Pushkin House presents a new edition of Seven of Clubs – an interdisciplinary event series on the cross-section of arts, sciences, society and entrepreneurship.
The unique format of this info-tainment salon will allow guests to hear speakers candidly share insights into their area of passion and expertise within the intimate setting of Pushkin House.
The event series aims to ignite curiosity, forge collaborations and celebrate strangeness. Bringing people together over in-depth stories of hard work, artistic expression and intellectual curiosity will provide a friendly forum for inspiration, discovery and human connection.
Seven of Clubs has been hosted quarterly by Zima Bar in Soho. Since its launch in 2015, it has brought together over 80 speakers including poets, cyborgs, sperm scientists, digital artists, archaeological choreographers, speculative designers, copyright lawyers, librarians and many more.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kat Dixon is a poet, digital poverty researcher and charity worker. She has created flagship digital skills and online safety programmes with tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and TikTok. She is a Digital Poverty Ambassador and spoke at the 2022 Labour Party Conference on digital inclusion and equity. Her poetry explores queer identity, relationships and social justice – you can find her most recent work in Re·creation Anthology and fourteen poems. Twitter: @katdixon20212 IG: @dixon_kat
Thuong Nguyen works for the British Red Cross in the Global Surge team. When a disaster happens in the world, members of the team need to be able to travel at 48-hour notice to respond on the ground. She specialises in information management and community engagement, to ensure that the right information reaches the right people in operations on the ground.
Rina Atienza is a part-time lecturer at Kingston School of Art, leading the History & Context module for the BA in Creative & Cultural Industries. In addition to educational work, she is a freelance strategist and advocate of the Rogue Futures Initiative. She loves cities as cultural classrooms, and practices yoga and meditation. The title of her talk is “Fire Hazards”. With gas stoves and electric heating making our houses so comfortable, is it possible that we've been conditioned to forget our fire skills?
Sam Cryer is the CEO and founder of Thermulon, a technology startup commercialising advanced aerogel materials for building insulation. Leveraging his PhD in synthetic chemistry (Imperial College London / UCL), he is the inventor of a novel process for the production of silica-based super-insulating aerogels. He stands at the intersection of materials science, entrepreneurship and sustainability in the built environment, commercialising the production of Thermulon’s aerogels with one clear goal: to reduce the carbon footprint of building stock and enable a net-zero future.