Not just Sunday Assemblies

Our post-Assembly picnics are an opportunity to carry on the good times together and enjoy lunch in the great outdoors!

We recommend that people:

• Keep an eye on the weather and event listing in case we need to change venue
• Bring a picnic mat and food from home or the nearby shops

We usually get others jump in last minute at the Assembly so there will be more people than are showing on the event registration pages.

Board Games Club follows Sunday Assembly at 3pm.

If the weather is warm and dry we picnic and play board games and card games. If not we’re indoors.

Newcomers are very welcome. We generally play short, easy to learn fun games.

If you like the idea of joining a book club, but find yourself too busy to finish the books in time, Article Club is for you! We meet every six weeks or so at the Lyttleton bar at the National Theatre to discuss two articles – usually one relating to politics or current affairs and one relating to history, culture or science. We aim to challenge ourselves to read a diverse range of articles and to think more deeply about the broader themes of the topic.

OUR NEXT MEETUP:
Date TBA – 7:30pm to around 9:15pm. We sit on the soft round seats in the Lyttleton Theatre bar on the first floor.

• 7:00 pm, May 15 2013
• Camden Head, Camden Passage, Angel

We are living in times that call for us to hang on to reason.  With rising unemployment at one end and people facing extreme work pressures at the other; in the middle there is a strong need for the understanding of the meaning of life. Age of Reason plan to explore the words of great thinkers and ordinary philosophers alike.

Camden Head, Camden Passage, Angel (nearest tube Angel)
2 Camden Walk, London Borough of Islington, N1 8D
15 May 7:00–7-9.00

7:00 Welcome and introduction
7:15 Sunday Assembly context  – Sanderson
7:30 Guest Speaker:
8:00 Group discussion
9:00 Close
Admission Free

• 7:00 pm, September 18 2013
• Camden Head

A message from Philosophy Club:

Hope everyone enjoyed the summer break. In the first session for the Autumn series we may well explore what led us to a global financial crises or individual greed and collective poverty.  This month’s guest speaker  Andy Denis will discuss his philosophy on ‘individual behaviour and collective outcomes’.

When: Wednesday the 18th September @ 7pm.

Where: Camden Head – in Angel (2 Camden Walk, N18DY)

Andy Denis Biog:

Dr Denis worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit in the 1980s and joined City University Business School in 1990 as a researcher in financial development, moving to the Economics Department in 1991.He gained his PhD in 2002 with a thesis on “Collective and Individual Rationality”. His research interests are in the history and philosophy of economics, and he has published on Adam Smith, Keynes, Hayek, Malthus, the methodology of the Austrian School of Economics and the concept of equilibrium in neoclassical economics.In 2009 he guest edited a special issue of the International Review of Economics Education on pluralism in the teaching of economics.Dr Denis has recently been elected a member of the ESHET (European Society of the History of Economic Thought) Council.

This month’s session was coordinated by Albert Van Hoek and the philosophy club team of organisers.

Best,

Dionne

• 7:00 pm, October 16 2013
• The Blacksmith and the Toffeemaker, Islington

Hello! How are you feeling? Or more to the point, why are you feeling? Where do your emotions come from? And what on earth are they for?!

We’ll be getting to grips with these sorts of questions at this month’s Age of Reason philosophy club, and we’d love it if you came too! The rather excellently-named Richard Firth-Godbehere is our speaker and will be with us as we explore the idea of emotions from a philosophical standpoint, through history to the present day.

Please note WE HAVE MOVED! Join us for a pint of ale and a pork pie (food for thought) at The Blacksmith and the Toffeemaker in Islington. However you’re feeling, stick this date in your diary!