Our Salons
Salon London: Bringing ideas to life.
6th Feb 2014
To mark the second year of the Transmission Prize, our first Salon of 2014 gets up in the grill of Big Ideas.
8th Mar 2014
For Bath Literary Festival, Salon London looked at the years before the Great War.
24th Apr 2014
For the first Salon of 2014 we present ‘Cool Hunters’, and will be using the Salon format to explore the key elements of this most illusive attribute.
28th Apr 2014
It’s a truth universally unquestioned that travel broadens the mind. But how and why?
17th Jul 2014
Prof Sophie Scott, Kerry Daynes, Prof Barbara Sahakian, Prof David Speigelhalter OBE, Catherine Pendergrass, Prof Charles Ferneyhough, Dr Vaughan Bell, Dr Clare Jonas, Dr Michael Banissy, Prof David Tong, Dr Geoff Warburton, Prof Roland Zahn, Jo Hemmings, Julian Baggini, Tristan Gooley, Lloyd Bradley, Dr Morgaine Gaye, Dr Paul Dolan, Dr Robin Carhatt-Harris, Prof Robin Choudhury, Dr Sandrine Thuret. Are coming to Latitude with Salon London to take a lateral look at 'Secrets and Lies'.
8th Aug 2014
As we know we only get one chance to make a first impression, we want to ensure your voice is up to the pressure, and so welcome acclaimed vocal coach Juliet Russell to Wilderness to teach range, tone, style, creak and even gravitas. Juliet’s vocal session will give your voice a heady work out, and cleverly uses the hooks of songs, explaining why they work to grab you, so giving your music knowledge a workout too.
5th Sep 2014
On Friday we’ll be in the Town Hall having ‘Sex’ with poet Salena Godden who talked through the poets and the poems that had influenced her, famed author Zoe Pilger is on the Salon stage to explain the joys of writing contemporary sex in literary fiction, and slang expert Jonathon Green will be giving us sex and linguistics simultaneously.
11th Sep 2014
It would be criminal to miss the first in our autumn series of Crime, Punishment and Retribution.
5th Nov 2014
Can forgiveness ever be a form of retribution? Jo Berry’s father was killed by an IRA bomb, yet she sought out the man responsible to try to understand his motivations. Since then she has worked to resolve conflict by breaking the cycle of vengeance through her charity Building Bridges for Peace. Hear her story.
14th Nov 2014
Imagine the scene, it’s a crisp November night - Hampton Court Palace is closed to everyone but us. You’re handed a warming glass of wine before being walked through the Boleyn Gates, and up in to the fine Cartoon Gallery for a very special Salon as we consider the collecting of art.
26th Nov 2014
We are Phuture. Did Acid House change the UK forever? Writer, journalist and Festival No. 6 founder Luke Bainbridge makes the case for The True Story Acid House: Britain's Last Youth Culture Revolution in his latest book.