About Conway Hall
Conway Hall is Where Ethics Matter
Home of Conway Hall Ethical Society • Events venue (for hire) • Talks • Debates • Concerts • Exhibitions • Library
Conway Hall Description
Hall and room hire available for various events such as meetings, lectures, weddings, conferences, etc.
All the rooms on the ground floor are accessible by wheelchair.
There is free parking outside after 6. 30pm Mon - Fri, Sat from 1. 30pm and all day Sunday.
Conway Hall is owned by Conway Hall Ethical Society - the world's longest-running 'free-thought' organisation - and was first opened in 1929.
The Hall now hosts a wide variety of lectures, classes, performances, community and social events. It is renowned as a hub for free speech and independent thought.
Our Library holds the Ethical Society's collection, which is the largest and most comprehensive Humanist Research resource of its kind in the United Kingdom.
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In celebration of Refugee Week and together with Ubele Initiative, Adiam Yemane's exhibition "Not Just A Refugee" offers inspiring stories of newcomers who entered the UK claiming asylum or as refugees. It celebrates the lives of people who have worked hard to fulfil their potential and despite in many cases experiencing overwhelming odds, succeed. - Info: conwayhall.org.uk/refugeeweek19 - Opens: Mon 17 Jun. Private view: Sat 22 Jun (all welcome, please register for free tickets via website)
Adiam Photography #refugeeweek #exhibition #photography #holborn #bloomsbury #camden #london Love Camden
Are you watching tonight’s BBC Four programme A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain? You may be interested to know that our archive holds copies of the Fruits of Philosophy annotated by Bradlaugh and Besant with information used in the trial... ...and watch this space for digitised copies of the annotated pamphlets to be added to our digital collections site: https://conwayhallcollections.omeka.net/c ollections/show/6
#AVictorianScandal #RudestBookInBritain Fern Riddell Official #VictorianBlogging National Lottery Heritage Fund
World Bee Day event - Tue 21 May 2019.
Should exercise classes be funded by soda companies? Or addiction programmes by opioid companies? At #ThinkingOnSunday on 30 Jun, bioethicist Jonathan H. Marks will argue, based on his new book, that public-private partnerships create “webs of influence” that undermine the integrity of public health agencies and distort health policy and research. - Info: http://po.st/perils3006
#jonathanhmarks #publichealth #talk #london #bloomsbury New Lands
Antiuniversity Now's annual series of countercultural events and discussions returns between Sat 15 and Fri 21 Jun, organised and presented by academics and autodidacts, experts and enthusiasts. These fascinating, diverse and often challenging events are open to all regardless of experience, background, age or qualification. - for more info: po.st/antiuni19
#Steinway pianist and Hyperion Records artist Simon Callaghan takes to the stage on Sun 02 Jun for our Spring season finale and *fundraiser* for our affordable-for-all concerts series with a colourful programme of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms, accompanied by the strings of Martyn Jackson, Nicholas Bootiman and Reinoud Ford. "Simon's interpretation was superb: absolute clarity, absolute precision" said Classical Source of a previous performance. - more info and tickets: po.st/02Jun19 - *free* for those under 26, courtesy of the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
#chamber #music #classical #piano #strings #concert #holborn #bloomsbury #Camden Love Camden #free #sunday Conway Hall Sunday Concerts Steinway & Sons UK
Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski joins the Benyounes Quartet this Sunday (26). Classical Guitar Magazine called him "a player destined for future glories" and both Gramophone & BBC Music Magazine highlighted him as "One to Watch". If you haven’t heard him play, you’ll enjoy this video of music from his latest album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5VvJVmZH _o - For info / tickets: https://bit.ly/2WHQTpQ - *free* for those under 26, courtesy of the Cavatina Chamber Music Tru...st.
#free #music #guitar #strings #classical Iberian & Latin American Music Society Embamex Reino Unido #mexico #concert #holborn #bloomsbury #Camden Love Camden Conway Hall Sunday Concerts
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Want to come and work for us? We're seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated professional for a part-time (three days per week) *Marketing Co-ordinator* role, who can work creatively to ensure that our high standards of marketing are maintained. - for more information: po.st/chjob0519
#job #arts #charity #london
Be.nips are running a child and young adult mental health seminar on Tue 04 Jun for parents, carers and anyone working to support children in and around London. There'll be talks approaching mental health from a plethora of backgrounds and two panel discussions, as well as a huge array of stalls from local charities and organisations working to support child and carer mental health, plus a free handbook and self-help map for all attending. For tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/302955373 687199
Our Spring season finale on 02 Jun is also a fundraiser for the Sunday Concerts, to help keep them affordable for all. #Steinway pianist Simon Callaghan will perform a colourful programme of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms, accompanied by the strings of Martyn Jackson, Nicholas Bootiman and Reinoud Ford. "Simon's playing was so sensitive and he commanded the attention of the audience with expertise and passion" said a review of a previous performance. - more info and tickets: po.st/02Jun19 - *free* for those under 26, courtesy of the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
#chamber #music #classical #piano #strings #concert #holborn #bloomsbury #Camden Love Camden #free #sunday Conway Hall Sunday Concerts Steinway & Sons UK
May's Sunday Concerts continue this Sunday (12th) with Wigmore Hall String Quartet competition prizewinners the Piatti Quartet, followed by a rare London performance from Italian musicians Sergio Patria and Elena Ballario (19th), and close with Morgan Szymanski and Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than 200 years (26th), following a FREE pre-concert talk by Robert Hugill (Planet Hugill) at 5.30pm. - for more information and tickets: po.st/SundayConcerts - Don't forget that entry is *free* for those under 26, courtesy of the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
#chamber #music #classical #strings #piano #concert #holborn #bloomsbury #Camden Love Camden #free #sunday #london Conway Hall Sunday Concerts
The next #ThinkingonSunday talk is only 5 days away (12th) – come and hear Dr Michael Collins, Dr Sara Lyons and Dr Natasha Periyan discuss how novelists such as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Mark Twain think about intelligence both in and out of the classroom. - more info and tickets: po.st/ToS12May
#intelligence #IQ #novelists #thomashardy #virginiawoolf #dhlawrence #marktwain #talk #holborn #bloomsbury #london Love Camden New Lands
What does being poor really mean in Britain today? At the #ThinkingonSunday talk on 16th June Kerry Hudson discusses her book 'Lowborn' with James Bloodworth, author of 'Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain' . 'Lowborn' is a powerful, personal, agenda-changing work of non-fiction on poverty in Britain – a unique book that we all need to pay attention to. - more info and tickets: po.st/lowborn
#lowwage #poverty #childpoverty #talk #holborn #bloomsbury #london Love Camden New Lands
In celebration of United Nations #WorldBeeDay, on Tue 21 May we're hosting a big, free event with the Embassy of Slovenia and MidtownLDN: 30 hives from around the world will present products distinctive to their region including honey – in all its varieties – pollen, propolis, royal jelly and wax, as well as honey-based products including biscuits, mead, spirits, candles and more, which you'll also get a chance to sample... - for more info: http://po.st/WBD19
#bees #honey #hi...ves Bee Collective Embassy of Slovenia in London #Slovenia Embassy of Greece, London Belize High Commission, London Embajada de Chile en Reino Unido / Embassy of Chile in the United Kingdom Embajada de Cuba en Reino Unido Cyprus High Commission UK - Cultural Section Czech Embassy London Embassy of Latvia in the UK / Latvijas vēstniecība Lielbritānijā Lietuvos Respublikos Ambasada Londone / Lithuanian Embassy in London Polish Embassy UK #Serbia Slovenské veľvyslanectvo v Spojenom kráľovstve / Slovak Embassy in UK Embassy of Ukraine to the UK Embassy of Iraq - London Embassy of Nicaragua High Commission of Uganda, London #Uruguay Zambia High Commission London Taipei Representative Office in the U.K. #Wales Embajada De Bolivia Londres Embassy of Zimbabwe, London Embassy of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom Embassy of Georgia to the UK Chinese Embassy in UK #Montenegro
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Composer, musicologist and blogger Robert Hugill (Planet Hugill) is the focus of Sunday's Concert (5th), in an evening inspired by English and Welsh poets including Rowan Williams, Shelley and Christina Rosetti. "Anna Huntley... has a superb voice, just right for the music; Rosalind Ventris's viola itself sings almost vocally” said one review of Hugill’s CD ‘Quickening’. Robert will introduce the programme with a FREE pre-concert talk, and join the musicians after the perform...ance for a Q&A. It’s an evening of wonderful British music, not to be missed. - more info and tickets: po.st/hugill - *free* for those under 26, courtesy of the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
- for a taster of Robert Hugill’s works: https://spoti.fi/2XRyhnu
#chamber #music #classical #strings #piano #concert #holborn #bloomsbury #free #sunday #Camden Love Camden Conway Hall Sunday Concerts Rosalind Ventris British Music Society #britishmusic #england #classicalmusic Navona
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