Philosophy Slam

17/07/2025

Here we are mid-slam at the beautiful festival, where ideas, imagination, and laughter meet under the trees.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a dose of deep thought with a twinkle in its eye.

From Plato to pop culture, we roamed the realms of meaning with the help of our audience - and we’re already dreaming of the next one.

📸 Great photo taken by Monika S. Jakubowska.

23/05/2025

🌟 Philosophy Slam! Spotlight 🌟

We’re thrilled to celebrate one of our own — philosopher, psychotherapist, and visionary thinker Mark Vernon, whose new book Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination is out soon.

What if imagination isn’t an escape from reality — but a deeper way into it?

In this luminous new work, Mark invites us to walk beside poet-prophet William Blake, exploring his vivid worldview through poetry, image, and radical insight. The result? A Blake who is startlingly alive — urgent, mystical, and necessary.

✨ “Left me unusually alert for the sound of angelic voices in the hum of the everyday.” — The Rev’d Richard Coles

At Philosophy Slam! we believe philosophy should be alive, embodied, and awake — and Awake! is just that.

Follow us for more conversations at the edge of poetry and philosophy.

03/04/2025

Philosophy Slam! At a secret location yesterday 😏

22/01/2025

Mark and Robert before a Slam in Oxfordshire.

18/03/2024

Fantastic evening as always at the Union Club. Can’t wait to slam there again soon.

Thank you to everyone who came, and to their contributions.

02/02/2024

Philosophy Slam at the Century Club. A great time was had by all!
Words thrown to us by the audience included,
Wizard
Truth
Light
Lobster
Time
Hyperbole
Fever Dream
Purpose
Bio politics
Betrayal
Stranger

17/01/2024

7pm 30th January 2024 at Century Club Soho

Ready for a night of brain-bending fun that's sharper than a double-edged sword of wit? Come join us at the Philosophy Slam, where deep thoughts meet deep laughs, hosted by none other than philosophers Mark Vernon and Robert Rowland Smith. Imagine a world where existential dilemmas and moral quandar...

17/01/2024

Ready for a night of brain-bending fun that's sharper than a double-edged sword of wit? Come join us at the Philosophy Slam, where deep thoughts meet deep laughs, hosted by none other than philosophers Mark Vernon and Robert Rowland Smith. Imagine a world where existential dilemmas and moral quandar...

06/09/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUClcGCaQY

Copy the link into your browser or check out youtube channel to watch us live at 6pm Friday 8th September UK time.

Can't wait to see what words you bring!

01/09/2023

Join us for Philosophy Slam! At the Union Club on the 12th September.
What words will you being along?

21/08/2023

Summer philosophy slam with the lovely people over at the Century Club, Soho.