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Mon, Oct 10, 6:30pm

Future Talks: 5x15 x Fenwick: How Does Fashion Get the Next 10 Years Right?

5x15 has teamed up with Fenwick to examine the most pressing challenges, practices and innovations impacting the fashion industry today & explore what the future could look like

Fenwick of Bond Street, W1S 1RQ

Featuring Talks By:

Lucy Siegle

Our host

Phoebe English

Future Fashion

Aja Barber

Future Fashion

Kenya Hunt

Future Fashion

Haeni Kim

Future Fashion

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Mon, Oct 10, 6:30pm

Future Talks: 5x15 x Fenwick: How Does Fashion Get the Next 10 Years Right?

5x15 has teamed up with Fenwick to examine the most pressing challenges, practices and innovations impacting the fashion industry today & explore what the future could look like

Fenwick of Bond Street, W1S 1RQ

Tue, Oct 11, 7:00pm

Jonathan Drori and Nicola Spence

Join 5x15 with Jonathan Drori and Nicola Spence on the power of plants.

Online, Via Zoom

Featuring Talks By:

Jonathan Drori

For the Love of Plants

Nicola Spence

For the Love of Plants

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Tue, Oct 11, 7:00pm

Jonathan Drori and Nicola Spence

Join 5x15 with Jonathan Drori and Nicola Spence on the power of plants.

Online, Via Zoom

Mon, Oct 17, 7:00pm

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - October 2022

Join us online in October and journey from the ground beneath your feet, to island utopias and the outer edges of reason

Online, Via Zoom

Featuring Talks By:

Sam Knight

The Premonitions Bureau

Jack Parlett

Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise

Philip Lymbery

Sixty Harvests Left

Lucy Siegle

Be the Ultimate Friend of the Earth

Katy Hessel

The Story Of Art Without Men

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Mon, Oct 17, 7:00pm

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - October 2022

Join us online in October and journey from the ground beneath your feet, to island utopias and the outer edges of reason

Online, Via Zoom

Mon, Oct 24, 6:30pm

Tom Mustill: How to Speak Whale

Join 5x15 to explore how science could change our relationship with animals forever

Online, Via Zoom

Featuring Talks By:

Tom Mustill

How To Speak Whale

Lucy Jones

In conversation

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Mon, Oct 24, 6:30pm

Tom Mustill: How to Speak Whale

Join 5x15 to explore how science could change our relationship with animals forever

Online, Via Zoom

Tue, Nov 1, 7:00pm

Abi Morgan and David Nicholls

Join 5x15 online with Abi Morgan and David Nicholls for an unmissable conversation

Online, Via Zoom

Featuring Talks By:

Abi Morgan

This is Not a Pity Memoir

David Nicholls

In conversation

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Tue, Nov 1, 7:00pm

Abi Morgan and David Nicholls

Join 5x15 online with Abi Morgan and David Nicholls for an unmissable conversation

Online, Via Zoom

Mon, Nov 14, 7:00pm

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - November 2022

Join us in November for an evening of urgent stories on the environment, enigmatic authors, life-changing journeys and triumphant Lionesses

Online, Via Zoom

Featuring Talks By:

Raynor Winn

Landlines

Suzanne Wrack

A Woman's Game

Gail Whiteman

Arctic Basecamp

Lucy Worsley

Agatha Christie

Guy Shrubsole

The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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Mon, Nov 14, 7:00pm

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - November 2022

Join us in November for an evening of urgent stories on the environment, enigmatic authors, life-changing journeys and triumphant Lionesses

Online, Via Zoom

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Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic.

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Upcoming Events

Future Talks: 5x15 x Fenwick: How Does Fashion Get the Next 10 Years Right?

Future Talks: 5x15 x Fenwick: How Does Fashion Get the Next 10 Years Right?

Jonathan Drori and Nicola Spence

Jonathan Drori and Nicola Spence

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - October 2022

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - October 2022

Tom Mustill: How to Speak Whale

Tom Mustill: How to Speak Whale

Abi Morgan and David Nicholls

Abi Morgan and David Nicholls

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - November 2022

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - November 2022

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