12th February 2015 | Foyles
In 2014 we launched The ‘brainy’ Also Festival, worked with over two hundred exceptional speakers and were named No 6 on the GQ list of the best 100 things to do in the world.
And so for the first Salon of 2015 we present ‘Gigantic’ a showcase of the biggest, boldest and most relevant ideas we’ve had the pleasure of putting in front of a Salon audience in the many towns, cities, fields and palaces which have featured us.
Salon London’s Helen Bagnall will be asking author and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan (who’s last book has just been voted business book of the decade by the Financial Times) why competition is so bad for us.
Lucinda Hawksley (author, biographer and great, great, great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens) will put in to excellently researched context the people who put the suffering in to suffragettes.
Author and Transmission Prize Chair Natalie Haynes will be experimenting with science in exactly the way author Guerilla Science founder Zoe Cormier wants her to.
The Winton Professor for the public understanding of risk Sir David Speigelhalter will be explaining how to have safe sex – statistically!
Tech theorist Tom Chatfield will be in conversation with author Jamie Bartlett to understand the future repercussions of online anonymity.
Professor Charles Fernyhough will take an interactive session on how your memory works. Warning your memories can and will be altered.
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Julian Baggini will explain how philosophy is just as helpful as nutrition, meditation, and exercise when it comes to your health.
This will be a extraordinarily engaging and energetic Salon, and we expect it to sell out quickly. So please get your tickets here, because we very much look forward to seeing you there.
Doors @ 6:30pm, 7pm start
Foyles
113-119 Charing Cross RoadLondon
WC2H 0EB
