Here's the rough outline for this evening.
A couple of people aren't able to talk this evening, for entirely reasonable reasons, and Alby's decided his talk is to depressing to go last ( that information really makes you want to come doesn't it?) so we've had a bit of a rejig.
I was a bit worried that we'd struggle to squeeze everything in but now there's a bit more room to breathe, which is good.
Doors open, milling around: 6.30pm
Announcements regarding toilets and fire exits: 6.50pm
7.00 Abbey Kos - wine tasting - with actual wine
7.10 Rachel Coldicutt - 'A close reading of Julianna Margulies' hair and make-up in The Good Wife'
7.15 Lucy Blackwell - 'The story of my life through calendars'
7.20 Mags Blackwell - 'Do you listen?'
7.25 Rujuta Teredesai - 'Agile for Social Development'
7.30 Ella Fitzsimmons - Northern Europeans and Gnomes
7.35 Nat Buckley - "Why flyknit is the most revolutionary thing since sliced bread"
7.40 Ade Adewunmi - 'The importance of watching TV'
7.45 Tom Whitwell - 'Hippies, synthesisers, giant squid and the military industrial complex'
Quick break: 8.00pm - 8.15pm
Second session: 8.15pm - 9.15pm
8.15 Kim Plowright - 'What it feels like to preserve memories and talk about dementia and death on social media, whilst still occasionally making people laugh (and how her Mum would’ve had her guts for garters if she'd realised what she was up to)'
8.25 Tim Dunn - The Sierra Leone National Railway Museum
8.30 Lisa Rajan - The story behind Tara Binns
8.35 Diego Maranan - Getting "people more aware of their bodies through clothing (and will try to convince people why body awareness matters in the first place"
8.40 Alby Reid - Polonium Poisoning
8.50 Helen Castor - Digging up Kings
8.55 Lauren Brown - (Not sure yet)
9.05 Alice Bartlett - Tampons and (possibly) Tampon Club
Bring pencils! Bring water!