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  • Quidam film night: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

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    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    To mark ‘la rentrée’ – the summer holidays over and back to school – the opening event in the new Quidam season will be the classic Jacques Tati comedy film ‘Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot’. This re-digitalised version is undoubtedly Tati’s best loved film, and favourite scenes such as how to win at a tennis…

  • Quidam film night: Cinema Paradiso

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    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    Friday 12th October at 7.45pm in the Parish rooms. A showing of the beautiful, charming and multi-award winning film Cinema Paradiso, introduced by Sir Ivor Roberts, former UK Ambassador to Italy and recently retired President of Trinity College, Oxford. Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village:…

  • QUIDAM film night: The Lives of Others

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    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    Doors open at 7.30 pm; film starts at 8pm, with an introduction by Dr Katrin Schreiter, Lecturer in German and European Studies, King's College London. To reflect the mood of Remembrance weekend and in stark contrast to the gaiety of ‘Monsieur Hulot’ and the charm of ‘Cinema Paradiso’, this month we will watch a sombre, powerful German film…

  • QUIDAM in discussion: Cradle to Grave

    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    Cradle to Grave: The Five Giants The second series of our 'Quidam In Discussion' talks on Thursday evenings will examine ‘the five giants’ that Sir William Beveridge (echoing Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress) identified in his 1943 report for post-war governments to slay: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease, beginning with a talk and discussion lead by…

  • QUIDAM in discussion

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    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    David Goodhart is Head of Policy Exchange’s Demography, Immigration, and Integration Unit, and Director of the Integration Hub website. He is a former Director of Demos, and former Editor of Prospect magazine, which he founded in 1995, and will be discussing whether smart people have shaped society too much in their own interests helping to create…

  • QUIDAM in discussion:

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    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    "A fair economy is a strong economy: prosperity and justice can, and must, go hand-in-hand." As part of our series exploring the welfare state, we welcome Tom Kibasi, who is Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Chair of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice and a principal author and editor of the Commission’s final report, ‘Prosperity…

  • Quidam Discussion: Lord David Willetts

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    St Peter's Church, Hammersmith Black Lion Ln, London, United Kingdom

    The Pinch - Why the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future, and Why They Should Give It Back Lord David Willetts in discussion with Professor Howard Glennerster David Willetts is Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation, and former Minister for Universities and Science. He was MP for Havant from 1992-2015. Before becoming an MP, he…