Each year of the decade is represented by a piece of popular music. 

Themes from the songs are enlarged upon, so by the end of the talk, subjects covered include fashions back then, the Cold War, Vietnam, flower power, the space race – and more! 

A light-hearted and nostalgic look back at a decade many remember fondly! 

Tibet has a unique culture and a strikingly distinctive location on a high and massive plateau in the Himalayas. 

It was seized by China in the 1950s and has since suffered from repression. But it does what it can to preserve its distinctiveness, as Professor Joyce Hill saw when she visited it a few years ago. 

Her talk will set Tibet in its geographical and historical context and give us a flavour of what Tibet is like today.

What does it feel like to perform your ageing body? How are women’s bodies read as they age?  What is the relationship between older performer and audience? Why be seen?

In this panel talk Gillian Dyson is joined by Funmi Adewole Elliott and Susan Kempster as they ponder the queering of the body through the ageing process and ask how we redefine our femininity as expectations of women shift in age.

Christine Thynne shares her journey of passion for dance and performance, of anatomy and the kayaking adventures, which led to the development of her solo work-in-progress, Mechanisms.

Joined by friend and collaborator Robbie Synge, Christine will use a mix of film, performance and conversation to share her story. Expect a warm and lively audience discussion about creative ambition, play and finding your way...

A-List rock star Stewart Copeland enjoyed remarkable success with The Police, and is one of the greatest drummers of all time, a multi-Grammy Award winner, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

Having played drums for Curved Air from 1975 to 1976, he went on to drive The Police to world domination between 1977 and 1986 before composing Hollywood soundtracks, writing books, forming a supergroup, making films, and composing for ballet, opera, and classical music.

You stand by the door, waiting – you hear the roars of the crowd within. The clinking of glasses, the laughter, the chatter. The door is flying open wide. Its show time, its game time! I am Spartacus… and I really do not want to be here, I have no idea what I’m doing, and I want to go home now please. Wait, what? We are all Spartacus?

From Poison Arrow to The Look Of Love, from All Of My Heart and Be Near Me, to When Smokey Sings, ABC was the band that redefined glamour and cool. Their distinctive debut album, The Lexicon of Love, enjoyed transatlantic success and proved as artful as a Warhol silkscreen and glossier than Marilyn’s lipstick. It was a brilliantly distinctive album, fizzing with bright ideas and unapologetically flamboyant.