Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.4.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Kairos ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.kairos.london/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.kairos.london/) - Kairos is a new London space exploring ideas for radical social and cultural change in response to the climate and nature crises. - [Past Events](https://www.kairos.london/past-events/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”DAZZLE @ TOP” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ admin_label=”Dazzle Header” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” - [Kairos Events](https://www.kairos.london/events/) - Kairos is a central London space exploring ideas for radical social and cultural change in response to the climate and nature crises. Learn about upcoming events and book tickets here. - [Get Involved](https://www.kairos.london/get-involved/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”Dazzle Header” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” width=”34%” module_alignment=”center” height=”110px” - [About](https://www.kairos.london/about/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” width=”34%” module_alignment=”center” height=”110px” max_height=”110px” - [Membership Account](https://www.kairos.london/membership-account/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” height=”110px” max_height=”110px” module_alignment_tablet=”” - [Library](https://www.kairos.london/library/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” width=”34%” module_alignment=”center” height=”110px” max_height=”110px” - [Reviving the Commons](https://www.kairos.london/events/reviving-the-commons/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”DAZZLE @ TOP” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ admin_label=”Dazzle Header” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” - [Friday Night Music](https://www.kairos.london/friday-night-music/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”DAZZLE @ TOP” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ admin_label=”Dazzle Header” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” - [Membership](https://www.kairos.london/membership/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” width=”34%” module_alignment=”center” height=”110px” max_height=”110px” module_alignment_tablet=”” module_alignment_phone=”center” - 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[Log In](https://www.kairos.london/login/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/header-2.png” title_text=”header-2″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” min_height_tablet=”10%” min_height_phone=”” min_height_last_edited=”on|desktop” height_tablet=”” height_phone=”” height_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”MAIN MENU” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_5,3_5,1_5″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”138px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.kairos.london/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-K-ICON.png” alt=”Kairos CLub” title_text=”Kairos CLub” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE0MzQifX0=@” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” width_last_edited=”off|desktop” module_alignment=”left” height=”110px” max_height=”110px” module_alignment_tablet=”” - [Past Events 2022](https://www.kairos.london/past-events-2022/) - [/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#000000″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_divider][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Past Events” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Date” _builder_version=”4.25.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||19px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]Friday November 25th 2022[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1.5em” min_height=”62px” custom_margin=”1px||12px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]Supper Club with Mark Vernon[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]With Mark Vernon on William Blake, London’s greatest poet and prophet, also a tremendous - 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Her literary performance “Rosa Luxemburg and I” aims to release the radical, ecological imagination towards new, revolutionary ways of being. In this piece, historical figure and socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg becomes a conduit for reflection on earth systems damage, the capitalist status quo and eco-socialist potentials. The performance asks: can our individual "I" find its way to climate revolution and solidarity? For her Kairos performance, a celebration for International Women’s Day, Amanda will be joined by classical singer Amy Kearsley. Amy, who recently completed her postgraduate vocal studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, will perform works by Polish and German composers of the romantic period, including settings of Rosa’s favoured poets Goethe and Adam Mickiewicz. Friday Night Music is our series of relaxed drinks evenings featuring a short musical set followed by food and socialising. Come before 7.30pm to enjoy the performance, or after 8.15pm if you just want to join us for supper and/or drinks. Entry is free after 8.15pm. The bar is open for drinks until 11pm. - [Friday Night Music with Klezmer Foygl](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-night-music-with-klezmer-foygl/) - Friday February 27th, 6.30pm for 7.45pm Friday Night Music is our new fortnightly series of relaxed drinks evenings featuring a short musical set followed by food and socialising. Come before 7.45pm to hear the music, or after 8.30pm if you just want to join us for supper and/or drinks. Entry is free after 8.30pm. The bar is open for drinks until 11pm. Klezmer Foygl, which means "Klezmer Songbird" in Yiddish, is a new ensemble playing both traditional and original Klezmer repertoire. Led by Clarinettist John Macnaughton, the group is rooted in traditional Yiddish music, while adding an innovative, contemporary London twist to its sound. John will be joined by Josh Middleton on accordion and Theo Malka-Wishart on double bass. For a taste of their music, visit Klezmer Foygl's YouTube channel. The band will play a 30 minute set, followed by the opportunity to learn some songs and traditional dance steps. Tickets are half price for Kairos Community Members. Community Membership is automatic and free for anyone who has attended at least three talk or discussion events, at least one of those in the last nine months. The Coupon Code to book will be on the next Community Membership email. If you can't wait, email us at events@kairos.london. - [Screening of "The Trial of the Chicago 7" with Awol Allo](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-the-trial-of-the-chicago-seven-with-awol-allo/) - Tuesday February 24th, 5.15 for 5.45pm The Trial of the Chicago 7, directed by Aaron Sorkin (2020, 2hr 9min) tells the story of a group of radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial that resulted stands as one of the most memorable and unusual courtroom spectacles in American history. Politically and culturally, 1968 was a year of unprecedented radicalism and revolutionary agitation in a decade of significant turbulence that saw the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the abdication of Lindon B Johnson. The Vietnam war became the longest war in the US history; American casualties passed the 30,000 mark. When the Viet Cong mounted their Tet offensive, anti-war protests grew larger and louder on college campuses. Black Nationalists movements such as the Black Panther Party were already organising and protesting police brutality and systemic racism. The Chicago conspiracy trial is a culmination of these developments. The defendants transformed the courtroom into a political stage, using the devices of law and justice to counter the charge of conspiracy with theatrical defiance, aiming to put the state itself on trial for the "absurdity" of prosecuting dissent against the Vietnam War, systemic racism, and economic inequality. The courtroom spectacle crystallised the 1960s radical spirit, and brought about a rupture, putting the American body politic in contradiction with its professed values and ideals. There are significant parallels between that period and the recent decade, particularly the targeting of various movements supporting Palestine liberation. The proscription of Palestine Action recently and the Defend Our Juries protests and prosecutions carry resemblances with the radicalism and defiance that characterised the 1960s. Following the screening, Awol Allo, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield will lead a discussion on the parallels between these two moments, and on the appropriation of the legal system as a site of struggle against the state. Watch the trailer - [Thrutopian Living with Manda Scott](https://www.kairos.london/event/thrutopian-living-with-manda-scott/) - Saturday February 21st, 1 for 2pm How can we craft the stories that we can live by in the future, and that we’ll be proud to leave behind? We’re at a crossroads. With every day that passes, our choices become starker: do we give everything we’ve got to a future in which all of humanity flourishes in co-creation with the web of life? Or do we accelerate the rush to species-level extinction? While this is the question of our times, we don’t always have the stories that will offer us the keys to get there. Our Dystopias are being lived in real time and the downward trajectory is all too obvious. Utopias feel like a distant fantasy, becoming less real by the day. And yet we are a storied species: everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other. If we can fashion the stories of a way through to the flourishing future our hearts know is possible, then we can get there. Manda Scott, author of the "Boudica: Dreaming" series and host of the Accidental Gods podcast and the Thrutopia Masterclass, believes that 2026 is the pivotal year of our epoch - this is when we can shift away from the death cult of predatory capitalism and towards the Thrutopian future that is our birthright. In this special afternoon-long workshop, Manda will join us via video link to explore the inner evolution that can help us reach towards new, Thrutopian ways of being. She will outline the ideas, then lead us in a journey through time and space to enable us to connect with the wisdom of future generations. We can then begin to find the agency in our own lives and build "MADE" futures - underpinned by Motivation (I yearn for a future I can see and believe in); Agency (I have the tools to change my inner and outer worlds); Direction (I can see both the next best step and the light at the end of the tunnel) and Empowerment (I am free enough of the old system’s shackles to take the steps I need). Join us to explore the ways forward. - [Reviving the Ancient Memory Arts: An Act of Resistance with Eleanor Robins](https://www.kairos.london/event/reviving-the-ancient-memory-arts-an-act-of-resistance-with-eleanor-robins/) - Thursday March 12th, 6.30 for 7pm In the modern age, it’s easy, and can seem harmless, to outsource memory to databases, photography, AI, and even tech as simple as books and the written word. But the pre-moderns knew that memory is far more than just a mechanical function. They understood it as the source of creativity and imagination, a vital way of relating to land, a living repository of ancestral wisdom, and more. In this talk, writer and independent scholar Eleanor Robins will offer a fresh and urgent picture of what we’ve lost by forgetting our memories, suggesting that rediscovering memory practices is a powerful form of resistance in the current paradigm shift. Then we’ll put these ideas into practice, using a selection of memory arts to collectively memorise a short poem. Eleanor writes about imagination and the possibility that we’re living through a paradigm shift in consciousness, primarily through Substack, where she is currently running the World Swallowers’ Memory Club, a group devoted to memorising poetry as an act of resistance. - [Derailment Risk: A Climate Blind Spot with Laurie Laybourn](https://www.kairos.london/event/derailment-risk-a-climate-blind-spot-with-laurie-laybourn/) - Thursday March 10th, 6.30 for 7pm As the world heads deeper into the new climate reality, how will we maintain our ability to act? It's often assumed that our agency will only grow as climate impacts escalate: That as climate consequences worsen, they will serve as a series of "wake up calls" that reinforce climate action. But the opposite can also happen. This is called Derailment Risk - the risk that climate consequences instead undermine climate action, derailing the world from pathways towards the least worst outcomes. Laurie Laybourn is Executive Director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative, a think-do tank focused on the new climate reality, and a fellow at both Chatham House and the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. In this talk, followed by plenty of time for discussion, Laurie will share his research into Derailment Risk and suggest ways that we might act to prevent it. - [Wednesday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-reading-feb-25/) - Wednesday February 25th, Drop-In 2pm-7pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. We're starting to open our library for readers every Wednesday afternoon. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please don't bring laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. To view our catalogue, visit our Library page. - [Screening of "Yintah](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-yintah/) - Tuesday March 17th, 5.45 for 6.15pm Yintah (2024, 1hr 50 mins) – meaning “land” - is a feature length documentary about Wet'suwet'en resistance to Canadian colonialism and the Coastal GasLink pipeline. Directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano, and drawing on more than a decade of verité footage, the film shadows two Wet’suwet’en leaders (Freda Huson and Molly Wickham) as they protect their ancestral lands from fossil fuel companies and resist state violence Wet’suwet’en land is unceded: There is no treaty or bill of sale. In 1997, the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ (Hereditary Chiefs) of the Wet’suwet’en people proved in Canada’s top court that they had never given up ownership to their 22,000km2 territory. Yet, despite this court ruling, Canada authorised fossil fuel majors to build pipelines across Wet’suwet’en land. The result: a decade long clash between Wet’suwet’en land defenders and Canadian police seeking to seize Wet’suwet’en land at gunpoint. Freda, Molly, and the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ are part of a centuries-long fight to protect their children, culture, and land from colonial violence. For the Wet’suwet’en, their very future is at stake. Watch the trailer. - [UBI: From Distant Ideal to Transformative Policy with Kate Pickett - additional booking link](https://www.kairos.london/event/ubi-from-distant-ideal-to-transformative-policy-with-kate-pickett-ubi-from-distant-ideal-to-transformative-policy-with-kate-pickett-additional-booking-link/) - Thursday February 19th, 6.30 for 7pm This event is now fully booked. We don't have a waiting list. In a future shaped by rapid AI-driven changes to the labour market and intensifying climate risks, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an essential structural reform, not a welfare tweak. As work and communities are transformed, UBI could provide a secure, unconditional income, buffering households against upheaval, enhancing social cohesion and sustaining purposeful human activity. In this talk, Kate Pickett - epidemiologist, Director of the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change at the University of York, author of "The Good Society" and co-author of "Basic Income" - will outline how UBI can protect health, education and opportunity in the face of the systemic shocks that are on the way. She will show how UBI can act as a shield against poverty-related stress, a key determinant of health and inequality: A predictable income supports preventive care, stable housing and continuous learning, and mitigates the health and educational disparities exposed by volatile labour markets and climate events. The policy is particularly protective for vulnerable groups - women, disabled people, migrants and youth - who are most at risk when shocks hit. Kate will explore the crucial design choices behind any UBI scheme. How much do people get, who is eligible and how do we administer and fund it? How can we develop feasible and acceptable processes and design elements and fund them through progressive taxation and public investment? UBI is a potential lever to reduce inequality, improve health outcomes, and strengthen democratic legitimacy by decreasing precarity and increasing participation in civic life. Kate will invite us to join a collective ambition - grounded in evidence, tested through pilots and scalable to diverse contexts - to move a universal basic income from a distant ideal to a practical, transformative policy. - [Wednesday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-reading-room-feb-18/) - Wednesday February 18th, Drop-In 2pm-6pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. We're starting to open our library for readers every Wednesday afternoon. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please don't bring laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. To view our catalogue, visit our Library page. - [Book Club: "The Landscape of Utopia" by Tim Waterman](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-the-landscape-of-utopia-by-tim-waterman/) - Wednesday February 25th, 6.30 for 7pm For our February Book Club, we're reading "The Landscape of Utopia" by Tim Waterman, a collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture and food. Tim will be the main speaker at our six day Spring Residency "Reworlding" at Selgars Mill, Devon between April 29th and May 5th. Publishers description: "Exploring power and democracy, and their shaping of public space and public life, taste, etiquette, belief and ritual, and foodways in community and civic life, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries. It discusses landscape in its broadest sense, as a descriptor of the relationship between people and place that occurs everywhere on land, from cities to countryside, suburb to wilderness. With over fifty black and white illustrations interspersing the twenty-six chapters, this is a book to dive into and spark discussion on new modes of thinking in the wake of unfolding global crises." Tim Waterman, who gave a talk at Kairos in July 2024, "Planetarity: Some Tools for Thinking About the Earth", and took part in our Colin Ward Festival last September, is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. We have a free digital download of "The Landscape of Utopia" that we can share with you, or a 30% discount on the physical book. Email us at events@kairos.london and let us know which option you'd prefer. - [UBI: From Distant Ideal to Transformative Policy with Kate Pickett](https://www.kairos.london/event/ubi-from-distant-ideal-to-transformative-policy-with-kate-pickett/) - Thursday February 19th, 6.30 for 7pm This event is now fully booked. We don't have a waiting list. In a future shaped by rapid AI-driven changes to the labour market and intensifying climate risks, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an essential structural reform, not a welfare tweak. As work and communities are transformed, UBI could provide a secure, unconditional income, buffering households against upheaval, enhancing social cohesion and sustaining purposeful human activity. In this talk, Kate Pickett - epidemiologist, Director of the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change at the University of York, author of "The Good Society" and co-author of "Basic Income" - will outline how UBI can protect health, education and opportunity in the face of the systemic shocks that are on the way. She will show how UBI can act as a shield against poverty-related stress, a key determinant of health and inequality: A predictable income supports preventive care, stable housing and continuous learning, and mitigates the health and educational disparities exposed by volatile labour markets and climate events. The policy is particularly protective for vulnerable groups - women, disabled people, migrants and youth - who are most at risk when shocks hit. Kate will explore the crucial design choices behind any UBI scheme. How much do people get, who is eligible and how do we administer and fund it? How can we develop feasible and acceptable processes and design elements and fund them through progressive taxation and public investment? UBI is a potential lever to reduce inequality, improve health outcomes, and strengthen democratic legitimacy by decreasing precarity and increasing participation in civic life. Kate will invite us to join a collective ambition - grounded in evidence, tested through pilots and scalable to diverse contexts - to move a universal basic income from a distant ideal to a practical, transformative policy. - [Book Club: "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World..." by David Graeber](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-the-ultimate-hidden-truth-of-the-world-by-david-graeber/) - Wednesday March 25th, 6.30 for 7pm For our March Book Club, we're reading "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World..." a posthumously published collection of essays by David Graeber. Publisher's description: "'The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber, as well-known for his sharp, lively essays as he was for his iconic role in the Occupy movement and his paradigm-shifting tomes. There are converging political, economic, and ecological crises, and yet our politics is dominated by either business as usual or nostalgia for a mythical past. Thinking against the grain, Graeber was one of the few who dared to imagine a new understanding of the past and a liberatory vision of the future — to imagine a social order based on humans’ fundamental freedom. In essays published over three decades and ranging across the biggest issues of our time — inequality, technology, the identity of 'the West,' democracy, art, power, anger, mutual aid, and protest — he challenges the old assumptions about political life. A trenchant critic of the order of things, and driven by a bold imagination and a passionate commitment to human freedom, he offers hope that our world can be different. During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . ", edited and with an introduction by Nika Dubrovsky and with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, make for essential and inspiring reading. They are a profound reminder of Graeber’s enduring significance as an iconic, playful, necessary thinker." - [Thrutopia: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey, Rupert Read & Laura Baggaley](https://www.kairos.london/event/thrutopia-stories-of-active-hope/) - Tuesday February 17th, 6.30 for 7pm This event is now fully booked. We don't have a waiting list. With the prospect of civilisation collapse looking ever more likely, Utopian visions of any sort now appear beyond our reach. And yet the opposite, the bleak futures set out in so many Dystopia warnings, is not inevitable. Instead, we need to look beyond the Utopia-Dystopia binary and find another way to imagine the future. The concept of Thrutopia offers such a way. Literary works like Manda Scott’s “Boudica: Dreaming”, Stephen Markley’s climate epic "The Deluge", and Megan Hunter’s "The End We Start From", recently adapted for the cinema, have pioneered the way. Through a series of short talks and readings, followed by plenty of time for discussion, we’ll explore the concept of Thrutopia with philosopher and activist Rupert Read, novelist Monique Roffey and fiction writer for children and young adults, Laura Baggaley. Rupert will argue that neither Utopian dreams nor Dystopian warnings are much help to us now. He’ll explain how Thrutopia, a concept he developed in 2017 influenced by Ursula K Le Guin, is needed instead. Thrutopia, he’ll argue, is our best-case North Star for a collapse-aware, reality-based future. Monique will discuss, and for the first time read publicly from, "Gen Dragonfly", the Thrutopian novel she’s currently writing. Set in Sussex in 2055 after the collapse of many of our current systems, it focuses on how we “get through” a full-blown poly-crisis thirty years from now. While life is tough, 2055 is also a time of "active hope", miracles, alien disclosure, poetry and druidry, when love will be discovered as valuable - as an unforeseen, reliable system or currency. Laura, whose most recent book is an eco-romance called "Dirt", will talk about how fiction can change the stories that society tells itself, exploring the particular challenge of writing Thrutopias for young readers. - [Feminism & Non-Dualism with Minna Salami](https://www.kairos.london/event/feminism-non-dualism-with-minna-salami/) - Thursday March 19th, 6.30 for 7pm Across many contemplative traditions, non-duality names a way of understanding the world that refuses the fiction of separation. It reminds us that self and world, inner life and social reality, mind and body are not oppositional but deeply entangled. Less often recognised is that non-dualism is also a key idea in the feminist tradition. Feminist traditions have long challenged the hierarchical binaries that underpin power: male and female, reason and emotion, culture and nature, human and non-human. These divisions are not neutral. They are historical narratives that justify hierarchy, violence and exclusion. From a feminist perspective, non-dualism becomes a framework for truth, relationality and attention to lived experience. The urgency of this perspective is clear in the present moment. We are living through overlapping crises that can feel relentless: the return of authoritarian politics, mass violence, public reckonings with hidden systems of sexual power and impunity, alongside ecological emergency. These issues are connected by a worldview that fragments reality and separates us from the world we inhabit. In this talk, Minna Salami - a Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish thinker, author of "Can Feminism Be African?" and the Substack Kaleido: The Europatriarchy Files - will bring together the political and spiritual meanings of non-duality by exploring what happens when we observe that politics and spirituality are also not separate. Drawing on feminist philosophy and contemplative insights as well as contemporary political and cultural examples, she will argue that moving beyond either/or thinking is not a retreat from politics but a deepening of it: a shift toward relational power, epistemic clarity and more integrated ways of knowing, living and acting in a time of profound uncertainty and crisis. - [Friday Night Music with Talulah](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-night-music-with-talulah-t/) - Friday February 13th, 6.30pm for 7.45pm Friday Music Nights is our new fortnightly series of relaxed drinks evenings featuring a short musical set followed by food and socialising. Come before 7.45pm to hear the music, or after 8.30pm if you just want to join us for supper and/or drinks. Entry is free after 8.30pm. The bar is open for drinks until 11pm. Talulah creates bilingual blends of acoustic and electronic sound to explore her native Welsh identity. She is part of the new wave of artists emerging from Wales. For her Kairos set, Talulah will be singing, combining her mix of ethereal neo-soul, folk and jazz with story-telling and insights from her research into Welsh minority language revival. She will be accompanied by percussionist Wynn Tasker and Judah Daniels on piano. Talulah won the Triskel Award at the 2023 Welsh Music Prize. She has performed at Green Man, FOCUS Wales, Sŵn Festival, Fifty Lab Festival in Brussels, Brecon International Jazz Festival and Yardbird Jazz. You can listen to her debut EP "Solas" on Spotify. Tickets are half price for Kairos Community Members. Community Membership is automatic and free for anyone who has attended at least three talk or discussion events, at least one of those in the last nine months. The Coupon Code to book will be on the next Community Membership email. If you can't wait, email us at events@kairos.london. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-march-2026/) - Tuesday March 3rd, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular open mike night, where we learn about each other's projects, build connections and offer each other support. Open Projects Night is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of presentations, followed by questions, discussion and offers of support, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. All are welcome to attend. If you'd like to present, please send a brief description of your idea or project, along with any multi-media to events@Kairos.London by Sunday March 1st. If you'd like to just come and listen you are also most welcome. - [Wednesday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-reading-room-feb-11/) - Wednesday February 11th, Drop-In 2pm-6pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. We're starting to open our library for readers every Wednesday afternoon. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please don't bring laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. To view our catalogue, visit our Library page. - [Animals & Us: An Evening of Shared Readings](https://www.kairos.london/event/animals-us-an-evening-of-shared-readings/) - Thursday April 2nd, 6.30 for 7pm For the latest in our series of reading evenings, we'll be sharing excerpts from books, essays, poems and other texts that explore new ways of understanding and relating to our animal kin. How can we humans restore our relationship with the rest of the natural world? All are invited to bring a short passage. We'll discuss the ideas raised after each reading. Texts could include "The Spell of the Sensuous" by David Abram, "Why Look at Animals?" by John Berger, "Between Light and Storm" by Esther Woolfson,"Ways of Being" by James Bridle, "Leviathion" by Philip Hoare, "Animal Dignity" by Melanie Challenger, or whatever you'd like to bring. For more inspiration, you can browse our library catalogue. Please let us know what you plan to read by emailing events@kairos.london Please come prepared to read from a written text, not from a phone, kindle or other device. The readings will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and informal discussion. If you're unable to attend but have suggestions for texts to include we'd love to hear from you. And do let us know if there are any written works you think we should add to our library collection. - [Kairos Spring Residency: Reworlding with Tim Waterman](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-spring-residency-reworlding-with-tim-waterman/) - Wednesday April 29th to Tuesday May 5th Selgars Mill, Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon The worlds created by capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism are coming to an end. By remaking the collective imaginaries - of everyday landscapes, of the past and the future, and of consciousness and the human mind - we can end these worlds peaceably and bring about the new world struggling to be born. Join us for the first Kairos residency: six days of talks and discussion, walks and contemplation, community-building, rejuvenation and fun. Geographer and landscape historian Tim Waterman will present the ideas he’s currently developing for a forthcoming series of four books on “Reworlding”. His daily talks will spark a group exploration into how the human imagination shapes the world around us and how we can start to move towards a new paradigm. In addition, we’ll have guest facilitators to lead walks and other activities that will help us to re-conceptualise and re-connect with the land. We'll explore the mythology, history and geology of the local landscape, learn to read the topography with maps and draw our own, become better attuned to the more-than-human world around us, acquire ancient countryside skills, and experience other embodied and meditative practices. We'll talk about bio-regionalism, land redistribution, rewilding, regenerative agriculture and how to build new land-based communities. There'll also be plenty of unscheduled time for games, cooking, reading, helping in the vegetable garden, music and yoga, as well as the chance to bring your own offerings to the residency and to shape how it unfolds. This is the first of a planned series in which we take the Kairos mix of radical ideas for social and cultural change, intelligent salon-style discussion, group participation, community building and conviviality in a semi-domestic, semi-public space, and extend it over a series of days in a beautiful, rural setting. We’ll be staying at Selgars Mill, a beautiful converted 19th Century mill house with cottages, set in eight acres of secluded grounds in the Culm Valley in Mid Devon. We're aiming for a selected group of 20 (a mix of activists, artists, designers, academics and thinkers of varied ages and economic circumstances) staying mainly in single occupancy or twin rooms. There are also a couple of multiple occupancy rooms, an annex apartment, a shepherds hut and several newly-built glamping cabins. As this is an experiment, and as we’ll be living together, cooking together, managing the space together and co-creating much of our time together, we do ask that you only apply if you’re confident you can embrace a spirit of flexibility, amiability, imagination, hands-on participation and openness - to people, ideas and imaginative possibilities. We want this to be as sociable and fun as it is stimulating and galvanising. - [Monthly Wednesday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-drinks-march-2026/) - Wednesday March 4th, 6pm-10.30pm Our new monthly, mid-week bar night takes place on the first Wednesday of every month, with free entry and a pay bar serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Alternative Economies: An Evening of Shared Readings](https://www.kairos.london/event/alternative-economies-an-evening-of-shared-readings/) - Thursday February 5th, 6.30 for 7pm For the latest in our series of reading evenings, we'll be sharing excerpts from books, essays, poems and other texts that explore alternative economies: the care economy, the barter economy, mutual aid, the relational as opposed to the transactional, and other ways we organise ourselves outside of capitalism - as well as visions for alternatives like Degrowth and Donut Economics. All are invited to propose a short reading via events@kairos.london, or just come along to listen. We welcome human stories (fictional and factual) as much as economic theories. Expect to hear readings from "Vulture Capitalism" by Grace Blakeley, "The Gift" by Lewis Hyde, "Debt" by David Graeber and "The Global Casino" by Ann Pettifor. Other readings could include passages from "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, "Caliban and the Witch" by Silvia Federici, "Small is Beautiful" by EF Schumacher, "Less is More" by Jason Hickel, "The Care Economy" by Tim Jackson, "Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons" by David Bollier, "Pandemic Solidarity" by Marina Sitrin et al and "Mutual Aid" by Peter Kropotkin or whatever you'd like to bring. The readings will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and informal discussion about these alternative economic ideas and how to nurture them. If you're unable to attend but have suggestions for alternative economies you think we should include we'd love to hear from you. And do let us know if there are any written works you think we should add to our library collection. - [Wednesday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-drinks/) - Wednesday February 4th, 6pm-10.30pm Wednesday is now our new monthly mid-week bar night, with free entry and a pay bar serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Wednesday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-reading-room/) - Wednesday February 4th, Drop-In 2pm-6pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. We're starting to open our library for readers every Wednesday afternoon. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please don't bring laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. To view our catalogue, visit our Library page. - [Regular Fixtures](https://www.kairos.london/event/regular-fixtures/) - Every Wednesday afternoon, 2-6pm Wednesday Reading Room Our weekly library opening hours are between 2 and 6pm. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. If you'd like access at another time, email events@kairos.london and we'll do our best to accommodate you. Every other Friday evening, 6.30 for 7.45pm Friday Music Nights Friday Music Nights is our fortnightly series of relaxed drinks evenings featuring a short musical set followed by food and socialising. Come before 7.45pm to hear the music, or after 8.30pm if you just want to join us for supper and/or drinks. Entry is half-price for Community Members and free for everyone after 8.30pm. The bar stays open for drinks until 11pm. The Last Wednesday evening of Every Month, 6.30 for 7pm Book Club Look out for listings here, or email events@kairos.london if you'd like to join the Book Club WhatsApp group. The First Wednesday evening of Every Month, 6.30-10pm Wednesday Drinks Our new monthly mid-week bar night, with free entry and a pay bar serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you’re a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you’re on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. The First Tuesday evening of Every Other Month, 6.30 for 7pm Open Projects Night Our regular open mike night, where we learn about each other's projects, build connections and offer each other support. Look out for listings on this page or email events@kairos.london with details of the project you'd like to share. Friday day-time, 10am-5pm Community Day We're now opening our doors on Fridays for aligned groups needing a place to meet. This is non-exclusive, daytime use of our space for brainstorms and strategy meetings, book group discussions and other creative get-togethers. Only by arrangement. Email events@kairos.london. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-march-14/) - Friday March 14th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Friday Drinks: Games Night Special](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-games-night-special/) - Friday March 7th, 6.30pm-11pm Friday is our weekly open bar night. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. This week will be a Games Night Special. For those who'd like to play (no obligation), the games we have on offer include Backjack, Scrabble, Qwirkle, Backgammon, Chess, Billionaires and Guillotines (by games designer Max Haiven who will be co-hosting), Jenga, cards or anything else people would like to bring. Zoë Blackler will give an introduction to Bridge for anyone interested in being part of a regular game. Entry is free with a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks along with our usual vegan food. - [Friday Night Music with Born to Bossa](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-night-music-with-born-to-bossa/) - Friday January 30th, 6.30pm for 7.45pm The second of our Friday Music Nights will feature the Brazilian sounds and rhythms of Born to Bossa. The group will perform a relaxed set at 7.45pm, followed by a short percussion workshop and the chance to join in. We'll then serve a vegan one pot supper at the bar. The bar will then stay open for drinks until 11pm. Entry is free after 8.30pm if you just want to come for a drink or some food. Born To Bossa, a London-based Brazilian music project led by guitarist, vocalist and musical director Dave Holmes, takes classic bossa nova and brings it up to date. Drawing on Dave's experience performing across both Europe and Brazil, the group has a rich repertoire of classic bossa nova alongside carefully reworked English-language songs and original material. Dave will be joined by soul, jazz, funk and blues singer Carole Therese Beausaint. Carole, who was raised in North London, has been shaped both by her Dominican heritage and by years performing in Amsterdam’s diverse music scene Dave and Carole will perform a few Bossa Nova songs, followed by a short Brazilian percussion and samba workshop, and the chance to join the jam. - [Book Club: "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-birnam-wood-by-eleanor-catton/) - Wednesday January 28th, 6.30 for 7pm For our January Book Club we're reading Eleanor Catton's 2023 novel "Birnam Wood". Publishers description: "A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizeable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadn’t figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the place. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other? A gripping literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. It is a brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions, and consequences, and an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival." - ["In Case of Emergency": Post Performance Supper](https://www.kairos.london/event/in-case-of-emergency-post-performance-supper/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IjxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL1wiPkhvbWU8YSAvPiAmZ3Q7IDxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL2V2ZW50c1wiPkFsbCBFdmVudHM8L2E+ICZndDsgIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][et_pb_wc_price _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” - [New Possibilities in Science with Rupert Sheldrake](https://www.kairos.london/event/new-possibilities-in-science-with-rupert-sheldrake/) - Thursday January 22nd, 6.30 for 7pm Many scientists believe that science already understands the nature of reality, in principle; the fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. The impressive achievements of science and technology seem to support this attitude. But recent research has revealed unexpected problems at the heart of physics, cosmology, biology, medicine and psychology. The sciences are being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. In the skeptical spirit of true scientific inquiry, Rupert Sheldrake turns the fundamental dogmas of science into questions, opening up startling new possibilities. Rupert is a biologist, the author of The Science Delusion (among other books and scientific publications), a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, California and the Temenos Academy, London, and formerly Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human abilities. In this talk, he will explore some of those possibilities: The universe may be more like a living organism than a machine. The total amount of matter and energy may be increasing. Consciousness may be widespread in nature. Children may inherit characteristics acquired by their parents. Memories may not be stored in brains, and minds may extend beyond heads. - [New Possibilities in Science with Rupert Sheldrake, Community Member Booking Link](https://www.kairos.london/event/new-possibilities-in-science-with-rupert-sheldrake-community-member-booking-link/) - Thursday January 22nd, 6.30 for 7pm Many scientists believe that science already understands the nature of reality, in principle; the fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. The impressive achievements of science and technology seem to support this attitude. But recent research has revealed unexpected problems at the heart of physics, cosmology, biology, medicine and psychology. The sciences are being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. In the skeptical spirit of true scientific inquiry, Rupert Sheldrake turns the fundamental dogmas of science into questions, opening up startling new possibilities. Rupert is a biologist, the author of The Science Delusion (among other books and scientific publications), a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, California and the Temenos Academy, London, and formerly Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human abilities. In this talk, he will explore some of those possibilities: The universe may be more like a living organism than a machine. The total amount of matter and energy may be increasing. Consciousness may be widespread in nature. Children may inherit characteristics acquired by their parents. Memories may not be stored in brains, and minds may extend beyond heads. - [Save the Date](https://www.kairos.london/event/save-the-date/) - Friday January 30th, 6.30 for 7.45pm Friday Night Music with Born to Bossa Wednesday February 4th, 2pm-6pm Library Reading Room Open Hours Wednesday February 4th, 6.30-10pm Monthly Wednesday Drinks Night Thursday February 5th, 6.30 for 7pm Alternative Economies: An Evening of Shared Readings Tuesday February 17th, 6.30 for 7pm Thrutopias: Stories of Active Hope with Monique Roffey & Rupert Read Full listings coming soon. - [Real Philosophy: Overcoming the Divide Between Thought & Action with Christoph Schuringa](https://www.kairos.london/event/real-philosophy-with-christoph-schuringa/) - Tuesday January 13th, 6.30 for 7pm Philosophy was, for much of its history, synonymous with the rational investigation of the nature of the world and of how to live. As such, its defining characteristics were its complete generality, and its pursuit of vital human concerns. Today, philosophy has been reduced to a specialised discipline and its role has become unclear. It used to be thought that philosophy could have the special task of clarifying what is said in other disciplines, or providing a foundation for those disciplines, but no one seriously believes in such justifications for its existence any longer. In this talk, Christoph Schuringa will advocate for the revival of an ancient conception of philosophy – one that gives philosophy the scope of rational enquiry – as put through a radical transformation by Karl Marx. Philosophy, as Marx argued, does not stand apart from the world. It is our human living thinking in action. Recovering this idea, Christoph will claim, has profound implications for human action and activism today. Rather than relegating the role of philosophy to the working out of theories that then await ‘application’ to the ‘real’ world, to do philosophy is to actualise the power of thinking that we all possess as humans acting in the world. Our embrace of ‘real philosophy’ in turn brings the complex challenges of today's world, in particular the crises of capital and climate, into the heart of philosophy. - [Friday Night Music with Kareem Samara](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-night-music-with-kareem-samara/) - Friday January 9th, 6.30pm for 7.45pm The first of our new Friday Music Nights will feature oud player Kareem Samara. Kareem will perform a half hour set at 7.45pm, after which we'll serve a vegan one pot supper at the bar. The bar will then stay open for drinks until 11pm. Entry is free after 8.30pm if you just want to come for a drink. Kareem combines the Oud and Arabic percussion with loopers and samplers "to create a dialogue between himself and technology, traditions and the future. He pushes the limits of what is expected of an instrument weighed down by generations of expectation, exploring every inch of the Oud to create a modern soundworld, where archival interviews and field recordings connect struggles and timelines, interweaving melodies that strive to be free of borders." Kareem has performed and collaborated with artists including Nadah El Shazly, Ayman Asfour, Goat Girl, Ryan Harvey, Tom Morello, Tashi Dorji, Kinn, Matt Cargill, Fatima Laham and Bint Mbareh. He most recently composed the music for Radio 4s "The Yaffa Cherry Orchard". Tickets are half price for Kairos Community Members. Community Membership is automatic and free for anyone who has attended at least three talk or discussion events, at least one of those in the last nine months. Unfortunately, we're having some technical issues with our Community Membership updates email. If you think you qualify for Community Membership, either book a full price ticket and we'll refund you the difference on the door, or email us at events@kairos.london and we'll send you a coupon code. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-jan-2026/) - Tuesday January 6th, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular open mike night, where we learn about each other's projects, build connections and offer each other support. Presentations this session will include Anouchka Grose with "Cultural Deconditioning and Somatic Activism"; Victoria Thiele with her "Finance Journo Project" (working title), a platform to connect financial journalists with people working for urgent causes; Ros Kane with "Before Becoming a Parent", a project to teach good parenting to children in schools in order to create a more caring, safer society; and Paul Powlesland on "River Guardianship". Open Projects Night is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of presentations, followed by questions, discussion and offers of support, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. All are welcome to attend. If you'd like to present, please send a brief description of your idea or project, along with any multi-media to events@Kairos.London. If you'd like to just come and listen you are also most welcome. - [Winter Solstice Celebration](https://www.kairos.london/event/winter-solstice-celebration-2025/) - Saturday December 20th, 7pm to 1am You are warmly invited to our party to mark the passing of the longest night, with fortune-telling by Kairos's own Sibyl of Cumae, vegan supper, cocktails from the pay bar, a short musical set from To The Garden, DJ United Nations, and a late licence until 1am. Our Sibyl of Cumae inhabits a cave at Kairos. If you pay her a visit and ask her your fate she will write her answer on a leaf and place it in a pile at the front of the cave. It's very likely though, that before you can read it, a wind will come and blow the leaves around and you will never know if you're learning your own fate or that of someone else. To The Garden is duo Lizzy Ogle and George Heartsong who bring together diverse influences of folk, jazz and world music into a soulful celebration of nature and community. Expect expansive harmony, rhythmic exploration and song-sharing for this midwinter Solstice moment. - [Why Look at Animals? with Jo-Anne McArthur and Zed Nelson](https://www.kairos.london/event/why-look-at-animals-with-jo-anne-mcarthur-and-zed-nelson/) - Thursday December 11th, 6.30 for 7pm How can contemporary photography, by focussing on our broken bonds with animals and the rest of the natural world, help drive a paradigm shift in our priorities and empathies? Award winning photographers Jo-Anne McArthur and Zed Nelson will be at Kairos to explore that question through two 20-minute visual presentations, followed by group discussion. Zed Nelson’s new book, The Anthropocene Illusion examines the way in which we construct artificial, stage-managed environments to mask our destructive impact on the natural world. The six-year project received the Sony World Photography Award 2025 and has been exhibited widely. Zed will discuss John Berger’s 1977 essay "Why Look at Animals?" and its impact on his own work. Berger's ground-breaking text explores how the ancient relationship between man and the rest of nature has been broken in the modern consumer age with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalised and reduced to spectacle. It's credited with influencing other recent art works, including a new performance piece by Complicite's Simon McBurney and choreographer Crystal Pite, and a recent exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. Jo-Anne McArthur, whose photographs document sites of animal exploitation and the individual animals trapped within them, will discuss the role photography can have in developing a new visual language, building a global movement and writing a new future. She will focus on We Animals, the platform she's founded through which photographers can contribute to a vast, and growing, visual resource for those in animal advocacy. - [Screening of "Power Station" with Dan Edelstyn & Howard Johns](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-power-station-with-howard-johns/) - Thursday December 4th, 6 for 6.30pm This event is now fully booked. There isn't a waiting list and we won't be issuing tickets on the door. Power Station (90mins, 2025) is the new film by artist-activists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn. It began in the depths of lockdown with the question ‘'what could we do from where we live, with the people around us, to build power - of energy and imagination?’ Inspired by lockdown mutual aid initiatives, they decided to turn their street in Walthamstow into an energy-generating powerhouse – a prototype for a new way of living, with the hope of galvanising a wider push towards sustainable alternatives. Directed by the duo, Power Station charts their turbulent journey, from pitching the idea to their neighbours and sleeping on the roof of their home to raising finance and launching a bid for a Christmas number one single. Smart, funny and inspiring, Hilary and Dan’s film shows community building in action and the power of art in changing minds about what could be possible. The screening will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and discussion with Dan and Howard Johns, solar, renewable and community energy specialist, activist, CEO of POP and Author of "Energy Revolution: Your Guide to Repowering the Energy System". When a community takes control of its own energy supply it seizes power from the fossil fuel corporations, the industry underpinning our political economy, and puts it in the hands of the people - a revolutionary act. Watch the trailer. - [Screening of "Bank Job"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-bank-job/) - Tuesday December 2nd, 6 for 6.30pm In advance of our screening of Power Station later in the week, we're showing Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn's previous film Bank Job - in which they bought and blew up £1.2 million of local debt. An insightful and humorous investigation, Bank Job (1hr 27 mins, 2021) explores the truth about money and debt creation and how to subvert the system in our favour. The screening will be followed by supper that we eat together. Entry is just £5 with a ticket for the Power Station screening. Watch the trailer. - [Book Club: "The Word for the World is Forest" by Ursula Le Guin](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-the-word-for-the-world-is-forest-by-ursula-le-guin/) - Wednesday November 19th, 6.30 for 7pm For our November Book Club, we're reading Ursula Le Guin's 1972 science fiction novel "The Word for the World is Forest". When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. - [What Does the World Look Like with Care in Charge? with Sally Weintrobe - Community Member booking link](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-does-the-world-look-like-with-care-in-charge-with-sally-weintrobe-community-member-booking-link/) - Thursday November 20th, 6.30 for 7pm Imagine a world in which care is more powerful than uncare. Only with care in charge will life prove sustainable. What kind of repair work is needed to achieve this world? In this talk Sally Weintrobe, a psychoanalyst who writes and talks on climate and on politics, will focus on the issue of power, viewing the human mind as the site of a ceaseless power struggle between forces of care and uncare. She will argue that to repair our world we must repair the damage done to our minds by what she calls the culture of uncare. This culture’s perverse – and entirely instrumental - aim is to attack our capacity to care, weaken our sense of lively entitlement to care, and rob care of its power to act for the good. Sally's talk will be based on the ideas she's developing for a new book on power relations within the psyche, social groups and the political process. Her previous writing includes "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare" (2021), "Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death" (co-author, 2023) and "With Climate in Mind" (co-editor, 2025). - [What Does the World Look Like with Care in Charge? with Sally Weintrobe](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-does-the-world-look-like-with-care-in-charge-with-sally-weintrobe/) - Thursday November 20th, 6.30 for 7pm Imagine a world in which care is more powerful than uncare. Only with care in charge will life prove sustainable. What kind of repair work is needed to achieve this world? In this talk Sally Weintrobe, a psychoanalyst who writes and talks on climate and on politics, will focus on the issue of power, viewing the human mind as the site of a ceaseless power struggle between forces of care and uncare. She will argue that to repair our world we must repair the damage done to our minds by what she calls the culture of uncare. This culture’s perverse – and entirely instrumental - aim is to attack our capacity to care, weaken our sense of lively entitlement to care, and rob care of its power to act for the good. Sally's talk will be based on the ideas she's developing for a new book on power relations within the psyche, social groups and the political process. Her previous writing includes "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare" (2021), "Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death" (co-author, 2023) and "With Climate in Mind" (co-editor, 2025). - [Artivism Futures: Reimagining Human Rights Activism](https://www.kairos.london/event/artivism-futures-reimagining-human-rights-activism/) - Saturday November 15th, 9.30am to 5pm How is creative activism (artivism) transforming human rights work across the globe? During this special, day-long event — a collaboration between the Art Rights Truth research project at the University of York, Amnesty International, CIVICUS, and Kairos — we’ll explore how to build creative resistance for the long term. Last year, Art Rights Truth (ART) collaborated with Amnesty International and CIVICUS on two separate calls, inviting artists and activists to work together. The first, titled ‘Conversations with Reports’, responded to an Amnesty International report on the right to protest in Europe, and the second to the international ‘We Are (for) Civil Society’ initiative by CIVICUS. The result of these collaborations was a series of works that offered distinctive perspectives on the right to protest and its value to civil society, respectively. The day will feature a mini-exhibition of some of those works; a panel discussion, Sustaining Creative Resistance: Building Artivism Ecosystems for Long- Term Impact, with artivists Jona Wolf from Gear Up!, Kevin Bathman from Project Future Malaysia and human rights practitioner Renee Karunungan; and a hands-on zine-making workshop with Shift Slow. Other participants will include Bound, Desobediencia Civil, Echoes of Resistance, Fingerprint Labyrinth, Trust the Protest Zine, Protect the Protest – Thawing the Chilling Effect, The Right to Protest Seen by Children, A0 of Freedom, We Remember, Art in the Heart of Community, Carnival of the Bold 2025: Reimagining Malaysia’s Collective Future, and We Remember. This event is for activists, community organisers, human rights campaigners, artists, academics and everyone interested in creative activism and safeguarding our civil spaces and our right to protest. Come and experience artivism first hand and join us in collectively imagining new possibilities for creative resistance. - [Launch of Artivism Futures: Drinks & Screenings](https://www.kairos.london/event/launch-of-artivism-futures-drinks-screenings/) - Friday November 14th, 6.30pm to 11pm Join us for the launch of Artivism Futures: Reimagining Human Rights Activism, a special event taking place the following day, when we'll be exploring how to build creative resistance for the long term. The bar be open from 6.30pm until 11pm with two short film screenings at 7pm. This is a mixer for those attending an invited workshop during the day, those registered for the Saturday event, and anyone else who would like to come along. Entry is free with a pay bar serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and vegan food. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. For more details about Artivism Futures: Reimagining Human Rights Activism, and to reserve a place, please see the listing here. - [Reviving the Commons: The Civil Commons](https://www.kairos.london/event/reviving-the-commons-the-civil-commons/) - Tuesday November 11th, 6.30 for 7pm The Civil Commons is the structure of institutions that ensure every commoner has an equal right to justice. The Civil Commons is built on principles of affordable representation, independent qualified judiciary and full respect for due process. The withering of our Civil Commons has been one of the least noticed tragedies in the decline and loss of our Commons. How might we revive and expand our Civil Commons? In this participatory event - part of our year-long series on the Commons - we’ll explore a vision for our Civil Commons, and begin to draw up a set of principles and demands for inclusion in a new Charter of the Commons being developed at Kairos over the course of the year. Economist Guy Standing will outline the history of the Civil Commons, followed by a series of short presentations from legal and social policy experts on the principles and values they would like to see enshrined in the Charter, combining both a radical approach with some first steps towards achieving it. Contributions will be from David Whyte, Legal scholar at Queen Mary University of London, Apolline Rogers, Head of Innovation Lab, Client Earth, David Hunter, senior counsel at law firm Bates Wells, Awol Allo, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield, and Neil Howard, social protection scholar and anthropologist from the University of Bath. We’ll then break into groups to discuss their ideas before coming back together to collectively agree on a set of principles and demands to include in the Charter. No previous knowledge is required – either of the Commons generally or the Civil Commons specifically. All are welcome to contribute or just come to listen. - [Future Visions: An Evening of Shared Readings](https://www.kairos.london/event/future-visions-an-evening-of-shared-readings/) - Thursday November 6th, 6.30 for 7pm For the latest in our series of reading evenings, we'll be sharing excerpts from books, essays, poems and other texts that offer a radical vision for the future. All are invited to propose a short reading via events@kairos.london, or just come along to listen. Expect to hear passages from Anna Tsing's "The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins(2015)", George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" (1938), Megan Hunter's "The End We Start From" (2018) , and whatever else you’d like to suggest (via events@kairos.london) or bring on the night. The readings will be followed by a one-pot vegan supper and informal discussion about these radical futures, how they might help us today, and how we might start to work towards them. If you're unable to attend but have suggestions for future visions you think we should include we'd love to hear from you. And do let us know if there are any written works you think we should add to our library collection. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-nov-4/) - Tuesday November 4th, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular open mike night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of presentations, followed by questions, discussion and offers of support, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. Projects will include Lumie Okado and Emma Hafner with "Emmie", a mobile library made from scrap materials found around London; Tristan Copley Smith with "Fungal Futures", a concept for a documentary about human/ fungal interactions based on anthropologic study and research conducted at Kew Gardens; and Hugh Barnard with Cclite Alternative Currency Software, an open source journey and learning experience; plus others TBC. All are welcome to attend. If you'd like to present, please send a brief description of your idea or project, along with any multi-media to events@Kairos.London. If you'd like to just come and listen you are also most welcome. - [A Small Farm Future with Chris Smaje](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-small-farm-future-with-chris-smaje/) - Tuesday November 28th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Like it or not, the prospect is for a future with lower energy and therefore a less urbanized world. This will probably require more localised agricultures more closely keyed to local needs for food and fibre, within the limitations of the local ecological base. In this talk, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje will briefly outline what these localised agricultures might look like, ecologically and socially. He’ll then discuss the political issues likely to arise in getting from the present to that future – particularly conflicts over access to land and state-civil society relationships. He’ll argue that to make the best of this, it’s necessary to jettison most modern politics (liberal, socialist, nationalist etc) and look to more subterranean political traditions like agrarian populism, civic republicanism and distributism to inspire the emerging small farm future. - [Friday Drinks featuring "Fools Leap" with Orlando Seale & Friends](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-fools-leap-with-orlando-seale-friends/) - Friday October 31st, 6.30pm to 11pm, Performance at 7.45pm Friday night is now our music and entertainments night, when we feature short musical sets, comedy acts and other entertainment and artistic offerings. The first Friday in our new series will feature Fools Leap, a music project created by artist/performer and Kairos regular Orlando Seale, in which he's joined by a fluid group of collaborators. At the core of the project is unknowing, listening and improvisation. Orlando and his guests will share "Into Something Rich and Strange". A collage of songs and poems inspired by Ariel’s song from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the 30 minute piece explores themes of transformation, cycles in life, mystery, fooling and dreaming. Orlando will be joined by musicians Alice Dyson (violin and voice), Patricia Ramirez (viola) and Tom Curzon (double-bass and voice) and Tom Dyson (piano). Free entry for Community Members. - [Could Radical Democracy Avert Collapse? with Luke Kemp](https://www.kairos.london/event/could-radical-democracy-avert-collapse-with-luke-kemp/) - Tuesday October 28th, 6.30 for 7pm Why have previous societies collapsed? What did it mean for the people living through it? Is our own globalised, industrialised society also heading for collapse and what can we do to prevent it? In this talk, Luke Kemp, researcher at Cambridge University's Center for the Study of Existential Risk, will explore the ideas in his recent book "Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse". Through a radical retelling of human history, he will dispel many myths about civilisation and collapse. Considering the ways forward for our own society, he will look at how different forms of Open Democracy, from citizens assemblies to mass digital deliberations, might help us to avoid the catastrophic risks we face today. - [Town Anywhere: Rehearsing a Future of Multi-Species Flourishing](https://www.kairos.london/event/town-anywhere-rehearsing-a-future-of-multi-species-flourishing/) - Saturday October 25th, 9.30 to 4pm This event is now fully booked. We do not have a waiting list. "Town Anywhere is an extraordinary exercise. It invites us to step into the future, to reimagine and rebuild the world, and to then inhabit it. One of the most magical things I've ever been part of. Give your imagination a treat!” Rob Hopkins, Transition Network Town Anywhere is a day-long, immersive and participatory experience that brings people together to imagine, build and then inhabit a vision of how the places all beings share could develop in the future. Acknowledging the climate and nature crisis we are in and the uncertain future we face, it uses future scenarios, large-scale model-making, group work, timed challenges, and celebration to enable participants to play and practice community visioning, ideation and storytelling in an imaginary, but tangible, environment. In this iteration of Town Anywhere taking place at Kairos, the concept of multi-species justice - a recognition that humans must work with and alongside the more-than-human in empathetic relationship – will be core. Facilitated by artists Ruth Ben-Tovim and Lucy Neal, participants will travel forward in time to 2035 to rehearse the future, imagining and building a flourishing, resilient and just town which, despite ongoing climate, ecological and social challenges, cares for the earth, multispecies kin and all future generations. At the end of the day, we will Time Travel back home to 2025 to harvest the learning. - [Co-Creating the Future with Jean Boulton](https://www.kairos.london/event/co-creating-the-future-with-jean-boulton/) - Thursday October 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm This event is now fully booked. "The path is made through walking". This Daoist-informed quote by Antonio Machado (translated and adopted by Francisco Varela) conveys the complexity inherent in living systems, and the idea that we co-create the future through our actions and intentions. But what does it mean to see that all that we are shapes the future – heart and mind, conscious and unconscious, collective and individual, past and present? And how does connection to place and relationship to others shape our insights, strengthen our resolve, and allow us to re-examine long-buried darknesses as well as to surface hidden treasures? In this talk, Jean Boulton, a leading thinker in the field of complexity science and author of The Dao of Complexity, will explore what the science of complexity - with its emphasis on dynamic patterning, paradox and emergence - has to offer as we consider these questions. She will reflect on the uncanny resonance between Daoist philosophy from the 5th century B.C.E. and complexity science. How do these resonant perspectives shed light on change, on resilience, and indeed on collapse? And how do they help us to decide what to do, how to be and how to ‘cultivate’ ourselves - as the Daoists emphasise - with people, planet and the future in mind. - [Colin Ward Festival Launch & Mixer](https://www.kairos.london/event/colin-ward-festival-launch-mixer/) - Friday October 17th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for a drinks night special to launch the Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action which is taking place the following day on Saturday October 18th. Entry is free and there will be a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Action](https://www.kairos.london/event/colin-ward-festival-anarchic-ideas-and-tactics/) - Saturday October 18th, 11.30am to 6pm To explore the work of author and social theorist Colin Ward, we're holding a day-long festival of anarchic thinking, strategising and making. Through short talks, discussions and workshops, we’ll consider how Colin Ward's pragmatic anarchism could help us create alternative spaces in the city and build infrastructures of mutual aid, autonomy and resistance. During his career, Colin Ward advocated the creation of cities, places and spaces based upon respect and bottom-up networks of self-help and participation: city-making as a mutual project. His books and writings celebrated moments where people had taken the opportunity to do things differently. For him, anarchy appears wherever people make space for it and nurture it: these are his ‘seeds beneath the snow’. The day-long festival will include: Four ten minute talks on the key ideas that run through his work - including Ecology, Protest, Autonomy and Play - followed by small group discussion; Two short talks on why Colin's ideas are so relevant today; A choice of workshops exploring tactics and strategies for action; and a final full group discussion of what has emerged during the day. This event - being organised in collaboration with Alicia Pivaro (London School of Architecture) and Paul Dobraszczyk (the Bartlett School of Architecture) - will give activists, students, creatives, and anyone curious to find out more about Britain's most famous anarchist, a hands-on experience of his ideas and how they might be applied today. There will be contributions from Tim Waterman, Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University and author of The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism; Paul Dobraszczyk, architectural writer, photographer and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; and David McEwen, architect and co-founder of Unit 38; Roman Krznaric, social philosopher, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing and Author of History for Tomorrow; and Carl Levy, Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author of Anarchists and the City: Governance, Revolution and the Imagination; among others. - [Book Club: "Anarchy in Action" by Colin Ward](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-anarchy-in-action-by-colin-ward/) - Wednesday October 15th, 6.30 for 7pm In the run up to our Colin Ward Festival of Anarchic Ideas, Tactics & Actions, we're reading Colin Ward's classic text Anarchy in Action (1973). The argument of the book, in the author's words, "is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism." If you can, please get hold of the 2023 edition with a forward by Sophie Scott-Brown. All are welcome to attend our Book Club meetings, but please do come having read the text. Because of the tube strike last month, we postponed discussion of future month's readings until this session, so do come along if you'd like to have your say. - [Book Club: "Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope" by Mathias Thaler](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-eco-miserabilism-and-radical-hope-by-mathius-thaler/) - Wednesday June 18th, 6.30 for 7pm In this short paper, political scientist Mathias Taler explores eco-miserabilism, the thought that it is already too late to avert the collapse of human civilisation. He offers a “reparative” reading of this post-apocalyptic approach, which is gaining traction in contemporary environmentalism, by defending it against those who associate it with defeatism and fatalism. He argues that authors like Roy Scranton and the members of the Dark Mountain collective, while rejecting mainstream activism, remain invested in a specific kind of (radical) hope: "Eco-miserabilists, hence, promote an affective politics for our climate-changed world that is both negative and iconoclastic. Without offering blueprints for a desirable future, they critically interrogate reality and disenchant the “cruel optimism” (Lauren Berlant) behind reformist plans for a “good Anthropocene.” The ultimate target of the eco-miserabilist position is the illusion that groundbreaking innovations, either in the realm of science and technology or of ordinary representative politics, could redeem us on an environmentally ravaged planet." - [Screening of "Naila and the Uprising" with Nadia Yahlom](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-naila-and-the-uprising/) - Saturday November 2nd, 4.45pm for 5.30pm Kairos is taking part in a day of coordinated screenings of Palestinian films around the world, Palestine Cinema Days. We're showing 2017 documentary "Naila and the Uprising" (1hr 16 mins, dir:Julia Bacha), which chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh and a community of women whose stories weave through the nonviolent mobilisation behind the First Intifada in the late 1980s. The screening will be followed by discussion led by Nadia Yahlom. Nadia is a Palestinian-Jewish and British artist, researcher and curator, and co-founder of Sarha Collective. Entry is free but please book in advance to ensure a place. https://youtu.be/nUFC-LbNcgU?si=F-uvPaSGV6-Qu3SP - [Recovering the Middle Voice (or How to Act in a World that Surpasses Us) with Valentin Gerlier](https://www.kairos.london/event/recovering-the-middle-voice-or-how-to-act-in-a-world-that-surpasses-us-with-valentin-gerlier/) - Thursday September 25th, 6.30 for 7pm Our current situation has led to radical despair about the value and limits of human action. For some, faced with a bewilderingly complex set of interlocking crises, daily actions feel like ‘too little, too late’. For others, this moment calls for ever more urgent, radical action and monumental changes at all levels. Caught between these nihilist and epic extremes, many of us, with good reason, feel disoriented about the value of our action. In this talk, music, literature and philosophy scholar Valentin Gerlier will creatively explore the concept of the ‘middle voice’ to help us rethink the notion of action. In certain languages such as ancient Greek or Sanskrit, the middle voice offers an alternative to either passive or active tenses, and suggests that every 'doing' is also an 'undergoing'. Whatever else it may be, our existential crisis is enmeshed in myths of progress as a kind of active, heroic achievement and of power as complete autonomy. These have led us to equate agency and identity with the active life, and to look on passivity as an abdication of responsibility or even a moral vice. The ‘middle voice’ - an attentive, yet highly creative way of being and acting in the world - offers an alternative way through. It suggests both partnership and participation in a reality that, at the same time, also exceeds us. Learning to inhabit the world differently doesn’t just entail system change and theoretical overhaul. When we let go of the bias for heroic activity, approach action in a different way and come to inhabit the middle voice, a surprising way forward opens up. - [How Do We Live a Life in an Era of Collapse with Sarah Wilson - booking link](https://www.kairos.london/event/how-do-we-live-a-life-in-an-era-of-collapse-with-sarah-wilson-booking-link/) - Tuesday September 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm Sarah has just finished a three-year project (culminating in a forthcoming book) that investigates systems collapse - through a spiritual, psychological, philosophical and data-led lens. In this talk, she will explore not the gritty devastating details of what’s happening to the world, but how we can now live a meaningfully life through it. How do we move forward when there is no longer “hope” that we will “make it”? What do we cleave to now? Is prepping the answer? What do we turn our attention to if there are no longer “solutions”? How do we deal with the dissonance and destruction? She will draw on her experience as a mainstream journalist (she was News Corp opinion columnist, editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Australia and host of Masterchef Australia) to share how we can bring the difficult message to others and to cut through the global resistance to the subject. Ultimately, she will argue, collapse presents us with an invitation - to rise from our avoidant adultescent numbness into a vibrant, noble maturity, and into our full humanity. Which is what we have been craving for generations. - [How Do We Live a Life in an Era of Collapse with Sarah Wilson](https://www.kairos.london/event/how-do-we-live-a-life-in-an-era-of-collapse-with-sarah-wilson/) - Tuesday September 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm Sarah has just finished a three-year project (culminating in a forthcoming book) that investigates systems collapse - through a spiritual, psychological, philosophical and data-led lens. In this talk, she will explore not the gritty devastating details of what’s happening to the world, but how we can now live a meaningfully life through it. How do we move forward when there is no longer “hope” that we will “make it”? What do we cleave to now? Is prepping the answer? What do we turn our attention to if there are no longer “solutions”? How do we deal with the dissonance and destruction? She will draw on her experience as a mainstream journalist (she was News Corp opinion columnist, editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Australia and host of Masterchef Australia) to share how we can bring the difficult message to others and to cut through the global resistance to the subject. Ultimately, she will argue, collapse presents us with an invitation - to rise from our avoidant adultescent numbness into a vibrant, noble maturity, and into our full humanity. Which is what we have been craving for generations. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-september-2025/) - Tuesday September 16th, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular open mike night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. If you'd like to present, please send a brief description of your idea or project to events@Kairos.London before Friday September 12th. If you'd like to just come and listen you are also most welcome. - [When Are We? with Vanessa Andreotti & Alnoor Ladha - booking link](https://www.kairos.london/event/when-are-we-with-vanessa-andreotti-alnoor-ladha-booking-link/) - Tuesday September 16th, 1 for 2pm In an exciting last-minute addition to the schedule, Canadian-based Vanessa Andreotti, who is making a rare appearance in London, will be at Kairos to discuss her recent work and thinking. In conversation with Alnoor Ladha, she will explore how collapse invites us to re-examine time itself, moving from modernity’s linear clock toward ancestral, planetary, and relational rhythms. Vanessa is author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism; Towards Braiding (with Elwood Jimmy) and Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity and Collapse with Compassion and Accountability. She is one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. Alnoor Ladha is an activist, political strategist and community organiser, and Co-director of Transition Resource Circle. - [Slowing Collapse With a Money Commons with Jem Bendell & Matthew Slater](https://www.kairos.london/event/slowing-collapse-with-a-money-commons-with-jem-bendell-matthew-slater/) - Sunday September 14th, 4.30 for 4.45pm Jem Bendell and Matthew Slater will host an interactive and fun exploration of why and how communities can reclaim their economic sovereignty as part of their efforts towards collapse preparedness. After two short talks, they will facilitate the participatory Trading Floor game, which will be followed by a discussion of the ideas that arise. The Trading Floor game offers a dynamic, hands-on experience of how money systems shape behaviour. It sparks deep insight into cooperation, competition, scarcity, and abundance. Players learn by doing, gaining fresh perspectives on economics, value exchange, and community resilience in a playful and thought-provoking way. Matthew and Jem will aim to show the benefits of any new mechanisms of exchange, including currencies, being held in the Commons. Matthew has decades of experience in software, training and guidance for communities to exchange goods and services without money. Jem has been researching and promoting such systems both before and during his work on societal collapse risk and response. Neither live in the UK so this is a rare opportunity. - [Kairos at How the Light Gets In with Roger Hallam](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-at-how-the-light-gets-in-with-roger-hallam/) - Saturday September 20th, 5 for 5.30pm How The Light Gets In, Kenwood, London Join us for a special Kairos-hosted salon at the How The Light Gets In festival, London: an evening of radical conversation on civil resistance, collapse, and moral responsibility with Roger Hallam. This is a second opportunity to take part in Roger's interactive talk On Being, In Prison following his appearance at Kairos Tottenham Court Road last week. Described by The New Statesman as the 34th most influential progressive person in the UK, Roger has been behind some of the world's most influential social movements. He has just been released from prison after receiving the longest sentence ever for nonviolent action. Roger will speak about his experience in prison from three perspectives: materialism ("it is what it is"), postmodernism ("you just can't say"), and religion ("glory be to God"). He will argue that unlearning how we look at ourselves and the world will be our central political, cultural, and spiritual challenge as extreme ruptures tear away our defences and repressions. Together, we will then discuss what it means to act in the face of ecological breakdown and how collective courage might still shape the future. - [When Are We? with Vanessa Andreotti & Alnoor Ladha](https://www.kairos.london/event/when-are-we-with-vanessa-andreotti/) - Tuesday September 16th, 1 for 2pm In an exciting last-minute addition to the schedule, Canadian-based Vanessa Andreotti, who is making a rare appearance in London, will be at Kairos to discuss her recent work and thinking. In conversation with Alnoor Ladha, she will explore how collapse invites us to re-examine time itself, moving from modernity’s linear clock toward ancestral, planetary, and relational rhythms. Vanessa is author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism; Towards Braiding (with Elwood Jimmy) and Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity and Collapse with Compassion and Accountability. She is one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. Alnoor Ladha is an activist, political strategist and community organiser, and Co-director of Transition Resource Circle. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-sept-12/) - Friday September 12th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly bar night, with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Book Club: "All Art is Ecological" by Timothy Morton](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-all-art-is-ecological-by-timothy-morton/) - Wednesday September 10th, 6.30 for 7pm For our first Book Club after the summer break, we'll be talking about "All Art is Ecological" by philosopher Timothy Morton. This short work explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology. We'll also discuss our shortlist of books for future month's meetings, so do come along if you'd like to have your say. To suggest a book for inclusion on the shortlist, please post in the Book Club whatsapp group before Friday September 5th. - [Kairos at the Stroud Festival of Commoning: Reviving the Money Commons](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-at-the-stroud-festival-of-commoning-reviving-the-money-commons/) - Saturday September 13th 11am, Centre for Science and Arts, Stroud As part of our series of events to crowdsource the drafting of a new Charter of the Commons, we'll be hosting a discussion on the Money Commons at this year's Stroud Festival of Commoning. Inspired by the 1217 Charter of the Forest, and the social struggle that preceded it, as well as the current surge of interest in the Commons across the world, we’ve been exploring what principles and demands a new Charter might contain. In this interactive session, co-hosted with Matthew Slater, we’ll discuss what governance structures would be needed to select, legitimate and manage a people-led financial system; what role a new Commons Charter might play in such a radical transformation; and what we can learn from the Chartists of the 1830s, and other social struggles, about how to galvanise a modern movement in response to the many interconnected crises we now face.​ - ["On Being, In Prison" with Roger Hallam](https://www.kairos.london/event/on-being-in-prison-with-roger-hallam/) - Sunday September 7th, 5pm for 5.30pm Two years ago The New Statesman named Roger Hallam the 34th most influential progressive person in the UK. A year later he was given a five year prison sentence for making a short speech on a zoom call asking people to engage in civil disobedience. This is the longest sentence ever given to anyone doing nonviolent action. He has recently been let out on license. In this interactive talk, Roger will speak about his experience in prison from three perspectives: materialism ("it is what it is"), postmodernism ("you just can't say"), and religion ("glory be to God"). He will argue that unlearning how we look at ourselves and the world will be our central political, cultural, and spiritual challenge as extreme ruptures tear away our defences and repressions. Only in the face of terror will we find the courage needed to re-make the world. Roger will be as hard-hitting as ever. Some things don't change. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-sept-5/) - Friday September 5th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly bar night resumes, with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [The Cost of Resistance with Chris Hedges](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-cost-of-resistance-with-chris-hedges/) - Wednesday September 11th, 6.15 for 7pm A SPECIAL SOLIDARITY AND FUNDRAISING EVENT IN SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE TRUTH FIVE Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will draw on his experience in conflict zones around the world to explore what we will need to do to protect our planet from ecocide. Chris spent two decades covering wars, revolutions, social upheavals, dictatorships and failed states in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. He was Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for The New York Times. He reported on how resistance movements emerged, what tactics were successful in bringing down tyrannies and what tactics were used by regimes to destroy resistance movements. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance and repression, he will detail the methods we need to adopt to defeat the powerful interests, including the fossil fuel industry and the animal agriculture industry, which have placed their profits above the protection of our species and all other life on earth. Chris holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University and is the author of 14 books, including several New York Times best sellers. The Whole Truth Five are five members of Just Stop Oil who were sentenced last month to the longest ever prison sentences for non-violent protest. Roger Hallam is serving a five-year sentence, and Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin are each serving four years for their involvement in protests on the M25. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-july-13/) - Sunday July 13th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4pm we’ll have tea and biscuits and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Summer Party](https://www.kairos.london/event/summer-party/) - Saturday July 12th, 6.30pm to 11pm Please come and party with us before we start to wind down for the Summer. There will be music from duo Rey Yusuf & Victoria Couper, stencil-making with Paris68 Redux, a Blackjack table, complimentary vegan supper, cocktails and dancing. Rey's credits include award-winning contemporary folk band Tell Tale Tusk, dream-folk band Something Sleeps and samba band Pocket Bloco). Victoria is a cappella trio Voice who's sung with world-jazz ensemble Grand Union Orchestra and founded Joglaresa and Musica Secreta. The pair, who met singing with Greek Epic-inspired band Daemonia Nymphe, have spent many years improvising and exploring together. They will be sharing their new collaboration, delving into folk, world, and early music, alongside their own compositions. Expect ukulele (you know you love it!), harpsicle (small lever harp, not strange new harp-shaped popsicle), percussion, and voices. Your participation will be welcomed and encouraged. Blackjack, a development of the 18th century game Twenty-one, is the world's most widely played casino banking game. It was first referenced by Miguel de Cervantes in a tale about the card cheats of Seville. Do familiarise yourself with the rules ahead of time if you'd like to improve your chances of winning. Chips won at the Blackjack table will be exchangeable for Kairos credits, drinks from the bar or tickets to future events. We'll also have Michael Collins here from Paris68 Redux who has created a stencil of our logo. This is a chance to make your own limited edition Kairos T-shirt, bag or patch. Bring a light-coloured tee, totebag or fabric, Michael will supply the ink and the knowhow. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-july-11/) - Friday July 11th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Another World is Here But Struggling to Survive](https://www.kairos.london/event/another-world-is-here-but-struggling-to-survive/) - Thursday July 10th, 6.30 for 7pm We are extremely sorry that due to illness we are having to cancel this event. We will reschedule for the autumn. If you've already bought a ticket you will be refunded. Please accept our apologies. What is the relevance of the Rojava experiment to our own journeys in democracy, ecology and feminism? Since 2012, the administration in North East Syria - Rojava - has been putting into practice a bold political experiment led by Kurds that aims to build power from the ground up. Often seen as a women’s revolution, it's based on Democratic Confederalism, on power sharing between men and women and on ecological principles. Many socialists, anarchists and feminists from the west have been inspired by its achievements against all the odds. We'll hear from Rahila Gupta, who sees Rojava as the key site of resistance to the patriarchy, Natasha Walter who visited this year, and Jian Bakir, a PhD candidate from the region. We'll discuss what we can learn from Rojava about how to build a new world in the ruins of the old - and how we can support this brave experiment at a current time of crisis. - [Book Club: "Is a River Alive" by Robert Macfarlane](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-is-a-river-alive-by-robert-macfarlane/) - Wednesday July 9th, 6.30 for 7pm "At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young ‘Rights of Nature’ movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept. Is a River Alive? flows like water from the mountains to the sea, over three major journeys: The first is to northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened with destruction by gold-mining. The second is to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India, where a desperate battle to save the lives of these waterbodies is under way. The third is to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream who rises a mile from Macfarlane’s house, and flows through his own years and days. Passionate, immersive and revelatory, Is a River Alive? is at once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date. Lit throughout by other minds and voices, it invites us radically to reimagine not only rivers but also life itself." - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-july-4/) - Friday July 4th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. This week we'll be testing out our Blackjack table, in preparation for our Summer Party. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Is an Ecological Civilisation Possible? with David Tyfield](https://www.kairos.london/event/is-an-ecological-civilisation-possible-with-david-tyfield/) - Thursday July 3rd, 6.30 for 7pm Many now argue that our current civilisation is finished. But could a new, and better, civilisation take its place? And what might we learn from rising global superpower China about how that future could look? In 2018, the Chinese constitution was amended to include the concept of “ecological civilisation” - both as philosophical vision and strategic goal. In this talk, David Tyfield, Professor in Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy at the University of Lancaster, will use the fascinating, contradictory case of China to interrogate the idea that civilisations are inherently unsustainable. What might we learn from the rise of China about the future global order, climate action and the very nature of ‘civilisation’ itself? - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-july-20/) - Sunday July 20th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Kairos Deep Conversations: How Can We Find the Power to Act?](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-deep-conversations-how-can-we-find-the-power-to-act/) - Tuesday July 1st, 6.30 for 7pm We are very sorry that due to a family bereavement Kimberley Hare is no longer able to join us for this event. Dr Charlie Gardner will still be sharing his reflections and leading the full group discussion. How can we find our agency in a time of climate and ecological breakdown? What can we do and who can we do it with? Join us - in our lovely and cool, air-conditioned basement! - for an evening of guided conversation about how to find the power to act. The evening will include a series of structured one-to-one and small group discussions in response to a set of carefully chosen questions, a break for a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together, reflections from Charlie Gardner (conservationist, activist, and author of a forthcoming book on what we all can do in response to the climate and nature crisis) and Kimberley Hare (founder of the Heart Community Group and the author of "At the Edge: What Is Mine to Do? And Who Can I Do it With?") as well as a concluding full group discussion. This is an invitation to combine theories of change with personal stories, to find empowerment in community, explore our own limits, and build solidarity and understanding. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-july-6/) - Sunday July 6th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-june-29/) - Sunday June 29th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-june-27/) - Friday June 27th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Movie Nights: "The End We Start From"](https://www.kairos.london/event/movie-nights-the-end-we-start-from/) - Tuesday June 24th, 6 for 6.30pm Please note the amended start time. "The End We Start From" (1hr 45mins, 2023, dir: Mahalia Belo) stars Jodie Comer as a young woman whose baby arrives just as catastrophic floods submerge London and society begins to break around her. Screening followed by supper and discussion, Read the Guardian review by here - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-june-22/) - Sunday June 22nd, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-june-20/) - Friday June 20th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [How Animals Heal Us with Jay Griffiths](https://www.kairos.london/event/how-animals-heal-us-with-jay-griffiths/) - Thursday June 19th, 6.30 for 7pm In this talk followed by discussion, writer Jay Griffiths will explore how animals are healing, not only for the individual but for society. Healthy societies need a sense of ethics, justice and wise politics. We'll hear how humans learned ethics from wolves, how some police dogs have acted more ethically than their handlers, and how many primates and dogs detest unfairness and have a sense of justice. We'll learn about the democracy of honeybees and the political alliances created by fieldfares, among many other examples. We'll also discuss how animals are the wellspring of human art, how they are the remedies at the heart of myth and folk tales (medicine stories) and how the spiritual invigoration that animals provide is at the heart of the wellness of the collective psyche. In the longest sweep of history, shamans, who are the first healers, have always said it is the animals who heal. - [In the Belly of the Beast: Soil, Soul & Society with Alastair McIntosh](https://www.kairos.london/event/in-the-belly-of-the-beast-soil-soul-society-with-alastair-mcintosh/) - Thursday June 12th, 6.30 for 7pm Alastair McIntosh - quaker, land reformer, spiritual ecologist and honorary professor at the University of Glasgow - played a leading role in the campaigns that brought the Isle of Eigg into community land ownership and stopped the Isle of Harris superquarry. In this talk, Alastair will share learnings from his activist work over nearly half a century. He will briefly outline his work with land reform, urban poverty and nonviolence with the military, in order to draw out what it means to sustain engagement while acting inside the systems we're trying to replace. He will talk about the spirituality that underpins his work, the Naming, Unmasking and Engaging of the Powers that can sustain challenging work and power it up from a place of inner necessity. Collectively, we'll then discuss what we all can do, despite living inside "the belly of the beast". - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-june-8/) - Sunday June 8th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Friday Drinks with Beto Marubo](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-june-6/) - Friday June 6th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. This week, we're going to be joined by Beto Marubo, an indigenous leader of the Marubo ethnic group in the Javari Valley region of the Brazilian Amazon, who will chat informally with us from about 8pm about his work to protect the isolated peoples of the region. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-june-13/) - Friday June 13th, 6.30pm-11pm Join us for our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Booking isn't essential, but if you'd like to eat, please tell us you're coming so we can prepare enough food. - [Cooperation Hull & the New Culture of Self-Organising with Gully Bujak](https://www.kairos.london/event/cooperation-hull-with-gully-bujak/) - Thursday June 5th, 6.30 for 7pm For the past two years, Cooperation Hull has been taking inspiration from democratic and economic experiments around the world like Cooperation Jackson, Mondragon, the Zapatistas and Rojava, and applying them here at home. Their model brings these learnings together with their own experiences of civil disobedience to plot a course towards real system change, founded on a new culture of self-organising. Gully Bujak was arrested ten times with Extinction Rebellion, coordinated the shut down of Murdoch's printworks in 2020 and was acquitted by a jury for criminal damage before co-founding Cooperation Hull. She will present Cooperation Hull's work so far, which includes holding over a dozen people's assemblies in the city with the lowest voter turnout in the country, starting radical 'solidarity economy' projects in deprived neighbourhoods, confronting Reform and supporting other northern initiatives like Cooperation Sheffield to get off the ground. Fresh from attending the historic People's Platform in Vienna as a Cooperation Hull delegate - a gathering of 800 revolutionaries from around Europe - Gully will give a frank analysis of what has and hasn't been working in Hull and discuss what it means to translate international examples to an English context. - [The Radical Recentralisation of the World with Eliane Brum & Jonathan Watts](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-radical-recentralisation-of-the-world-with-eliane-brum/) - Wednesday June 4th, 6.30 for 7pm Brazilian writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Eliane Brum and British journalist Jonathan Watts will be talking about the journalism platform they've set up in the Amazon, and the radical idea behind it. Eliane and Jonathan, who have made their home in the Amazon Forest, will advocate a radical recentralisation of the world. They will argue that we need to shift our current understanding of “centre” and “periphery,” thinking instead of enclaves of Nature and the values of their peoples as central. The centres of the world are where life is, not where markets are. They will explain how this idea led them to create Sumaúma, a trilingual journalism platform based at the epicenter of rainforest destruction. Launched in 2022, today Sumaúma runs a co-training program for forest-journalists, where traditional journalism intersects with the cosmogonies of Brazil’s original peoples, and seeks to recenter journalism through a radical, daily, recentralisation of the world. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-june-2025/) - Tuesday June 3rd, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular open mike night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. If you'd like to present, please send a brief description of your idea or project to events@Kairos.London. If you'd like to just come and listen you are also most welcome. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-may-30/) - Friday May 30th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Building the Commonsverse with David Bollier](https://www.kairos.london/event/building-the-commonsverse-with-david-bollier/) - Thursday May 29th, 6.30 for 7pm The urgent question of the moment is not just how to constrain a surging authoritarianism, but to figure out what compelling new vision for governance, provisioning, and social order we should pursue. The “old normal” cannot be restored, and in any case, it has failed to deal with climate change, savage inequalities, predatory markets, democratic decline and social alienation. New types of social relations and institutional forms are desperately needed; the confusion and disarray in current politics provides the opportunity to create them. Drawing on his just-published book "Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition", David Bollier, a long-time activist/scholar at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (US), will describe the wide variety of commons now flourishing outside the control of the corporate market/state. A globe-spanning Commonsverse – encompassing land, water, agriculture, food systems, energy, digital networks, mutual aid, alternative currencies, and much more – is opening up new vectors of democratic and economic possibility. It represents an unacknowledged “parallel polis,” as Czech visionary Vaclav Havel might have put it. Since capitalist modernity remains a major impediment to change, David will also focus on several key challenges for expanding the Commonsverse: the re-configuration of state power to support commoning; the development of (noncapitalist) "relationalized finance”; creative legal hacks on Western jurisprudence; the mainstreaming of social cooperation as an institutional form; bioregionalism as an integrated ecological/economic vision; and new modes of collaboration between commoners in the Global South and North. - [Another World is Here But Struggling to Survive (Copy)](https://www.kairos.london/event/another-world-is-here-but-struggling-to-survive-copy/) - Thursday July 10th, 6.30 for 7pm What is the relevance of the Rojava experiment to our own journeys in democracy, ecology and feminism? Since 2012, the administration in North East Syria - Rojava - has been putting into practice a bold political experiment led by Kurds that aims to build power from the ground up. Often seen as a women’s revolution, it's based on democratic federalism, on power sharing between men and women and on ecological principles. Many socialists and anarchists from the west have been inspired by its achievements against all the odds. We'll hear from Rahila Gupta, who sees the region as the key site of resistance to the patriarchy, Natasha Walter who visited Rojava this year, and a Syrian from Rojava who will bring their expert perspective (name to be confirmed shortly). We'll discuss what we can learn from Rojava about how to build a new world in the ruins of the old - and how we can support this brave experiment at a current time of crisis. - [Book Club: "The Rivers North of the Future - The Testament of Ivan Illich" as told to David Cayley](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-the-rivers-north-of-the-future-the-testament-of-ivan-illich-as-told-to-david-cayley/) - Wednesday May 28th, 6.30 for 7pm For May's Book Club we're discussing The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich in which Canadian journalist David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th century's most visionary cultural critics. Illich believed that the West could only be understood as a corruption of the Christian New Testament. Cayley presents Illich's exploration of this idea, illuminating Illich's thoughts on the criminalisation of sin, on how the Church has become a template for the modern nation-state, and how contemporary society has become a congealed and corrupted Christianity. Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a brilliant polymath, an iconoclastic thinker, and a prolific writer. He was a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of numerous books, including Deschooling Society, Tools for Conviviality, Energy and Equity, and Medical Nemesis. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-may-25/) - Sunday May 25th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4.30pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Friday Drinks Special with Tree Oh!](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-special-with-tree-oh/) - Friday May 23rd, 6.30pm-11pm; Music at 7.30 and 9pm Our weekly open bar night will feature a special appearance from Swedish music collective Tree Oh! who will be passing through London after performing at the Hay Festival. With their roots in Swedish folk and influences from classical to Americana, Tree Oh! sing about nature in cities, enchanted gardens, mighty trees, the climate crisis, rising oceans, the legacy of colonialism and the need for new dreams. Singing in harmony alongside viola, flutes, and Celtic harp, they'll perform a selection of songs from their debut EP Our Urban Nature over two 30 minute sets at 7.30pm and 9pm. Tree Oh! is Anna Jonsson, Sara Nilsson and Nina Wohlert, musicians and environmentalists, with their lyricist, author and campaigner Andrew Simms of the New Weather Institute. Entry is free as usual. Three will be a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-june-1/) - Sunday June 1st, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4.30pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [The Breakdown of the Global Economic Order and What Comes Next with Ann Pettifor](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-breakdown-of-the-global-economic-order-and-what-comes-next-with-ann-pettifor/) - Wednesday May 21st, 6.30 for 7pm Or "Globalisation and Balshazzar’s Feast" What does the ‘invisible hand’ portend for the US dollar and financial markets? Is the writing on the wall? How can we transform the system? There is widespread recognition that the increasingly lawless global financial system is unstable, and like the ecosystem, prone to failure. Yet economists and investors remain bullish. In this talk, international political economist Ann Pettifor will explore the deep flaws of a global system that marketises and deregulates the social technology we call money; denationalises finance and thereby threatens financial crisis, while declaring ‘there is no money’ to address climate breakdown. The system and its flaws are well understood. We have been here before. We know how to fix the system, and we know how to mobilise the finance needed for transformation. We face constraints but they are not financial or monetary constraints. The only real constraints are ecological, and the other real resources – public understanding, labour, the earth’s resources and infrastructure – needed to meet humanity’s collective needs. - [Reviving the Commons: Our Land](https://www.kairos.london/event/reviving-the-commons-our-land/) - Tuesday May 20th, 6.30 for 7pm Britain’s common land has been systematically depleted through encroachment, enclosure, privatisation, commodification and financialisation. The result has been chronic mis-management of our land, including over grazing, the depletion of peatlands, soil degradation and widespread habitat and species loss. How can we revive the Commons and restore our land? In this participatory event - part of our year-long series on the Commons - we’ll explore a vision for the land commons, and draw up a set of demands for inclusion in a new Charter of the Commons being developed at Kairos over the course of the year. We'll hear a series of short presentations from land, river and commons experts: Economist Guy Standing, Carol Wilcox of the Labour Land Campaign, Anthony Hurford from the Environment Agency, writer and ecologist Helen Baczkowska, Tom Chance of the Community Land Trust Network and Carey Doyle from Scotland's Rural College. We’ll then break into groups to discuss their ideas before coming back together to collectively agree on a set of principles and demands to include in the Charter. No previous knowledge is required – either of the Commons generally or land issues specifically. All are welcome to contribute or just come to listen. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-may-16/) - Friday May 16th, 5pm-11pm The Kairos bar will be opening earlier this week for drinks and socialising with participants at the Marshall Ganz workshop taking place during the day. We will have our usual pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as vegan food. Whether you’re a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you’re on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Transcending the Alt Reich in an Age of Collapse and Renewal with Nafeez Ahmed](https://www.kairos.london/event/transcending-the-alt-reich-in-an-age-of-collapse-and-renewal-with-nafeez-ahmed/) - Thursday May 15th, 6.30 for 7pm The far-right is resurgent. The United States has been taken over by a technology oligarchy with an alarming technofascist agenda to supercharge hyper-capitalism and fracture democracies. In this interactive talk and discussion session, author, systems theorist and journalist Nafeez Ahmed will draw on his transdisciplinary research into what he calls “the planetary phase shift” to help us make sense of this dangerous moment, and create strategies for action. For as well as an unprecedented convergence of ecological, energy, food and economic crises, there is also an unprecedented possibility space emerging for the radical transformation of the systems that define civilisation. Nafeez will discuss the findings of his new book, "Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within", and argue that understanding the nature of the ideology of the far-right through a systems lens can help us recognise strategies to defeat it through systemic transformation. He will show how the Alt Reich is an effort to head off the emancipatory possibilities of system changes that are occurring right now across society, culture and technology. - [The Fashion Commons: Reclaiming our Clothing Culture](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-fashion-commons-reclaiming-our-clothing-culture/) - Wednesday May 14th, 6.30 for 7pm Clothing culture has been hijacked by the growth imperative. The industrial fashion system is creating insupportable amounts of waste and pollution whilst failing to provide for human needs. The industry contributes 10% of global carbon emissions, with this on track to grow 40% by 2030 (from 2022). This growth is enabled by fossil fuel by-products, with 67% of fibres made from cheap synthetics. There are alternatives. We can reclaim our clothing cultures. Commons-based clothing models, in which communities steward their collective wealth, are overwhelmingly sustainable and sufficient, meaningful and culturally enriching. As part of Kairos' year-long series on the Commons, we’re coming together to co-create a vision for how to revive our clothing systems. In this participatory event - co-hosted by OurCommon.Market, a platform for commons-based clothing practices - we’ll hear a series of short provocations from experts on the fashion commons: anthropologist Sandra Niessen, designer Alice Holloway, fashion ecologist and textile systems designer Zoe Gilbertson and maker, activist and co-founder of Fantasy Fibre Mill, Nick Evans. Questions they’ll address will include: How could small scale, bio-regional, fair and regenerative clothing production become the default? How can we make these alternatives sufficiently persuasive? How could a pluriverse of fashion cultures flourish? What challenges are keeping them in the margins? What rights of fashion commoners need to be protected, and how? We’ll then break into small groups to discuss how we might begin to make these paradigm shifts. Collectively, we’ll then agree which ideas to take forward to an event later in the year which will focus on the Cultural Commons more generally, and which will result in a set of demands to be included in a new Charter of the Commons. No previous knowledge is required – either of the Commons generally or fashion cultures specifically. All are welcome to contribute or just come to listen. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-may-18/) - Sunday May 18th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4.30pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-may-9/) - Friday May 9th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [What Narratives Are Needed in These Turbulent Times? with Marshall Ganz](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-narratives-are-needed-in-these-turbulent-times-with-marshall-ganz/) - Friday May 16th, 1- 5pm This event is now fully booked. At a time when democracies face unprecedented challenges and far-right sentiments are on the rise, Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz offers a powerful framework for democratic renewal. Drawing on decades of organising experience, Marshall's groundbreaking approach to public narrative — connecting personal stories of self, us, and now — can help us overcome fear, reclaim our agency, and strengthen our communities. At this special participatory event, aimed at activists, organisers and communicators, Marshall will work with us to develop the narratives needed to counter the far right and navigate these turbulent times. The afternoon will begin with a presentation from Marshall and a few words from a number of other organisers, before we break into smaller groups to work through possible narrative approaches. We'll then come back together to collectively explore the deeper stories we need to tell. The Kairos bar will open for drinks and socialising from 5pm. This event is in collaboration with UAL’s AKO Storytelling Institute, which supports creatives at the intersection of storytelling and social impact; and Act Build Change, which trains collectives to grow teams, build power, and win change. Entry is free, but advance registration is essential. Soup, tea and biscuits provided. Paid bar. - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-feb-21/) - Friday February 21st, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual Friday drinks with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-may-4/) - Sunday May 4th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4.30pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-may-2-2025/) - Friday May 2nd, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [The Good Apocalypse Guide with Alex Evans](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-good-apocalypse-guide-with-alex-evans/) - Tuesday April 29th, 6.30 for 7pm We have apocalypses all wrong. They can be much more hopeful, creative, empowering, energising and fruitful than the gloomy stories of collapse that we keep hearing about. Hollywood tells us (incessantly) that apocalypses are catastrophes, plain and simple. Only rugged individuals survive. How to cope? Stock up on canned food and ammo. Real apocalypses are much more interesting than that. Yes, they’re moments of extreme turbulence - but they can also be incubators for new futures, that bring out the best of us like nothing else. And while they can certainly lead to catastrophic breakdowns, they can also be times of extraordinary breakthrough. So what tips the balance? In this talk, Alex Evans – founder and executive director of Larger Us and author of the The Good Apocalypse Guide on Substack – will explore how our ancestors made sense of moments of cataclysm, why our mental and emotional states are so central to the kind of future we’ll inhabit, and why the ‘religion shaped hole’ in modern life matters most during apocalyptic times. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-april-25-2025/) - Friday April 25th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Us with David Whyte](https://www.kairos.london/event/kill-the-corporation-before-it-kills-us-with-david-whyte/) - Wednesday April 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm The profit-making corporation is almost perfectly designed for the purpose of using up the world's resources as quickly as possible, and then taking no responsibility for cleaning up the damage. In this talk, David Whyte, Professor of Climate Justice at Queen Mary's University, will use an analysis of the political and legal foundations of the corporation - the organisation that was created as a device of European colonialism – to show exactly why it is the deadliest human invention. David will argue that our best chance of survival is to understand the foundations of corporate power and will set out the steps we need to take to fatally weaken the corporation. We need to kill the corporation and replace it with organisations that promote common ownership. Only then can we work towards surviving climate breakdown. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-april-13/) - Sunday April 13th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4.30pm we'll have tea and cake and discuss what we've been reading. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-april-18/) - Friday April 18th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Rooted Innovation: The Future of Technology with Joycelyn Longdon](https://www.kairos.london/event/rooted-innovation-the-future-of-technology-with-joycelyn-longdon/) - Tuesday April 15th, 6.30 for 7pm What does the future of technology look like amidst ecological and cultural breakdown? How we might come to see technology as a generational practice of craft, learning from those who have come before us, and those whose technologies are grounded in reciprocal relationships with the environment, in order to build the worlds of the future? Joycelyn Longdon, environmental justice technologist, author, educator and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, will explore the histories and possibilities of technology beyond a Western industrialist view, beyond silver bullets and panacean solutions, towards an appreciation of the many forms of technology, old and new, material and cultural and the technologies nature itself designs. Joycelyn's research focuses on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring of biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana. Her debut book, "Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom and Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action" was published in April 2025. - [Book Club: "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Andreotti](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-hospicing-modernity-by-vanessa-andreotti/) - Wednesday April 9th, 6.30 for 7pm “There are clues [here] to how we find the paths that lead to the unknown world ahead, beyond the end of the world as we know it.” -- Dougald Hine Vanessa Machado de Oliveira [aka Vanessa Andreotti] presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behaviour patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of. Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance...But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability? Vanessa breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance...and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. She explains how our habits, behaviours, and belief systems hold us back - and why it’s time now to gradually disinvest. - [Concerts Don't Cost the Earth with Gibbon and Goldfinch](https://www.kairos.london/event/concerts-dont-cost-the-earth-with-gibbon-and-goldfinch/) - Saturday April 5th, 6.30pm for 7.30pm Following Gibbon & Goldfinch’s knock out appearance at our Winter Solstice Party, they're back at Kairos with Concerts Don’t Cost the Earth, a unique musical experience to move, motivate and inspire. Gibbon & Goldfinch - aka performing duo Marcus Decker and Holly Cullen-Davies, who met running protest song workshops - are singers, multi-instrumentalists, activists, curators and entertainers. For this concert, the first at Kairos since we acquired our own piano, Marcus and Holly will perform a range of pieces from J.S. Bach to Nina Simone and Claude Debussy to Joni Mitchell. Concerts Don’t Cost the Earth brings together musicians, hosts and audiences in convivial settings where everyone is included. Expect to be surprised, to laugh and possibly cry, to learn something new and to make new friends. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-april-4/) - Friday April 4th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-april-11/) - Friday April 11th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-april-6/) - Sunday April 6th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our growing collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. You can view our catalogue on our Library page. At 4.30pm we’ll have tea and cake and discuss what we’ve been reading. - [How We Live and How We Might Live with Ken Worpole](https://www.kairos.london/event/how-we-live-and-how-we-might-live-with-ken-worpole/) - Thursday April 3rd, 6.30 for 7pm How can we move from communities of interest to communities of care? In his 1964 essay, "Urban Place and the Non-Place Public Realm", American urban designer Melvin Webber coined a phrase which anticipated the changing nature of social life in the modern world: community without propinquity. This suggested that the communities of the future would be based more on shared interests and identities than physical proximity and face-to-face encounters. Webber predicted this long before the Internet made the creation of online 'communities’ – whose reach now extends across the globe - even more commanding. Today social media generates millions of such self-described ‘communities’, none of whose members have ever met in person. In such conditions, social change becomes ever more difficult to achieve, for as John Stuart Mill argued in "Principles of Political Economy" (1848), society needs ‘experiments in living’ – new forms of working and living together - to guard against ‘the weight of Custom bearing down upon human capacity for improvement.’ In his recent books, New Jerusalem: The Good City and the Good Society (2017), No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: back to the land in wartime Britain (2021), and Brightening from the East: Essays on landscape & memory (2025), writer and social historian Ken Worpole explores the post-war history of such experiments in living and working together, now commonly called elective or ‘intentional’ communities. In this talk, Ken will highlight four remarkable case studies he knows well – one environmental, one pacifist, one religious in origin but open to all, and one a newly opened experiment in social care - and discusses what we might learn from them as we face the environmental and social upheavals of tomorrow. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-april/) - Tuesday April 1st, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular open mike night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-march-30/) - Sunday March 30th, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. At 4.30pm we'll have tea and cake and discuss what we've been reading. (Please note the slightly later opening time of 1pm.) - [Ecological Medicine: Healing the People, Healing the Planet with Jenny Goodman](https://www.kairos.london/event/ecological-medicine-healing-the-people-healing-the-planet/) - Thursday March 27th, 6.30 for 7pm What is medicine for? Ideally, its purpose would be to enable all of us to live a full and healthy life, eventually dying peacefully of simple old age. Such a medicine would educate all of us in the art and science of self-care. And it would step in when we got sick, with the best treatment selected from a smorgasbord of possibilities, ranging from herbs to acupuncture to osteopathy to surgery, depending on what the person’s situation required. But there’s no profit to be made from what grows naturally – you can’t patent a plant. So, the pharmaceutical giants have an interest in telling us that holistic medicine is ineffective or dangerous or both. They’re busy looking for the ‘magic bullet’ cure, a futile but highly profitable quest, and they don’t want us looking at causes or methods of prevention. In this talk, followed by discussion, Jenny Goodman, qualified medical doctor and author of "Getting Healthy in Toxic Times", will set out a vision for a new way to heal ourselves and the planet. Ecological Medicine looks for the root causes of illness, especially the causes of our current waves of chronic, degenerative diseases; our epidemics of dementia, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, neurodegenerative and autoimmune disease, all of which were rare or unknown before the industrial revolution - and all of which are preventable. It understands that human health is inextricably linked with the health of the bees, the trees, the birds, the oceans and the planet as a whole. And it highlights how hyper-capitalism is depriving us of the most basic things we need to be well and happy: clean air, clean water, nourishing and uncontaminated food, sunshine and the freedom to wander freely in green places. Crucially, ecological medicine sees the human being as an intrinsic part of the wider ecosystem which is Planet Earth; we cannot heal the one in isolation from the other. The causes of our ills are not unknown. We are eating the causes, drinking the causes, inhaling the causes, and frequently rubbing the causes into our skin. We can stop, and we can discover the safe alternatives. Reclaiming control over our own health is a profoundly political act. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-march-28/) - Friday March 28th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [This Is an Act of Care with Tim Jackson](https://www.kairos.london/event/this-is-an-act-of-care-with-tim-jackson/) - Tuesday March 25th, 6.30 for 7pm Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in society is precarious and uncertain. Care work is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it, health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it’s treated as a second class citizen – barely recognised in the relentless rush for productivity and wealth. How did we arrive at this dysfunctional place? And what can we do to change things? In this talk, Tim Jackson, ecological economist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey and author of The Care Economy will ask what it would take to position care as a central organising principle in economic life. He will journey through the history of medicine, the economics of capitalism and the philosophical underpinnings of health. He’ll explore the gender politics of care, revisit the birthplace of a universal dream and confront the demons that prevent us from realising it. He’ll also describe some of the struggles he encountered in writing The Care Economy, his manifesto for a healthier and more humane society, and ask what it would mean to take health seriously as a societal goal. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-march-23/) - Sunday March 23rd, Drop-In 1pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. At 4.30pm we'll have tea and cake and discuss what we've been reading. (Please note the slightly later opening time of 1pm.) - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/friday-drinks-march-21/) - Friday March 21st, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Reviving the Blue Commons: A Plan to Repair our Ocean](https://www.kairos.london/event/reviving-the-blue-commons-plan-to-repair-our-ocean/) - Tuesday March 18th, 6.30 for 7pm As part of our year-long series on the Commons, we're coming together to co-create a vision for the Ocean Commons and explore how we might bring it about. The ocean is under attack. For decades it has been exploited for the benefit of the few – coastal communities are struggling to survive, fish populations are plummeting and the ocean is awash with pollutants. The demands we are placing on the ocean are increasing year on year. This “Blue Acceleration” is leading us towards disaster. But another ocean is possible. In this participatory event, featuring a series of short presentations from oceans experts followed by small group discussion, we’ll explore how to reinstate the ocean as a Commons. Economist Guy Standing will explore the necessary laws and governing mechanisms needed to revive the Blue Commons. Political theorist Chris Armstrong will advocate for Blue Justice: The ocean is a more-than-human space, so whose Commons is it? Social movement scholar Antje Scharenberg will explore Blue Activism, asking what kind of ocean democracy we can hope for. And Tobias Troll from NGO Seas at Risk will explain the concept of the Blue Doughnut: How can we care for the ocean and look after ourselves? Collectively, we'll then begin drafting a set of demands to be included in the Charter of the Commons being developed at Kairos over the course of the year, and which could initially be presented at the UN Oceans Conference 2025 taking place in June. No previous knowledge required - either of the Commons generally or ocean issues specifically. All are welcome to contribute or just come to listen. - [We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For with Adam Greenfield](https://www.kairos.london/event/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-with-adam-greenfield/) - Thursday March 13th, 6.30 for 7pm How can we hold our own against the Long Emergency? We have together entered an epoch in which not merely the raw fact of climate-system collapse, but the second- and third-order consequences of that unfolding, threaten to undo the infrastructural, economic, political, social and even psychological systems that undergird everyday experience: a Long Emergency with radically uncertain prospects for the sustainment of any life we recognise, and no clear end in sight. In this talk, based on his 2024 book Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World On Fire, Adam Greenfield explores ways in which we might organise ourselves to not merely survive this Long Emergency, but to do so in ways that uphold our fundamental commitments to dignity and justice. We'll learn lessons from a number of communities that have faced down existentially hard times before, from the "survival programs" of the Black Panthers in the 1970s to the self-organised Occupy Sandy mutual-aid initiative, the solidarity networks of Crisis-era Greece and the large-scale, non-state society of Rojava. We'll see how participants in all of these efforts experienced an expanded sense of possibility, purpose, and their own power; explore the reciprocal relationship between that power and the provision of mutual care; and finally weave these threads together in the book's culminating proposition: that we establish a network of the neighbourhood-based, self-organised and self-sustaining relief and recovery hubs called Lifehouses. - [Book Club: "The Commune Form" by Kristin Ross](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-the-commune-form-by-kristin-ross/) - Wednesday February 12th, 6.30 for 7pm In "The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life", radical historian Kristin Ross looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation. (Publishers description): When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over land - from the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from the pipeline battles in Canada to Soulèvements de la terre - have reinvented practices of appropriating lived space and time. This transforms dramatically our perception of the recent past. Rural struggles of the 1960s and 70s, like the "Nantes Commune," the Larzac, and Sanrizuka in Japan, appear now as the defining battles of our era. In the defense of threatened territories against all manners of privatisation, hoarding, and infrastructures of disaster, new ways of producing and inhabiting are devised that side-step the state and that give rise to unprecedented kinds of solidarity built on pleasurable, fruitful collaborations. These are the crucial elements in the present-day reworking of an archaic form: the commune-form that Marx once called "the political form of social emancipation," and that Kropotkin deemed "the necessary setting for revolution and the means of bringing it about. - [Screening of "My Octopus Teacher"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-my-octopus-teacher/) - Tuesday March 11th, 6pm for 6.30pm My Octopus Teacher (2020, 1hr, 25mins) tells the story of filmmaker Craig Foster who, over the course of a year, gets to know a female octopus in the waters off South Africa while working through his emotional crisis. The film, directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, won multiple awards, including an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. After the screening and a break for supper, we'll talk about the relationship at the heart of the film. Does it reflect a human-centred view of our more-than-human kin, or does it suggest how we might begin to reconnect with the rest of life? Bel Jacobs, founder of the Empathy Project, will loosely guide the discussion. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-march-16/) - Sunday March 16th, Drop-In 12pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. At 4.30pm we'll have tea and cake and discuss what we've been reading. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-march-9/) - Sunday March 9th, Drop-In 12pm-5pm The books in our library contain a wealth of ideas from radical thinkers past and present. Together they add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Drop in and browse our collection or bring your own book to read, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. At 4.30pm we'll have tea and cake and discuss what we've been reading. - [Friday Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-feb-28/) - Friday February 28th, 6.30pm-11pm Our weekly open bar night with free entry and a pay bar serving cocktails and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Whether you're a regular Kairos attendee or have yet to come to one of our events, if you're on your own or with a group, or if you just want a quiet catch up with a friend, all are welcome. - [Britain's Common Land: Past, Present and Future with Helen Baczkowska](https://www.kairos.london/event/britains-common-land-past-present-and-future-with-helen-baczkowska/) - Wednesday March 5th, 6.30 for 7pm Britain's common lands have long been contested. Historic enclosures of Commons changed the very fabric of Britain's society and ecology and cast a still lingering shadow over rural England. The Commons that remain today are often misunderstood, with their legal protections and ownership hard to grasp. Helen will de-mystify these complex issues and look at how common land remains at the very heart of debates over grazing in the uplands, and of the management of flood waters, re-wilding and peatlands. In this talk followed by discussion, writer, ecologist and environmental activist Helen Baczkowska will explore what common land is in the 21st century and how crucial it is for nature conservation and public access, as well as what conversations about its governance, both past and present, can teach us about the Commons of the future. - [Revisiting Radical Ideas Past: An Evening of Shared Readings](https://www.kairos.london/event/past-thinkers-an-evening-of-shared-readings/) - Thursday February 27th, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for an evening of shared readings from the works of visionary past thinkers. Which radical ideas from the past should we revisit to help us understand and respond to this current moment? Figures we have in mind include William Blake, Ivan Illich, Donella Meadows, Alfred North Whitehead, bell hooks, Raymond Williams, John Berger, Agnes Heller, Fritjof Capra and Dorothy Smith, among others. We'd also love to learn about other, perhaps lesser known past thinkers whose work we should return to. All are invited to propose a short reading via events@kairos.london, or just come along and listen. If you're unable to attend but have suggestions for other past thinkers we'd love to hear from you. Do let us know if there are any written works in particular you think we should include in our library collection. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-march-2/) - Sunday March 2nd, Drop-In 12pm-5pm Our library reflects the content and focus of our in-person discussions. The work of many of those who have participated in our events can be found on our shelves. The collection may be small, but it contains a wealth of ideas, from radical thinkers past and present, that explain our current moment and envisage an alternative future. Together, these ideas add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. - [Learning From Conservative Media: How To Counter Anti-Climate Messages With Geoff Dembicki](https://www.kairos.london/event/learning-from-conservative-media-how-to-counter-anti-climate-messages-with-geoff-dembicki/) - Thursday February 20th, 6.30 for 7pm Why are anti-climate messages resonating at a time when extreme weather disasters are escalating and solutions to the crisis have never been stronger? What can people who care deeply about a liveable planet do to counter their influence? Canadian investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki will draw on his years of reporting on conservative media to reveal how fossil fuel companies and their political allies are successfully spreading skepticism about climate solutions by linking those solutions to issues including abortion, free speech, diversity initiatives and high housing costs. He will also share insights from growing up in working-class resource towns to explain how communities on the front-lines of oil and gas extraction are more open to transformative climate action than it might initially appear. This talk, which will be followed by plenty of time for discussion, will cover questions of social status and narrative that go to the heart of how we understand and communicate the climate crisis. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-feb-23/) - Sunday February 23rd, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. Our library reflects the content and focus of our in-person discussions. The work of many of those who have participated in our events can be found on our shelves. The collection may be small, but it contains a wealth of ideas, from radical thinkers past and present, that explain our current moment and envisage an alternative future. Together, these ideas add up to a radically new, emerging world-view. For Sunday Reading Room to open it relies on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Bioregions & the Commons: Becoming Citizens of Place in a Changing World with Isabel Carlisle](https://www.kairos.london/event/bioregions-the-commons-becoming-citizens-of-place-in-a-changing-world-with-isabel-carlisle/) - Tuesday February 18th, 6.30 for 7pm Bioregions, and bioregioning, are seeing a worldwide renaissance that offers a viable response to the polycrisis. How could this very old model of human organising become a template for the future? Bioregion literally means ‘life region’ and from the earliest times our species has aligned itself with nature’s life-support systems of food, water, energy, shelter, plant medicines and materials for making, such as wood and stone. The agricultural revolution of the Neolithic, and more recently the industrial revolution, set up a metabolic rift between those life systems and human societies. We’re experiencing the consequences of that today. Isabel Carlisle, co-founder of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) in South Devon, will explore how bioregional organising could help build regional resilience and reinvent the idea of being a citizen of place. In the same way that there would be no commons without commoning, ‘bioregioning’ is a relational practice that animates a region and addresses the impacts of geo-systemic change on natural and human-made systems. More than that, it’s about meeting the deep human need of belonging to place. The rise in interest in the global and local commons and the fraying of our social, economic and governance structures are all putting air beneath the wings of the bioregional movement. Isabel will describe the establishment of bioregioning in places as far apart as Costa Rica, the Arctic and Cascadia in Western North America. She will detail the work of the BLC to create the infrastructure needed to establish bioregioning in South Devon (including the creation of a devolved citizen council, bioregional financing and other projects). She will argue that bioregions and bioregioning could help us gain the agency we need to start shaping our future. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-feb-16/) - Sunday February 16th, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-feb-14/) - Friday February 14th, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual club drinks with free entry and a pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. We guarantee a Valentines-free zone for any singles looking for refuge. The romantically attached are also very welcome. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-feb-9/) - Sunday February 9th, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-feb-7/) - Friday February 7th, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual club drinks with free entry and a pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-february-2025/) - Tuesday February 4th, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular Open Projects Night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. Presentations will include Adam Victor on "The Climate Fightback", Mark Mullen on "Rorshok", Alicia Pivaro on "Anarchy in the Arctic", Margret Mulowska on "The DARES Collective" and Noah Martin with an update on "College of Modern Anxiety". - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-jan-31/) - Friday January 31st, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual club drinks with free entry and a pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Jordan Belaiche, British Algerian writer, performer and occultist will be offering tarot readings. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-feb-2/) - Sunday February 2nd, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Screening of "All That Breathes"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-all-that-breathes/) - Tuesday January 28th, 6pm for 6.30pm “Every minute of this Oscar-nominated documentary is gold dust” - The Guardian In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. In "All That Breathes" (2022, 1h 37m) director, director Shaunak Sen (Cities of Sleep) explores the connection between the kites and the brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerising chronicle of inter-species coexistence. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-jan-26/) - Sunday January 26th, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-january-24th/) - Friday January 24th, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual club drinks with free entry and a pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [What Does it Mean to Live a Good Life? Kairos Deep Conversations with Georgie Nightingall](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-does-it-mean-to-live-a-good-life-kairos-deep-conversations-with-georgie-nightingall/) - Thursday January 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for an evening of guided, small-group conversations exploring what it means to live a good life. For our first Kairos Deep Conversations, co-hosted with Georgie Nightingall, we’ll delve into how we define a good life in an era of ecological uncertainty and social transformation. Together, we’ll reflect on the balance between individual freedom and collective responsibility, the role of spirituality, the wisdom of ancient and new economic systems, and how we can rekindle our connection to nature, community, and meaning. Georgie, founder of the Trigger Conversations, is on a mission to intentionally design a more human world through the lost art of human conversation. At this special event, you’ll be offered a Deep Conversation Menu packed with carefully designed reflective questions that connect personal storytelling with big ideas. This is an invitation to think deeply, share openly and spark meaningful change. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-jan-19/) - Sunday January 19th, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-jan-17/) - Friday January 17th, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual club drinks with free entry and a pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [Reviving the Commons: A Unifying Vision for Our Common Wealth with Guy Standing](https://www.kairos.london/event/reviving-the-commons-a-unifying-vision-for-our-common-wealth-with-guy-standing/) - Thursday January 16th, 6.30 for 7pm Could the revival of “the Commons” provide the basis for a new progressive political agenda? What would a radically new form of governance look like that was based on equitable, ecologically-sustainable shared common wealth, and how could we start moving towards it? Throughout 2025, Kairos will be holding a series of discussions focused on the Commons. To launch the series, economist Guy Standing will set out a framework for a Commons perspective. Using education as an example, he will explain what a Commons entails, counter some misconceptions (such as the flawed thinking behind the “tragedy of the commons”) and explore the governance principles required to preserve or revive our Commons. Guy will argue that a new progressive politics should be centred on a revival of the Commons and Commoning and suggest a direction for future discussions. Depending on the development of our conversations over the coming months, one outcome might be the drafting of a modern Charter of the Commons. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-january-12th/) - Sunday January 12th, 12pm-5pm Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Kairos Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-jan-10/) - Friday January 10th, 6.30pm-11pm Our usual club drinks with free entry and a pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food. Club Drinks now takes place every Friday. - [Book Club: "Creation Lake" by Rachel Kushner](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-creation-lake-by-rachel-kushner/) - Wednesday January 8th, 6.30 for 7pm Sadie Smith – a 34-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists led by the charismatic svengali Bruno Lacombe. Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and at first finds Bruno’s idealism laughable – he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But while Sadie is certain that her significant talents are leading her towards a successful resolution, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments and his own tragic story. Creation Lake was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. The judges said: "It’s quite something to wrap a thought-provoking novel of ideas into a page-turning spy thriller, and to achieve a narrative voice that is so audaciously confident – and then subtly undercut it. This is a political novel on many levels: it includes radical leftists, utopianists, a reclusive guru obsessed with neanderthals, the shadowy forces of ruthless capitalism. Through it all Kushner examines how the individual interacts with, and disrupts, ideologies. That could sound dry – but her prose is so juicy, her narrator so jaunty, her worldbuilding so lush, that it’s anything but." - [Kairos Club Drinks: New Years Special](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-club-drinks-new-years-special/) - Friday January 3rd, 6.30pm-11pm From January, Kairos will be open for Club Drinks every Friday. Join us for the first drinks of 2025, a New Year's special. Pay bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails and other drinks as well as food, BYOV (bring your own vinyl) and Blackjack. - [Winter Solstice Celebration](https://www.kairos.london/event/winter-solstice-celebration-2024/) - Friday December 20th, 6.30pm - 11pm A party to mark the passing of the longest night, with a short set of warm and uplifting songs from Gibbon & Goldfinch (aka Marcus Decker and Holly Cullen-Davies), fortune-telling by Kairos's own Sibyl of Cumae, a one-pot vegan supper and cocktails from the pay bar. - [Hit ‘Em Where it Hurts: How to Create an Alternative to Capitalism with Rob Callender](https://www.kairos.london/event/hit-em-where-it-hurts-how-to-create-an-alternative-to-capitalism-with-rob-callender/) - Tuesday December 17th, 6.30 for 7pm How can we start to build a new, sustainable, democratic, community-owned economy? In this immersive workshop – a combination of games and short talks – we’ll discover how debt, money and the capitalist economy really works, and explore the alternatives that are right under our noses. Led by Rob Callender, activist and co-founder of Kin Cooperative - a platform designed to allow communities to bypass the banks and save money together - we’ll see how open-source financial systems, and federations of cooperatives working together, could dramatically reconfigure the economy. As Trump returns to the White House propelled by voters’ lived experience of the economy, how can we build structures that will change that experience, help people to help themselves, and halt the ever-more destructive, anti-democratic path of late-stage capitalism? We know those in power won't do it for us. - [Board Games Social](https://www.kairos.london/event/board-games-social/) - Sunday December 15th, From 6pm Following on from our Games Design Workshop with Matteo Menapace & Max Haiven earlier in the afternoon, we're going to be having a games evening. Come to play games and socialise anytime from 6pm until everyone goes home. Games on offer include Matteo's award-winning climate board game Daybreak Max's soon-to-be-released Billionaires and Guillotines, Scrabble, Chess, Querkle and Backgammon, among others. Entry is free and all are welcome to come and play but it would help our planning if you'd let us know you're coming. There will be a pay bar serving drinks and vegan food. If you'd also like to join the workshop taking place earlier in the afternoon, you can sign up here. - [Games Design Workshop with Matteo Menapace & Max Haiven](https://www.kairos.london/event/games-design-workshop-social-with-matteo-menapace-max-haiven/) - Sunday December 15th, 3 for 3.30pm Games are among humanity’s most ancient technologies. They are not only a tool for having fun, they facilitate learning and transformation, from our earliest childhood and throughout our lives. How can games help us think, feel and act again in the face of the climate emergency? And how can thinking and practicing game design help activists, artists and advocates for climate justice reimagine and renew our approach? With a focus on board games and convivial games (like those played at protests or in small groups), this workshop will offer participants the opportunity to learn about the power of games and design their own. It will be led by Matteo Menapace, co-designer of the award-winning climate board game Daybreak and by Max Haiven, Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination and designer of the forthcoming Billionaires and Guillotines. No special experience is necessary. The workshop will be followed by a Board Games Social from 6pm. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room-december-15/) - Sunday December 15th, 12pm-3pm We're opening again on Sunday for readers to enjoy our newly launched library. Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. Please note that it will be a shorter session this Sunday, as our Games Design Workshop starts at 3pm. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [Winter Solstice Celebration](https://www.kairos.london/event/winter-solstice-celebration/) - Thursday December 21st, 2023 6.30pm-11.00pm A party to mark the passing of the longest night, featuring Sibyl in her cave and other diversions. - [Keeping the World Intact with Hugh Brody](https://www.kairos.london/event/keeping-the-world-intact-with-hugh-brody/) - Tuesday December 10th, 6.30 for 7pm The anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody has spent a lifetime immersed in communities of indigenous peoples of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. In this talk followed by discussion, Hugh will share some stories of, and insights from, the people whose lives he’s been lucky enough to learn from. Those like the Inuit who have lived by keeping the world intact. In Inuit culture, when a child receives a name, it isn’t just a name, but more a form of reincarnation. This speaks to the web of connections the Inuit experience, through time and across the land. Their recognition of these connections leads to knowledge, and ultimately to respect. This is but one example of a system of belief and social life that builds social equality and a sustainable environment. Imperialism has shaped - and continues to shape - our world. Disastrous climate change is its environmental corollary. Indigenous peoples around the world know this all too deeply; they experience the most direct impacts. And they have led the way in resistance. Perhaps the most difficult thing about our moment in history is the force of invasive pessimism. It has become a clouding darkness, a sense of inherent defeat. Understanding very different ways of being in the world - different systems of relating to one another and to all the life we depend on as part of a larger pattern - can provide some seeds of optimism. - [Book Club: "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-orbital-by-samantha-harvey-rescheduled/) - Friday December 6th, 6.30 for 7pm "In this slender novel, Harvey seems to have encompassed all of humanity… It is an extraordinary achievement" - The Observer A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity? This event was originally scheduled for November. - ["The Nightingale's Song" & "Puffling" with Sam Lee & Jessica Bishopp](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-nightingales-song-puffling-with-sam-lee-jessica-bishopp/) - Wednesday December 4th, 6.15 for 6.45pm Double Bill Screening: "Puffling" (20 mins, 2023) followed by "The Nightingale's Song" (40 mins, 2023). "The Nightingale's Song" (by filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for Emergence Magazine) profiles folk singer Sam Lee and his campaign to save a bird on the edge of extinction. Every year in late Spring, Sam leads groups of visitors through the Sussex woods to discover this elusive songbird and experience a magical late night duet as he joins the nightingale in song. Through Sam's devotion to the nightingale, the film explores how deepening our relationship with the living world can inspire care, stewardship, and love. Short documentary "Puffling", directed by Jessica Bishopp, follows teenagers on a remote Icelandic island as they rescue pufflings (young puffins) from imminent danger. As pufflings leave their nests for the first time, they often get lost in town, mistaking the harbour lights for the moon. Over the course of one night, Birta and Selma exchange night-time parties for puffin rescues. A coming-of-age documentary about growing up and making choices, "Puffling" explores the delicate interplay between wildlife, the environment, and human life. The screenings will be followed by supper and discussion with Sam and Jessica (and maybe a song or two). Thank you to Emergence Magazine for their support with this screening. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-4/) - Tuesday December 3rd, 6.30 for 7pm Join us for our regular Open Projects Night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. - [Sunday Reading Room](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-reading-room/) - Sunday December 1st, 12pm-5pm We're experimenting with Sunday opening hours for the newly launched library. Come and browse our books or bring your own, but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. For Sunday Reading Room to become a permanent fixture it will rely on volunteers to supervise the space. If you'd like to get involved you can join the WhatsApp group here or email us at events@kairos.london. - [A New Cosmology: Feeling Our Way into the Imaginal with Ellie Robins](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-new-cosmology-with-ellie-robins/) - Thursday November 28th, 6.30 for 7pm What is imagination? For mystics through the ages, it has meant the capacity to access an expanded field of reality. This expanded dimension—the imaginal realm—is in fact more real than the material world since it is the source and ground for events in the material world. English culture is so entrenched in rationalism that it has long forgotten the existence of that realm. The result? Our current reality of overlapping crises, with a crisis of cosmology at the heart of them all. The leading scientific scholarship tells us that we live in a fundamentally disjointed, irreconcilable universe, tattered by impenetrable dark matter. Little wonder that the future looks so dark. In this talk followed by discussion, independent scholar Ellie Robins will present a cosmology of the imaginal, and trace how English culture has become severed from it. She’ll argue that what we’re missing is the healing, whole-making field that is the imaginal realm, and explore how we might rediscover and deepen our access to it. - [Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (“SAFER”) with Rupert Read - Waiting List Payment Link](https://www.kairos.london/event/strategic-adaptation-for-emergency-resilience-safer-with-rupert-read-waiting-list-payment-link/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IjxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL1wiPkhvbWU8YSAvPiAmZ3Q7IDxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL2V2ZW50c1wiPkFsbCBFdmVudHM8L2E+ICZndDsgIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][et_pb_wc_price _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” - [Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience ("SAFER") with Rupert Read](https://www.kairos.london/event/strategic-adaptation-for-emergency-resilience-with-rupert-read/) - Tuesday November 26th, 6.30 for 7pm We are deep into the danger zone and about to go much deeper. The meta-crisis - of which the climate crisis is merely the leading edge - is already upon us. It will increasingly define the rest of our lives and the lives of those who come after us. While awareness of this is growing, it has yet to break through. Meanwhile, in many crisis-aware circles the fantasy persists that we can still call a halt to climate breakdown: admitting that we need to get serious about adaptation is seen as tantamount to ‘giving up’. As we break through the 1.5 degrees guardrail, with devastating hurricanes across the Atlantic, deadly flooding in Spain and unprecedented rainfall here in the UK - and after what will almost certainly be another failed COP - Rupert Read, co-director of the Climate Majority Project, will argue it’s time to shift our focus to preparedness. With its new campaign Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience, "SAFER", the CMP is calling for an end to the delusion that our current civilisation has a future. By instead embracing a spirit of transformative and strategic adaptation we could, even now, co-create a new civilisation. This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list email events@kairos.london - [A New Cosmology: Feeling Our Way into the Imaginal with Ellie Robins - Waiting List Payment Link](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-new-cosmology-feeling-our-way-into-the-imaginal-with-ellie-robins-waiting-list-payment-link/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IjxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL1wiPkhvbWU8YSAvPiAmZ3Q7IDxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL2V2ZW50c1wiPkFsbCBFdmVudHM8L2E+ICZndDsgIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][et_pb_wc_price _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” - [Kairos at the Idler Festival](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-at-the-idler-festival-2/) - Friday July 7th - Sunday July 9th Kairos will at The Idler Festival, taking place at Fenton House, Hampstead. Visit our gazebo in the orchard for inspiring conversation, free vegan biscuits, a selection of books from our library and a collaborative making project. See the full line up and book festival tickets via the Idler's website - [Sewing Circle](https://www.kairos.london/event/sewing-circle/) - Thursday November 21st, 7-10pm After a short break, our Sewing Circle is back. Bring your moth hole repairs, clothes alterations, and other sewing projects. You can also contribute to a collective craft project. - [Podcast Recording of “What Do We Want?: The Pleasures of Activism"](https://www.kairos.london/event/podcast-recording-what-do-we-want-the-pleasures-of-activism/) - Saturday November 16th, 3.30 for 4pm As part of our Changing Hearts & Minds workshop, we're hosting the live recording of an episode of the podcast What Do We Want?, with workshop hosts Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven and guests Martha Awojobi, Sita Balani and Zrinka Bralo. For this episode of their brand new spicy-nerdy podcast, co-hosts Max and Sarah take on their most salacious topic yet: pleasure. Should activism be fun, or is that bourgeois? Should comrades sleep with one another, or should we somehow try (and probably fail) to stop that? Will there be dancing in our revolution, and if so will we all know the steps? And what, after all, could be more fun than a five-hour meeting about group process? We’re often told our struggles will flop if we don’t make them more joyful and pleasurable. We lose so many comrades to burnout. But is the answer to embrace pleasure activism? And what about the troubling pleasures we’re less comfortable talking about, like gossip and righteousness? Joined by jaded special guests (who've seen it all) and prompted by anonymous confessions and questions from those in attendance (“asking for a comrade”), Sarah and Max will create a safe space for everyone but themselves. - [Kairos Club Drinks & Mixer](https://www.kairos.london/event/club-drinks-4/) - Friday November 15th, 6.30pm-11pm We now have an alcohol licence and the bar will be open! Those taking part in the Hearts and Minds workshop, students at the New School of the Anthropocene (also meeting at Kairos on this day), anyone involved with a radical London space, Kairos regulars and the Kairos curious - all are welcome! - [Max Haiven Waiting List - Payment Link](https://www.kairos.london/event/max-haiven-waiting-list-payment-link/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IjxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL1wiPkhvbWU8YSAvPiAmZ3Q7IDxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL2V2ZW50c1wiPkFsbCBFdmVudHM8L2E+ICZndDsgIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][et_pb_wc_price _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” - [What Can We Learn from the Radical Imagination? with Max Haiven](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-can-we-learn-from-the-radical-imagination-with-max-haiven/) - Thursday November 14th, 6.30 for 7pm The radical imagination is the force that allows us to envision and fight for different worlds. It is an essential part of successful struggles. While we often assume it's what inspires struggle, the opposite is also true: it is when people struggle, together, to refuse intolerable conditions that the radical imagination sparks and reshapes the world. The radical imagination can seem like a wooly, romantic concept until we recognise how deep a role the imagination plays in everyday life, not only as something that animates the creative spirit but a fundamental quality of our social minds as members of a cooperative species. In this talk with discussion, Max Haiven, social theorist, organiser and co-author of The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, will explore what's happened to the radical imagination in recent years, as seen in the uprising against the ongoing climate emergency, the resurgence of the far right, the cursed gift of social media and the rise of a global anti-colonial movement focused on the liberation of Palestine. Drawing on a wide range of examples from activism and art, Max will explore how the radical imagination can be “convoked” or called into being through acts of solidarity and collective creativity. This event is now fully booked. 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Perhaps too much. The question that preoccupies her is “if it is the end of the world (or at least the end of the world as we have known it) what kind of people are needed? And how, exactly, do we become those people, given that panic, tribalism and self-protection come more easily? In this talk followed by discussion, Elizabeth, author of "Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times" and host of The Sacred podcast, will argue that most ancient wisdom paths - particularly Christianity - have thought a lot about these questions, and offer some long forgotten medicine for the ills of our age. - [Changing Hearts & Minds with Sense and Solidarity](https://www.kairos.london/event/changing-hearts-minds-with-sense-and-solidarity/) - Thursday November 14th - Sunday November 17th Why are so many people apathetic and defeated? How can we bring more people into our movements? Why do we burn out, fall apart and split? (And can we avoid it?) Join us for a three and a half day workshop with Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven of Sense and Solidarity, and grapple with some of the toughest challenges in organising and activism. Using Sense and Solidarity’s signature mix of psychological insight, radical imagination and strategy, we’ll explore how to make best use of our limited resources, overcome fear and factionalism, build solidarity and mobilise others. We have a maximum of 25 spaces for this event, which will include a mix of succinct lectures, focused seminar-style discussions, experience sharing, creative exercises and role-play. Together, we’ll learn what does and does not change people’s minds (hint: actions over words), how to be strategic about whose hearts and minds we want to change (it can’t be everyone); how and when activism can provide a welcoming community (and when it shouldn't); how to disrupt and divide our opponents; and much much more. Last few places. - [Word-Making Salon with the Bureau of Linguistical Reality](https://www.kairos.london/event/word-making-salon-with-the-bureau-of-linguistical-reality/) - Friday November 8th, 6.30 for 7pm The rapidly unfolding polycrisis has outpaced our ability to describe it. There are no words to communicate so many of the emotions, ideas and situations we're now grappling with. How can we make the major cultural shifts required without the language with which to share our experiences, formulate new ideas and shape the collective imagination? The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a public participatory artwork by artists Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante. Since 2014, it has been collaborating with people around the world to create a global lexicon that can help us better understand our rapidly changing world. In this Kairos one-off, cross-continental, word-making salon, Alicia and Heidi will describe the development of the Bureau and share some of the words already in the lexicon (eg psychic corpus dissonance, NonnaPaura, Ennuipocalypse, tralfamidorification) before working with us to create more of the new words we need. - [Library Celebration with Drinks & Readings](https://www.kairos.london/event/library-celebration-with-drinks-and-readings/) - Wednesday November 6th, 6.30pm-10.30pm We're celebrating the launch of our library with an evening of drinks and shared readings from the books that have most influenced us. Is there a book that has changed your thinking, helped clarify your understanding of this moment, or opened up new possibilities for you? If so, and if you'd like to read a short passage from it, please email events@kairos.london. All are welcome to propose a reading, or just come along to listen and meet other bibliophiles. - [Special Library Opening Hours](https://www.kairos.london/event/library-open-hours-all-week/) - Monday November 4th - Friday November 8th, 10am-5pm To mark the launch of the Kairos library, we'll be open every day this week for anyone who'd like to come and read in our space. Browse our books or bring your own but please no laptops, kindles, smartphones or other electronic devices. - [A Peasant Revolt & A Vision for the Commons with Peter Sahlins](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-peasant-revolt-a-vision-for-the-commons-with-peter-sahlins/) - Wednesday October 30th, 6.30 for 7pm In May 1829, strange reports surfaced from the Ariège department in the French Pyrenees: young male peasants, bizarrely dressed in women’s clothes, were gathering in the forests at night to chase away state forest guards and employees of ironworks. This was the raucous “War of the Demoiselles” (the Maiden’s War), a protest against the national French Forest Code of 1827 that restricted peasants’ use of the forests. In this talk, historian Peter Sahlins will reflect on this long-forgotten episode and its relevance to today’s challenges of climate breakdown, social justice and access to the Commons. As Peter describes in his book “Forest Rites” (1994), The Maiden’s War was not simply an archaic, primitive outburst of a vanishing peasant community, but a sophisticated response to capitalism, state-building, and environmental degradation in the nineteenth century. Drawing on theories of popular protest developed by Eric Hobsbawm, E.P. Thompson, Natalie Davis about others, Peter will place the Maidens War within an animist peasant cosmology that structured local approaches to forest management, while reframing the story of carnival in relation to popular sovereignty. In the discussion following his talk, he will invite reflections on the relevance of history to our current struggle to find equitable social responses to environmental degradation. - [Dougald Hine Waiting List - Payment Link](https://www.kairos.london/event/dougald-hine-waiting-list-payment-link/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IjxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL1wiPkhvbWU8YSAvPiAmZ3Q7IDxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL2V2ZW50c1wiPkFsbCBFdmVudHM8L2E+ICZndDsgIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][et_pb_wc_price _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” - [Worlds Worth Living For with Dougald Hine](https://www.kairos.london/event/worlds-worth-living-for-with-dougald-hine/) - Tuesday October 29th, 6.30 for 7pm In his book, "At Work in the Ruins", Dougald Hine lays out a choice that is often hidden behind the ways we talk about climate change: are we working for the big path, the attempt to secure and (somehow) make sustainable the promises of growth, progress and development which have been at the heart of the story modern societies tell about themselves? Or are we turning towards the small path, the set of branching paths that lead beyond the failure of these promises, working to create the conditions of possibility for “worlds worth living for”, on the far side of the end of the world as we thought we knew it? In this talk with discussion, Dougald will explore the conversations the book has led him into and share his latest thinking. Together we'll discuss how to release resources from existing systems so as to contribute to the work of the small path, the examples of new cultural and economic practices in which Dougald is finding clues for what comes next – and how we might scale these out, without falling into the traps that often accompany attempts at scaling up. This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list email events@kairos.london. - [A Warm Data Lab with Emily Stewart](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-warm-data-lab-with-emily-stewart/) - Thursday October 24th, 6 for 6.30pm The world we share is complex, constantly changing and alive. Yet in facing interwoven challenges we can sometimes be left feeling simultaneously over- and under- whelmed. How do we meet (not match) the situations we find ourselves in? How can we unstick each other from the roles we play? While there can be no straightforward solutions, learning to rigorously pay attention to our senses and our relationships with one another, and being curious about the underlying patterns that connect what we can't see, is vital in creating the conditions for a healthier future for all of us. With this awareness, we can shape responses to effectively meet the complexity around us. Without it, we often enact simple responses to complex challenges which in turn create their own problems and stuck-ness. Warm Data Labs - as conceived by Nora Bateson, filmmaker, educator and President of the International Bateson Institute - are immersive group processes which highlight interdependency and generate felt understanding and perception of living systemic patterns. By tending to what is moving and alive, we can create space for new responses to complex challenges. After all, is it possible to truly respond to the living world without information that is also alive? - [Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World with Ian Scoones](https://www.kairos.london/event/navigating-uncertainty-radical-rethinking-for-a-turbulent-world-with-ian-scoones/) - Tuesday October 22nd, 6.30 for 7pm Faced with an increasingly unpredictable world, we need to adjust our modernist, controlling mindset and learn how to live with uncertainty. With changes to our climate, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks and new technologies, uncertainty is everywhere making the future ever less knowable. Learning to navigate uncertainty will be essential as we respond to these and other challenges. In this talk, Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies and author of Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World will argue we need to learn from those who live with, and from, uncertainty every day and to find new approaches, including ones reclaimed and adapted from other times and cultures. Drawing on experiences from across the world, Ian will explore themes of finance and banking, technology regulation, critical infrastructures, pandemics, natural disasters and climate change. He will contrast an approach centred on risk and control - where we assume we know about and can manage the future - with one that is more flexible and capable of, responding to uncertainty. This will require a radical rethinking of policies, institutions and practices if we are to successfully navigate uncertainties in an increasingly turbulent world. - [Book Club: "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-orbital-by-samantha-harvey/) - Friday November 1st, 6.30 for 7pm "In this slender novel, Harvey seems to have encompassed all of humanity… It is an extraordinary achievement" - The Observer A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity? - [Kent Day Walk & Visit to DARES](https://www.kairos.london/event/kent-day-walk-with-a-visit-to-dares/) - Saturday October 19th, 10.30am-4.30pm approx As part of a new series exploring experiments in community building, we'll be combining a walk through the Kent countryside with a visit to DARES. Located within a rewilded corner of Kent, DARES is a meeting place where activists from diverse groups can come to come together to rest and cross-pollinate ideas. Since 2023, DARES has been led by a core team of 10-20 people, alongside a wider community of part-time visitors and remote advocates, with a dedicated group that lives on-site, tending to the land, local wildlife, and the experiences of the visitors that come through. In the morning, we'll take the train to Cowden (approx 1 hour from London Bridge) and hike to DARES where we'll stop for lunch and learn more about the project. We'll then hike to Hever in the afternoon where we'll catch the train back to London. There will be a total of four to five hours walking time at a brisk pace, so you'll need a good level of fitness. - [Screening of "The Square" with Nihal El Aasar](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-the-square-with-nihal-el-aasar/) - Thursday October 17th, 6 for 6.30pm Documentary The Square ("Al-Maydan", 2013, 1hr 48mins, dir:Jehane Noujaim) follows the Egyptian revolution through the eyes of a number of activists on the ground. Taking as its starting point the 2011 resignation of Hosni Mubarak after mass protests in Tahrir Square, it charts the subsequent political manoeuvring by the Muslim Brotherhood, the election of president Mohammed Morsi and Morsi’s removal by the army in 2013. The film shows both how popular protest can achieve extraordinary results and how entrenched power will seek to hijack mass movements for its own ends. Following the screening and a break for supper, Egyptian writer and researcher Nihal El Aasar will lead a discussion on the lessons the Egyptian revolution holds for the climate and other mass movements today. - [Book Club: "At Work in the Ruins" by Dougald Hine](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-at-work-in-the-ruins-by-dougald-hine/) - Friday October 4th, 6.30 for 7pm "One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books…Essential reading for these turbulent times." - Amitav Ghosh In anticipation of Dougald Hine's forthcoming Kairos talk, for our next meeting we're reading "At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies". Dougald, environmental thinker, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and co-host of "The Great Humbling" podcast, had spent most of his life talking to people about climate change. And then one afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, he found he had nothing left to say. Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological destruction want to stop talking about climate change now? - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-3/) - Tuesday October 1st Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm Join us for our regular Open Projects Night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. - [Screening of "Join or Die" with Sarah Stein Lubrano](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-join-or-die/) - Wednesday September 4th, 6 for 6.30pm Robert Putnam is one of the last century’s most famous sociologists. His hugely influential work "Bowling Alone" has been taught across the globe. He argues that democracies are failing because of a loss of “social capital”: the social bonds of civil society and all the value they carry. His work inspired a generation of civically minded Americans to take action, and shaped the policies of the White House and beyond. Yet in the last 25 years the problem of weakening social capital has only become worse. This newly released documentary "Join or Die" (2023, 99 mins, dir Rebecca Davis & Pete Davis) profiles Robert Putnam and his work, focusing on six community groups working to revitalise American civic life. In the film, Putnam challenges Americans to join a club or else see their democracy perish. But if this individualistic and moralistic cry hasn’t worked before, with all the power of the American Presidency behind it, why would it work now? And what, besides joining clubs, might actually work to rebuild democratic life? Sarah Stein Lubrano, whose own work draws on and challenges Putnam’s ideas, will provide commentary on the film, before hosting a guided discussion about what we might all wish to do in an age of dangerously fraying social fabric and weakened democratic life. - [Walking the London Martyr’s Way, a Pilgrimage with Guy Hayward](https://www.kairos.london/event/walking-the-london-martyrs-way-a-pilgrimage-with-guy-hayward/) - Thursday August 29th, 9.30am-2pm Join us on a pilgrimage walk from Tower Hill to Smithfield Market, "The London Martyr's Way". Led by Guy Hayward of the British Pilgrimage Trust, we’ll learn about the men and women who, on these familiar streets, were ready to pay the ultimate price for their beliefs: Catholics persecuted by Protestants, Protestants by Catholics, believers by non-believers, kings by invaders, and people who sacrificed their lives for others. We’ll walk in honour of those historic martyrs whose ends may have led to an abhorrence of persecution, and tolerance towards the expression of opposing and seemingly offensive views. We’ll visit the monuments raised to celebrate their courage, churches constructed around their memory, sculptures dedicated to self-sacrifice and sites of pilgrimage and prayer. Much of the route, also known as "The Way of Tolerance and Strength", will follow the actual journey taken by the condemned on their way from the Tower to various places of execution, including Smithfield, where our pilgrimage will end. We’ll then take the tube to Kairos where lunch will be provided. - [August Movie Nights: "Embrace of the Serpent"](https://www.kairos.london/event/august-movie-nights-embrace-of-the-serpent/) - Wednesday August 28th, 6pm for 6.30pm As part of our August Movie Nights series, we're screening "Embrace of the Serpent" (2hr 5mins, 2015) by Colombian director Ciro Guerra. The film follows the journeys of an Amazonian shaman, the last survivor of his people, first with a German ethnographer, and forty years later with an American botanist, as they search for a sacred healing plant. From Mark Kermode's five star review in the Guardian: "This extraordinary, hypnotic work...seems at first glance to be a dreamy inversion of the themes of Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, turning a generic heart of darkness into a crucible of light, as seen from the perspective of indigenous Amazonian tribespeople. "Mixing fact and fiction in fable-like fashion, Guerra’s third feature (which secured Colombia’s first Oscar nomination for best foreign language film) offers both a bold indictment of colonial imperialism and a powerful celebration of disappearing cultures...Guerra’s honest, impassioned, inventive film coils itself around its audience in a transcendent cinematic embrace." https://youtu.be/4ff7TcnqHUc?si=MvQG2NQwAgHQZAmp - [August Movie Nights: "Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000"](https://www.kairos.london/event/august-movie-nights-jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000/) - Wednesday August 14th, 6pm for 6.30pm As part of our August Movie Nights series, we're screening "Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000" (1hr 50mins, 1976) by Swiss new wave director Alain Tanner. Set in Geneva, with a screenplay by Tanner and the English novelist and critic John Berger, the film is a "witty and cerebrally playful" portrait of eight characters - a copy editor, a rural worker, a teacher and a supermarket cashier - as they navigate the constraints of capitalism and attempt to hold onto the ideals of 1968. With its “warm and vivid” view of its characters, “Jonas Qui Aura 25 Ans en l’An 2000” is "that rare species, a polemical comedy" (The Guardian). The film’s "gentle, unhectoring attitude to the future" (BFI) brought it international acclaim and sets it apart from other better known films of the time exploring similar territory. - [Kairos Sewing Club: Day-Long Drop-In](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-sewing-club-daylong-drop-in/) - Wednesday August 7th, midday - 9.30pm Bring your sewing projects and join us for a day-long sewing get together. Entry is free, but a donation to cover our costs would be most appreciated. There will be tea and coffee and soup and bread for sale. We have a sewing machine and some basic tools but you will need to bring your own cloth and any other materials you need. - [August Movie Nights: "Neptune Frost"](https://www.kairos.london/event/august-movie-nights-neptune-frost/) - Tuesday August 6th, 6pm for 6.30pm As part of our August Movie Nights series we're screening "Neptune Frost", an Afrofuturist, sci-fi punk musical directed by musician Saul Williams and Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman. "Neptune Frost" (2022, 1hr 50mins) takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources, and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Film-makers description: "Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonised and free, male and female, memory and prescience – "Neptune Frost" is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends." From the Guardian review: “Exhilarating, dazzling inventive...a denunciation of the western techno-centric order....Conveying its indignation in oblique poetic outpourings and songs that switch freely between Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French and English, it tirelessly calls everything into question: sexual identity, western hegemony, whether technology is a substitute for action." - [August Movie Nights: "This Is Not a Film" by Jafar Panahi](https://www.kairos.london/event/august-movie-nights-this-is-not-a-film/) - Thursday August 1st, 6.30 for 7pm As part of our August Movie Nights series, we’re screening "This Is Not a Film" by Iranian director and pro-democracy activist Jafar Panahi (2011, 1hr 15mins). Banned from film-making for 20 years by the Iranian regime and under house arrest as he appeals a six year prison sentence, Panahi recruits a friend to film him planning the movie he should have been making. "This Is Not a Film" is an extraordinary study in the art of cinema, creativity in resistance and defiance against repression. It was first shown at the 2011 Cannes Festival after being smuggled out of Iran in a cake. After the screening we’ll eat supper together and informally discuss the film. If you have a suggestion for a film that fits the Kairos programme that you think we should screen as part of our August Movie Nights series, please email zoe@Kairos.London. https://youtu.be/AgZy00svH08?si=YIkf15u4_pbTBQGo Read the Guardian's five star review. - [Book Club: "Pod" by Laline Paull](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-pod-by-laline-paull/) - Friday July 26th, 6.30 for 7pm "Laline Paull succeeds splendidly in rising to the most important literary challenge of our time - restoring voice and agency to other-than-human beings" - Amitav Ghosh Publisher's description: Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world—its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies—that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race. Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinner dolphin who has recently come of age, she's now expected to join in the elaborate rituals that unite her pod. But Ea suffers from a type of deafness that prevents her from mastering the art of spinning. When catastrophe befalls her family and Ea knows she is partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave the pod. As Ea ventures into the vast, she discovers dangers everywhere, from lurking predators to strange objects floating in the water. Not to mention the ocean itself seems to be changing; creatures are mutating, demonic noises pierce the depths, whole species of fish disappear into the sky above. Just as she is coming to terms with her solitude, a chance encounter with a group of arrogant bottlenoses will irrevocably alter the course of her life. In her terrifying, propulsive novel, Laline Paull explores the true meaning of family, belonging, sacrifice—the harmony and tragedy of the pod—within an ocean that is no longer the sanctuary it once was, and which reflects a world all too recognizable to our own. - [Cognitive Dissonance: Living in a World of Contradictions with Sarah Stein Lubrano](https://www.kairos.london/event/cognitive-dissonance-a-world-of-contradictions-with-sarah-stein-lubrano/) - Tuesday July 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm Why do people believe false or harmful things about the political and social world, even when faced with a wealth of evidence to the contrary? Why is this kind of thinking especially prevalent in the world of politics? And what does it do to all of us, psychically, when we are structurally set up to live in a world of contradictions? Cognitive dissonance refers to the discomfort we feel when we notice a contradiction between two or more of our beliefs or actions, even unconsciously. If you fly on planes or eat animals even when aware of the negative consequences, you have experienced dissonance firsthand. In this interactive talk and salon, researcher Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano (University of Oxford, the Sense and Solidarity Initiative, Future Narratives Lab) will present her research on dissonance and political thought and outline how this line of research helps us understand some of the recent "bonkers"-ness of our current political moment. She'll share about the history of dissonance theory as it was "discovered" in an apocalyptic alien cult, the reasons dissonance is more common in political areas, and techniques that can sometimes help people navigate dissonance with greater cognitive flexibility. Together, we'll also think about the ways that ideological beliefs and behaviours "make use" of dissonance and what this means both for trying to persuade those caught in harmful ideologies and in crafting our own political movements and messages. Finally, there will be time not only to ask questions but to discuss, with others, the way dissonance might be at work in our own lives and movements. Come as you are, with all your contradictions and complexities! - [Planetarity: Some Tools for Thinking About the Earth with Tim Waterman](https://www.kairos.london/event/planetarity-some-tools-for-thinking-about-the-earth-with-tim-waterman/) - Tuesday July 16th, 6.30 for 7pm How can we replace the neo-liberal idea of “globalisation” with other ways of thinking about global connectedness and our place in the world? Tim Waterman, professor of landscape at the Bartlett and author of The Landscape of Utopia, will present some new tools to help us reimagine “planetarity”: earthliness, worldliness, and globality. His talk will take in maps and Utopia, colonialism and protest, enclosure and the commons, as well as the romantic and the poetic as different ways of thinking about the planetary. He’ll also discuss the notion of “double consciousness”, a term first used in 1903 by WEB Du Bois to describe how Black Americans were forced to see the world and themselves through the eyes of a white supremacist society. This double consciousness also applies to our contradictory experience of the natural world. Landscapes, transformed by colonialism and imperialism both past and present, are where power and financial relationships are played out on a global level. Yet at the same time they are also the setting of everyday lives and everyday experience. Tim's talk will offer fresh insights for anyone trying to find alternative ways of conceiving, working with, caring for and "commoning" our Earth, while grappling with the predicament of climate and nature breakdown. - [History for Tomorrow with Roman Krznaric](https://www.kairos.london/event/history-for-tomorrow-with-roman-krznaric/) - Thursday July 11th, 6.30 for 7pm ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past’ – Māori proverb As humanity faces a future of uncertainty, we would be wise to look backwards as we seek to chart a way forwards. What can history teach us about the power of rebellion to tackle the climate and nature crisis? How might understanding the origins of capitalism spark ideas for bringing AI under control? What could we learn from eighteenth century Japan for creating regenerative economies today, or from Europe’s forgotten Islamic kingdom for nurturing cultures of tolerance? In this talk, based around his new book History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity (and also drawing on ideas from his previous book The Good Ancestor), Roman Krznaric, social philosopher and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, will offer some fascinating insights from the last 1000 years of world history that could help us confront the most urgent challenges of the twenty-first century. Roman will show how, time and again, societies have risen up, often against the odds, to overcome crises and fight injustices. History offers a vision of radical hope that could turn out to be our most vital tool for surviving and thriving in the turbulent decades ahead. - [Workshop: Everyday Democracy with Dr Sophie Scott-Brown & Pippa Evans](https://www.kairos.london/event/everyday-democracy-workshop-with-dr-sophie-scott-brown-pippa-evans/) - Saturday July 13th, 9.15am - 5pm Democracy is the art of dealing with difference - but how often have you been stuck in a meeting, an argument, a class, a workplace where everyone just wants their way and no one is listening? Join us for a free, day-long workshop which will explore how to transform conflict into social creativity. Chaired by historian and philosopher of radical democratic practice, Sophie Scott-Brown, with improvisation artist Pippa Evans, and support from Open Society Foundations, thi s session will provide you with a suite of techniques to build your confidence in unlocking collective energies.Entry is free for all participants with food and drinks provided. Support for travel expenses also available. Advance registration essential. - [Rewild the Rich! How to Take Back our Countryside with Joel Scott-Halkes](https://www.kairos.london/event/rewild-the-rich-how-to-take-back-our-countryside-with-joel-scott-halkes-rescheduled/) - Tuesday June 18th, 6.30 for 7pm The British countryside is dying. Pollinator numbers are falling, ecosystems are collapsing and species are dying out fast. But how can this be happening in a nation of nature lovers? The answer is simple: Everyday citizens like us have lost control over the land we love. With 50% of Britain owned by less than 1% of its population it is aristocrats, royalty, corporations and large institutions who now decide the future of our landscapes. This puts us in a truly precarious position. As we stare down the barrel of the climate and nature emergency, we find ourselves with no democratic control over our most important environmental resource: land. In this politically and ecologically charged talk, Joel, who co-founded the Wild Card campaign, will take a deep dive into the practice of rewilding, the astonishing mismanagement of our countryside by private landowners and the ambitious but practical ways we, as citizens, can take back our land. From radically democratising the UK’s huge areas of common land to executing “citizen take overs” of the UK’s big institutional landowners like The Church and National Trust, Joel will lay down a route map for a wilder and fairer Britain. - [Screening of "The Grab"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-the-grab/) - Wednesday July 3rd, 6pm for 6.30pm "The big story of the 21st century: Is this the most shocking documentary of the year?" - Guardian review National governments, financial investors and private security forces are covertly taking control of the world's food and water resources in anticipation of future climate shocks. Newly released documentary “The Grab” (1hr 42mins, dir:Gabriela Cowperthwaite) follows investigative journalist Nate Halverson over a six year period as he uncovers the pattern, from Saudi Arabia's acquisition of aquifers in Arizona, to Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the displacement of Zambian farmers by private security firms. - [Cultural Atlas of Solidarity with Vali Mahlouji](https://www.kairos.london/event/cultural-atlas-of-solidarity-with-vali-mahlouji/) - Tuesday June 25th, 6.30 for 7pm How have artists historically come together to create new spaces of resistance and how might they inspire us today? Could the sense of international solidarity currently building around Palestine suggest a way forward? Vali Mahlouji is a curator, art historian and founder of not-for-profit platform Archeology of the Final Decade. - [Midsummer Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/midsummer-club-drinks/) - Thursday June 20th, 6.30pm-11pm Summer is finally here. Join us for midsummer drinks at 84 Tottenham Court Road. Free Bellinis between 6.30 and 7.30pm Then bring your own bottle (our licence hasn't come through yet) + "Happiness Soup" for sale No booking required, but if you'd like to tell us you're coming that would help with our planning. - [Kairos at the Idler Festival](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-at-the-idler-festival/) - Friday July 5th - Sunday July 7th Kairos will be at The Idler Festival, taking place at Fenton House, Hampstead. Visit our gazebo in the orchard for inspiring conversation, free vegan biscuits, a selection of books from our library and a collaborative making project. See the full line up and book festival tickets via the Idler's website - [Book Club: "God, Human, Animal, Machine" by Meghan O'Gieblyn](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-god-human-animal-machine-by-meghan-ogieblyn/) - Friday June 14th, 6.30 for 7pm This month we're reading God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn. Publishers description: "For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes’s division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O’Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering." - [The Hole Story, a Workshop with Toby Litt](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-hole-story-a-workshop-with-toby-litt/) - Thursday June 13th, 6pm for 6.30pm We regret that we're having to postpone Toby Litt's workshop. We'll announce a new date when we have it. Please accept our apologies. If you've already booked a ticket you will receive a refund. As part of our series on fiction and the imagination, writer Toby Litt is returning to Kairos to host a workshop on creating imaginary worlds. Participants will continue a story Toby has started, in which a group of people have fallen down a seemingly never-ending hole. Everyone will then be invited to read their work, which will also be compiled in a book displayed in the Kairos Library. - [Imagining Futures with Sandra Newman](https://www.kairos.london/event/imagining-futures-with-sandra-newman/) - Tuesday June 11th, 6.30 for 7pm As part of our series on fiction and imagination, US-based writer Sandra Newman will be in the UK and at Kairos to discuss how stories can transform the world. Drawing on her own novels - The Men, an exploration of male power and environmental destruction, and The Heavens, a study of utopia and dystopia – Sandra will talk about whether the stories we tell can determine what will happen in reality, and how we can use imagination to enable a different world. - [Facing the Unthinkable with Stephen Markley](https://www.kairos.london/event/facing-the-unthinkable-with-stephen-markley/) - Saturday June 8th, 4pm for 4.30pm As part of our series on fiction and the imagination, Stephen Markley, American journalist and fiction writer, and author of "The Deluge" will talk about the role of fiction in helping us face the unthinkable. - [Voluntary Human Extinction is Not the Answer with Ben Ware](https://www.kairos.london/event/voluntary-human-extinction-is-not-the-answer-with-ben-ware/) - Thursday June 6th, 6.30 for 7pm In his latest book, On Extinction: Beginning Again at the End, philosopher and social theorist Ben Ware explores what it might mean - in our current moment of crisis and catastrophe - to re-think our sense of what it is to be human. For this talk, Ben will focus on anti-natalism: the idea that the human species is morally obligated to bring about its own extinction by refusing to procreate. In the ecological variant of this position, voluntary human extinction is considered necessary in order to protect nature. Ben will examine the rich intellectual history of the anti-natalist position, before going on to make a number of philosophical and psychoanalytic criticisms of it. He will put forward an alternative vision to what he sees as the specific Western pathology of species shame, arguing that our aim should not be simply to avert the worst, but rather to collectively re-find ourselves in the midst of catastrophe itself. - [The Fossil States of the Earth with Mohamed Amer Meziane](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-fossil-states-of-the-earth-with-mohamed-amer-meziane/) - Wednesday June 5th, 6.30 for 7pm Philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane, assistant professor at Brown University, will be in London and at Kairos to discuss his recently translated book The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization and his notion of the Secularocene. "By weaving unprecedented links between secularization, colonization and ecological catastrophe, Mohamed Amer Meziane lays the foundations of a work that is likely to open up radically new, and perhaps even revolutionary, horizons of thought." Hors-série Mohamed will also discuss his latest thinking - a critique of the Western climate movement's embrace of animism. - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night-2/) - Tuesday June 4th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm Following the success of our first event, we're holding our second Open Projects Night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, and a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together. - [Women and the Climate Emergency with Natasha Walter & Trudi Warner](https://www.kairos.london/event/women-and-the-climate-emergency-with-natasha-walter-trudi-warner/) - Thursday May 23rd, 6.30 for 7pm We often hear that women suffer more at times of climate disaster and that women are more active than men in environmental movements. Why is this, and how can we ensure a safer, more equal future for women and the planet? In this small, facilitated group discussion we'll talk about whether being a woman in a patriarchal world influences our relationship to the environment; about women’s role in the current climate movement; our hopes for climate justice; the opportunities and challenges in building solidarity with other women; and other issues that arise. This event is for women, trans women and nonbinary people. We will be limiting numbers in order to encourage open and meaningful discussion. - [A State-Driven Energy Transition with Brett Christophers](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-state-driven-energy-transition-with-brett-christophers/) - Tuesday May 21st, 6.30 for 7pm In his most recent book, The Price is Wrong, Brett Christophers argues that the current reliance on capitalist markets to lead the transition out of fossil fuels is wrong-headed and destined to fail. In this talk, Brett, Professor of Economic Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden, will set out an alternative vision, exploring what immediate, large-scale government intervention could look like. He’ll discuss the relationship between the control of fossil fuel power and geo-political power, and how grassroots-led renewable energy projects could help undermine the stranglehold of big oil. And since renewables create their own set of problems in terms of extractivism and nature depletion, he’ll also ask how we can start to reduce our energy consumption at scale. - [Knepp Transport Payment Link](https://www.kairos.london/event/knepp-transport-payment-link/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.2″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _dynamic_attributes=”content” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90aXRsZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7ImJlZm9yZSI6IjxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL1wiPkhvbWU8YSAvPiAmZ3Q7IDxhIGhyZWY9XCJodHRwczovL3d3dy5rYWlyb3MubG9uZG9uL2V2ZW50c1wiPkFsbCBFdmVudHM8L2E+ICZndDsgIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][et_pb_wc_price _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” - [What Happens Next? with George Marshall](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-happens-next-with-george-marshall/) - Thursday May 16th, 6.30 for 7pm How will we really respond when the climate breaks down? By mid-century, climate impacts will be severe and unrelenting and we will need to cope with this trauma combined with the cultural processing of blame and responsibility. Government and business policy, IPCC scenarios and Integrated Assessment Models are predicated on the assumption that our responses to climate breakdown will be coherent and rational. George Marshall - co-founder of Climate Outreach and author of Don’t Even Think About It: Why our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change - disagrees. George will share research drawing on sociology, psychology and history, as well as work with academics from across disciplines to explore different possible responses. These range from collaboration, innovation, adaptive coping, opportunist competition, through denial, distraction, blame and scapegoating. He will also share his own fieldwork on ways to create a cross societal mandate for climate action and explore the possibility that we may discover something entirely new about humanity and our future direction. - [Both/And: The Climate Majority Project & the Radical Flank](https://www.kairos.london/event/both-and-the-climate-majority-the-radical-flank/) - Tuesday May 14th, 6.30 for 7pm This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list email events@kairos.london with the subject heading "Both/And Waiting List". For the first in a new series exploring the common ground between two apparently differing positions, we're focusing on UK climate activism. What are the points of disagreement between the moderate and radical wings of the movement and how can they be overcome or navigated in order to build solidarity? With Rupert Read (the Climate Majority Project), Sarah Lunnon (Just Stop Oil) Clare Farrell (the Humanity Project) Jessica Townsend (MP Watch) Daze Aghaji (Hard Art), Laurie Laybourn, Simon Bramwell and others. - [Day Walk across Knepp Wildland](https://www.kairos.london/event/day-walk-across-knepp-wildland/) - Saturday May 11th, 10.30am-4.30pm The Knepp Wildland is a 3,500 acre rewilding project in Sussex, now 20 years old. Formerly conventional farmland, the Kneppe estate is now a dynamic ecosystem, home to endangered species such as nightingales, turtle doves and purple emperor butterflies as well as herds of old English longhorn cattle, Tamworth pigs, Exmoor ponies and red and fallow deer. Join us for a walk across the Knepp estate led by Helen Locke of XR Walkers. We'll take a manageable 6.5 mile route along the public footpaths (a total of about three hours walking) with breaks to observe the wildlife and detours to visit the various treehouses - to spot stork nests and for views across the estate -, the bird hide and the castle ruins. We'll also take a break for lunch. - [Finding Existential Hope in Humanity with SJ Beard](https://www.kairos.london/event/finding-existential-hope-in-humanity-with-sj-beard/) - Thursday May 9th, 6.30 for 7pm In the last two decades it has become increasingly common to hear about existential risk, the possibility that humanity may be heading for extinction or global collapse. This risk is very real and deserves to be taken seriously, but risk is only one way that we can look at future possibilities. SJ Beard will explore what happens when we shift our focus and think about the same problems in terms of ‘existential hope’, the possibility that humanity may be the first species in the history of our planet not only able to contemplate the possibility of our annihilation but to shape our own futures to avoid it. They will argue that focusing on the opportunities of existential hope, rather than the anxieties of existential risk, can help us change our own relationship with the many global problems we face; calling our attention to what actually needs to change and how we can all seek our own way of making that happen. Building existential hope is not something we can do over night, but is a long-term process, building on many generations of dreamers, engineers, and activists who have taught us how to explore speculative futures, identify and respond to complex hazards, build cooperation and consensus across boundaries, and work together to achieve our collective aims. - [Diary Dates](https://www.kairos.london/event/diary-dates/) - Stephen Markley Saturday June 8th, 4 for 4.30pm - [Rewild the Rich! How to Take Back our Countryside with Joel Scott-Halkes](https://www.kairos.london/event/rewild-the-rich-how-to-take-back-our-countryside-with-joel-scott-halkes/) - Tuesday May 7th, 6.30 for 7pm EVENT RESCHEDULED: We are extremely disappointed to say that due to the train strikes Joel is unable to get to London to give his talk tonight. Please accept our apologies. We have rescheduled Rewild the Rich! to Tuesday June 18th. If you have a ticket for tonight, we have emailed you directly. If you'd like to book for the new date, please follow this link. The British countryside is dying. Pollinator numbers are falling, ecosystems are collapsing and species are dying out fast. But how can this be happening in a nation of nature lovers? The answer is simple: Everyday citizens like us have lost control over the land we love. With 50% of Britain owned by less than 1% of its population it is aristocrats, royalty, corporations and large institutions who now decide the future of our landscapes. This puts us in a truly precarious position. As we stare down the barrel of the climate and nature emergency, we find ourselves with no democratic control over our most important environmental resource: land. In this politically and ecologically charged talk, Joel will take a deep dive into the practice of rewilding, the astonishing mismanagement of our countryside by private landowners and the ambitious but practical ways we, as citizens, can take back our land. From radically democratising the UK’s huge areas of common land to executing “citizen take overs” of the UK’s big institutional landowners like The Church and National Trust, Joel will lay down a route map for a wilder and fairer Britain. - [Dummy event for email tests](https://www.kairos.london/event/dummy-event-for-email-tests/) - Test event - [The Joys (& Tribulations) of Being Animal with Melanie Challenger](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-joys-tribulations-of-being-animal-with-melanie-challenger/) - Thursday May 2nd, 6.30 for 7pm For thousands of years, humans have pondered their nature and what follows from it. Despite all the diverse human cultures and origin myths, one idea has prevailed: humans are made of two parts, a spiritual and an animal part. Through this idea, we have shaped a world in which being animal is often seen as threatening, even debasing, whereas being human is viewed as uniquely precious, and morally and spiritually elevating. Even today, when we face a world in which we are the agent of environmental change and destruction, the idea of being animal remains contentious or morally confounding. In this talk, Melanie Challenger, non-fiction writer and author of How To Be Animal, will ask what might a world look like in which we took a different view of our animality? How would our ideas and our democracies shift if we took seriously the possibility that we live in a world of rich beings who should be respected and included? And how would the idea of our own animal nature get us there? - [Wednesday Drop-In Hours](https://www.kairos.london/event/wednesday-drop-in-hours/) - Wednesday May 1st, 12 midday to 6pm More and more people are getting in touch now to request use of our space. To meet this need, we’re opening every Wednesday between 12 midday and 7pm. To be clear, this invitation is for groups who want to meet and discuss books or radical ideas or embryonic projects or for anyone who’d like to come and read in our library, play some chess or join whatever conversations develop. What we strictly aren’t offering is a space for co-working or work meetings, or for anything involving a laptop, phone or other device or that could fall into the category business as usual. - [Club Drinks: Weekly Throughout April](https://www.kairos.london/event/club-drinks-weekly-throughout-april/) - Friday April 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th, 6.30-10pm Our regular Club Drinks at 84 Tottenham Court Road is going weekly in April. Many of you have asked for us to open more often in the evening, so what have been monthly Friday bar nights will become weekly throughout April. If weekly proves popular, we’ll continue through the summer. If attendance is poor, we won’t, so do come and show your interest! No booking required, but if you'd like to tell us you're coming that would help with our planning. - [Education for Culture Change with Artemis Bear](https://www.kairos.london/event/education-for-culture-change-with-artemis-bear/) - Thursday April 25th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm What would the education system have to look like for it to move us to a culture that is functionally able to address climate breakdown? If we accept that capitalism is the central driver of climate breakdown we cannot continue to overlook school as the backbone of global capitalism. Artemis D Bear worked in climate change policy in a previous life but left because they found it frustratingly ineffective, given not only the scale but also the depth of the issue. They came to understand that we can’t begin to address the environmental devastation wrought by this system of governance until we create a less adversarial and hierarchical culture. Eight years ago they started a Self-Directed Learning Community called The Garden, which was the first of its kind in the UK. They also now work for Phoenix Education running the Freedom to Learn programme, supporting a network of over thirty SDLCs. This interactive workshop will show not only a roadmap to a different education system but a different system of governance and a society that can both mitigate and adapt to climate change. - [The Law as a Tool for Radical Change with Jolyon Maugham](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-law-as-a-tool-for-radical-change-with-jolyon-maugham/) - Thursday April 18th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm The law is fundamentally conservative. And yet, approached creatively, it can nonetheless be used to achieve radical outcomes. Barrister Jolyon Maugham KC is founder of Good Law Project and author of Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful. Since 2016, GLP has been challenging the government through the courts on Brexit, political appointments, the PPE fast track, its net zero commitments and its clampdown on protest. Jolyon will argue that rather than attempt to change the law to achieve radical social change, it’s far quicker and more effective to work within the law as it stands, and that by engaging with the legal system, citizens can begin to find their agency. He’ll explore the difference between a legal win and victory in the broader sense, and why many within the legal profession view him as a heretic. - [A New Media System To Heal Our Collective Trauma with Matthew Green](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-new-media-system-to-heal-our-collective-trauma-with-matthew-green/) - Thursday April 11th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm The limits of legacy media are well-known: News agendas framed by those with the most money and power; a failure to reckon with the depths of the climate and ecological emergency; and a focus on business as usual at the expense of solutions emerging at the margins, to name a few. Rather than helping heal our collective trauma, much of the media makes it worse. What if there’s another way? How might we build a media system to heal our collective trauma? Join journalist Matthew Green for a collaborative session informed by his study of the principles of healing individual, collective and inter-generational trauma to imagine what a new media system might look like – one capable of rising to the demands of the moment. How can we harness emerging insights from the marriage of psychology, neurobiology, and ancient wisdom traditions to design the newsrooms of the future – capable of both documenting the role of collective trauma in fuelling global crises, and supporting collective healing? Is there an emerging new archetype of the “journalist as healer”? And what new practices can help us come together in community to relate to the news in a way that supports connection and collective intelligence -- rather than burnout and overwhelm? - [Book Club: "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin](https://www.kairos.london/event/book-club-the-fifth-season-by-n-k-jemisin/) - Wednesday April 10th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Discussion starts 7pm "The Fifth Season" is the first novel in N. K. Jemisin's science fantasy trilogy series, "Broken Earth", which won the Hugo Award in 2016. "A bravura example of literary world-building and rich, rounded characterisation, the opening instalment of The Broken Earth trilogy conjures up an immersive post-apocalyptic dystopia for the ages." - Waterstones - [Open Projects Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/open-projects-night/) - Tuesday April 9th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm Please come to our first Open Projects Night, where we'll learn about each others projects, build connections and offer each other support. This is for: Anyone with a radical idea they'd like to share and workshop. Anyone setting up or running a small Kairos-aligned project who needs support. Anyone with skills and experience they'd like to share. Anyone who would like to help grow our interconnectedness. The evening will include a series of short interactive presentations, a chance to workshop a few of the projects presented, a one-pot vegan supper that we'll eat together, and a discussion about how to follow up and build on this initial event. - [What About China? with Songqiao Yao & Faye Lu](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-about-china-with-songqiao-yao-faye-lu/) - Thursday April 4th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm How can traditional Chinese wisdom and practice help us rethink our place in the world? What role could contemporary China have in making the radical shifts we need? Chinese activists Songqiao Yao and Faye Lu have spent the last decade working with environmental organisations, youth groups and local communities in China. They will share their reflections on the need for new narratives that take into account both China's ancient past and recent history. They will then lead a conversation into the alternative perspective that the Chinese experience could offer the global environmental movement. - [Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/club-drinks-2/) - Friday February 2nd 6.30pm-9.30pm Our regular drinks evening at 84 Tottenham Court Road. Bring your own alcohol and we'll order in pizza. There may be some games. - [Preparing for Crisis: Why Communities Must Take Control](https://www.kairos.london/event/preparing-for-crisis-why-communities-must-take-control/) - Thursday March 21st Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm Serious times are coming down the track and yet the government's efforts on adaptation to climate change are ramshackle and the picture across the 42 Local Resilience Forums is of dust gathering. We can see from Covid, Grenfell and other serious events that communities themselves are the first responders. As we move into the age of climate impacts we need a truly "civil" contingencies infrastructure, which works with the local power and efficacy we saw during the pandemic. To begin debate about what this should look like and how it should be done, The New Weather Institute and The Cadence Roundtable will set out the case for communities taking control of their own contingency plans. Join us for a presentation of the ideas in the new booklet "Unprepared: The Case for Community Control of Civil Contingency Plans", followed by a climate preparedness workshop. - [A Life-Ennobling Economy & How to Get There with Indy Johar](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-life-ennobling-economy-how-to-get-there-with-indy-johar/) - Tuesday March 19th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Indy Johar, architect, and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs, will set out his vision for a new economy, in which life is front and centre. Such a paradigm shift would replace control-based theories and practices of organising the world around us - whether collective or individual - and emphasize the growth of agency, a learning-driven orchestration, and relationality, all deeply anchored in systemic care. It would see us move beyond the traditional notions of dominion, including property ownership, labour, and the dominance established through contracts and transactions - especially those involving asymmetrical power dynamics. This fundamental transformation offers a systemic answer to climate breakdown and other catastrophic symptoms of our civilisation. - [Drop-In Hours Pilot](https://www.kairos.london/event/drop-in-hours-pilot/) - Tuesday March 26th, 12 midday to 9pm Wednesday March 27th, 12 midday to 9pm More and more people are getting in touch now to request use our space. To meet this need, we’re thinking of starting regular drop-in hours. To test how this could work, we’ll be opening on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday March 27th from 12 midday until 9pm. To be clear, this invitation is for groups who want to meet and discuss books or radical ideas or embryonic projects or for anyone who’d like to come and read in our library, play some chess or join whatever conversations develop. What we strictly aren’t offering is a space for co-working or work meetings, or for anything involving a laptop, phone or other device or that could fall into the category business as usual. If you fit the criteria and would like to drop by on one of those days, please email events@Kairos.London with the day and time you'd like to come and a line about how you'd like to use the space. Entry, as well as tea, coffee (and possibly some soup) will be by suggested donation/pay what you can. - [A Sustainable Revolution with Sophie Scott-Brown](https://www.kairos.london/event/a-sustainable-revolution-with-sophie-scott-brown/) - Thursday March 14th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Taking part in an activist movement can be an education in freedom. Too often, however, tensions within movements overwhelm them before they can realise their potential. Many activists expect too much from a movement and are disappointed when it falls short. There are always tensions around what it takes to organise events and how these should connect to a central programme and to the movement's ultimate goals. All this should be considered a valuable learning experience, and yet too often it's labelled as failure. When this is the case, activists become despondent, they drift, perhaps even swing the other way. How do we stop this? Sophie Scott-Brown, intellectual historian and author of Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy (2022), will argue that we need to democratise our ideas of revolution for democracy. Firstly, we should stop thinking in terms of a head-on collision with power - this only ever results in one tyrant taking over from another. Secondly, we should stop believing revolutions can be systematic - it will work in patches which will always ebb and flow. Thirdly, we must give up the notion that revolutions have a definite end - if they end, they fail. Finally, we need to accept that a democratic revolution will not agree with itself - real democracy, by definition, must argue itself into existence. With this in mind, we can think more clearly about the kind of social education activism can give us. Drawing on the history of the Direct Action Committee (1949-1961), she will show how the committee came to see cultivating activists as its most important and transformative revolutionary act, and suggest which of its ideas have most relevance to social movements today. - [Rethinking Fairness: Navigating Climate Breakdown Across Generations with Kennedy Mbeva](https://www.kairos.london/event/rethinking-fairness-navigating-climate-breakdown-across-generations/) - Tuesday March 12th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm How should we rethink our responsibility toward future generations? What effect will demographic changes have on future populations' experience of climate breakdown? Today, we find ourselves at a critical juncture, faced with the immediate and uneven impacts of climate breakdown alongside significant shifts in global populations. These intertwined challenges demand a new way of thinking about our responsibility to both present and future generations. Kennedy Mbeva, researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and author of a forthcoming book, Rebirth: Demographic Change and Societal Collapse, will argue it's time to move beyond seeing future generations as a distant concern and instead recognise how climate breakdown will affect them all in diverse ways. - [Facing the Climate Emergency: Discussion & Grief Circle with Margaret Klein Salamon](https://www.kairos.london/event/facing-the-climate-emergency-discussion-grief-circle-with-margaret-klein-salamon/) - Tuesday March 5th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Event starts 7pm Living through the Climate Crisis and the Anthropocene Extinction presents us with overwhelming realities to grapple with. It's normal to feel a wide range of emotions, from anger and fear to grief and sadness. Most of us don't focus on those feelings most of the time. We get up, wash our faces, check tasks off our to-do list, brush our teeth, and climb into bed. We answer emails and queue at the supermarket. We participate in a society that rolls forward as if everything has stayed the same. This is the life we're all living, while we read reports about 2023 smashing records as the hottest year on record and how 33% of species currently classified as "non-threatened" on the IUCN Red List are actually spiraling toward extinction. Living with this awareness can feel isolating and confusing, but this experience is more communal than we realise. Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon, US-based clinical psychologist turned climate activist, founder of Climate Awakening and Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund, will be visiting the UK and at Kairos to present the second edition of her book, Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth. A powerful resource for processing climate emotions, Facing the Climate Emergency offers psychological guidance and inspiring historical context to help readers process climate grief and move into action. During the first half of the evening, Margaret will talk us through, and answer questions about, the five steps explored in the book: 1. Facing Climate Truth; 2. Welcoming Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings; 3 Reimagining Your Life Story; 4. Entering Emergency Mode; and 5. Joining the Movement and Disrupting Normalcy. We'll then have a break for a one-pot vegan supper that we'll all eat together, followed by a facilitated grief circle (or circles, depending on numbers). - [Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/club-drinks-3/) - Friday March 1st 6.30pm-9.30pm Our regular drinks evening at 84 Tottenham Court Road. Bring your own alcohol and we'll order in pizza. There may be some games. - [Leap Year Storytelling with Toby Litt](https://www.kairos.london/event/leap-year-storytelling/) - Thursday February 29th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Storytelling starts 7pm This year is a leap year, and to celebrate the extra day we're holding a Leap Year Storytelling Evening. We'll be sharing stories about time – warped time, time travel, lost moments, parallel time, missed opportunities and second chances. Bring a tale or a poem to share, or just come and listen. Writer Toby Litt, Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, member of Writers Rebel and author of A Writer's Diary, Patience and Adventures in Capitalism, will bring a piece from his own work. All are welcome to read, but please let us know in advance what you plan to contribute by emailing events@Kairos.London - [Sewing Club: Machine Skills](https://www.kairos.london/event/sewing-club-machine-skills/) - Tuesday February 27th, 7-10pm The regular monthly meeting of our sewing club, under the expert guidance of Anouchka Grose. Anouchka will be demonstrating sewing machine skills, as well as giving general advice on whatever you'd like to work on. No previous sewing experience required. Expert sewers working on your own projects also extremely welcome. Any cloth or other materials you're willing to donate most gratefully received. - [Effective Resistance & the Role of Sabotage with Simon Bramwell](https://www.kairos.london/event/effective-resistance-the-role-of-sabotage-with-simon-bramwell/) - Thursday February 15th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk and discussion starts 7pm How might sabotage fit within an effective strategy of resistance built on solidarity? Simon Bramwell, co-founder of the Rising Up Network and Extinction Rebellion, will talk about the history of ecotage, Andreas Malm's recent advocation of sabotage in his book "How to Blow up a Pipeline", other approaches to the role of sabotage in strategies for civil resistance today, and the ethical questions surrounding it. Long-time Greenpeace activist Frank Hewetson will also contribute to the discussion, with reference to a number of actions including Brent Spar in the 1990s, the Sizewell B actions of the early 2000s and the Boulder campaigns of the last few years. This event runs along side Queen Mary University's conference How (Not) to Blow Up an Observatory. - [Kairos Book Club: "The Overstory" by Richard Powers](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-the-overstory-by-richard-powers-2/) - Friday February 23rd Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Discussion starts 7pm At February's Book Club we'll be talking about Richard Powers novel The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019. Richard Powers’s twelfth novel is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. - [Screening of “Night Moves"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-night-moves/) - Tuesday February 13th Doors & drinks at 6pm; Film starts at 6.30pm Ahead of our discussion on Thursday about Effective Resistance & The Role of Sabotage we're screening Night Moves (1hr 52mins). Kelly Reichardt's 2013 feature tells the story of three activists who blow up a dam and the devastating fallout from their action. Starring Jessie Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard. https://youtu.be/HybtMP_RW4g?si=xHRFMV3gVmGcvH9m - [Rethinking "Survival of the Fittest": From Competition to Cooperation with Buzz Baum](https://www.kairos.london/event/rethinking-survival-of-the-fittest-from-competition-to-cooperation-with-buzz-baum/) - Thursday February 8th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Conventional wisdom holds that much of nature's beauty has arisen as the result of relentless competition between selfish actors through a process we call Darwinian evolution. In this view of things, “selection" weeds out the ugly, weak and the inefficient. This idea has long been used to justify untrammelled free-market capitalism as a route to progress. While the spread of this type of economic model yielded enormous benefits for society in the 20th century, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, our planet has been profoundly changed in the process in ways that threaten the natural world and our way of life. Furthermore, it has recently become clear that this is also a poor way of describing the mechanism of biological evolution itself. In this talk, Buzz Baum, a group leader at the MRC’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, will put this right. He'll show that evolution involves more than “selfish genes”. In fact, just as the Capitalist market-place strips systems bare, relentless selection in nature can have the same effect - by paring down the bodies of parasites so that they can feed more efficiently on their hosts. Conversely, much of the complexity and beauty we admire in nature arises when selection fails. Meanwhile many of the key transitions in the history of life on earth, including innovations that led to our own evolution, depended on the cooperation of organisms rather than their competition. As became clear in images taken by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission as they encircled the Moon, the Earth has a fragile beauty of its own that emerges from the complex webs of interactions that bind organisms together into ecosystems that span the globe. Now that human activity is threatening to up-end this balance, a fuller understanding of the evolutionary history of life on Earth can inspire new ways of thinking about our interactions with one another and with other organisms, so that we can find ways to survive and thrive on this beautiful living planet, together. - [Anarchism and its Lessons for Now with Ruth Kinna](https://www.kairos.london/event/anarchism-and-its-lessons-for-now-with-ruth-kinna-2/) - Tuesday January 30th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm If our current form of government is incapable of acting on the many challenges we face, what can anarchism teach us about how to self-organise and take the reins? Ruth Kinna, professor of political theory at Loughborough University and author of The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism, will set out the basic principles of anarchism. She’ll discuss anarchy as “order” and why, according to anarchists, our existing political arrangements are fatally ‘disordered’ and perpetuate exploitation – of humans, non-humans and the planet. She will explain how anarchism offers a different way to organise, how ideas about anarchy could translate into practice, and what organisations designed to support non-dominating relationships without permanent fixed authority (a key principle of anarchism), need to do to survive and thrive. - [Kairos Book Club: "The Overstory" by Richard Powers](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-the-overstory-by-richard-powers/) - Friday February 23rd Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Discussion starts 7pm At February's Book Club we'll be talking about Richard Powers novel The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019. Richard Powers’s twelfth novel is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. - [Lunchtime Video: Jack Halberstam on An Aesthetics of Collapse](https://www.kairos.london/event/lunchtime-video-jack-halberstam-on-an-aesthetics-of-collapse/) - Wednesday January 31st Doors at 12.45pm; Video at 1pm. Every Wednesday in January, we're showing recorded lectures at lunchtime in our ground floor space. Kairos will then be open all afternoon for anyone who would like to stay on and read in our library (please no laptops or other devices). In this talk (delivered at the University of Nebraska in October 2021) Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, argues that before we can begin to imagine any sort of utopian future, we must first go through a process of "unworlding" to dismantle the current power structures. He explores works of art that embrace collapse rather than fight against it - Ursula Le Guin's anarchist novel The Dispossessed, Rachel Whiteread's sculpture House and NK Jemisin's science fiction trilogy Broken Earth. The Piers, African American photographer Alvin Baltrop's study of the ruined piers of 1970s New York and the erotic encounters that took place there, created an aesthetic of collapse and a challenge to mainstream, heteronormative, capitalist culture. Free entry. No booking required. Bring your own vegan packed lunch. - [Roger Hallam on the Meaning of Revolution in the 21st Century](https://www.kairos.london/event/roger-hallam-meaning-revolution/) - Thursday January 18th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm In Roger Hallam's first talk for Kairos in April 2023, he argued that whatever you think about revolutions they are now inevitable, given the overwhelming evidence that existing political regimes are unable to reduce emissions quickly enough to prevent climate breakdown. This breakdown will create a "fiscal crisis of the state" - it will run out of money - and regimes will fall. The key question then is whether these developments lead to fascism or some form of progressive revolutionary change in politics and society. In this second talk, Roger will take a step back to ask what are we actually aiming to do. What does it mean to create a successful nonviolent and progressive revolution today? Based on his last decade of research into how to create social change, and his practical experience of initiating many of the biggest civil resistance projects around the western world, he will come up with a surprising answer. - [Kairos Book Club: "The Madonna Secret" by Sophie Strand](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-the-madonna-secret-by-sophie-strand/) - Friday January 26th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Discussion starts 7pm Sophie Strand is an American poet and writer with a focus on the history of religion and the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. In The Madonna Secret, she retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary Magdalene. - [Ending the Jobs Fetish: Work, Commoning and Leisure with Guy Standing](https://www.kairos.london/event/ending-the-jobs-fetish-work-commoning-and-leisure-with-guy-standing/) - Thursday January 25th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm For thousands of years, most people did their utmost to be out of labour, out of jobs. But for the past two centuries, being in jobs has been put on a pedestal. Karl Marx described jobs as "alienated activity". In reality, for most people a job means being in a position of subordination. The tragedy is that labourists have reduced work to labour. We now have a wonderful opportunity to rescue work from labour and to revive the idea of commoning and the related idea of leisure as distinct from recreation and consumption. In the process, we need to escape from the fetish of GDP growth, with its ecological neglect, and boost the work, commoning and leisure that most people value and want. This is the desirable "future of work" Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), and author of The Precariat, Plunder of the Commons and The Blue Commons. This talk, his second at Kairos, will draw on the ideas in his latest book The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in an Age of Uncertainty, which has just been published. - [The Meaning of Revolution in the 21st Century with Roger Hallam](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-meaning-of-revolution-in-the-21st-century-with-roger-hallam-rescheduled/) - Thursday January 18th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm In Roger Hallam's first talk for Kairos in April 2023, he argued that whatever you think about revolutions they are now inevitable, given the overwhelming evidence that existing political regimes are unable to reduce emissions quickly enough to prevent climate breakdown. This breakdown will create a "fiscal crisis of the state" - it will run out of money - and regimes will fall. The key question then is whether these developments lead to fascism or some form of progressive revolutionary change in politics and society. In this second talk, Roger will take a step back to ask what are we actually aiming to do. What does it mean to create a successful nonviolent and progressive revolution today? Based on his last decade of research into how to create social change, and his practical experience of initiating many of the biggest civil resistance projects around the western world, he will come up with a surprising answer. - [Screening of “The Troublemaker"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-the-troublemaker/) - Monday January 15th Drinks at 6.30pm; Film starts at 7pm Ahead of Roger Hallam's talk on Thursday January 18th, we're screening documentary profile "The Troublemaker" (2020, 57mins) directed by Sasha Snow. The film follows Roger's journey from organic farmer to academic expert on radical protest movements and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Since November 2018, his ideas and strategic thinking have helped to inspire thousands of ordinary people to non-violent civil disobedience and mass arrest. It also features Sylvia Dell, a retired IT worker and mother of four from Totnes in South Devon who says she is not a ‘climate activist’ just an ‘ordinary’, sensible, peace loving citizen, doing what she thinks is right. The Troublemaker includes an extended section on the 2019 Heathrow Pause action for which both Roger and Sylvia were recently convicted of conspiracy to create public nuisance. They are awaiting sentencing in February. Free entry if you have a ticket for Roger's talk on Thursday January 18th. Free for members, £5 non-members. With complementary food and drinks. - [Lunchtime Video: James Bridle on Planetary Intelligence](https://www.kairos.london/event/lunchtime-video-james-bridle-planetary-intelligence/) - Wednesday January 24th Doors at 12.45pm; Video at 1pm. Every Wednesday in January, we’ll be showing a recorded lecture at lunchtime in our ground floor space. Kairos will then be open all afternoon for anyone who would like to stay on and read in our library. For this first video lecture of the new year we’re screening a talk by James Bridle, writer, artist, technologist and author of Ways of Being. In this talk (delivered as part of Media Evolution’s 2022 Conference), James will argue that understanding forms of intelligence that are different to our own – from the “Artificial Intelligence” of super-computers, to the subtle differences we see in some primates, and the alien intelligence possessed by octopuses, plants and slime mould – can challenge our own limited world-view and help us to rethink our place in the world. Free entry. No booking required. Bring your own packed lunch. - [Screening of “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva"](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-the-seeds-of-vandana-shiva/) - Thursday January 11th Doors & Drinks at 6.15pm; Film starts at 6.45pm “All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful, and she is not afraid to tackle those corporate giants that are polluting, degrading and ultimately destroying the natural world.” – Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace "The Seeds of Vandana Shiva" (2021, 1hr 22) tells the story of Indian activist Vandana Shiva and her battle against agricultural giant Monsanto. The documentary charts her life story from disillusioned atomic scientist to international figure, and her fight to prevent the commercialisation of life and reestablish seed as part of humanity's shared common wealth. The screening was followed by supper and discussion guided by Ella Thorold, a writer and communicator specialising in food systems and policy. https://youtu.be/YEqTo8lDivs - [Lunchtime Video: Jenny Odell on A Life Beyond the Clock](https://www.kairos.london/event/lunchtime-video-jenny-odell-on-a-life-beyond-the-clock/) - Wednesday January 17th Doors at 12.45pm; Video at 1pm. Every Wednesday in January, we'll be showing recorded lectures at lunchtime in our ground floor space. Kairos will then be open all afternoon for anyone who would like to stay on and read in our library. (Please no laptops or other devices.) In this talk (delivered in March 2023 for the Long Now Foundation), Jenny Odell, artist, writer and author of 'Saving Time', explores the different types of time we inhabit - including industrial, ecological and geological time and the time of one's own mortality - and shows the irreconcilability between modern artificially-constructed time pressures and engagement with planetary-scale crisis. Citing examples found on a route around the San Francisco Bay area, she shows how time and history have made the material and cultural world we live in, and that by extension what we do now is historical. Of 'Saving Time' she says: "This book is my sincere attempt to recover an appetite for the future, as someone who lives squeezed between daily time scarcity, climate despair and the knowledge of their own mortality. It's my panoramic assault on Nihilism." Free entry. No booking required. Bring your own packed lunch. Please note that Kairos is a vegan space. - [Lunchtime Video: Amitav Ghosh on The Nutmeg's Curse](https://www.kairos.london/event/lunchtime-video-amitav-ghosh-on-the-nutmegs-curse/) - Wednesday January 24th Doors at 12.45pm; Video at 1pm. Every Wednesday in January, we'll be showing recorded lectures at lunchtime in our ground floor space. Kairos will then be open all afternoon for anyone who would like to stay on and read in our library (please no laptops or other devices). In this talk (delivered in April 2023 at Georgetown University) writer Amitav Ghosh presents the geopolitics of the 17th century nutmeg trade as an example of Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. It's also a parable for our contemporary crisis, with its roots in a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. This talk is based on the ideas in his 2021 book The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis - a sharp critique of Western society and an exploration of the ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces. His previous non-fiction book The Great Derangement charts the cultural depictions, history and politics of climate change and its relationship to colonialism. Free entry. No booking required. Bring your own packed lunch. Please note that Kairos is a vegan space. - [Club Drinks](https://www.kairos.london/event/club-drinks/) - Friday January 5th 6.30pm-9.30pm Join us for the first drinks evening of the new year at 84 Tottenham Court Road. Bring your own alcohol and we'll order in pizza. There may be some games. - [Sewing Club: Machine Skills](https://www.kairos.london/event/sewing-club-december/) - Tuesday December 19th, 7-10pm The regular monthly meeting of our sewing club, under the expert guidance of Anouchka Grose. This month, Anouchka will be demonstrating sewing machine skills, as well as giving general advice on whatever you'd like to work on. No previous sewing experience required. Expert sewers working on your own projects also extremely welcome. Any cloth or other materials you're willing to donate most gratefully received. Potluck dinner and BYOB. - [The Liberal "Guardrails" Against Radical Climate Action with Chris Shaw](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-liberal-guardrails-against-radical-climate-action-with-chris-shaw/) - Thursday December 14th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm A majority of climate scientists agree that building an effective response to climate change requires us to abandon the obsession with economic growth. At the same time, as Mark Fisher and others have noted, it feels impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to capitalism. Chris Shaw, until recently Head of Research at Climate Outreach, has identified five “guardrails” within mainstream discourse that constrain our imaginations and prevent the emergence of radical political ideas that might challenge the status quo: 1. Climate change is not a challenge to individualism; 2. There is only one dangerous limit, 1.5 degrees; 3. Climate change can be resolved within existing relations of production; 4. Technology can fix it; and 5. All we need do to avert social conflict is to find new stories. In this talk, Chris, author of Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change, will analyse how these five guardrails are deployed by our dominant institutions - politicians, NGOs and strategic communications experts. And how, instead of accurately representing the risks we face, they present images and narratives of life in 2050 and beyond that depict a world much the same as today, with some minor adjustments for climate impact. Without a shared understanding of the true extent of those risks, it will not be possible for societies to organise effective responses. As a first step, we must dismantle the liberal fantasies of our 2050 future if we are to have any chance of creating credible, just, and inclusive visions of how we might cope with what is now upon us. - [Alternative Communities of Care with Lynne Segal](https://www.kairos.london/event/alternative-communities-of-care-with-lynne-segal/) - Tuesday December 12th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm With climate breakdown set to increase the pressure on our already fragmented social networks, we need to learn how to care for one another outside the mechanisms of the state. As we think about how to build radical, alternative communities of care, there are earlier experiments we can learn from. Long before wide-spread knowledge of global heating, or the surge in green politics, those involved in the feminist movement were already exploring ideas of mutual aid and anti-consumerism. Lynne Segal, feminist thinker, activist and author most recently of Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care, will present some of the lessons from that time and how they might help us today. When Lynne moved to London in the early 1970s with her infant son, her Islington home became a shared living space for three single mothers, and an early feminist stronghold, where they attempted to establish new ways of living and caring for each other. As well as warding off the isolation and marginalisation of single motherhood, it also provided a focus for community activity and feminist politics. Drawing on that experience, Lynne will explore what a radically transformed approach to interdependence could look like in response to our everyday vulnerabilities of motherhood, disability and ageing. She will argue that education is key to creating a more caring, egalitarian world, and discuss the hope that comes from building caring collectives and radical friendships. Now more than ever, we need to learn how to share our resources and whatever joys we find in the process. - [Screening of “The Village of Lovers”](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-village-of-lovers/) - Tuesday December 5th Doors & Drinks at 6pm; Film starts at 6.30pm “Community is not just a sentimental dream of young people, but the next stage of human evolution. The people of the future will live in community.” - Dieter Duhm "The Village of Lovers" (Re/Culture Films, 1hr 14m, 2023) is a new documentary about Tamera, a radical social experiment in Southern Portugal. The community of Tamera originated in Germany and grew out of the “free love” movements of the 1960s and 1970s. But unlike others experimenting at the time, the Tamerans realised that to create a truly alternative social model, they had to do more than simply react against the dominant system. Based on the ideas of co-founder psychoanalyst Dieter Duhm, and other influences including physicist David Bohm, Tamera emphasised trust - especially in the most intimate areas of human life - as core to long-standing cultural and political change. Forty years on, with 150 permanent members, Tamera is also a research and education centre. With its vision of a new planetary culture of “healing biotopes” it may provide a regenerative model for a post-capitalist society, rooted in reconnection to life. https://youtu.be/uAaXC38Uzdo - [Kairos Book Club: "Combining" by Nora Bateson](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-combining-by-nora-bateson/) - Friday December 1st Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Discussion starts 7pm The second collection of essays, reflections, poems and artwork by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). "Combining" is an embodiment of her recent work on Warm Data and offers a radical ecological approach to many of the key issues of our time: climate change, political upheaval, education, health, food and relationships. - [The Meaning of Revolution in the 21st Century with Roger Hallam](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-meaning-of-revolution-in-the-21st-century-with-roger-hallam/) - Thursday November 23rd Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm We're extremely disappointed to say that Roger Hallam is unwell and his talk has been rescheduled to Thursday January 18th - see new listing below. In Roger Hallam's first talk for Kairos earlier this year, he argued that whatever you think about revolutions they are now inevitable, given the overwhelming evidence that existing political regimes are unable to reduce emissions quickly enough to prevent climate breakdown. This breakdown will create a "fiscal crisis of the state" - it will run out of money - and regimes will fall. The key question then is whether these developments lead to fascism or some form of progressive revolutionary change in politics and society. In this second talk, Roger will take a step back to ask what are we actually aiming to do. What does it mean to create a successful nonviolent and progressive revolution today? Based on his last decade of research into how to create social change, and his practical experience of initiating many of the biggest civil resistance projects around the western world, he will come up with a surprising answer. - [Sewing Club: Alterations](https://www.kairos.london/event/sewing-club-alterations/) - Tuesday November 21st, 7-10pm For the second meeting of our sewing club, under the expert guidance of Anouchka Grose, we're looking at clothes alterations. Bring something from your wardrobe that you'd like to mend, adjust or upcycle. No previous sewing experience required, we'll all learn together. Any cloth or other materials you're willing to donate most gratefully received. Potluck dinner and BYOB. - [Club Night: HSBC9 Celebration, Fundraiser & Games](https://www.kairos.london/event/club-night/) - Friday November 24th 6.30pm-10.30pm Our regular drinks night at 84 Tottenham Court Road, with cocktails, pizza and vinyl on the turntable (BYOV). We'll also be celebrating the unanimous acquittal last week of the HSBC9 - and the acquittal last month of those prosecuted for XR's Fire Engine action - with any money we make on the bar going to support other climate activists, including the growing number being sent to prison. There will also be games! Bring your own favourites. Kairos members don't need to book but if you're not a member please let us know you'd like to come, by emailing membership@Kairos.London. - [Finding Words to Describe this Moment We're In & Why it Matters with Jonathan Rowson](https://www.kairos.london/event/finding-words-to-describe-this-moment-were-in-why-it-matters-with-jonathan-rowson/) - Tuesday November 14th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Does it matter which words we use to describe our global predicament? Anyone who lived through ‘Take Back Control!’ in the UK or ‘Make America Great Again!’ in the USA knows that words shape reality. Strategic language of this sort is a kind of landscape gardening of civic and cultural space, and the aesthetic changes what we see, where we can move, and what’s allowed to grow. Many feel it's 'the action' that counts, but language is arguably our primary tool in taking social action of any kind. Are terms like crisis and emergency 'just words' then, and interchangeable? Or might it be worth our while to reflect more deeply on what we are trying to convey and choose words accordingly? For instance, how do we speak of climate collapse in a way that reflects the relevance of climate to almost everything, while not reducing everything to climate at a time when there are related but also separate challenges relating to technology, culture, economy, and democracy? Jonathan Rowson, philosopher and co-founder and director of Perspectiva, will argue that while it might seem ridiculous to wonder whether what we are contending with is a polycrisis, a permacrisis, a metacrisis, or not a crisis at all, this might actually be a critical part of the work we are called upon to do today. - [Lessons from Ecuador, World Leader in Rights of Nature with Paul Powlesland](https://www.kairos.london/event/rights-of-nature-lessons-from-south-america-with-paul-powlesland/) - Wednesday November 8th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Ecuador, where the Andes meets the Amazon, is one of the most biodiverse countries on earth. It also has the most developed laws and jurisprudence on Rights of Nature anywhere in the world. This incredibly rich nature, and the advanced laws protecting it, directly conflict with an extractivist agenda seeking to raise revenue through oil drilling, mining and farming, regardless of its destruction to trees, rivers and the Amazon ecosystem. Paul Powlesland is a barrister, founder of Lawyers for Nature and a leading campaigner for the Rights of Nature in the UK. He travelled to Ecuador to research what environmental protections and strong Rights of Nature laws mean in practice. He witnessed cause for sadness and grief, with oil spills and illegal gold mining in the Amazon. He found cause for hope in agroforestry and reforestation projects. He got to visit communities that successfully protected their forests and rivers by invoking the Rights of Nature provisions in the Ecuadorian constitution. Most importantly, he got to meet, for the first time, a river and forest that were the subject of legal rights! In this talk, Paul will show the stunning beauty of Ecuadorian nature and the threats it faces and explain why and how we should support the work of Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples and activists doing all they can to save it. He will also ask what lessons we can draw in the UK from the successful implementation of Rights of Nature in Ecuador. - [Workshop: Imagination Activism for Systemic Shifts with Phoebe Tickell](https://www.kairos.london/event/imagination-activism-for-systemic-shifts-with-phoebe-tickell/) - Tuesday November 7th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Workshop starts 7pm This current moment demands an overhaul in how we see the world, decide what is important and design everything, from our organisations to our supply chains, our cities and our infrastructure. We need to grow greater courage and "Moral Imagination" to do the unthinkable and seemingly impossible, and to chart paths into unfamiliar (but not 'new') territories. "Imagination Activism" is a radical and rigorous approach to practice and strengthen shifts in perception, to move from dreams to action, to create positive change and to chart bold, ambitious futures. It's a new kind of activism powered by imagination to see the world differently and the skills to turn bold vision into action. Rather than fighting the old, it orientates to the new. At the heart of Imagination Activism is Moral Imagination - the ability to look at things as if they could - and should - be otherwise. By changing the way we see the world, we can create new possibilities and new actions that serve all people, the planet, and the coming future generations. In this workshop, Phoebe Tickell, former scientist, social entrepreneur and founding CEO of Moral Imaginations, will explain the concept of Imagination Activism, and teach us the tools, skills and practices to equip ourselves and the people around us to become Imagination Activists. - [Lunchtime Video: Guy Standing on a new Commons Charter](https://www.kairos.london/event/recorded-lunchtime-lecture-guy-standing-on-a-new-charter-for-the-commons/) - Wednesday November 15th Doors open at 12.45pm. Video begins at 1pm. For the first in a new series of recorded lunchtime lectures, we're screening a talk by economist Guy Standing about his 2019 book, Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth. In this video, Guy explores the history of the Commons (our land, air, health service, schooling, information etc) including the now-forgotten Charter of the Forest. He charts the erosion of our shared common wealth through enclosure, privitisation and financialisation by the rentier class and large corporations, and presents a vision for a new Commons Charter to restore what’s been lost. Doors will open at 12.45pm and the video will start at 1pm. Bring a packed lunch. Everyone is then invited to take part in our collective art project, Visioning the Commons, inspired by Guy's Kairos talk in June (and piloted at Green Gathering festival in August). Share with us, in words or drawings, what you’d like to see returned to the Commons. Paper, pens and paint provided. We also have copies in the Kairos library of Plunder of the Commons and Guy’s later book about the oceans, The Blue Commons (2022). Kairos will remain open throughout the afternoon for anyone who’d like to stay on and read. Free entry. No booking required. - [Kairos with the Frontline Club: The Assault on Protest Rights in the Courts](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-with-the-frontline-club-the-assault-on-protest-rights-in-the-courts/) - Thursday November 16th Drinks in the Frontline Club bar from 6.30pm; Talk starts at 7pm Please note: This event is at the Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, Paddington, London W2 1QJ Panel discussion with protest lawyer Raj Chada, Guardian journalist Sandra Laville and activist Cathy Eastburn, chaired by former environment specialist at the BBC, Roger Harrabin. The government is taking an increasingly punitive approach to climate protesters, and so are our courts. The Policing Act (2022) and the Public Order Act (2023) both introduced new offences and harsher punishments that significantly curtail the right to protest. Private injunctions by government agencies have been used to bypass the criminal courts and impose prison sentences on protestors for non-custodial criminal offences. In the Crown Courts, following a pattern of surprise acquittals by juries, judges have forbidden defendants from referring to climate change to explain their motivation to jurors, and imprisoning those who defy the ban. In protest, last March 68 year-old Trudi Warner stood outside Inner London Crown Court with a sign stating that jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience - a legal principle established over 300 years ago and enshrined in a plaque at the Old Bailey. Trudi is now being prosecuted for contempt of court. If found guilty, she could be sentenced for up to two years. Over 200 people who displayed similar signs outside courts across the country could be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice. Does this assault on protest rights in the courts signal a broader erosion of our political freedoms? Are ancient jury rights under threat? And what can we do about it? - [Kairos Book Club: "Everyday Utopia" by Kristen Ghodsee](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-everyday-utopia-by-kristen-ghodsee/) - Friday October 27th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Discussion starts 7pm The traditional 'nuclear' family home is a problem: it places unfair and unnecessary burdens on women (and men too), it entrenches inequalities, it entraps us financially and it hinders certain kinds of child development. Also, it doesn't seem to make us very happy. And yet throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living - from the all-female 'beguinages' of medieval Belgium to the matriarchal ecovillages of contemporary Colombia; from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras, where men and women lived as equals and shared property, to present-day Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra 'alloparents' to help raise children not their own. Some of these experiments burned brightly and briefly; others are living proof of what is possible. Everyday Utopia upends our assumptions and raises our sights by gathering these and many more inspiring examples together, arguing that many of the most important and effective ways of changing our lives and the world are to be found in the home. The result is a radically hopeful and practical vision of more connected - and contented - ways of living. - [Members' Night](https://www.kairos.london/event/members-night/) - Friday November 3rd 6.30pm-10.30pm First in a new series of social evenings for Kairos members. Meet fellow members over drinks in our new Tottenham Court Road space and let us know what more you'd like from your club. If you're interested in membership, please email membership@Kairos.London. - [The Meat Paradox with Rob Percival](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-meat-paradox-with-rob-percival/) - Thursday October 26th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm As the ecological emergency has escalated, the consumption of meat, dairy and animal foods has fallen under the spotlight. Should we all go vegan? Are organic and regenerative farming the answer? And why is the ‘meat debate’ so polarised and so heated? Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy and the Future of Meat, will talk about the evolutionary roots of our conflicted relationship with the animals we consume. Journeying from the Palaeolithic, through the Arctic and Amazon, onto modern day farms and slaughterhouses, he'll trace a thread of dissonant emotions, rooted in the conflict between our empathy and our eating. Rob will argue that the roots of our modern omnivorous malaise run deep. If we want to re-orient our destructive diets and relationship with the animal world, we need to understand what sort of animal we are; the events that led to our becoming the most peculiar of creatures: a predator inclined to empathise with its prey. - [Screening of "Spaceship Earth" with Michael Hrebeniak & Gessie Houghton](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-spaceship-earth/) - Thursday October 19 Doors & drinks 6pm; Film starts 6.30pm Documentary film Spaceship Earth (2020, 1hr 53mins) tells the story of Biosphere 2, a 1991 experiment in which eight people spent two years quarantined inside a replica of Earth's ecosystem. For decades ridiculed as a disaster, director Matt Wolf reframes the experiment as a modest success. The strange story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers might reimagine the world. The screening will be followed by supper and discussion led by Michael Hrebeniak, founder and co-convenor of the New School of the Anthropocene, and Gessie Houghton, director of the October Gallery, secretary to the Institute of Ecotechnics and authority on the Biosphere 2 project. - [Sewing Club: Moth Hole Repairs & Visible Mends](https://www.kairos.london/event/sewing-club/) - Tuesday October 24th, 7-10pm This is the first meeting of our new sewing club where we'll be altering and repairing our cloths and taking on other sewing projects. In this first session, hosted by Anouchka Grose and Zoë Blackler, we'll be fixing moth holes and exploring visible mending, including the Japanese art of Shashiko. No previous sewing experience required, we'll learn together. Any cloth or other materials you're willing to donate most gratefully received. Potluck dinner and BYOB. - [Screening of "To Hell With Culture": The Life & Work of Sir Herbert Read](https://www.kairos.london/event/anarchism-and-its-lessons-for-now-with-ruth-kinna/) - Friday October 20th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Film starts 7pm Unfortunately, Ruth Kinna is unwell and we're having to reschedule her talk, "Anarchism and its Lessons for Now". Please accept our apologies. At Ruth's suggestion, we will instead be screening "To Hell With Culture" (director Huw Wahl, 2014, 56mins) about the life and work of Sir Herbert Read. Herbert Read, (1893-1968), was an influential art critic, poet and anarchist. In his 1943 essay, "To Hell With Culture", Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. - [David Graeber and the Pirate Enlightenment with Chris Haughton and Nika Dubrovsky](https://www.kairos.london/event/david-graeber-and-the-pirate-enlightenment-with-james-schneider-and-nika-dubrovsky/) - Friday October 13th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm In the first of our series exploring the work of the late anthropologist David Graeber, we’ll be looking at his final posthumous book, "Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia". Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolising risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire. In graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in Madagascar for his doctoral thesis on the island’s politics and history of slavery and magic. During this time, he encountered the Zana-Malata, an ethnic group of mixed descendants of the many pirates who settled on the island at the beginning of the eighteenth century. "Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia", is the outgrowth of this early research and the culmination of ideas that he developed in his classic, bestselling works "Debt" and "The Dawn of Everything" (written with the archaeologist David Wengrow). In this lively, incisive exploration, Graeber considers how the protodemocratic, even libertarian practices of the Zana-Malata came to shape the Enlightenment project defined for too long as distinctly European. - [What Next for the Climate Movements? with Gail Bradbrook](https://www.kairos.london/event/what-next-for-the-climate-movement-with-gail-bradbrook/) - Tuesday October 10th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook will set out her vision for the future of the climate movements. In this talk, she'll discuss: - the nature of the problem - human beings and our anti-life systems; - how we might move towards life-based systems and the lessons for social movements - a theory of change and draft framework for organising around unified, glocally-linked people's power Followed by supper and discussion. - [Screening of "Carnage" by Simon Amstell](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-carnage-by-simon-amstell/) - Thursday October 5th Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Film starts 7pm A rare opportunity to see comedian Simon Amstell's hilarious 2017 mockumentary "Carnage: Swallowing the Past" (68mins). It's 2067 and the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. In the world's first vegan comedy, writer and director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed. Screening followed by one-pot vegan supper and chat. Ticket includes complimentary supper and drinks. - [New Season Launch: Before the Light Fades with Natasha Walter](https://www.kairos.london/event/before-the-light-fades-with-natasha-walter/) - Tuesday October 3rd, 6.30pm These are dark and challenging times for all of us who care about our planet and our society. How do we continue to stay politically and personally active? Writer Natasha Walter's latest book, Before the Light Fades, takes as its starting point her time of personal and political despair after her mother’s death by suicide. In the book she draws strength from her family’s legacy of political activism, in the 1960s nuclear disarmament movement and in 1930s Germany in the anti-Nazi resistance. Natasha will launch our new season with this talk focusing on her own family stories. She'll also invite us to share insights on how we continue to do what we think is right, even in the knowledge that we may not succeed. Without false optimism, how can we ensure that we do not succumb to despair? What legacies from the past should we honour? How do we sustain our own communities of resistance in these dark times? - [Kairos Book Club: "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-by-becky-chambers/) - Friday September 29th, 6.30pm We'll be talking about Becky Chambers' 2021 novel "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honour the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of 'what do people need?' is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They're going to need to ask it a lot. - [Kairos Book Club: "The Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-the-parable-of-the-sower/) - Friday August 18th, 6.30pm We'll be talking about Octavia Butler's 1993 novel Parable of the Sower. California in the 2020s descends into anarchy and violence but one woman has the power to transform everything in this alarmingly prescient dystopia that takes in climate change, inequality and racism. 'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' - Gloria Steinem - [Wilderness and Belonging with Sicelo Mbatha](https://www.kairos.london/event/wilderness-and-belonging-with-sicelo-mbatha/) - Thursday July 27th, 6.45pm St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Bishopsgate EC2 South African wilderness guide Sicelo Mbatha, otherwise known as Black Lion, has devoted his life to fostering deep connections between people and the more-than-human world. With the organisation he founded, Umkhiwane Sacred Pathways, he guides people along “healing paths” through some of South Africa’s wildest areas, including the Imfolozi Wilderness, the Simangaliso Wetland and the Drakensberg mountains. Born into the Zulu tradition, Sicelo believes this sort of immersion in landscape and nature can be transformative: it can help us connect to our own wildness, experience the spirit of collective humanity (or ubuntu) and help heal the wounds of environmental destruction and social injustice. In this talk, focused on two stories, Sicelo will explore how we might restore humanity’s sense of belonging within the natural world, what role indigenous ways of knowing have in the regeneration of our culture and our earth, and how a sense of kinship with all life could be fundamental to our survival. - [The Climate Crisis: Why Aren't We Angrier? with Josh Cohen](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-climate-crisis-why-arent-we-angrier-with-josh-cohen/) - Tuesday July 25th, 6.45pm St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, Bishopsgate EC2 Psychoanalyst, writer and academic Josh Cohen will ask why the climate crisis doesn’t arouse more popular anger. Drawing on the psychoanalytic distinction between aggression (what psychoanalysis calls a drive) and anger (an emotion), he wonders whether the sense of the diffuseness and obscurity of the bad actors in the crisis has the effect of obstructing our aggression and so diluting our outrage. Drawing on Paul Schrader’s 2017 film First Reformed as well as various writers and philosophers, he will explore the forking paths of violent despair and love that might lead out of climate anger. - [Kairos at Green Gathering](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-at-green-gathering/) - Thursday August 3rd to Sunday August 6th Kairos will be popping up at Green Gathering, the off-grid festival on a beautiful site just outside the Welsh border town Chepstow. We're occupying a large marquee in the new Radical Flank Field. During the daytime it will be a place to drink tea, chat, dip into our library and take part in a collaborative art project. On the Friday and Saturday evenings we'll be hosting our usual salon-style talk events. Friday August 4th, 7pm PLANETARITY: SOME TOOLS FOR THINKING ABOUT THE EARTH with TIM WATERMAN How can we replace the neo-liberal idea of “globalisation” with other ways of thinking about global connectedness and our place in the world? Tim Waterman, professor of landscape at the Bartlett and author of The Landscape of Utopia, will present some new tools to help us reimagine “planetarity”: earthliness, worldliness, and globality. His talk will take in maps and Utopia, colonialism and protest, enclosure and the commons, as well as the romantic and the poetic as different ways of thinking about the planetary. It will offer fresh insights for anyone trying to find alternative ways of conceiving, working with, caring for and "commoning" our Earth, while grappling with the predicament of climate and nature breakdown. Saturday August 5th, 7pm ANARCHISM & ITS LESSONS FOR NOW with RUTH KINNA If our current form of government is incapable of acting on the many challenges we face, what can anarchism teach us about how to self-organise and take the reins? Ruth Kinna, professor of political theory at Loughborough University and author of The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism, will set out the basic principles of anarchism. She will explain how anarchism offers a different way to organise, how ideas about anarchy could translate into practice, and what organisations designed to support non-dominating relationships without permanent fixed authority (a key principle of anarchism), need to do to survive and thrive. Green Gathering has offered us reduced price tickets at £110 instead of £150 on the gate. To book, go to www.greengathering.org.uk/affinity-codes and follow the instructions carefully using the affinity code G11SHC. If you'd like to be part of our Kairos at Green Gathering volunteer team we'd love to have your help. Please email events@kairos.london. - [Navigating Collapse, Reclaiming Freedom with Jem Bendell](https://www.kairos.london/event/navigating-collapse-reclaiming-freedom-with-jem-bendell/) - Thursday July 20th, 6.45pm St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, Bishopsgate EC2 Monetary systems have driven us to harm each other and nature to such an extent that the foundations of our societies are broken. So much so, that the collapse of modern societies has already begun. That is the conclusion of two years of research by the interdisciplinary team behind Jem Bendell's new book "Breaking Together". In this talk with discussion, Jem will argue that to soften the fall and regenerate the natural world we have to reclaim our freedoms. He will warn that panicking elites will respond with moves towards authoritarianism. But that we still can, and must, advance an ecolibertarian agenda for both politics and practical action in a broken world. - [Essex St Leaving Party](https://www.kairos.london/event/essex-st-leaving-party/) - Thursday July 6th, 6.30-11pm Join us as we say goodbye to our current home and thank you to everyone who's contributed to the success of the last few months. - [Leaders & Intellectuals: From 'Legislators' to Catalysts of Democracy with Sophie Scott-Brown](https://www.kairos.london/event/leaders-intellectuals-from-legislators-to-catalysts-of-democracy-with-sophie-scott-brown/) - Tuesday July 4th, 6.15pm (Please note that the start time has been brought forward) Philosopher and intellectual historian Sophie Scott-Brown will explore how the traditional roles of the intellectual and the educator need reinventing along with our democracy. If, as cultural critic Raymond Williams argued, democracy is not merely an outcome but a process in which we must all take part, should we stop thinking of intellectuals as ‘legislators’ of democracy and rather as ‘catalysts’ or 'organisers' to inspire social engagement? Drawing on the work of historical and contemporary thinkers Raphael Samuel, founder of the History Workshop movement, Colin Ward, the everyday anarchist, GDH Cole, the pluralist pedagogue, and bell hooks, the original transgressive teacher - she will propose five principles which underpin the art of the organiser and suggest a few practical ways these principles might be applied in different situations from activist/community groups to educational settings. - [Kairos Book Club: "The Radiant Lives of Animals" by Linda Hogan](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-the-radiant-lives-of-animals-by-linda-hogan/) - Friday June 30th, 6.30pm We'll be talking about indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan's award winning collection of essays and poems exploring our relationship with the animal world. Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect with the spirit of the world. - [Defashion: Dismantling the Fashion Industry with Sandra Niessen](https://www.kairos.london/event/defashion-dismantling-the-fashion-industry-with-sandra-niessen/) - Thursday June 22nd, 6.30pm Join us for a talk and discussion with Sandra Niessen, anthropologist and member of Fashion Act Now, about the challenge of both meeting our clothing needs and restoring the ‘collateral damage’ caused by Industrial Fashion. It is time to re-think the relationship between our clothing and the Fashion Industry. Clearly the latter no longer serves our needs. But coming to a better alternative means getting to the heart of what we want and need from our clothing. Activists, researchers, NGOs and others, are avidly trying to construct sustainable fashion systems, but indigenous cultural systems continue to be largely ignored. It’s time to shine a light on what they can offer to us — and why they need to be cherished — as we try to shape new alternatives. - [The Family: Is There a Better Way to Live Together? with Sarah Stein Lubrano](https://www.kairos.london/event/deconstructing-the-family-is-there-a-better-way-to-live-together-with-sarah-stein-lubrano/) - Tuesday June 27th, 6.30pm Modern society is structured around the family. Our legal system, our housing units and our social norms all prioritise the nuclear family unit: two people and their children. While for some the family is a source of great joy and support, much has been lost and even harmed by organising our relationships this way. Political theorist and writer Sarah Stein Lubrano will look at arguments for extending, transforming, or abolishing the concept of the family. Might there be better ways of structuring our private and emotional lives? As we navigate the escalating crises of this century, how might we build alternative communities of care that aren’t based on biological kinship? - [Cocktail Night with Veteran Prankster Andrew Boyd](https://www.kairos.london/event/cocktail-night-with-veteran-prankster-andrew-boyd/) - Friday June 16th, 6.30pm-11pm Friday drinks featuring New York-based Andrew Boyd - veteran prankster, inventor of memes, co-founder of "subvertising" agency Agit-Pop Communication, author of activist manual “Beautiful Trouble” and the recently released tragi-comic “I Want a Better Catastrophe”. Andrew will share some inspiring examples from his numerous campaigns for social good, before setting us a creative challenge - more details to come - followed by supper at 8pm. The evening then continues from 8.30 until 11pm in the Constellations Cocktail Bar, which will be running the Pay it Forward, Knock it Back payment system. All are welcome. - [Kinship with All Life: A New Paradigm for Leadership with Justine Huxley](https://www.kairos.london/event/kinship-with-all-life-a-new-paradigm-for-leadership-with-justine-huxley/) - Tuesday June 13th, 6.30pm Fun, participatory workshop with Justine Huxley, co-founder of Kincentric Leadership, to explore how indigenous wisdom and new scientific findings are paving the way for a radical new way to lead. The indigenous worldview has long seen the more than human world as our kin, and this principle has shaped a way of life that allows all life to thrive. Today, Western leaders are increasingly looking to these world-views as they attempt to navigate the climate and nature crises, while science has made huge leaps in understanding of the umwelts (or distinct sensory realities) of different animals and plants. Justine will take us on a whistle-stop tour of these exciting new scientific findings that demonstrate the intelligence, interconnectedness and communication skills of the more than human world, and draw parallels with indigenous world-views. We’ll look at the principles of the kincentric approach and how this learning can be applied specifically to leadership, in any context. We’ll explore some shining examples of kincentric leadership in action and then get practical and ask: what might this look like in your community or context? How might you become a ‘kincentric leader’? - [Forging a Commons Charter…. & Acting On It with Guy Standing](https://www.kairos.london/event/forging-a-commons-charter-acting-on-it-with-guy-standing/) - Friday June 9th, 6.30pm The commons belong to everybody in society and to everybody equally. They include the natural commons – the land, rivers, sea and seabed, and the air we breathe – as well as the social, civil, cultural and educational commons. And yet our commons have been systematically depleted, through encroachment (and neglect), enclosure, privatisation, commodification and financialisation. The erosion has accelerated in the past forty years since the neo-liberal economics revolution associated with Margaret Thatcher, and ratcheted up in the period of austerity. In this talk and discussion, economist Guy Standing, author of Plunder of the Commons and The Blue Commons, will argue that we need a new progressive politics that demands a revision of the commons and compensation for their loss. We'll also discuss one possible objective, a Commons Charter, and how such a manifesto for reviving common wealth might be achieved. - [Artful Activism & the Backbone Theory of Change with Bill Moyer](https://www.kairos.london/event/artful-activism-the-backbone-theory-of-change-with-bill-moyer/) - Wednesday June 7th, 6.30pm For two decades, Bill Moyer, musician, change agent and co-founder of the Backbone Campaign has been providing activists and organisers with innovative techniques for creative protest. Backbone’s tools for “artful activism” include the use of puppets, light projections, human murals, supersized banners and a collection of water-based tactics known as kayaktivism. Bill, who is based in Washington State, will be visiting London and at Kairos to explain Backbone’s theory of change. Love Wins! And the Art of War combines lessons from past social movements and the performing arts with grand strategic principles that Bill has borrowed from his Pentagon analyst mentor and applied to nonviolent social movements. - [Time Beyond Cronos with Charlotte Du Cann](https://www.kairos.london/event/time-beyond-cronos-with-charlotte-du-cann/) - Thursday June 1st, 6.30pm We live boxed in linear time, driven by perpetual deadlines. dragged down by the ‘nightmare of history’, haunted by a future of ecological loss and social breakdown. Modern technological lives go too fast to assimilate any kinds of knowledge, or ways of being, outside the 24/7 story of ‘progress’. Charlotte Du Cann, writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project will help us explore the deeper cycles of time - ancestral, mythic, Indigenous time – and the non-linear perception Kairos brings, to break free from Cronos’ tyrannical clock and calendar. How can we sit with this troubled present and connect with the wider cycles of time? How can we build a practice which enables us to compost the dark legacies of the past, and allow other possibilities to reveal themselves? - [Screening of Iain McGilchrist Documentary “The Divided Brain”](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-iain-mcgilchrist-documentary-the-divided-brain/) - Wednesday May 24th, 6pm The feature-length documentary “The Divided Brain” is a fascinating introduction to the ideas of philosopher and psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist. In his groundbreaking books, Master and His Emissary (2009) and The Matter with Things (2021), Iain McGilchrist explores the imbalance between the two sides of our brains, the increasing dominance of the task-focused left hemisphere over the context-focused right hemisphere, and the devastating effect this is having on our culture and on our relationship with the rest of the world. The documentary screening will be followed by a guided discussion on McGilchrist's theory and its implications. - [Kairos Book Club: "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-the-dispossessed-by-ursula-le-guin/) - Friday May 19th, 6.30pm For the third meeting of our book club, we're reading science fiction classic "The Dispossessed", Ursula K Le Guin's much admired 1974 anarchist utopia. Shevek is a brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. - [Wittgenstein, Co-freedom & The Politics of Ecology with Rupert Read](https://www.kairos.london/event/wittgenstein-co-freedom-the-politics-of-ecology-with-rupert-read-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_breadcrumb _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_breadcrumb][et_pb_wc_cart_notice _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_cart_notice][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”4.20.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_images _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_images][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_wc_title product=”1416″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ header_font=”feijoa-display||||||||” header_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_title][et_pb_wc_description product=”2648″ description_type=”description” admin_label=”Woo Product Description” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_wc_description][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section] - [Climate, Technology, Justice & Rights: Can We Get The Whole World To Agree On Any Of Them? with AC Grayling](https://www.kairos.london/event/climate-technology-justice-rights-can-we-get-the-whole-world-to-agree-on-any-of-them-with-ac-grayling/) - Wednesday May 10th, 6.30pm Philosopher AC Grayling will talk about what it would take for individual governments to reach global agreement on climate and other challenges, and what will happen if they don’t. Followed by discussion. - [Comic Book Soup: A Food-themed Weekend of Collaborative Visual Story-telling](https://www.kairos.london/event/how-do-we-come-together/) - Friday April 21st – Sunday April 23rd Join us for a special Kairos event that will unfold over the weekend of April 21st-23rd. Guided by designer John Fass and writer Toby Litt, and inspired by Swedish folk tale Nail Soup, we will come together to make a giant comic book that tells the story of a group of people gathering ingredients to make a meal together. We will launch our story on Friday evening with cocktails and supper and continue all day Saturday. On the Sunday we will pull it all together and make the food from the story which we'll eat together. Drop in for a few minutes or a couple of hours. Share a story, make a drawing (as simple or involved as you like), write a speech bubble, or just bring your favourite recipe for a communal vegan dish. Meet, draw, chat, drink, eat, cook. - [Screening Of “Cow” with Anat Pick](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-cow-with-anat-pick/) - Tuesday May 2nd, 6pm Andrea Arnold’s observational documentary Cow immerses the viewer in the brutal machinations of Luma’s life as a dairy cow, from forced impregnations, to the separation from her calves, and repeated milking. The film’s unflinching gaze refrains from explicitly judging what we see, but ethical questions nevertheless abound: how can we justify the ongoing use of sentient animals as commodities? After the screening, academic and author Anat Pick will guide discussion. Where does Cow fit in current debates over the future of our relationship with nonhuman animals and that of the planet? What can it teach us about the specifically gendered violence of the dairy industry? Can we envision peaceable ways of living with domestic animals that eschew domination and exploitation? - [The New Lucas Plan: A Workers-Led Transition](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-new-lucas-plan-a-worker-led-transition-with-hilary-wainwright-and-sam-mason/) - Tuesday April 18th In the late 1970s, a group of workers at Lucas Aerospace, threatened by corporate restructure and mass redundancy, came up with their own plan to switch production away from weapons and into socially useful products. Today, the New Lucas Plan, an alliance of trade unionists, academics, and others, is developing a bottom-up, workers-led strategy for how to transition rapidly out of fossil fuel-based technologies. Hilary Wainwright, sociologist, activist, author and co-editor of Red Pepper magazine, will talk about the history of the original Lucas Plan and what needs to happen now to spread the principles of the New Lucas Plan. Followed by discussion. (Unfortunately, Sam Mason, policy officer at the Public and Commercial Services Union, is no longer able to take part in this event.) - [Screening of “How To Blow Up A Pipeline” with Rowan Tilly](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-with-rowan-tilly/) - Monday April 17th Join us for a special preview screening of the forthcoming feature film “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” directed by Daniel Goldhaber and based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm. After the film, activist and nonviolence advocate Rowan Tilly will explore the ethics and efficacy of sabotage. Is it intrinsically violent, or could some types of property damage still sit within the principles of nonviolence? Followed by discussion. - [The Rights of Nature with César Rodríguez-Garavito](https://www.kairos.london/event/the-rights-of-nature-with-cesar-rodriguez-garavito/) - Monday April 10th Colombian lawyer and New York University professor, César Rodríguez-Garavito, will be passing through London and at Kairos to discuss his More Than Human Rights (MOTH) project, a global, interdisciplinary collaboration between prominent scientists, philosophers, lawyers, Indigenous leaders, advocates and journalists. Questions he will raise for discussion will include: How do findings from the natural sciences, Indigenous knowledge, and other fields shed new light on the idea of the rights of nature? What types of non-human entities should be protected and what types of rights should they hold? How are social movements, policymakers, judges, and other actors challenging the current anthropocentric view of rights. - [Screening of “Accidental Anarchist” with Güney Yildiz & Carne Ross in conversation](https://www.kairos.london/event/screening-of-accidental-anarchist-with-guney-yildiz-carne-ross-in-conversation/) - Tuesday April 11th In the documentary "Accidental Anarchist" (2017, 1h) former diplomat Carne Ross goes in search of an alternative to capitalist democracy. His quest takes in pre-Franco Spain, Occupy Wall Street, and the ideas of Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin, eventually leading him to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), a decentralised, non-hierarchical governance structure that emerged from the Kurdish resistance movement. Following the film, Carne will be in conversation with specialist researcher, Güney Yildiz, who will explain more about the theory behind AANES and what's happening on the ground today. - [Revolution: Inevitable, Justified and Effective with Roger Hallam](https://www.kairos.london/event/revolution-inevitable-justified-and-effective-with-roger-hallam/) - Wednesday April 5th Extinction Rebellion co-founder and social movement theorist Roger Hallam will be at Kairos to share his latest thinking. In this interactive talk, he will argue that Revolution is 1. Inevitable (collapse is locked in), 2. Justified (the elites are to blame) and 3. Effective (only regime change will save what can still be saved). Roger will also describe what nonviolent democratic revolution would look like as an alternative to the descent into various forms of fascism. Followed by discussion. - [Kairos Book Club: “We Are Nature Defending Itself” by Isabelle Fremaux and Jay Jordan](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-we-are-nature-defending-itself-by-isabelle-fremaux-and-jay-jordan/) - Friday April 14th For the second meeting of our book club, we're discussing Fremeaux and Jordan's non-fiction account of the French protest camp the Zad (Zone to Defend). The book blends rich eyewitness descriptions with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history. - [Sunday Sci-Fi: “Children Of Men” by Alfonso Cuarón](https://www.kairos.london/event/sunday-sci-fi-children-of-men-by-alfonso-cuaron/) - Sunday April 2nd, 5pm “It should be required viewing for anyone grappling with feelings of dread about modern civilisation. Which is to say, probably everyone.” – Richard Lawson, chief critic Vanity Fair We’re watching Children of Men (2006, 1h 49m), directed by Alfonso Cuarón, a dystopian thriller that's feeling increasingly true to life. Critically acclaimed on release, but a flop at the box office, Children of Men now has cult status. - [Warm Data Lab at Kairos](https://www.kairos.london/event/warm-data-lab-at-kairos/) - Tuesday March 14th “How do we think our way through the messes we’re in when the way we think is part of the mess?” — Nora Bateson At this slightly different Kairos event, led by two local data lab hosts, we will explore what it’s like to look at an issue through multiple contexts all at once. What happens when we see things differently? It’s for us to find out together. Participants will be invited to explore an open-ended question, revealed on the night, and to share their stories through the lens of multiple contexts. - [Protest Rights: A Benchmark For Political Freedom with Raj Chada](https://www.kairos.london/event/protest-rights-a-benchmark-for-political-freedom-with-raj-chada/) - Tuesday 21st March In this presentation and discussion, solicitor Raj Chada of Hodge Jones and Allen, will be asking what the increasingly punitive approach being taken by the courts towards environmental protestors says about the broader political moment. - [Kairos Book Club: “Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman](https://www.kairos.london/event/kairos-book-club-venomous-lumpsucker-by-ned-beauman/) - Friday March 17th For the first meeting of our new book club we’ll be talking about Ned Beauman‘s darkly satirical novel Venomous Lumpsucker. - [Doughnut Economics Workshop](https://www.kairos.london/event/doughnut-economics-workshop/) - Thursday March 9th Rob Shorter from The Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), will lead a workshop into how the ideas of Doughnut Economics can be applied at the neighbourhood, business, educational and local government level. 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