"the optimism we need is going to come from our fellow human beings"
Elif Shafak
5x15 EartH Hackney
"A luminous evening – hopeful, heartfelt & deeply inspiring."
Akram Khan Company
"The line-up, under any circumstances would have been intriguing... the event was sold out... there was an electricity in the room..."
The New Yorker
"5x15's packed soirees feel like an evening of offline, communal surfing, it's due as much to the eclectic menu of speakers as to the short time allotted to each..."
The New York Times
"The ability to 'think intelligently' about subjects that tickle, exercise and expand your mind is at last tangible with entertaining talks at 5x15."
The Telegraph
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The Financial Times
Upcoming Events
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
George Butler
Drawn Across Borders
Tahmima Anam
The Start-Up Wife
Lawrence Wright
The Plague Year
Arifa Akbar
Consumed
Lisa Taddeo
Animal
June 5x15 with George Butler, Lawrence Wright and Arifa Akbar
Join us in June for an evening of personal quests and explosive road trips, fantastic fiction and incisive reportage.
Online, Via Zoom
Finding the Mother Tree
Join us with two world leading experts Suzanne Simard and Jonathan Drori to discover the mysterious world of trees
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Suzanne Simard
Finding the Mother Tree
Jonathan Drori
Around the World In 80 Trees
Finding the Mother Tree
Join us with two world leading experts Suzanne Simard and Jonathan Drori to discover the mysterious world of trees
Online, Via Zoom
Kate Mosse - An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse joins us at 5x15 to discuss An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring, ageing and everyday acts of love
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Kate Mosse
An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse - An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse joins us at 5x15 to discuss An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring, ageing and everyday acts of love
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Brian Eno
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Rob Hopkins
From What Is to What If
Carolina Caycedo
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Kostas Stasinopoulos
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Bringing together artists and thinkers to discuss the climate emergency. With Brian Eno, Rob Hopkins, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Carolina Caycedo & chair Rosie Boycott
Online, Via Zoom
Cancelled: A Theatre for Dreamers: An evening of words and music
Central Hall Westminster, SW1H
Central Hall Westminster, SW1H
In Conversation
Polly Samson
David Gilmour
Cancelled: A Theatre for Dreamers: An evening of words and music
Central Hall Westminster, SW1H
Michael Pollan and Monty Don
This is Your Mind on Plants: A conversation with Monty Don and Michael Pollan
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Monty Don
This is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan
This is Your Mind on Plants:
Michael Pollan and Monty Don
This is Your Mind on Plants: A conversation with Monty Don and Michael Pollan
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Emma Barnett
Period: It's About Bloody Time
Emma Barnett- It's About Bloody Time
Emma Barnett, Woman’s Hour presenter, comes back to 5x15 for an unmissable conversation with interviewer Rosie Boycott
Online, Via Zoom
July 5x15 with Lionel Shriver and Nick Crane
Join us in July for a special celebration of poetry, prose and human ingenuity.
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Lionel Shriver
Should We Stay or Should We Go
Jack Guinness
The Queer Bible
Nick Crane
Latitude
Hollie McNish
Slug...and other things i've been told to hate
July 5x15 with Lionel Shriver and Nick Crane
Join us in July for a special celebration of poetry, prose and human ingenuity.
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Sebastian Junger
Freedom
Sebastian Junger on Freedom
Join us for this event as we discuss community, individualism and an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence.
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Nick Hayes
The Book of Trespass
George Monbiot
Riverside
Peter Armstrong
Rivercide
Franny Armstrong
Rivercide
5x15 on Rivercide
Join George Monbiot and Franny Armstrong on their quest to restore our rivers, to make them clean, swimmable, a rich diverse home to fish, birds and animals.
Online, Via Zoom
About
5x15 produces events of ideas, insight and inspiration for the world’s leading organisations and most discerning audiences. We bring internationally acclaimed speakers to the stage to share stories that are informative, provoking, and above all, entertaining.
Wade Davis @ 5x15 - Cultures at Risk
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.
About
5x15 produces events of ideas, insight and inspiration for the world’s leading organisations and most discerning audiences. We bring internationally acclaimed speakers to the stage to share stories that are informative, provoking, and above all, entertaining.
