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Sound Connections
What if music could heal? What if the way we listen could transform our relationships? And what if what we’ve been told about mental health isn’t quite the whole story? Join us for a night of discovery as we explore the profound impact of sound on our lives.
These bite-sized talks are designed to challenge perceptions and change your life for the better. Showcasing the most stimulating ideas in arts, science, and history, each scintillating speaker has the challenge of engaging their audience within a 25-minute set, interspersed with intervals where you can chat, get a signed book from the speaker, or grab a drink at the bar.
Voted number six in the ‘Top 100 Things to do in the World’ by GQ magazine, Salon is a night out that will enlighten, entertain, excite your curiosity and change your life for the better.
Dr Haru Yamada
Dr Haru Yamada is a PhD sociolinguistics researcher and writer. Her life’s mission is to champion listening, in many ways enforced by a serious accident which left her nearly deaf and with a lifelong hearing disability. Drawing on the Japanese concept of ‘KIKU’, Haru shares a transformational guide to becoming better listeners.
Jonathan Ainscough
Jonathan Ainscough is a writer, director, and performer working across opera, theatre, and immersive choral performance. He leads the English National Opera Breathe project, an award-winning breathing and wellbeing programme supporting Long COVID patients, and collaborates with Streetwise Opera, conducting performances at major venues.
Joanna Moncrieff
A passionate advocate for innovative approaches in mental health, Joanna Moncrieff is a founding member and co-chair of the Critical Psychiatry Network and a leading expert in critical and social psychiatry. In Chemically Imbalanced, Joanna takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the history of the serotonin theory of depression.
