Interesting is only two weeks away. We've just ticked over into 300 tickets sold, which is testament to the power of not promoting things at all.
It's still at the Conway Hall. It's still the evening of September 15th.
Here's a rough guide to speakers and timing:
Doors open, milling around: 6.30pm
Announcements regarding toilets and fire exits: 6.50pm
First session: 7pm - 8pm
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 Sharon Dale - 'What's Next?'
7.40 Nat Buckley - "Why flyknit is the most revolutionary thing since sliced bread"
7.45 Ade Adewunmi - 'The importance of watching TV'
7.50 Tom Whitwell - (Not sure yet)
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 Alice Bartlett - Tampons and (possibly) Tampon Club.
8.45 Craig Smith - his Dad's relatives, including the first person to get convicted for football hooliganism using video evidence and an actor who played one of Papa Lazaru's henchmen in League of Gentlemen and an Ewok in Return of the Jedi
8.50 Helen Castor - Digging up Kings
8.55 Lauren Brown - (Not sure yet)
9.00 Rebecca Kemp - Lipstick
9.05 Alby Reid - Polonium Poisoning