Wage Theft
An extra 15 minutes work here, another 20 minutes there: wage theft has been described as a silent epidemic blighting the global workforce. And it’s on the rise – in the UK and US alone millions of workers put in billions of unpaid hours amounting to tens of billions in wage theft. But what if […]
Fitzwilliam Quartet
“…these are performances born of honesty and of love: a deeply moving document of a great quartet and its unique connection to a composer…” – Gramophone Winners of the first-ever Gramophone Award for Chamber Music and twice Grammy-nominated for Best Chamber Music Performance, the Fitzwilliam Quartet are Conway Hall regulars and we are pleased to […]
How to Think Like a Poet
From Homer, Sappho and Rumi, to Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, how did poets make the world anew? What can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? Poet and writer Dai George asks how poetry can help us to understand justice, dreams or anger. From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through […]
Can Superheroes Save the World?
“Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.” Superheroes were born in the 1930s, a time of great poverty and social unease. Social justice are at their roots – from Superman fighting slum landlords, racists and nazis to the every-mutant outsiders of the […]
9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Fred Moten
The Stuart Hall Foundation invites you to the first event of their 2026 programme, building on the theme In Search of Common Ground. The 9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation will welcome cultural theorist, poet, and teacher of performance studies, Fred Moten, to Conway Hall as its keynote speaker. Fred Moten’s presentation will be followed […]
The Eliza Flower Recital 2026
Join us for an informal hour of free-thinking discussion, music, and readings at the fireside of the historic Conway Hall Library in celebration of our cherished composer, Eliza Flower (1803–46). This inaugural event explores the legacy of Flower’s collaborative friendship with the political polymath Harriet Martineau (1802–76) on the 150th anniversary of her death, and […]
Treske Quartet + Pre-Concert Recital with Ruiqi Fang & Markus Sadler
“The Treske Quartet concluded their debut Conway Hall recital… mustering all the impassioned intensity needed… their sound is meticulously blended, aided by the hall’s excellent acoustic.” – The Guardian The Treske Quartet is an emerging ensemble based in Manchester, UK. Their identity as a quartet lies in our commitment to championing repertoire by 20th & […]
Women Walking
Walking helps you think (as anyone knows who has tried to resolve a problem sitting down). Offering a whole array of sparks, experiments, projects, catapults, prompts, drifts and exercises, Sonia Overall invites us to see walking as a creative writing method. She sets out a particular form which she calls walking-writing and suggests ways to […]
Paddington Trio
“Music can take you anywhere, when played like this.” – The Guardian, ★★★★★ “The sun is setting” (Se solen sjunker) is a traditional Swedish folk song which inspired Schubert’s iconic theme of the second movement in this E-flat trio. The Paddington Trio pair this with Andrea Tarrodi’s ‘Akacia’, inspired by the dramatic landscapes of the […]