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7:30 pm, September 18 2025

Article Club: when you love to read, but it’s brevity you need

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.

This will be our 72nd meeting but 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 six weeks or so 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.

Look out for details of our next Article Club. And 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!

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1:00 pm, July 20 2025

Lunch/picnic: because we have to eat and love to meet

Join us for lunch after our assembly (How to Have Conflict) on 7th September!

If the weather is good we’ll be outside, so bring blankets and food to share. Otherwise, we’ll head for a local restaurant, café or pub that serves food. (We’ll tell you which 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, bring them too. Newcomers are very welcome.

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12:15 pm, August 30 2025

Summer Sync-Up activities: Stay connected throughout August

Did you know that some animals hibernate in summer?* That wouldn’t suit us at Sunday Assembly London. While our assemblies are taking a break in August, we have an array of Sunday events to keep us connected.

What’s on the cards? Here are our completed and future plans. Updated on 17th August

Sunday 3rd August: picnic; ice cream crawl

At 12pm, we got together in Lincoln’s Inn Fields (near Holborn Tube station) for a bring-your-own picnic lunch.

Then we walked a route around London to sample a series of ice cream treats. We had a delightful ice cream crawl in September 2024 and couldn’t wait to do it again.

We met at 3pm opposite Kentish Town Station (Tube – Northern line; the National Rail Thameslink station is next door) at 3pm. Anyone who wanted to skip straight to dessert was welcome to come along without being at the picnic first!

Sunday 10th August: Lido swimming

A refreshing swim at the Serpentine Lido.

Sunday 17th August: picnic; art walk

At 12pm, we were back at Lincoln’s Inn Fields for another bring-your-own picnic lunch.

We enjoyed the “world turned upside down” near LSE and the Wellcome Collection’s current inclusive exhibitions are fantastic.

Saturday 30th August: walking adventure in Box Hill, Surrey

Emily is running a very special event for those of us wanting to adventure a little bit further afield than Central London.

Meeting at Box Hill & Westhumble station at 12:15pm (you can get the 11:24am from Waterloo), we will embark on a 5 mile walk, likely to take three hours with breaks.

Moderate difficulty – see National Trust classification
Dogs and Children welcome – we go at a leisurely pace

Route and timing subject to change pending weather and group make-up. There is an alternative shorter route if needed.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/surrey/box-hill/box-hill-juniper-top-circular-walk

Keep an eye on this page and our social media for more details and updates.

We’d love as many people as possible to join us for some or all of these activities, even if you’ve never been to a Sunday Assembly before. We know it’s not always easy to make and keep connections in London, so we’re waiting to welcome you!

If you’re planning to come along, or want to find out more, email Tanya at community@sundayassembly.com. Or, as with our assemblies, just turn up!

See you in August. *Aestivation? We don’t know the meaning of the word…

→ Our next assembly: Fight the Good Fight: How to Have Conflict, 7th September
← Our previous assembly: Conversations on Kindness: How the Power of Kindness can Change the World, 20th July

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5:00 pm, September 25 2025

Sunday Assembly Glasgow Gathering 2025: our cross-border community awaits!

Sunday Assembly’s annual global conference! Meet people from all over the world in Glasgow on 25th – 28th September.

From our hosts, Sunday Assembly Glasgow:

‘Every year members of different Sunday Assemblies across the UK, Europe and America come together in celebration, through a programme of talks, workshops and activities, that help us live by our motto to Live Better, Help Often and Wonder More. This year, we at Sunday Assembly Glasgow are excited to host the gathering and welcome people to our incredible city.

The conference is open to any Sunday Assembly members or supporters, and anyone interested in celebrating life with us. Children are welcome but must have their own ticket and anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult. We can’t wait to see you all!

Expect wonder-provoking talks, interactive workshops, and carefully curated activities that will help you build connections, live better and make the most of your time in Scotland. There’ll be something for everyone, whether you’re an organiser looking to develop your assembly, an assembly member looking to feel more connected to our network, or if you simply want to come along and celebrate life with like-minded people. And of course, there’ll be plenty of fun, food, singing and live music from a mega band of Sunday Assembly musicians from around the world.

If finding affordable accommodation is an issue then please get in touch. We have some members with spare rooms that may be able to offer a bed for the weekend. Send us a message on Instagram or by email hello@sundayassemblyglasgow.com and we will do our very best to find a place for you.

For those who are considering buying tickets, there is an incentive to buy soon: anyone buying a full priced weekend ticket between now and the end of August will be entered into a draw to win 2 Ceilidh tickets for Sloan’s Ceilidh on the Friday night of the gathering. It’s a great night, lots of fun in a beautiful historical building in the heart of the city.

The Glasgow Gathering is for members from around the world, as well as those who are new to Sunday Assembly and interested in learning, celebrating and making connections with us. So if you have friends who are interested in Sunday Assembly but can’t commit to regular meetings, please do bring them along.

There are also some subsidised tickets available at the very reduced rate of £40, for those who may not otherwise be able to attend.

These tickets may be purchased by those who meet one of the following criteria:

In full time education; Not receiving a waged income; Receiving income support (including pension credit), government assistance or other social security support.

(Subsidised tickets are very limited and you may only book one per order. If you’re not sure whether you qualify please get in touch to check.).’

Find out more at sundayassemblyglasgowgathering.com

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7:30 pm, August 7 2025

Article Club: August 2025

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.

This was our 71st meeting but 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 six weeks or so 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.

Our 7th August articles:

Is Just Stop Oil actually over – or is something more extreme on the horizon?

Cecil Rhodes and the abuse of History

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.

Our next Article Club will be on Thursday 18th September at 7:30pm.

And 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!

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1:00 pm, July 6 2025

A little old place where we can eat together: lunch at Love Shack!

Thanks to everyone who joined us after our Dolphins assembly on 15th June for lunch. We did it again after our Pride assembly on 6th July!

In honour of our speaker Carla Ecola and their topic, the UK’s first LGBTIQ+ shelter, our lunch venue was Love Shack. Right up the road from Sunday Assembly London, Love Shack is a wonderfully welcoming vegan restaurant that recently joined the Safe Space London directory of trans-friendly businesses.

We had one of our biggest Lunch Club turnouts in a while! Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate our community, the LGBTIQ+ community and the local East London community.

With so many delicious food and drink options, we’re looking forward to our next visit already!

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7:30 pm, June 26 2025

Article Club: June 2025

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.

This was our 70th meeting but 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 six weeks or so 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. Our chosen articles this time were:

All eyes are on Reform right now – but why are they given so much influence?
Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 21st April 2025
‘A strong progressive vote in local elections will be written off as random or outlying, while rightwing insurgency is considered to indicate some fundamental truth’

The rise and fall of peer review
Adam Mastroianni, Experimental History 13th December 2022
‘Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing’

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 (if we hadn’t already) and sometimes adjourn to the pub.

Our next two Article Clubs will be:

Thursday 7 August at 7:30pm
Thursday 18 September at 7:30pm

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!

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7:30 pm, May 15 2025

Article Club: May 2025

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.

This was our 69th meeting but it’s never too late to join! Just like at our assemblies, we love welcoming new members and their unique opinions.

It was also the first meeting after Article Club’s 10th anniversary (10th May 2025), so thank you to everyone who joined us as we embark on our next decade!

The two articles we discussed

New York’s Promising Experiment in Making the Subways Safer
Nicole Gelinas – New York Times, 14 August 2024

Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country
Richard Beard – The Guardian, 8 August 2021

How Article Club works

1. We meet every six weeks or so 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.

Our next three Article Clubs will be:

Thursday 26 June at 7:30pm
Thursday 7 August at 7:30pm
Thursday 18 September at 7:30pm

And 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!

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3:30 pm, April 27 2025

Sunday Assembly London band at Enrich Festival 2025

Our Sunday Assembly London band had great fun playing pop songs at Enrich Festival on Sunday 27th April, alongside a brilliant and inclusive line-up of talented performers.

How the festival describes itself:

‘Enrich Festival is an inclusive Arts festival showcasing the immense talent of disabled and neurodivergent artists and performers in the UK. It is produced by Herts Inclusive Theatre, an award winning charity that aims to break down barriers about disability through the Performing Arts.

Enrich Festival is delighted to return to Watford Palace Theatre on 26th & 27th April 2025. Join us as we showcase the immense talent of neurodiverse and disabled people in the Arts through drama, dance, film, art, comedy, music and poetry; complemented by inclusive and fully accessible arts-based workshops for all ages and abilities, there’s something for everyone across this weekend extravaganza!’

Our live band (which includes exceptionally talented neurodivergent musicians) made it their mission to get the whole theatre singing along to well-known pop songs. In true Sunday Assembly style, the lyrics were on a big screen so everyone could sing along if they wanted to.

A typical Sunday Assembly has four songs; the Enrich audience got ten songs! They included:

A Little Respect – Erasure
Let It Go from Frozen
Flowers – Miley Cyrus
What Makes You Beautiful – One Direction
It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
Grace Kelly – Mika
This Is Me from The Greatest Showman
Mamma Mia – ABBA

Well done to our band, thanks to everyone who came along and congratulations to Sunday Assembly London’s Tanya Byrne for making such an amazing festival happen!

Find out more at enrichfestival.org

(And yes, we know we marked this as a non-just-Sunday event, but we don’t have a category for not-just-Sunday-Assembly-Sunday events!)

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7:30 pm, April 10 2025

Comedy Night: a good laugh, a great cause, zero bores!

Thanks to everyone who came to our comedy fundraiser with Quantum Leopard!

Ever since Sunday Assembly was founded – by two comedians – our three tenets have included Live Better and Wonder More. (We’ll get to the other tenet later.) Comedy nights are great for both: the uplift of shared laughter and the marvel of well-crafted comedy.

And what’s better than two comedians?

Four comedians! They entertained us on 10th April.

Our host was James Ross, whose Quantum Leopard comedy nights have won awards for showcasing stand-up that doesn’t punch down. He put together a fabulous line-up for us:

Mark Thomas: Mark’s been performing comedy on stage and screen for over 35 years. He mixes theatre, journalism and the odd bout of performance art
Ben Pope: From Cambridge Footlights to Edinburgh Fringe to London clubs, Ben’s been called ‘one of the best storytellers in comedy’
Jamie Mykaela: A comedy-cabaret artist who’s been described as ‘bawdy, brassy, vulnerable and intense’, with performances fuelled by 12 years of opera training
Alex Franklin: Acclaimed in 2024 for being ‘winningly weird’, Alex’s performances have blended musical comedy, science and the joy of being trans

The details for this not-on-a-Sunday spectacular were:

Thursday 10th April from 7:30pm to 10pm (doors open at 7:30pm; show starts at 8pm)
COLAB Theatre, 22 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HB

What happened to the ticket fees. None of it went to our host, thanks to his amazing generosity; the performers didn’t want a cut either. Every penny went to Sunday Assembly London, at a time when we really need it to ensure we have a future.

So while the audience were laughing to keep our lights on, they were upholding our other tenet: Help Often. And we’re so grateful to them.

What did you think of the comedy night? Let us know on our social media!

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