Queer Britain
Our main speaker, Dan Vo, is an award-winning LGBTQ+ tour coordinator and museum consultant. As the marketing manager for the new Queer Britain Museum, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum, he will talk to us about why it’s so important to have a place where people can go to learn about the history of queer culture. […]
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
Thanks to some pesky particles, we had to cancel our final assembly of 2021. But the good news is that we were able to reschedule our speaker from that assembly, particle physicist Harry Cliff, for our 5th of June Jubilations! While exploring the history of time (very briefly) starting from a fraction of a second […]
Muriel Chemin – Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Muriel Chemin presents two sonatas, Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3 and Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, the ‘Waldstein’, to celebrate the publication of her box set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas on Odradek Records. She performs them with a rare rigour and authority combined with a signature […]
Charged – How the Police Try to Suppress Protest
As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, in their pursuit of more control, how do the police manage crowds, provoke violence and even break the law? Since the 1980s under successive governments the police have been allowed to suppress protests, using aggressive tactics — from batons to horse charges to kettling. […]
Religion as Liberal Politics, with Dr John Adenitire
Central London Humanists (CLH) are pleased to welcome Dr John Adenitire as he explains how liberal assumptions in our current legal definitions of religion portray religion as a belief system which deals with existential matters and how, once we move to places where those assumptions are not held, we see that definitions of religion also […]
Polling UnPacked – The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls
Mark Pack gives you the full story, from the first rudimentary polls in the nineteenth century, through attempts by politicians to ban polling in the twentieth century, to the very latest techniques and controversies from the last few years. In equal parts enlightening and hilarious, his book, Polling Unpacked needs no prior knowledge of polling […]
England On Fire: A Visual Journey Through England’s Psychic Landscape
Mat Osman (founding member of Suede, author of The Ruins) and world-renowned image hunter Stephen Ellcock discuss anarchic magic of their collaboration England on Fire. Here you will find depictions of ancient trackways, chalk carvings and standing stones, of animal-masked community rituals, of streets set ablaze in protest, of occult dreams and psychedelic prophecies. Forget the tired gallery of lords and ladies, […]
Periods of Change
Chella Quint, science communicator, educator, and comedian, coined the term ‘period positive’ for the 2006 tour of her “Adventures in Menstruating” comedy show and workshops. During the tour, she realised that more and more people were looking for a way to teach a positive approach to menstruation education. Her goal is to counter all of […]
The Art of Protest
In 1998, actor and playrwright William Talen became so angered by the mass consumerism that had taken over city life in New York that he began protesting in Times Square. But it wasn’t a normal protest; it was more like a performance. He developed an over-the-top Billy Graham-esque character, and accompanied by a choir filled […]