In Conversation With Brian Eno, Ambient Atheist
In a career stretching from Roxy Music to Coldplay, from David Bowie and Grace Jones to U2, Brian Eno has produced the biggest acts in the world... but the highlight of his week is singing in a...
Speaker(s): Brian EnoWhy Your Beliefs Stopped Working And What To Do About It
Drawing from his 2021 release, Faith After Doubt, author/activist Brian McLaren will introduce a model for faith development that has helped many understand why they've reached a faith crisis -- and...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenIn The Metaverse As In Heaven
As we move towards the metaverse and Web3, how should we prepare? How will virtual, augmented and meta ‘realities' affect our spiritual experiences and religious rites? What new opportunities...
Speaker(s): Andrew JonesSuperior: The Return Of Race Science
In conversation with scientist and writer Angela Saini about her much-lauded work on the murky history, science and politics of race – and how the far-right is attempting to repackage racism in the...
Speaker(s): Angela SainiLost In Work: Escaping Capitalism
Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure,...
Speaker(s): Amelia HorganCommunion: …And Now, the Weather…
Every day on the news there are stories of doom and destruction; wars and rumours of wars; poverty, child abuse, corruption … and then a smiley soul slides on to tell us what the weather will be...
Speaker(s): Azariah France-Williams, Pip Herbert, Electric Cabaret, Peter Graystone, Christian Aid…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
Lantern Making with Helen Turner
Helen has a background in Public Art, with a specialism in Textiles and Mixed Media, an experienced arts project manager often including community engagement. I have worked on several Arts and...
Studio Aindow
Award winning hand embroiderer Naomi Aindow-Clark is the founder of Studio Aindow, a small business that hopes to keep the art of hand embroidery alive. Naomi creates bespoke hand embroidered...
Lorna Rose Designs
Lorna is a visually impaired artist who loves explosions of colour and abstract pattern. She uses a variety of different techniques and surfaces to develop her artwork, from Geli plates and screen...
Laughter Therapy! with John Hipkiss
Laughter Therapy was established by John Hipkiss in 2009 with the aim of promoting Laughter Yoga, health and team building Laughter Therapy. Laughing John is a trained, insured and experienced...
Elle O’Rourke
Elle O'Rourke is a political economist, writer and gender theorist living in Manchester. She is co-editor, with Jules Joanne Gleeson, of Transgender Marxism (Pluto Press, 2021), a provocative and...
IDestroy
Riotous live shows are IDestroy's calling card. Since forming in 2015, the trio, who met as students in Bristol, have played more than 300 gigs across the UK, Europe and Asia, selling out shows in...
Pippa King
Pippa King has an research MA from the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University (formerly the Cass). Her current work explores non-patriarchal and non-hierarchical...
Lola Olufemi
Lola Olufemi (she/they) is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London based in the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster....