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Sunday 3rd May 2026 6.30pm - Applied Theatre, Labour Rights, and Social Emancipation

Francesco Sani   Scholar and theatre practitioner Francesco Sani explores the use of community-based theatre to discuss political economy and labour rights. Francesco has undertaken research aimed at identifying modalities of engagement with the practice of political theatre that would be accessible to non-traditional theatre audiences and explores different possibilities of performance production outside of the professional industry. The applications of this work can range from education to community-oriented cultural activities.   All welcome - admission free. Tea & biscuits. Donations welcome - £5 suggested to cover  costs.  ...

Sunday 10th May 2026 6.30pm Marine Litter - Tom Stanton

Tom’s talk will introduce his research that is working to better understand the reality of marine litter on heavily-littered shorelines with the help of community experts.   Plastic pollution and marine litter have emerged as pressing environmental challenges of our time, impacting the health of our ocean and ecosystems. With the relentless production and disposal of plastic materials, our planet has become a dumping ground for an alarming array of plastic debris. From microplastics, to larger plastic items like bottles and bags, these pollutants pose a threat to marine life, the food chain, human health and the delicate balance of our planet's aquatic environments.   Tom is is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at Loughborough University. As an interdisciplinary environmental researcher, Tom’s work combines environmental science, human geography, ethnography, and material cultures disciplines to better understand society’s material footprints on the pl...

Sunday 24th May 2026 6.30pm Living Together - Sean Dudley

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Sunday 31st May 6.30pm Colin Wilson: The Outsider 70 Years On

One of the most iconic books of the late twentieth century, ‘The Outsider’, by Leicester- born Colin Wilson, caused a sensation when first published on May 28, 1956. Colin Stanley tells the story of his overnight success.   Colin Stanley is  Colin Wilson’s bibliographer, convenor of 4 International Conferences on his work and associate curator of his archive at the University of Nottingham. Author of several studies of his work including ‘An Evolutionary Leap: Colin Wilson on Psychology’ (Routledge, 2016) All welcome - admission free . Donations welcome - £5 suggested to cover  costs. 

Sunday 7th June 2026 6.30pm Loose Cannons - Paul Fitzgerald

 

Sunday 21st June 2026 6.30pm Leicester Martial Arts Celebrating 60 years