Blood, Sweat And Asparagus Spears: Andrew Turvil in conversation
FoylesWC2H
Mon 10 Aug19:00
£8A speaker who knows more about this than anyone else in the room, including the other speakers.
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Thu 3 Sept
2 eventsFrancis Fukuyama
Union ChapelN1Thu 3 Sept18:00
£31.10Francis Fukuyama is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time. His famous 1989 essay, The End of History? – written as the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed – posed a provocative idea: that Western liberal democracy had triumphed over ideology, and that it might be the “final form of human government”. Over three decades later in 2026, the world looks almost unrecognisable. Russia's war in Ukraine accelerated a fracturing of the liberal rules-based order. The President of the United States has attacked Venezuela and Iran without seeking Congressional approval, UN Security Council backing or even building a coalition. And throughout the world polarisation, populism and authoritarianism have become potent threats to social order. On September 3, Fukuyama comes to Intelligence Squared to reflect on the seismic political events that are shaping our world. Join one of our most provocative thinkers live at Union Chapel, as he discusses the themes of his new political memoir, In The Realm of the Last Man, presents an urgent study of contemporary politics and explores how the West can revitalise its democracies. Make your dinner reservation to eat at our Margins Cafe before the show! You must have a general admission ticket for the show to gain entry for dinner. Doors will open for early dinner ticket holders at 17.30. The Margins Cafe serves delicious, freshly prepared food at gigs and events. All profits go towards The Margins Project, based here at the Chapel which works with people who face issues of homelessness and crisis. Book Your Dinner Reservation HERE More Information: For Accessibility, please click here. The venue is seating only. All seats are unreserved and are taken on a first come first serve basis. Please arrive early before event door times if you have preferred seats. Due to the nature of our venue, please be prepared to queue for entry. The venue is fully accessible, with use of ramps and the upstairs bar is accessible with use of a platform lift. Please email [email protected] with your accessibility requirements as soon as you purchase your ticket as requests are dealt with on a first come, first serve basis. The bar is located on the first floor of the venue and will be open from the stated door time and remain open after the show. Alcohol consumption will be limited to the bar area only, it is not permitted to take alcohol to the main chapel space. An array of soft drinks and snacks will also be available and are permitted in the main space - please note the Union Chapel bar and kiosk accept card payment only. Strictly no food or drink may be brought from outside into the venue. Water bottles must be emptied before entering the venue, with refilling stations available inside. Seats for Margin's Cafe Early Dinners can be reserved via the links above. Margin's Cafe accepts both cash and card. If you have any queries about Margins Cafe, please contact [email protected]
John Berger: From Life
British LibraryNW1Thu 3 Sept19:00
£15In 2010 John Berger gave his archive to British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France.Tom Overton got to know Berger as he catalogued this archive, and exchanges between them were a journey of discovery and rediscovery. Now, in an extraordinary new book, Overton draws on this experience and a vast and previously unseen trove of material to explore John Berger's life and work one hundred years after his birth.There were so many different subjects to Berger’s work; so many precisely chosen forms. He reimagined the relationship between art and technology; charted the disappearance of peasants and documented migrant labour; explored with huge compassion the AIDS crisis; was trenchantly opposed to the new world order that emerged in the 1990s and the War on Terror and was passionately committed to the Palestinian cause.Join us at this event to launch John Berger: From Life where Tom Overton talks to Gareth Evans about the continued importance of a figure who always focused on the creating and recreating of communities past and present. At the centre of this book, above all, is the idea that John Berger wants our company, and we need his.
