Conway Hall

09/10/2026

Bloomsbury Festival comes to Conway Hall next week kicking off with The Peaceful Crystallographer presented by our friends Electric Voice Theatre.

Join us for a singing celebration of Kathleen Lonsdale – the first female professor at UCL and one of the first female Royal Society Fellows - with music performed by Electric Voice Theatre, UC8 and the Clerkenwell Community Choir. Join us and celebrate the life and work of one of the most influential women in S.T.E.M.

📅 Thursday 15 October
🕒 6.30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 https://loom.ly/S4qRnZs

08/10/2026

One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari shook filmgoers worldwide on its release in 1920. Over a century later, the film still raises ethical questions around tyrannical authority and psychological trauma, leaving us to ask the question, does horror serve to uphold, or undermine, morality?

Thinking In Frames is a series exploring the big philosophical questions provoked by cinema and unpacking the film’s themes in an interactive discussion. Join us this Halloween in our historic library as we screen Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari followed by a post-screening discussion asking the questions of complexity of moral responsibility and what the horror genre unveils about human nature. 🔪 🩸

The screening and discussion are open to everyone, you do not need any prior knowledge or experience of cinema or philosophy, just a curious and inquisitive mind.

This screening is proudly supported by Sala46 Films 🎞️

📅 Friday 30 October
🕒 6.30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 https://loom.ly/65NKYMM

06/10/2026

01/10/2026

From film screenings to Friedrich Nietzsche, we have something for everyone this October. 🍂

Check out our full programme on the Conway Hall website now

30/09/2026

“One of the most interesting and innovative quartets of today” - BBC Music Magazine

Formed in 2011, Quartetto Noûs has gone on to established itself as one of the most interesting chamber music ensembles of its generation, winning awards and accolades across Europe for over a decade. We are delighted to welcome one of Italy's finest chamber music groups to Conway Hall this Sunday for a programme of masterpieces from Shostakovich, Schnittke and Beethoven. 🎶

Tickets are on sale online or at our box office 🎟️

📅 Sunday 4 October
🕒 6.30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 https://loom.ly/7hKq7CU

29/09/2026

Next month Bloomsbury Festival returns to Conway Hall with a packed weekend of special events spanning music, theatre, workshops, poetry, dance and much more.

🎨 Radical Poster Design
🎤 electric voice theatre: The Peaceful Crystallographer
🎻 Soraya Verjee and No More Girl Friday
🎶 Sounding the Archive: The Emily Penrose Diaries
💃 LifeLines – Poetry, Dance and Music

Discover the full programme and book your tickets now 🎟️

28/09/2026

Jack Maden discusses how philosophy can help us resolve the most important choices of our lives in Life Lessons From Big Thinkers this Sunday 🏛️

24/09/2026

Installing 's new work Bringing It Home today. Visit the exhibition from tomorrow, and come to our talk this Sunday to hear Jayne talk about her work at the intersection of design and protest. Link in bio for tickets! 🎟️

24/09/2026

Our Sunday Concerts return with another fantastic line-up as Piatti Quartet are joined by clarinettist Peter Cigleris - Clarinettist and our Artistic Director Simon Callaghan. 🎶

A world premiere from Joseph Cabon opens a richly English first half, alongside Howells at his most rhapsodic and elegiac. Peter Cigleris and Simon Callaghan then take on Howells’ soaring Clarinet Sonata, before the Piatti Quartet close with Tchaikovsky’s youthful, melody-filled First Quartet.

The concert also features a pre-concert talk from Dr Jonathan Clinch, organist and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, exploring British music of the last two centuries.

This concert is generously supported by the Herbert Howells Society.

📅 Sunday 27 September
🕒 6.30pm
📍 Conway Hall
🎫 https://loom.ly/dD1C0rY

23/09/2026

Happy Birthday to us! 🎂

On this day in 1929, Conway Hall officially opened its doors to the public after a year of construction. The new building was to be a place of enlightened education and social activity.

Whilst funds did not allow for the extent of the societies original wish list - which included a swimming pool! - architect F. Herbert Mansford worked with the building committee to create an edifice with space to hold lectures, concerts, dances, social evenings and play-readings, many of which we still proudly host today.

These clippings are taken from The Architects Journal from Sept 1929 issue celebrating the opening of Conway Hall.