The Terror of London: Spring-heeled Jack and the Victorian Metropolitan Press
One of London’s greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack has held the city’s imagination in his claws since he first appeared as “a ghost, a bear, and a devil” right up to contemporary comics and internet radio dramas featuring the leaping horror of legend. This talk explores Spring-heeled Jack’s appearances in and relationship to Victorian London. It […]
Through a Looking Glass
An exhibition of reverse oil paintings on glass by Melanie Hodge Introduced to the Croatian Naive tradition of reverse oil painting on glass by today’s Naive Masters, British-American artist, Melanie Hodge has taken this unique and little known technique and made it completely her own, transforming plain, ordinary window panes into looking glasses that reflect […]
A Boring Conference
Boring V – SOLD OUT The Boring Conference is a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked – subjects often considered trivial and pointless, but when examined more closely reveal themselves to be deeply fascinating. It was created in response to the cancellation of the 2010 Interesting Conference. It seemed like […]
All change: Religion & Belief in Britain
Jeremy Rodell The country is going through a massive change in its religion and belief landscape. Yes, there has been an overall decline in religiosity, but that masks important changes in the mix among the religious, as well as complexity among the non-religious. Does it help to think about three dimensions – belief, behaviour and […]
The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
Coincidences happen, incredibly unlikely things occur, and the apparently miraculous comes about. The improbability principle says that such extraordinarily improbable events are commonplace. It shows that this is not a contradiction, but that we should expect identical lottery numbers to come up more than once, lightning to strike twice, and financial crashes to occur. Professor […]
An Introduction to Beekeeping
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about beekeeping but were afraid to ask! The Conway Hall beekeepers are running a half day course for newbie beekeepers. We’ll cover: The practicalities of beekeeping. Build a hive. Put on a bee suit. Light a smoker. Open a hive and see a colony of bees. Taste some honey. […]
Ethical Yoga – Introductory Course
We hear a lot these days, that “yoga” is good for us. But why is that and what it is good for? Can yoga be for anyone? Does it need to be ‘spiritual’ to be of benefit? Over the four-week course, you will be introduced to fundamentals of the yoga “asana”, how to align the […]
Paper Paint Print
An exhibition of work by Mary Rodriguez Thomas and Nanette Greenblatt Mary Rodriguez Thomas and Nanette Greenblatt met at a life drawing class in South London through which they discovered they shared a common process of using drawing from life as a starting point for new images to emerge and hence this show came about. Mary Rodriguez […]
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson’s The Coalition Book UK release and exhibition. “When you’ve got a vicious bunch of cut throats in power you need a cartoonist who is up for the evisceration. Rowson’s your man.” – Mark Thomas After the historic General Election of 2010, Britain ended up with a Tory-Lib Dem coalition government. While the media […]