Events

Last Tuesday of the month, 7pm, at a venue around St Peter Port. Entry is free, tickets go out on Eventbrite, and every event here comes with a calendar file so you can't accidentally schedule something boring instead.

Upcoming

  • 29 Sept 2026

    Round two

    September Night

    Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 7pm to 9:30pm · Venue to be announced

    • Nick Cragg

      Guernsey's Fourth Plinth Project: a community-focused modern art initiative

    • Paul Chambers

      The magic trick: what wet plate photography taught me about second chances

    • Lupin Vivian

      How do you think? Exploring various modes of human thought

      Has spent a lot of time thinking about thinking. Expect aphantasia, synaesthesia, eidetic memory and several other ways minds turn out to work differently from one another.

    • Andrew Doyle

      Reinvention Island: seven ways Guernsey earned its living

      Author of Reinvention Island, which traces the seven very different trades that have kept Guernsey in the world economy over five hundred years, from knitting and privateering to quarrying, tomatoes, tourism and finance.

    Round two. Four short, jargon-free talks with drinks and good conversation after. Venue announced soon.

  • 27 Oct 2026

    Autumn digging

    October Night

    Tuesday, 27 October 2026, 7pm to 9:30pm · Venue to be announced

    • Martyn Dorey

      New findings at the Déhus Dolmen

    • Robert McCann

      ‘Being at Home’: viewed from a strange angle

      Left Belfast during the Troubles and has been asking what home means ever since. Works in local government housing, researches the philosophy of architecture at Exeter, and argues that home is less a building than the bundle of memories we carry with us.

    More speakers to be announced

    Neolithic Guernsey, a passage grave that has been keeping secrets for five thousand years, and a pint to think it over. Plus another talk to be announced.

  • 24 Nov 2026

    Winter warmer

    November Night

    Tuesday, 24 November 2026, 7pm to 9:30pm · Venue to be announced

    • Shelaine Green

      You've got skills and experience that Guernsey (quietly) needs

      What does supporting your island mean to you? Helping out your neighbours? Volunteering for a local charity? What about representing your community when there are important decisions to be made? Being a deputy is only one of the ways to do that; there are also numerous panels, commissions, tribunals and committees that appoint ordinary members of the public. Shelaine, of Women in Public Life, explains how you can give back to Guernsey by taking on a behind-the-scenes role in public office.

    More speakers to be announced

    Dark evenings, warm room, more short talks worth hearing. Speakers, subjects and venue announced soon.

    Free Tickets on sale soon Add to calendar

Past events

  • 25 Aug 2026

    The very first one!

    The Launch Night

    Tuesday, 25 August 2026, 7pm to 9:30pm · The Golden Lion, St Peter Port

    • Katie Inder

      Confidently Wrong

      From fabricated legal citations to biased hiring problems, join Katie, founder of Concise, to learn how AI's biggest failures aren't 'intelligence' problems. They are data problems.

    • Poppy Murray

      What do Chelsea FC, Rob Beckett and Guernsey have in common?

      Poppy Murray on men, allyship and safer nights out.

    • Nick Mann

      Who pays for the news?

      Local newspapers are vanishing, and the places they leave behind have a name: news deserts, where nobody is left to sit in court, cover a States debate or report on the community. Nick Mann co-founded an indie newsroom to see what could be built instead.

    • Rosalie van Zutphen

      How to be a villager? Finding community in adulthood

      Founder of Inclusive Islanders, a social club for young islanders to meet people, try new things and feel at home in Guernsey.

    • Charlie Edwards

      How to be a villager? Finding community in adulthood

      Vice president of Inclusive Islanders, the social club behind Guernsey's growing calendar of ways to meet people.

    The very first Think & Drink. Grab a drink, hear from people who really know their subject, and spark some conversations. Short, engaging talks in the relaxed setting of a pub rather than a lecture hall, followed by plenty of time at the bar.

    Free