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Talkaoke: The Big Draw
To correspond with the tour of Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, Talkaoke visited Salisbury Museum where Constable’s painting is currently on display. Our visit also coincides with the museums The Big Draw event where visitors drew and displayed their own version of the cathedral. Our own visualiser, Rick Sleiman, was also on hand to recreate live some of the ideas brought up on the Talkaoke table. Click here to watch the videos Click here to view Rick’s visuals
Find out more »Talkaoke: Future Culture, The Trampery
We took our normal monthly Talkaoke studio session to The Trampery, in Old Street. The theme of the evening was Future Culture and we had a live visualiser, Cat Faulkner, on hand to draw the conversation. Click here to watch the video Click here to view the photos Cat’s Visuals
Find out more »Talkaoke: RISING Global Peace Forum, Coventry
We did two Talkaoke sessions in Coventry City Centre for RISING Global Peace Forum, the first of which was at Coventry Cathedral. RISING Global Peace Forum pushes forward new ways of thinking about peace and conflict in our turbulent world. Photos from the two session can be found on our Flickr page The second session was in Fargo Village.
Find out more »Talkaoke: The Future of Peckham
Peckham Platform Retrospective For Peckham Platform’s final weekend, join Talkaoke to explore the ways in which Peckham is changing and the role that cultural organisations like Peckham Platform can play. A rapidly changing panel of invited speakers will take their place at the Talkaoke table to put forward their views, with public invited to share theirs. Confirmed speakers include: artists Barby Asante, Sarah Cole and Janette Parris; local groups Theatre Peckham, Leaders of Tomorrow and Peckham Vision; The Worshipful The…
Find out more »Talkaoke: Arts & Culture and Dorset Libraries
Talkaoke was in Dorset talking to participants about what their thoughts on Dorset library services were and how they could be improved, as well as their views on Arts and Culture in the area. We visited the café in Gillingham’s Waitrose as well as the library on 3rd March 2017. And went to Weymouth Library and the High Street on 4th March. We also visualised the conversation live throughout the day. Gillingham Visuals Weymouth Visuals
Find out more »Talkaoke: Studio Session 4
This months Talkaoke studio session was also a celebration of 20 years of Talkaoke. The discussion was very much about the future of man, the future of the UK and the future of technology; and what you wanted to be when you were 10 years old.
Find out more »The Slice is Right? Baking for Utopia
The Slice is Right is a game that we are prototyping next Wednesday at Systems Games Night that involves actual pizza making and actual democracy! Winston Churchill said: “democracy is the worst form of government imaginable, until you try to imagine another” Does this signify a failure of our politics or a failure of our imagination? Has anyone recently tried to think of new ways of making group decisions and actually testing them out in real situations? This is what…
Find out more »Talkaoke: #Hackstock – Beyond 2K17
Talkaoke returns once again for #Hackstock – Beyond 2K17, at The Trampery in Old Street. Organised by Sci-Fi-London & PsychFi Labs, Hackstock is an investigation into the future through virtual reality. Click here to view the photos of Talkaoke at the event
Find out more »Talkaoke: Imperial Festival 2017
For the fourth year in a row Talkaoke was at Imperial Festival, at Imperial College for a Sunday afternoon discussion on Science. Will robots take over the world, should we breed pigs to fly, why or how does the wind blow and do we need more research into the chemistry, physics and psychology of love? Find out on Talkaoke. Click here to view photos from the day
Find out more »Talkaoke: Make the Future Live
Talkaoke will be at Shell’s Make the Future Live Lates event in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. What would it take to make London carbon neutral? For more details and to get your free ticket visit the event website Over 18s only
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