The Lost Lectures

OK so this is really a review for the Lost Lectures and a mini one for Bush Hall (so bits of the review effectively appear twice on my profile)
The venue; small and has a little intimate mini wedding reception, 20s ballroom charm about it. There’re chandeliers from the ceiling, pillars and moulding on the walls. Quite a cool little place. Not very big but with great acoustics and a balcony with a decent little bar. The place held roughly 150 – 200 people.
The event they had there, now that was something else!
The Lost Lectures is one of the best things I’ve been to in London and to put it briefly is a bastard child mixture of the TED lectures and Secret Cinema. It’s a series of pop up 20 minute lectures on various topics from art to science to the plain passionate! Be careful tickets sell out fast you have to be fast on that twitter trigger.
They had quite the menagerie this time with 6 speakers. the first was a sex statistician who spoke about the need for such behavioural data and how to get the best information on people. The second was a gardener who went round the potholes of london making little gardens and filming the reaction of people, a bus driver loved one so much he stole it! Another was an artist who talked about his interactive work around the world including placing pianos around cities and having randoms film themselves play them.
The second half started with a man who talked about the power and romance of letters showing us amazing little letters that he had put on his website. One was a beautifully Snow White letterheaded one from the Disney company telling a female animator that there were no women allowed in the creative department! Guido Fawkes spoke next talking about how to get round super-​injunctions and how they became a bigger political website than the Spectator. The evening finished with a lovely passionate 23 year old classically trained musician who was also the UK beatbox champion! The sounds that came out of this girls mouth were so amazing and her passion so great that it ended the night off just perfectly. I was smiling for the rest of the week and shall definitely be going to the next one!
Lost Lectures, you make me proud to be losing myself in London.