Essential viewing for parents, educators and teenagers.

A chance to see the gripping, acclaimed documentary "Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media", following US lawyers assisting the parents of children who died due to interactions with harmful activities on the internet.

The cases in the film are from the US, but the experiences are global.
Join the post-film discussion with Kids Unplugged, about the issues raised, the risks for young people in our care, and what we can all do about it. 

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About the Film:

*The film is not recommended for children under 13. Please review Parental Guidance in advance. 

About Kids Unplugged:

Kids Unplugged is a new Belgian movement, campaigning for increased awareness of the risks, action by parents, educators and politicians to protect our children and young adults. 

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Kit De Waal, Balsam Karam, Philippe Marczewski

Literary Salon | Sat 13th Sep | 6.30-8.30pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The speakers will start at 7pm.

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European Writers Salon and Full Circle are delighted to bring you an evening with three fantastic writers from across Europe as they explore what roots them and unroots them and the role that literature and writing play in allowing us to find and create a sense of home in a changing world. 

Kit de Waal, Balsam Karam and Philippe Marczewski will each read from their work and talk about what Rooted/Unrooted means to them. This will then be followed by a lively panel discussion and audience questions. 

Join us for a stimulating and creative evening as we think about what being a European writer means today and to us, how literature sustains us and how we can create and re-create rootedness in our own ways – building a community based on love of literature and connection. 

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ABOUT THE WRITERS

Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the ‘60s and ‘70s. She is the bestselling, prize-winning author of novels My Name Is Leon (an international bestseller which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was recently adapted as a film for BBC Two), The Trick to Time (longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction), a short story collection, Supporting Cast, and a memoir, Without Warning and Only Sometimes (which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards). She is also editor of the Common People anthology, and co-founder of the Big Book Weekend festival. Her latest book Best of Everything is a redemptive novel about the love that can steal into our lives, in spite of the best laid plans.

Balsam Karam is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed novel Event Horizon, which was shortlisted for the Katapult Prize and won the Småland Literature Festival’s Migrant Prize. Her second novel, The Singularity, was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature, the August Prize, and Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Prize.

Philippe Marczewski is a Belgian writer. He worked in neuropsychology before setting up an independent bookshop, which he ran for sixteen years. He is author of Blues pour trois tombes et un fantôme, a melancholy tale exploring the moods generated by his home town of Liège, and Un corps tropical, a caustic contemporary adventure novel (Prix Victor Rossel, Special Mention of the Jury of the Prix Senghor). Quand Cécile, which evokes absence, mourning, memory and forgetting without sadness, was awarded special mention by the 2025 European Union Prize for Literature.

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Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

The Möbius Book
by Catherine Lacey

Culture | Thurs 18th Sept | 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

Join a new season of encounters around the latest works of contemporary fiction, in the company of other avid readers and our host Eleonora Balsano. 

The Möbius Book is a genre-bending story about breaking. Adrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true. She soon realized that she was writing about her relationship with faith. Through relationships, travel, reading and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith’s absence and re-emergence. A hybrid work across fiction and nonfiction, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith’s inherent danger.

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HOW TO WRITE A FILM SCORE

Nigel Clarke

Culture / Salon | Fri 26th Sep | 6.30-8.30pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The speaker will start at 7pm.

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Join us for an evening with composer Nigel Clarke to unveil the creative process behind making music for the movies.

Nigel will show clips and illustrations from his soundtracks to stimulate discussion on the role of music in film and TV. He will also give a historical perspective on some of the great film scores of the past and spark conversation on this fascinating subject.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Nigel Clarke studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, where he was awarded the Academy’s highest distinction, the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. Clarke has previously held positions as Young Composer in Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Composition and Contemporary Music Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Head of Composition at the London College of Music and Media, Visiting Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Associate Composer to the Young Concert Artists Trust,  Black Dyke Band, the Band of HM Grenadier Guards, Brass Band Buizingen, Middle Tennessee State University Bands, Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall and International Composer-in-Association to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Clarke has also co-written film soundtracks to: Jinnah, The Little Vampire, The Little Polar Bear, The Thief Lord, Baseline, & Will and in 2006 was a co-nominee at `The World Soundtrack Awards’ in the `Discovery of the Year’ category. In 2008 Clarke was awarded the title of Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Salford.

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Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

Heart Lamp

by Banu Mushtaq

Culture | Thurs 9th Oct | 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

Heart Lamp is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025. In 12 stories, author Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, championing women’s rights and protesting all forms of caste and religious oppression.  

Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well as India’s most prestigious literary awards.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India. Winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 for Heart Lamp.

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Full Circle Book Club
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On the Calculation of Volume I

by Solvej Balle

Culture | Thurs 6th Nov | 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

In the first part of Solvej Balle’s epic septology, Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday. She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand – the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband’s surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. As Tara approaches her 365th 18th of November, she can’t shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there’s a way to escape.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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MAKING PEACE IN THE CULTURE WARS

A.C. GRAYLING

Salon / Ideas | Fri 20th Nov | 6.30-8.30pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The speaker will start at 7pm.

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The ‘war on wokeness’ may feel like a new phenomenon, but in fact, it’s been around for centuries. People have been ‘cancelled’, in one way or another, since the beginning of time – it’s human nature to form tribes, create an Us vs Them, and serve as judge, jury and so on. And yet, it feels like today we can’t talk about anything. How did we end up here?

Nuanced and historically grounded, philosopher Anthony Grayling searches for middle ground in an otherwise incendiary debate. Looking at the history of cancellation, from Ancient Greek ostracism through hemlock cups, witch trials and the House of Un-American Activities, his is a timely examination of the state of our public culture and the chilling effect it's having on intellectual discourse.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

A.C. Grayling is an outstanding British philosopher and public intellectual, as well as a prolific author (over 30 books) and frequent writer, columnist, broadcaster and commentator on all of the main national media in the United Kingdom. He contributes to the ongoing reflection on how we should live and about possibilities for good lives in good societies. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has been a judge on the Booker Prize twice, in 2015 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

GOOD READS

Discriminations, Making peace in the culture wars (2025); Who owns the moon, In defence of humanity's common interests in Space (2024); Philosophy and Life, Exploring the great questions of how to live (2023); For the Good of the World, Why our planet's crises need global agreement now (2022); The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know about Science, History and the Mind (2021); The Good State, On the Principles of Democracy (2020); Democracy and Its Crises (2017); War: An Enquiry (Vices and Virtues) (2017); The Challenge of Things: Thinking through troubled times (2015); Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century (2010); Liberty In The Age Of Terror (2009); The Mystery Of Things (2004); Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age (2002); and more...

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The Rest of Our Lives
by Ben Markovits

Culture | Thurs 11th Dec | 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company.

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The book club begins at 7pm.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ben Markovits is a British-American author and grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He left an unpromising career as a professional basketball player to study the Romantics and write novels. He has taught high school English, worked at a left-wing cultural magazine, and written essays, stories and reviews for The New York Times, Esquire, Granta, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Paris Review and others. He has published several novels meanwhile winning prizes and accolades such as the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize for short story. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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