Did you know that some animals hibernate in summer?* That wouldn’t suit us at Sunday Assembly London. While our assemblies take a break in August, we’re planning an array of Sunday events to keep us connected.
We’re still finalising our August 2026 plans, but our ideas include:
Picnic lunches
Ice cream crawl
Outdoor swimming
Arts & crafts in the park
One-off choir
Sir David Attenborough’s Our Story at the Natural History Museum (ends 30th August)
M. C. Escher exhibition at Somerset House (ends 6th September)
Pride the Musical at the National Theatre Dorfman (ends 12th September)
If you want to find out more about our not-just-assemblies events, email Tanya at community@sundayassembly.com. Or, as with our assemblies, just turn up!
*Aestivation? We don’t know the meaning of the word…
Article Club is where the Sunday Assembly London community read a diverse range of articles, share them with like-minded people and deal with our anxiety that we aren’t reading books.
We’ve had over 75 meetings and it’s never too late to join! Just like at our assemblies, we love welcoming new members and their unique opinions.
How Article Club works
1. We meet every 1-2 months in the National Theatre building in Central London by the river. We go for the round seats in the Lyttelton Theatre bar on the first floor.
2. We vote in advance and pick two articles from a short list to read before we meet. Usually one relates to politics/current affairs and the other to history, culture or science.
3. We talk about each one for around half an hour. The beauty of Article Club is that we can think more deeply about the broader themes of a topic, and how well the article gets to grips with them.
4. We each give a score out of 10 for the articles that have been discussed.
5. We set the date for the next Article Club and sometimes adjourn to the pub.
We also have Article Club meetings coming up on:
Thursday 27th August
Thursday 8th October
To meet more of the Sunday Assembly London community while learning about a new or familiar topic, you’re always welcome at our Sunday Assemblies too!
How can poetry enable representation for marginalised people? Where do bodywonky, neurospicy types fit into a community that often prizes physical looks and sexual performance? This London Pride weekend and Disability Pride Month, join us to find out.
JP Seabright is a queer disabled author who explores gender, sexuality and disability through poetry, prose and experimental forms. As co-editor and organiser of the Arts Council-funded project eff-able, alongside our guest poet George Parker, JP helps to spotlight the intimate lives and erotic experiences of disabled, chronically ill, d/Deaf and neurodivergent members of the queer community – helping more of us to know their voices.
George, co-creator of eff-able, is the nominee and winner of multiple awards, bringing their first-hand experience to today’s celebration of queer disabled lives.
Our singalongs
As usual, there will be four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes. You’ll find out which ones at the assembly, or you may spot clues on our social media…
The lyrics will be projected on screen and everyone’s welcome to sing (and dance) along. This was one of the songs at our Pride 2025 assembly:
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly London is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks and poetry, sing songs and make new friends.
Stay after for tea, biscuits, and chat in the Backyard Comedy Club. Then join us for a local meal, picnic, or a drink and card games at the pub.
When the weather is good we eat outside and ask people to bring blankets and food to share. On colder days, we head for a local restaurant, café or pub that serves food. (We’ll confirm which one during the assembly.)
Keep an eye on the weather and event listing in case we need to change venue. And if you have any portable games (card or board games that are quick to play), bring them too. Newcomers are very welcome.
Science shapes almost every part of our lives, from the technologies we use to the resources we depend on – yet many scientific spaces still remain shaped by exclusion and racism.
Chris Jackson is Technical Director at WSP, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and an internationally recognised geologist whose work explores how we can safely and sustainably use the Earth’s subsurface to access critical resources and store hazardous waste.
Drawing on personal experiences from his own career alongside a wider look at the culture of science, Chris reflected on why representation matters, what is lost when voices are excluded, and what it might take to build a more open, inclusive and human scientific community.
Our singalongs
As usual, there were four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes:
Wonderful World – Sam Cooke (1960)
Rhinestone Cowboy – Larry Weiss (1974; made famous by Glenn Campbell, 1975)
Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan (1963)
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons (2012)
The lyrics will be projected on screen and everyone was welcome to sing (and dance) along.
Though ADHD in adults is talked about more and more, it’s still being misunderstood. Whether we have first-hand experience or not, there’s a lot to gain from understanding that ADHD isn’t just about distraction or restlessness, or only about coping: it’s about rebuilding self-worth and creating a more connected, meaningful life.
Guest speaker: Kyriakos Fiakkas
Kyriakos is the author of Adult ADHD: From Survive to Thrive. His talk will explore the challenges of living with ADHD, from time management and focus to relationships and the often overlooked ‘ADHD tax’. He will also highlight the strengths that can come with ADHD, and offers practical ways to navigate daily life.
Guest poet: Joe James
Welcome back to Joe, who will give us his own poetic perspective on today’s theme.
Our singalongs
As usual, there will be four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes. You’ll find out which ones at the assembly, or you may spot clues on our social media…
The lyrics will be projected on screen and everyone’s welcome to sing (and dance) along.
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly London is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks and poetry, sing songs and make new friends.
Stay after for tea, biscuits, and chat in the Backyard Comedy Club. Then join us for a local meal, picnic, or a drink and card games at the pub.
→ Our next assembly:Queer Disabled Joy!, 5th July ← Our previous assembly: TBC, 6th September (after our August break)
Guest poets have always been a mainstay of our assemblies. At this assembly, we explored how poetry can become a powerful tool for expression and healing.
Claudia is a humanistic-integrative counsellor and somatic therapist. She drew on her work using poetry within therapy to help give voice to experiences that are often hard to put into words.
Via insights from contemporary neuroscience and practices such as trauma release exercises (TRE) and sophrology, we found out how poetic language can engage both mind and body – supporting nervous system regulation, deepening self-awareness, and opening up new ways of connecting with ourselves and others.
While often have a guest poet after our talk, this time we were the poets! Our Community Lead Tanya led us in a collaborative poetry writing activity, using sensory metaphors to tell a story of bad experiences becoming good.
Our singalongs
As usual, there were four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes:
Everybody’s Talkin’ – Fred Neil; covered by Harry Nilsson
The lyrics were projected on screen and everyone was welcome to sing (and dance) along.
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly London is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks and poetry, sing songs and make new friends.
Stay after for tea, biscuits, and chat in the Backyard Comedy Club. Then join us for a local meal, picnic, or a drink and short card/board games at the pub.
How can creativity, skills and community tackle waste and reimagine the spaces we share? The Woodshop of Recycled Delights (WoRD) is answering that question – and it’s based in East London, our neck of the woods!
Based at the Garden of Earthly Delights in Hackney, WoRD is a community project making woodwork accessible to everyone – particularly those historically excluded – while building confidence and skills. It’s part of a quietly radical shift away from consumption towards resourceful reuse.
As co-founder of WoRD, Harry told us how it’s tackling waste timber across London, using surplus materials can in innovative and joyful ways.
Guest poet: Joe James
We welcomed Joe back to the Sunday Assembly London stage. We certainly wouldn’t accuse him of coming out of the woodwork…
Our singalongs
As usual, there were four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes:
This Ole House – covered by Shakin’ Stevens
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
Top of the World – The Carpenters
Driftwood – Travis
The lyrics were projected on screen and everyone was welcome to sing (and dance) along.
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly London is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks and poetry, sing songs and make new friends.
Stay after for tea, biscuits, and chat in the Backyard Comedy Club. Then join us for a local meal, picnic, or a drink and short card/board games at the pub.
To mark Dying Matters Awareness Week 2026 (4th-10th May), writer and journalist Erica Buist invited us to look at death differently.
After a personal loss brought her face to face with how awkwardly we react to dying, Erica set out to explore how other cultures approach it: with ritual, openness, and even joy.
Her journey took her to death festivals (deathtivals) in Mexico, Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Japan, Madagascar and Indonesia. We got to see and hear what she experienced: reminders that by facing endings together, we can live more fully, and maybe even find moments of laughter along the way.
As usual, there were be four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes.
A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
I Just Died in your Arms Tonight – Cutting Crew
Who Knew – P!nk
The Dead Dance – Lady Gaga
The lyrics were projected on screen and everyone was welcome to sing (and dance) along.
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly London is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks and poetry, sing songs and make new friends.
Stay after for tea, biscuits, and chat in the Backyard Comedy Club. Then join us for a local meal, picnic, or a drink and card games at the pub.
Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear an age-based label. Boomer, Generation X, Millennial, Gen Z… might these be blocking connections, understanding, better living? What becomes possible when we work to bridge these divides?
‘In our own bungalow within the grounds of Nightingale House, a care home for older people, the children develop a deeper understanding of the human life cycle and respect for others from their daily interactions with their older friends at Nightingale.’
What began as a bold idea has grown into a wider movement, from training practitioners to building networks that connect generations across the country.
Judith is also co-founder of Gen-All, a grassroots network championing intergenerational practice.
Continuing the theme of what we can learn from children, Carys read a lovely poem about believing in dragons, based on her experience of teaching abroad.
Our singalongs
As usual, there were four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band and reflecting today’s themes.
When I’m 64 – The Beatles
Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
Father and Son – Yusuf aka Cat Stevens
Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
The lyrics will be projected on screen and everyone’s welcome to sing (and dance) along.
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