Eminé Ali Rushton – The Balance Plan: Boost your Body and Mind with Ayurveda
A self-development workshop in partnership with Psychologies Magazine (www.psychologies.co.uk) Psychologies’ Beauty and Wellbeing Director Eminé Ali Rushton introduces the principles of Ayurveda – an ancient, sensitive and kind health system that is the ideal antidote to frenzied, modern life. During interactive exercises, learn what your unique constitution says about you (your dosha) and how you […]
Beyond Happiness – with Anthony Seldon
Join us for an inspiring evening with Anthony Seldon as he shares practical ideas for living a more joyful and fulfilling life. In his new book Beyond Happiness, Anthony distinguishes between pleasure, happiness and joy and offers an original approach to making our lives more meaningful and rewarding. About the speaker Sir Anthony Seldon is […]
The Hertha Orgler Memorial Lecture: “I Had a Dream Last Night”
It is common knowledge that we process our day to day experiences at night. We reframe and process them there according to our lifestyle, our personality. Sigmund Freud already mentioned that dreams are directed towards the next day and tone our emotions and expectations towards the future. Alfred Adler, an early follower and co-worker of […]
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. […]