Our Salons
Salon London: Bringing ideas to life.
15th Jan 2019
Want to start 2019 more focused and productive? Want to do more, stress less and live more happily?
31st Jan 2019
When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us?
14th Feb 2019
Singles, doubles, thruples, groups. Salon London wants you this Valentine's Day!
21st Feb 2019
Come to see Jamie Bartlett, author of ‘The People Vs Tech’ and ‘The Dark Net’, and Carl Miller, author of ‘The Death of the Gods’ - winners of the Salon London Transmission Prize 2019 - debate one of the big questions of our time - will democracy survive the internet?
6th Mar 2019
We've worked with Philippa Perry since this project was a twinkle in her eye and on March 6th we're so pleased to be the very first to hear her talk about this incredible exploration of family as we discuss...The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did.)
19th Mar 2019
2019 has been described as the ‘Year of Burnout’ and with symptoms such as emotional exhaustion, imposter syndrome and a reduced sense of accomplishment it's one we’re keen to avoid.
21st Mar 2019
Does your gender affect your intelligence, your capability, your ambition? They’ve been arguing in the (academic) streets about this one. Finally - the results are in – and as our favourite professor of neuro-imaging Gina Rippon will explain – they are pretty explosive for our traditional understanding of the gendered brain.
3rd Apr 2019
Join us on 3rd April when leading risk, probability, chance and uncertainty academic Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter guides us through the essential principles we need in order to derive knowledge from data.
17th Apr 2019
To celebrate our 10th year and the ideas of academics, authors, and experts, we're working with renowned psychologist, Dr Kevin Dutton on a special one-off session in Covent Garden on the 17th April.
18th Apr 2019
April marks us being halfway through our 10th year of Salon London, and so we are creating a brilliantly big Salon for 18th April, showcasing three of our biggest strengths:
12th May 2019
Can a city be a forest? In London, 8.6 million people live in just 600 square miles alongside 8.4 million trees, which, according to one UN definition, makes it one of the world’s largest urban forests.
23rd May 2019
Vice President of Twitter, Bruce Daisley will explain how you can reconnect with the joy in your work - before best selling author James Wallman will explain the 7 rules for getting the most out of your free time. Our May Salon is designed to leave you with plenty to consider over the summer.
30th May 2019
Growing evidence is showing that psychedelics can improve mental health and change personality, and even political perspective in an enduring way. They are reinventing psychiatry and Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is at the forefront of this charge. In this fascinating talk, he will explain why psychedelics might be useful for depression and other mental disorders and how they might work in the brain.
19th Jun 2019
To celebrate 50 years since the moon landings, join us for an extraordinary evening with Wally Funk, the aviation pioneer who was set to become the first person in space.
10th Jul 2019
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology, which now shapes and governs our lives seemingly as much as laws and regulations. But unlike laws and regulations, the influence of tech in our lives too often goes unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the old refrain that technology has no morals and is free of prejudice – only its users are fallible.
11th Sep 2019
Why are algorithms prejudiced? Is it a product of a hidden, bigoted, politically-activist brogrammer cabal in Silicon Valley? Is it that big data analytics are simply revealing the ugly truths about ourselves and the fundamental dysfunction of our social institutions? Or, could it just be something inherent in algorithms themselves?
12th Sep 2019
Kerry Daynes is one of the UK’s most respected Consultant Forensic Psychologist and a trusted government advisor, for over 25 years she has managed the treatment of extremely high-risk criminals.
16th Sep 2019
As London gets William Blake fever - ahead of the massive show at Tate Britain, this Salon with author John Higgs is the perfect way to get to grips with the visionary poet and painter.
29th Oct 2019
We talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free of niggling fears and body image insecurities. Rather than enjoying and exploring our bodies uninhibited, we worry about our bikini lines, bulging tummies and whether we're doing it 'right'.
31st Oct 2019
Why do we enjoy experiencing what seems clearly impossible, or at least beyond our powers of explanation? And how do magicians exploit huge gaps in our conscious experience, holes that we are typically unaware of?
5th Nov 2019
When deciding whether or not someone is worth listening to, we think we carefully weigh their words and arguments. But those are far from being the only factors that hold sway with us.
19th Nov 2019
After a year of division, we wanted to do a Salon that celebrates the joy in eating and drinking together and to shine a light on the kindness and generosity of the oncoming season. So on the 19th of November, we’re inviting you to Be My Guest for a heartwarming and thought-provoking discussion of hospitality, over a two-course dinner, with renowned author, and founder of Authors for Peace, Priya Basil.
21st Nov 2019
The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into an explosion of national self-confidence.
26th Nov 2019
Over the past six decades, the changing British attitude to drugs has created the greatest criminal opportunity in the history of this country.
28th Nov 2019
The 28th November is the anniversary of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball and we’ll welcome to the Salon stage the award-winning Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, to tell us the story of Truman Capote’s decision to publish in 'Esquire' magazine the deepest, darkest secrets of his best and closest friends, the glamorous, wealthy society women he called his 'Swans'.