone hero truth tellers, from David Icke to Donald Trump to Alex Jones to the gnomic, anonymous Q. Conspiracy thought has moved […]
The Grand Illusion: Fighting the Nazis with the Occult
Many of us are aware of the Nazi’s obsession with the occult (look no further than Indiana Jones, ‘Call of Duty Black Ops’, Hellboy etc). Less is known, however, about what the Brits did to exploit what they saw as a weakness in the German chain of command. In ‘The Grand Illusion’ Syd Moore turns […]
Art / Magic / Lore
Art, magic and folklore cross over and over again making new forms of creativity and lore. Join us at Conway Hall for talks and discussion on making new traditions, lost woman artists, radical Morris Dance and much more. Lucy Wright: Start A New Tradition Today! Post-pandemic popular interest in folklore is at an all-time high, […]
Dementia-Friendly Concerts
Conway Hall is delighted to partner with Songhaven to present a new series of dementia-friendly concerts. Each 45-minute programme includes well-loved songs from stage and screen, performed by a trio of professional classically trained musicians. These free concerts are open to all and will warmly welcome people living with dementia, as well as their friends, […]
La Bohème: 100 Years of Puccini
Conway Hall is proud to host the London Performing Academy of Music’s unique performance of La Bohème, as we commemorate the centenary of the death of legendary opera composer, Giacomo Puccini. One of Puccini’s most famous operas, La Bohème follows the story of two young, bohemian lovers in Paris in the 1830’s. A tragic tale […]
A Dirty, Filthy Book
London, 1877. A young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence. Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Before Britain’s highest judge she declares it is a woman’s right […]
The Watermelon Woman
Join Conway Hall this summer for an exclusive screening of Cheryl Dunye’s landmark film The Watermelon Woman (1997). Widely regarded as being the first US feature film directed and produced by a black lesbian director, Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman creates a whole new kind of intertexutal fictional storytelling and archival discovery, drawing upon restorative practices […]
How Did We Talk Our Way Out of the Stone Age?
The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. In this Ethical Matters talk, Steven Mithen explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to […]