Historical Jesus

Given from the same spot where Richard Price used to preach as one of this Meeting House’s early Ministers, this talk will explore and celebrate the ideas of one of the most remarkable thinkers of his day, whose ideas were an important influence on the Founding Fathers of America. [Book your tickets here.](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-price-and-americas-revolution-evening-talk-with-sir-roly-keating-tickets-1989659012667?aff=oddtdtcreator) Richard Price was a philosopher, mathematician, scientist, non-conformist preacher and political radical whose remarkable circle of friends included Benjamin Franklin and Mary Wollstonecraft. He was a passionate advocate for the American Revolution, and provoked both controversy and admiration when he published a bestselling pamphlet on the subject in February 1776 (*Reflections on Civil Society…and the War with America*). In the run-up to the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, this event offers a chance to bring Price’s distinctive voice and ideas back to life, and to reflect on their relevance to contemporary and still-urgent debates about freedom, rights and society, including in America itself. Sir Roly Keating is a former Chief Executive of the British Library, Controller of BBC Two and founding Controller of BBC Four. Since 2023 he has lived in the house on Newington Green which was home to Richard Price himself from 1758 to 1787. Joining Roly for a panel discussion and Q&A after his talk with be Michael Goldfarb, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s upcoming series *Mr Jefferson’s Library* and the podcast *First Rough Draft of History*, and Bee Rowlatt, author of books including *In Search of Mary* and founding trustee of the human rights education charity the Wollstonecraft Society.

\*\*\* **Update: this session is online to keep everyone safe during the heatwave. The link will be sent out once you register.** **Please do not travel to the venue as it will be closed.** **Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you online.** An experimental session exploring a different mystic from Eastern and Western spirituality, and spiritual practices inspired by their lives. Heartspaces at Essex Hall is a vibrant and welcoming Unitarian hub in central London, open to spiritual seekers, existing Unitarians and curious newcomers. The Heartspaces programme is a series of weekly spiritual gatherings led by Unitarian ministers and volunteers across London. From regular pagan ceremonies to the spirituality events every Thursday evening, Heartspaces encourages people to gather, share and discover together. Whether you are a seasoned Unitarian, a spiritual searcher or simply curious, find your space to grow.

Join us at Ludoquist for a fun-filled evening of Lorcana gameplay! Our very friendly and casual league meets every Thursday evening to play. Bring along a deck or two, or borrow one of our starter sets. £10 entry fee lets you play and gets an attendance booster as well. To attend this event, you need to buy a ticket[ from our website](https://www.theludoquist.com/collections/star-wars-unlimited). Please NB that though very few people sign up on this meetup - the event fires without 10 people every Wednesday!

This June we're at FundApps offices in HYLO, Bunhill Row. Chris Simon's back in town, and will be joining us to talk about streams and queues; plus Tiago Sousa from SteelEye will be talking about the work they're doing around using AI in comms surveillance. Our hosts at FundApps will be providing drinks and snacks, and there will be plenty of time to chat beforehand and in the pub afterwards. **Chris Simon: It's like 10,000 streams when what you need is a queue** *🎶🎵 A new dev team adopted E-D-A* *Got head of line blocking, on their very first day* *Isn't it ironic, don't you think 🎶🎵* The last few years have seen widespread adoption of Event-Driven Architecture, supported by DDD practices such as event storming. But what does that orange sticky note become when we start implementing our design? Common implementation choices include event sourcing, streaming platforms like Kafka and queuing systems like RabbitMQ. Unfortunately not every orange sticky note has the same operational needs, and many teams remain confused about the differences between these options, resulting in the selection of the wrong paradigm for their needs. This can lead to unnecessary complexity & operational challenges such as head of line blocking, dropped messages, challenges dealing with failed messages, difficulty with adaptive scaling and inadvertently increasing coupling between services. In this talk we'll bring that orange sticky note into the runtime of our system. We’ll start with a deep dive into the similarities and differences between event streaming platforms such as Kafka and queueing systems such as RabbitMq, Azure Service Bus & AWS SNS/SQS. We’ll then look at ways to assess your orange sticky notes to work out which messaging and persistence paradigms suit each one, helping you build more resilient, scalable and loosely coupled event-driven architectures. **Tiago Sousa: AI in Comms Surveillance** In this talk, Tiago shares what it's actually like to build AI for communications surveillance at SteelEye. Financial firms are required to monitor and flag communications for compliance, but making AI work reliably in that context is harder than it sounds. He'll walk through real examples from the trenches: what worked, what didn't, and what he'd do differently. **Tiago Sousa** is a Staff Data Engineer and AI Lead at SteelEye - a platform that helps financial firms monitor and flag communications and trades to stay compliant with regulations. He's spent the last five years building the data and AI systems that make that work. Before that, he did research in bioinformatics, which means he came into fintech from an unusual angle and has the scars to prove it. He's based in Braga, Portugal.

\- Meet at 10:30 on the seats near the information desk in the Great Court\. \- Individual tuition with helpful step by step explanations\, demonstrations as you draw in the galleries\. \- Share your work with other students in the cafe are of the Great Court\, located nest to the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery\. The British Museum houses sculptures from many different cultures, many of which are from elaborate monuments. Some have powerful and moving static presence, and others a lively sense of movement. \- Understand the role statics and dynamics in the making of a drawing \- Practise techniques for aligning forms and sensing proportions \- Use a variety of lines and tones \- Respond to the flow of rhythm