Rhinegold Live: Jennifer Pike
18.15 drinks reception 19.00 recital Jennifer Pike was the youngest ever winner of BBC Young Musician of the year when aged 12 was awarded the title back in 2002. Since then, she has performed extensively as a soloist with major orchestras worldwide, including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Symphony. She has […]
Utrecht Quartet
Eeva Koskinen violin Katherine Routley violin Mikhail Zemtsov viola Sebastian Koloski cello Verhulst: Quartet No.1 Beethoven: Quartet in F Op.135 Schumann: Quartet in F Op.41/2 In their Conway Hall debut, the Utrecht Quartet present three works by composers who were inextricably linked. Pre-concert talk by Roderick Swanston at 5.30pm: Planning the Future of the String […]
Rhinegold Live: Carolyn Sampson
18.15 drinks reception 19.00 recital British operatic soprano Carolyn Sampson will be joined by pianist Joseph Middleton in a programme of songs inspired by flowers. This event will mark the launch of Sampson’s first solo recital CD, Fleurs, on BIS Records. Programme: Schumann – Röselein Quilter – Damask Roses Britten – The Nightingale and the Rose […]
London Thinks: How to Topple a Dictator
Tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize and hailed as a world-changer by everyone from the World Economic Forum to Wired magazine, fifteen years ago Srdja Popovic was more interested in punk rock than political protest. In conversation with Nick Cohen he will explain how he became one of the leaders of Otpor! — the movement which overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic — and […]
All The World’s a Stage
Presented by David Herbert David Herbert is a writer and a psychotherapist. His background is the professional theatre where he worked as an actor, director, teacher and playwright. His training is in psychotherapy and psycholinguistics. His mentors are Alfred Adler, Carl Jung and, always, Will Shakespeare who somehow knew everything. In his presentation, psychology looks at a […]
Going Solo (more or less)
An evening of performance, film and storytelling. Featuring works by Sean Bruno, Jessica Burn and more. Admission: pay what you can.
Shipwrecked with Vincent Deary
“To live is to feel oneself lost” writes Jose Ortega y Gasset “he who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look round for something to which to cling”. In attempting to steer a course through life, we often find ourselves off […]
The AHS Convention 2015
The Atheist, Humanist and Secular Societies, The British Humanist Association and Conway Hall Ethical Society presents The AHS Convention 2015 We are delighted to welcome you to the AHS Convention on 27th – 29th March 2015. We’ll be joined by some fantastic speakers, treated to some wonderful entertainment, and have the opportunity to meet non-religious students from […]
Do Humanists need to be more Outspoken on Islam and Sharia?
Charlie Klendjian Charlie Klendjian is a commercial lawyer and the Secretary of the Lawyers’ Secular Society. The LSS is a group of lawyers, law students and legal professionals, both religious and non-religious, which campaigns for state neutrality towards religion and equality before the law for people of all faiths and none. Charlie will be leading […]