OUR SUMMER 2026 PROGRAMME IS HERE ☀️ 🏖️
The sun is shining in London so there's no better time to launch our Summer 2026 programme! We are delighted to be offering an inspiring and exciting mix of talks, concerts and special partnerships 🌿
Highlights include:
🔥 Ethical Matters: Feminism For A World On Fire
🛸 Strange Central: Mysteries, Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs
🎶 Sunday Concerts: Treske Quartet
🎞️ KONTEKST Film Festival
🚶Polymaths and Pioneers: The Women of WC1
💫 Explore our full programme and start planning your summer https://bit.ly/3X2OHKr
#Summer2026 #WhatsOn #Culture #Events #LondonLife
Don't miss this week's Sunday Concerts performance from the talented Treske Quartet, with a programme committed to championing repertoire by 20th & 21st century composers. Their goal is to curate and perform programmes that include a variety of musical styles by established and emerging composers, and to give audiences radical experiences with new sound worlds.
This concert also features a Pre- Concert Recital from last year’s Clements Prize finalist Ruiqi Fang & Markus Sadler 🎶
📅 Sunday 17 May
🕒 6.30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
The allure of the city is powerful, however universally inaccessible for many women. It can be exclusionary, exploitative and dangerous. But how can women claim their place in the public space and what can we do for women’s rights amidst alienating capitalist cityscapes?
Join author Morag Rose and writer/psychogeographer Dr Sonia Overall in a conversation that explores the benefits, beauties and barriers to women and walking. 🚶♀️
📅 Wednesday 13 May
🕒 7pm
📍 Conway Hall and online via livestream.
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
#walking #walks #london
Join us tomorrow for our Ethical Matters talk Feminism for a World on Fire, as we welcome author Natasha Walter and guests including investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and Aja Barber, writer and campaigner against fast fashion and colonialism.
Natasha Walter’s new book, Feminism for a World on Fire, takes a global look at the challenges faced by women today – from online misogyny to state repression, from climate emergency to deepening economic inequality. Together, they will be going deep into the crises that we face and drawing new maps of how women can build connection and resistance in darkening times.
📅 Wednesday 13 May
🕒 7pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
On this day in 1941, Red Lion Square and the surrounding area witnessed heavy bombing during a World War ll air raid from German bombers targeting the capital.
The building immediately to the left of Conway Hall was destroyed (where the Tresham apartment building now stands), and which can be seen in the photographs of Red Lion Square.
Conway Hall experienced minor damage to the building, such as broken windows, burnt seats in the balcony and holes in the roof which were later repaired. A form submitted to the War Damage Commission on 27 May 1941 by Conway Hall secretary S.G Green explains the cause and extend of the damage sustained to the building.
Despite all of this, on the morning after the bombardment, 40 people ventured out to attend the regular Sunday morning lecture read by Cyril Joad.
This week we welcome internationally acclaimed violinist Benjamin Baker, along with talented regular partner Daniel Lebhardt, for our Sunday Concerts. With a packed programme that includes Schubert, Brahms, Bacewicz and Respighi, this is a concert not to be missed!
This week's performance will also feature a Pre-Concert Recital from the talented Antar Quartet, students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland making their Conway Hall debut.
📅 Sunday 10 May
🕒 5:30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
Join us next Wednesday for our latest Ethical Matters talk, Feminism for a World on Fire with writer and activist Natasha Walter and joined by fearless investigator Carole Cadwalladr and writer and campaigner against fast fashion and colonialism Aja Barber.
This vital talk will be addressing the new threats that face women and what we can do to resist, as we go deep into the global challenges faced by women everyday – from online misogyny to state repression, from climate emergency to deepening economic inequality.
As we continue to host these important talks around gender disparity, we wanted to take a look back at just a handful of some of the many influential figures from the suffrage movement that have graced our stage in the past.
📅 Wednesday 13 May
🕒 7pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
#Feminism #suffragette #talk #london
It wouldn't be a British bank holiday without rain 🌧️
Why not escape the weather and join us for a Sunday Concerts programme from the critically acclaimed NOVO Quartet. Selected as BBC New Generation Artists 2025–27, NOVO Quartet bring an energetic and passionate programme as they journey from Denmark to make their debut at Conway Hall.
📅 Sunday 3 May
🕒 6:30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
#Haydn #Beethoven #classicalmusic #london
We are proud to be working with Electric Voice Theatre to present the inaugural Eliza Flower Recital 2026 🎶
Join us this Thursday for an evening of music, readings and free-thinking discussion in the cosy surroundings of our beautiful library. We also invite you to view our display of archival material, some featured in this video, giving you a chance to get up close and learn more about cherished composer Eliza Flower and her incredible legacy.
📅 Thursday 30 April
🕒 6:30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
Gaming has always been gay, bisexual and transgender, and queer identities have become increasingly prevalent in our virtual worlds. Yet, with homophobia, transphobia, violence and repression on the rise, many queer gamers and creators are challenging the role representation can play in confronting these increasing hostilities today.
Join LGBTQ+ historian Sacha Coward and journalist Mahin Kesore in conversation about all things gay and gaming in our current landscape - from celebrating stories of queer characters and games, to uncovering the role gaming has had in our understanding of queer identity. 🌈
Gay Players: LGBTQ+ Gaming is on sale now and use discount code GAYMINGAPR25! to get 25% off 🎫
📅 Wednesday 29 April
🕒 6:30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
#livetalks #lgbt #gamer #gaming #gaymer
Heading to our Sunday Concert performance from Bartholomew LaFollette and friends?
Why not arrive early and enjoy a moment of spring sunshine in the beautiful Red Lion Square? We can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday! ☀️
Join us next Thursday for our inaugural Eliza Flower Recital 2026, as we welcome Electric Voice Theatre to celebrate the legacy of Conway Hall's cherished composer Eliza Flower. This informal hour of free-thinking discussion, music, and readings explores Flower’s collaborative friendship with the political polymath Harriet Martineau on the 150th anniversary of her death, and Flower’s natural successor at South Place Ethical Society, the prolific composer Emily Josephine Troup. 🎶
The programme includes a performance of Flower’s ‘Fellowship’ from Hymns of Modern Thought, which was first revived by Electric Voice Theatre last year. After the performance, we invite you to view our display of archival material, and view artist Elspeth Manders‘ original oil painting, ‘Garden of Heavenly and Earthly Nature’, in the beautiful surroundings of our historic library. 📝
Tickets for this event are on sale now 🎟️
📅 Thursday 30 April
🕒 6:30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 Ticket link in our bio
#music #elizaflower #composer #londonlife
