Main Events

Our headline speaker for this assembly is James Ward, founder of the Boring Conference and someone who knows a lot about stationery.

Edinburgh Fringe First Award winner, Katie Bonna, will treat us to some of her poetry.

Our lovely choir and band will provide the music for you all to sing along to. Dancing in the aisles is optional.

There’ll also be tea and cake and a chance to socialise. No need to book and everyone is welcome. The event is free, but as ever, we appreciate donations to cover our costs.

Following last week’s extra London Sunday Assembly to coincide with the launch of more than 30 Assemblies world wide, we’re back to normal now, meeting on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month.

For this week’s Assembly, we’ll be joined by Dom Stichbury, leader of the Chaps Choir – a choir of chaps. To get hundreds of people to sing as one voice takes some talent, and couldn’t we all do with being better leaders? He’ll share tips and tricks that help him turn the many into one.

Everyone is welcome and there’s no need to book.

Ruth Kaiser is bring positivity from California, we’re bringing songs and joy – we’d love you to be there.

We’ll be livestreaming and linking to all the Assemblies across the globe as we celebrate this movement going from strength to strength.

Awesome songs, a fantastic speaker and, of course, tonnes of cake!

Free entry: donations welcome!

Come along to sing SONGS, hear TALKS, share TEA and CAKE and enjoy COMMUNITY.

The fantastic, funny and all round generally great Jenna Im is going to give a talk on what it’s like to grow up British, become Bahraini, move back to Britain and learn a lot about yourself, and the culture your from.

Come to the SUNDAY ASSEMBLY and celebrate being alive. It’s for everyone who wants to LIVE BETTER, HELP OFTEN and WONDER MORE.

See you soon down there.

Love,

Sunday Assembly Team

Our headline speaker for this assembly is Dr Itai Ivtzan. Mindfulness meditation is becoming enormously popular, but what is it really about? And how could it contribute to our happiness? He says it makes his heart sing. He is convinced that if we befriend both psychology and spirituality, and succeed in introducing them into our lives, we will all gain super-strengths of awareness, courage, resilience, and compassion.

He is a positive psychologist, a senior lecturer, and the program leader of MAPP (Masters in Applied Positive Psychology) at the University of East London (UEL). He is also an honorary senior research associate at University College London (UCL).

Dr. Ivtzan has previously given a Russell Square TEDx talk in 2013.

As always, there’ll also be awesome songs to sing, poetry to listen to, tea to drink, cake to eat and other lovely people to meet. What a way to start your Sunday!

If you can, please bring along some cash for donations, so we can cover our costs. No need to book – just turn up!

Join us for some Creative Adventures with Steve Chapman who believes we all have a unique ability to create, imagine and innovate no matter who we are, what we do or how creative we believe we are.

Steve will tell stories of losing and then re-discovering his own creativity, share some simple creative practices that can help us find our own and indulge the audience in some simple, exciting and energising experiments. If you want to discover your inner creative genius, this one is definitely for you!

As always, there’ll also be awesome songs to sing, poetry to listen to, tea to drink, cake to eat and other lovely people to meet. What a way to start your Sunday!

If you can, please bring along some cash for donations, so we can cover our costs. No need to book – just turn up!

Jo Hunter will be talking about her project ’53 Million Artists’, a campaign to unlock the creative potential of every human being in England. It invites people to commit to doing something different regularly, reflect on that and share it with other people at 53millionartists.com [Update 2026: it’s now known as 64 Million Artists]

As usual, there’ll also be some great songs, our lovely choir, fantastic band, poems, tea & cake.

Everyone’s welcome, no need to book. It’s free – but please donate if you can, so we can cover our costs.

The fabulous Mr Russell N. Arnott MSc will be explaining to us some of those science facts that we think we know, but do we REALLY know?

There will be FACTS! There will be FUN and of course, SONGS!

It’s free to attend. We ask for donations to keep the event non-ticketed (the money pays for the hall, refreshments and expenses). Please give generously if you can so we can keep it free for those who can’t.

Marina Cantacuzino founded The Forgiveness Project which uses the real stories of victims and perpetrators to explore concepts of forgiveness, and to encourage people to consider alternatives to resentment, retaliation and revenge.

Sounds pretty heavy! They will be songs and poems and joy and laughter as we explore the idea of forgiving people who we feel have wronged us.

Afterwards we’ll be having a picnic in the square. Bring some nibbles!