Other Loves – Asexuality & Bisexuality
** This event is now sold out in person. Online tickets are still available. ** Life is never truly binary, love maybe even more so. Join us for a conversation on other ways of other ways to live and love with asexual activist Yasmin Benoit and Dr Julia Shaw, author of Bi: The Hidden Culture, […]
How Great Novels Help Us Change
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And what can we learn about death from Virginia Woolf? Literature matters. Not only does it provide escapism and entertainment, […]
Bitch – Sex, Evolution & the Female Animal
What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades, a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species. Meet the female […]
Ethical Eating
Food is an ethical issue. Join the discussion with author of Avocado Anxiety, Louise Gray, alongside Ruth Westcott, Campaign Coordinator for Sustain, as we explore the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl food and discover the impact that our appetite has on the planet. Louise Gray answers questions about the familiar items […]
The Haunted Gallery: Untold Stories of Art & Magic
Magic is a dark vein running through the history and practice of art. Join us for a selection of talks and discussion on artists and magic in art. Victoria Jenkins: Visions of the Occult – An Untold Story of Art & Magic Archivist Victoria Jenkins presents her major survey of the occult collection of artworks, […]
6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation
The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomes renowned public intellectual Jacqueline Rose to Conway Hall for their 6th Annual Public Conversation, inviting us to think about the connections between politics and the psyche. She will deliver a lecture entitled ‘What is a Subject? Politics and Psyche After Stuart Hall’. Stuart Hall’s work can be read as a perpetual […]
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. with T A P E
This spring, T A P E teams up with Conway Hall to bring you a screening with an ethical twist. Join us for an exclusive viewing of the award-winning 90’s classic Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. followed by an interactive conversation. The first and only feature film by the talented Leslie Harris, Just Another […]
Elena Toponogova Ensemble
Formed of some of London’s finest musicians, the Elena Toponogova Ensemble makes their Conway Hall début in a programme showcasing the finest in Russian and Ukrainian chamber works. Nikolai Medtner, a Russian composer and friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff, has become increasingly recognised as one of the most important Russian composers for the piano. His last […]
Tippett Quartet & Royal College of Music Junior Showcase
Tippett Quartet • 6.30pm The Tippett Quartet regularly appear at Kings Place, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Bridgewater Hall and frequently perform on BBC Radio 3. They have performed at the BBC Proms and toured Europe, Canada and Mexico. In their 25th anniversary year, we welcome them to Conway Hall in a […]