Concealed beneath a derelict public house, The King’s Head private members’ club is East London’s best kept secret. Founded in 2013 and located in the heart of Shoreditch, this exquisite venue offers multiple large rooms that boast character. Enclosed over four floors, The Kings Head showcasesan…
ON EXTINCTION - What does it mean to die the ultimate death?
Description
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Something A Little Different, Pop-Up and Festival
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Tickets from £12.00
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East London
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Over 18
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Thu, 3rd Oct 2019 @ 19:00 - 21:00
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19:00 - 21:00
ON EXTINCTION
What does it mean to die the ultimate death? with Melanie Challenger
This salon is part of London Month of the Dead 2019
Extinction isn't a single death but a collective death. It is a permanent death. We are living through strange times. From the horrors of the whaling industry to the melting ice caps of the Arctic, we've become an agent of extinction like an Ice Age, driving species of plants and other animals into this permanent death. At the same time, our thoughts have turned to the possibility of our own death. Now we have technologies that might reverse extinction, promising to bring back the forever lost. And some of us dream of enhancing humans so that we can escape the threat of our own extinction.
In this talk, author Melanie Challenger raises the question, what does extinction mean in an age of de-extinction? Examine how our growing apathetic detachment from nature is directly responsible for the post-industrial rash of extinctions that have afflicted our planet. She will review the progress of artificial intelligence and bioengineered life juxtaposing it against our loss of what it means to be an animal
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation to Brompton Cemetery.
Melanie Challenger
Melanie is a writer and researcher across environmental history and philosophy. She is the author of On Extinction and the forthcoming How To Be Animal. She broadcasts and engages the public on natural history, bioethics and environmental ethics. She is a current member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
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| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| On Extinction | 19:00 - 21:00 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
The King's Head, 257 Kingsland Rd, E2 8AS
Area
East London
Nearest Station
Old Street (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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