26.09.2014
Daytime Event, 9:30am-5:30pm
how to: Make
the Perfect Presentation
with Neil Chalmers
It’s not
always what you say but more often how you say it…
How often have you or a colleague you know well made a successful
presentation one day and the next day made a complete mess of the
same material? If your delivery of presentations however formal or
informal is all too often variable, or even uniformly poor don’t
despair, help is at hand. A day spent with Neil learning how to get
your message across effectively as well as stamping your personality
on your presentations could dramatically improve your performance not
just occasionally but every time.
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27.09.2014 - 28.09.2014
Daytime Event, 10:00am-5:00pm both days
how to: Read
Tolstoy
with Rosamund Bartlett
“If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy” wrote Isaac Babel.
Universally regarded as the greatest writer of Russian fiction, Leo
Tolstoy is the only author with two works regularly featuring in
lists of the top ten novels of all time. This weekend course, led by
Rosamund Bartlett, biographer and translator of Tolstoy, invites you to
immerse yourself in both of them. We will explore the whole of
Tolstoy’s long career as a prose writer, but the focus will be on War
and Peace and Anna Karenina, the novels which represent the summit of
his creative achievement, and rank amongst the greatest monuments of
world literature. Whether you participate in one or both days of the
course is your choice....
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02.10.2014
Evening Event, 6:30pm-8:00pm
how to: Be
Mindful (Introductory Workshop)
with Louise Chester
A small shift in your thinking can have a major effect on your life.
Mindfulness is the smart new way to live. In the workplace it helps
you build teamwork, enhance creativity and communication, and resolve
conflict. In private life, it helps you to forget the fears of the
past and future, and focus completely on the present and its
potential. Being Mindful means making every moment count.
This workshop is for those who have little personal or practical
knowledge of Mindfulness. Louise Chester will help you understand...
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01.10.2014
Evening Event, 7:00pm-8:00pm
how to: Be
Happy, or What You Want (Performed by Paul McGann and Pip Torrens)
with Constantine Phipps, Paul McGann, Pip Torrens
What You Want
is a dazzlingly original verse-novel about life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
Patrick is an ordinary man in free-fall. Following an overdose, he
returns in a dream to the past: his marriage, his love of music, his
inspirations and his infidelities. Employing the wisdom and guidance
of luminaries including Dante, Freud, and Thomas Jefferson, Patrick
explores the abiding question: How should we live?...
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04.10.2014
Weekend Event, 10am-5pm
how to: Read
Ulysses
with Colin MacCabe
Ulysses uses one day in the life of Dublin to reflect on the whole of
Western culture and society. We invite you to spend a one day in your
life reflecting on Ulysses, the most influential, and difficult,
novel ever written. Under the guidance of Colin MacCabe, one of the
world’s leading Joyce experts, you will enter into the world of
Dublin on June 16th 1904 chapter by chapter, and hour by hour.
You will also look at the contexts of Ulysses: the Dublin of the
Gaelic revival; pre-First World War Trieste; Zurich as a haven from
the butchery of the First World War; the Paris of entre deux
guerres...
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07.10.2014
Evening Event, 6:30pm-7:45pm
how to:
Understand Lawrence of Arabia
with Anthony Sattin
Who was the mysterious young archeologist who became known as
Lawrence of Arabia? And why did he, one hundred years ago, burn the
first manuscript of his great epic, Seven Pillars of Wisdom? What was
the story he wanted to conceal from the world?
In what promises to be a riveting event, the acclaimed biographer and
travel writer, Anthony Sattin, will uncover the truth about T E
Lawrence. To celebrate the launch of his much anticipated new book,
Sattin will discuss the secret behind Lawrence’s birth, his tortuous
relationship with his dominant...
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14.10.2014
Evening Event, 6:45pm-8:00pm
how to: An
Evening Masterclass in Film
with Colin MacCabe
An evening masterclass on some of the greatest moments in world
cinema, explaining in close-up what makes each clip so perfect. The
shot, the cut, the grammar of film: this unique take on the finest of
all modern entertainments will be essential viewing.
Film is the greatest of contemporary arts and, even in the digital
age, our most popular source of entertainment. Since the end of the
First World War it has provided our most important fictions, about
individuals and society, as well as faithfully documenting our...
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23.10.2014
Evening Event, 6:30pm-7:50pm
how to: An
Evening with Michael Sandel
with Michael J. Sandel
This is an unmissable opportunity to hear the world famous
philosopher Michael Sandel address the outstanding question of our
age: how
do we want to live together?
He has been called ‘the most effective communicator of ideas’ in
English, our most ‘relevant living philosopher’, a ‘genius’, a
humanitarian, who can has taken philosophy into the global public
domain and empowered audiences worldwide to participate in the
highest quality of debate. His Harvard ‘Justice’ course has become
legendary. In Britain, BBC R4 audiences will know him as The Public
Philosopher....
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20.11.2014
Evening Event, 6:30pm-7:45pm
how to:
Understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
with Pedro G. Ferreira
Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is possibly the most
perfect intellectual achievement in modern physics. Anything that
involves gravity, the force that powers everything on the largest,
hottest or densest of scales, can be explained by it.
From the moment Einstein first proposed the theory in 1915, it was
received with enthusiasm yet also with tremendous resistance, and for
the following ninety years was the source of a series of feuds,
vendettas, ideological battles and international collaborations
featuring a colourful cast of characters....
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