1:00 pm, April 6 2025
Join us after the Assembly (The Mindful Photo Lab on 6 April) for lunch!
If the weather is good we’ll be outside, so bring blankets and food to share.
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.
11:00 am, April 6 2025
The smartphone and social media age has made taking photos a part of our lives like never before. But is there a more fulfilling way to approach photography?
Join us on Sunday 6 April to hear from guest speaker Pierre Bureau, Founder of Mindful Photo Lab and the East London Photography Festival, an exciting initiative that blends mindfulness, creativity, and community engagement through photography.
Pierre will be telling us how he was inspired to start a community that used photography to improve mental health, and the festival’s mission to celebrate East London’s rich cultural diversity and its focus on fostering wellbeing and connection through visual storytelling.
There will also be a wonderful activity that Pierre will be asking for the audience to take part in. We’d love you to bring a meaningful object with you should you feel comfortable. An old camera, a hat, anything that holds personal significance.
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks, poetry, live music and share your stories whilst making new friends. Please stay after for tea, biscuits, and engaging conversations with members of our community.
→ Our next assembly: Earth Day Special, Living Well in a Climate Crisis, 20 April
← Our previous assembly: Use Your Voice: How to Unlock Your Courage and Amplify Your Message, 16 March
5:00 pm, September 25 2025
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.
We’re delighted to be able to keep ticket prices similar to previous years, and a discounted Early Bird ticket will be available until 31st March 2025, at £110. We’ll also have day tickets, subsidised tickets and children’s tickets available.’
Find out more at sundayassemblyglasgowgathering.com
12:00 am, April 27 2025
Our Sunday Assembly London band can’t wait to play pop songs at Enrich Festival on Sunday 27th April, alongside a brilliant and inclusive line-up of talented performers.
‘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!’
Join our live band (which includes exceptionally talented neurodivergent musicians) as we get the whole theatre singing along to well-known pop songs. A typical Sunday Assembly has four songs; the Enrich audience will be getting ten songs!
Lyrics will be provided, dancing encouraged, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more at enrichfestival.org
(And yes, we know we’ve marked this as a non-just-Sunday event, but we don’t have a category for not-just-Sunday-Assembly-Sunday events!)
7:30 pm, April 10 2025
The Sunday Assembly London team is a little bit nervous. We’ve decided to do something exceptionally fun and we want you to be part of it, but it’s really quite radical. Brace yourselves…
Sunday Assembly is planning a get-together that’s not on a Sunday… and isn’t an Assembly.
We know. What’s got into us? Are we doing this for a laugh?
That’s exactly why we’re doing it. Though there is a serious reason too. Allow us to explain.
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! Ready to entertain you on 10th April.
Our host is James Ross, whose Quantum Leopard comedy nights have won awards for showcasing stand-up that doesn’t punch down. He’s put together a fabulous line-up for us:
How much will it cost you to take in all that incredible talent? Just £15, or £10 if you’re on a low income or precariously employed. We must be having a laugh. (Did we already say that?)
Here are the details for this non-Sunday spectacular:
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
You may be wondering what happens to your ticket fee. None of it goes to our host, thanks to his amazing generosity; the performers don’t want a cut either. Every penny will go to Sunday Assembly London, at a time when we really need it to ensure we have a future. So while you’re laughing to keep our lights on, you’ll be upholding our other tenet: Help Often. And we’ll be so grateful to you.
All line ups subject to change.
Tickets are non refundable.
Limited number of concessionary tickets available
7:30 pm, April 3 2025
The point of Article Club is to challenge ourselves to read a diverse range of articles, share them with like-minded people and deal with our anxiety that we aren’t reading books.
Here is a recap of how the club works:
1. We meet every six weeks or so in or near the National Theatre.
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 and 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.
Nearer the time Alistair (host) will create a Google form that you can use to vote for the articles you would like to read and discuss at this event.
11:00 am, March 16 2025
Sunday Assembly’s International Women’s Day 2025 Special was an inspirational, emotional hour. Read on to find out how…
Our guest speaker: Anna Herber
Previously a guest poet at Sunday Assembly, we were delighted to welcome back writer, poet and entrepreneur Anna Herber as our speaker.
Anna helps people move through resistance and fear so they can share powerful messages that question the status quo and grow their impact.
For this special IWD talk, Anna celebrated women who have used their voices to create change, as well as some of the most common ways that women are silenced, and how to overcome them.
Drawing from her own experience, she showed us how to liberate our outspoken inner activist, truth speaker and wisdom keeper – overcoming procrastination and perfectionism, unlocking our courage and amplifying our authentic voice.
Watch a clip from Anna’s previous Sunday Assembly visit on Instagram
Our guest poet: Kay Scorah
With Amy Anam Cara sadly unable to join us due to illness, community member Kay Scorah kindly stepped in.
We loved her Gender Stereowiped Nursery Rhymes, which included Jill giving Jack essential first aid and Mary profiting off organic wool sweaters!
Our songs
Our Sunday Assembly band had us singing along to four empowering songs from female artists:
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Topics of our notices included:
A bonus guest poet
Inspired by Anna’s talk, community member Steph read out a poem by her friend, whose experiences in Afghanistan had moved him to urge his fellow men to support women.
As always, we followed the assembly with tea, biscuits and chat at the Backyard Comedy Club, then lunch, drinks & games at The Three Colts pub.
Thanks to our host Emily, co-host Matt, all our wonderful volunteers and everyone who filled the room with singing, laughter and appreciation – especially our first-timers!
Thanks also to everyone who wore purple in support of International Women’s day.
International Women’s Day 2024 at Sunday Assembly
As part of last year’s Sunday Assembly IWD Special, we wrote personal pledges to Inspire Inclusion, that year’s theme. Here’s a selection of our pledges. Click or tap to enlarge:
→ Our next assembly: The Mindful Photo Lab, 6 April
← Our previous assembly: Everyday Jews, 2 March
11:00 am, March 2 2025
To find out what we did at this Sunday Assembly, read on!
Our guest speaker: Keith Kahn-Harris
Following his hilarious 2022 Sunday Assembly talk on the multilingual warning messages inside Kinder Surprise Eggs(!), we welcomed back speaker and author Keith Kahn-Harris to discuss his new book, Everyday Jews: Why the Jewish People Are Not Who You Think They Are.
The book was inspired by Keith’s growing sense, as a Jew, that the Jewish people are now so public, so significant, so loved and so hated that the everyday stuff of Jewish life risks becoming ‘hollowed out’. In response, he aims to show that Jews can also be boring, mediocre and mundane, and that the ‘secular’ aspects of Jewish religious practice are often ignored but are the beating heart of Jewish religious life.
We learned how synagogues are as much about supper quizzes and social life as they are about communing with the divine, and the value in remembering that Jewish life can have its mundane and mediocre moments too.
Our guest performance: comedy from Rabbi Mendy Korer
We also welcomed jogger, chess player and stand-up comedian Rabbi Mendy Korer to this Assembly!
Founder of Chabad Islington, the only Jewish community centre in Islington, he loves to find ways to connect with people from diverse backgrounds, particularly through the human, spiritual and comedic relatability of Chassidic ultra-orthodox Jews.
Our songs
Our Sunday Assembly band performed three songs written and/or sung by Jewish artists:
This Much I Know
Today we reintroduced This Much I Know: a segment where we hear from a member of the Sunday Assembly community on a topic close to their heart.
This time, David Goldstein explained why he started coming to Sunday Assembly 10 years after hearing about us… and shared some big news about a grant application he’s been involved with. Find out more here
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Topics of our notices included:
As always, we followed the assembly with tea, biscuits and chat (and a sip of Palwin Jewish wine from Keith) at the Backyard Comedy Club, Lunch Club (at Hulya’s Cafe) and drinks & games at The Three Colts pub.
Thanks to our host Hanna, co-host Shane, all our wonderful volunteers and everyone who filled the room with singing, laughter and appreciation – especially our first-timers!
→ Our next assembly: Use Your Voice: How to Unlock Your Courage and Amplify Your Message, 16 March
← Our previous assembly: Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want!, 16 February
7:30 pm, February 20 2025
The point of Sunday Assembly Article Club is to challenge ourselves to read a diverse range of articles, share them with like-minded people and deal with our anxiety that we aren’t reading books.
How Article Club works
1. We meet every six weeks or so in or near the National Theatre, hosted by Alistair.
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 and 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.
The articles we chose
Does Labour still despise the working class?
Paul Embery, 22 December 2023
Has London reached peak toxicity?
David Mitchell
The Guardian, 2 April 2023
11:00 am, February 16 2025
If you really, really want to know what we did at this Sunday Assembly, read on!
Our guest speaker: Adam Taffler
Desires often get a bad press. From religion to popular culture, they’re painted as dangerous and uncontrollable forces to be suppressed or ignored.
Yet our desires are really messengers of what matters most. A healthy relationship with our needs and wants is vital – it’s the foundation of personal autonomy, authentic relationships, and our own sacred unfolding.
For our Valentine’s Special, we were thrilled to welcome Adam Taffler, a facilitator and authentic communication coach, to help us all understand how to better articulate what we need and want in our relationships. Adam’s mission is making human connection a higher priority in culture. Known for founding the Togetherness movement and creating Shhh Dating (a silent speed dating experience), he designs spaces where genuine connection flourishes.
Adam Taffler’s website
Our guest poet: Michael McKimm
We were also excited to have some spoken word from Michael McKimm, an East London-based poet, originally from Ireland. His most recent book Because We Could Not Dance At The Wedding is about love in a long-term gay relationship and finding joy in an uncertain world.
Our four songs
Courtesy of the Sunday Assembly band, we sang four songs with the theme of wanting:
– You’re The One That I Want – John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
– Don’t You Want Me – Human League
– We Can Work It Out – The Beatles
– Wannabe – Spice Girls (cunningly disguised as Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana)
Notices
Topics of our notices included:
– Our Book Swap table (where swapping is not compulsory)
– An invitation to volunteer at the Mile End parkrun on 16 March
– Our sister assembly in Reading, The Sunday Alternative
– Our next Article Club on 20th February – details here
– Our first ever comedy fundraiser, bringing four fantastic comedians to you on 10th April – details here
As always, we followed the assembly with tea, biscuits and chat at the Backyard Comedy Club, Lunch Club (at Nando’s) and drinks & games at The Three Colts.
Thanks to our host Stuart, co-host Alan, all our wonderful volunteers and everyone who filled the room with singing, laughter and appreciation – especially our first-timers!
→ Our next assembly: Everyday Jews, 2 March
← Our previous assembly: Men’s Sheds: Craft, Connection and Community, 2 February
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