Podcast feedTwo and a Quarter Centuries of Conway Hall
Lacky talks to Jim Walsh of Conway Hall, which is run by the South Place Ethical Society that was founded (on 14th February) 1793 and is the last remaining ethical society in the UK and the oldest free thought organization in the world.
Jim knows all about the historic building and its fascinating artifacts of English culture, especially relating to free thinking and Humanism.
Conway Hall has been the jumping off place of important movements and causes – anti-apartheid, abolition of capital pubishment, where public figures such as Charles Darwin, Lisa Jardine and Tony Benn challenged current thinking.
Conway Hall has teamed up with Trunkman Productions to tell the story of Moncure Conway after whom the building is named. A documentary ‘The Empty Niche: The Long Lost Bust Of Moncure Conway’ is available from 25th February on YouTube. It tracks the history of Conway Hall and the mysteriously empty niche that has sat in its foyer since it opened.
Interview: Lacky Ahmed
Recording: Freddy Chick
Editing: Lacky Ahmed
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What's On In Camden - 25th April
Plenty to keep you busy as May approaches: go to a screening of a film about the troubles of Iran’s LGBT community at Conway Hall, check out the latest exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre or enjoy a walk round Lincoln’s Inn. When the weekend comes, celebrate May Day with the pigs and sheep at Kentish Town City Farm.
Finally, if you want to celebrate Prince’s life and works this week then there’s a party at the Bloomsbury Lanes to commemorate the end of his purple reign.
Package by: Muna Afrah, Rosie Turner, Joseph Hughes, Danielle Manning, Freddy Chick
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What's On in Camden from 21st February 2016
Poetry Nights at Torriano Meeting House; History Walk: The Garrets of Gower Street; Roundhouse hosts Coasts; Conway Hall and No 184 Royal College Street offer LGBT History Month events; Weekly guided walks in King’s Cross area led by CSM Student. Heads up for April performance of The 24 Hour Nonstop Connolly Show.
Read by:
Alexandra Quinn, Denise O’Connor, Freddy Chick, Joseph Hughes, Marian Larragy & Mary Holditch.
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What's On In Camden - from 10th January 2016
Our first What’s On In Camden of 2016: Award winning classical music at the Conway Hall; Boccia at the St Pancras Community Centre; Anthony Gormley exhibits at the British Library; Camden People’s Theatre have festival ‘Whose London Is It Anyway?’ looks at the changing face of the capital; meet new people & dance to Michael Jackson 80’s hits at the WAC Arts; ‘The Story of a Nervous Man’ is at the Etcetera Theatre; Join in landscape gardening at the Castlehaven Community Centre.
Script by: Angela Routely
Read by: Danielle Manning, Freddy Chick, Joseph Hughes, Mary Holditch, N.N.D. and Yula Burin.
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What's On In Camden - 25th May
It’s the Bank Holiday weekend=time to crack out the BBQ. Camden Council have compiled a handy list of the best BBQ sites in the borough; Historic Conway Hall will be open at Friday lunchtime for a tour; the Roundhouse hosts ‘The Last Word- – its annual festival of spoken word poetry and you can kick up your heels and learn how to do the Highland fling at Cecil Sharp House’s weekly ceilidh dance.
Danielle Manning, Joe Hughes & Freddy Chick
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