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
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24 Nov 2026
Next up
Winter warmer
November Night
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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.
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Nick Le Huray
Escapes and espionage in occupied Guernsey
The often overlooked stories of escapes and espionage within Guernsey, which led to vital information being smuggled out of the island. A secret radio, a French spy and ingenious escapes, to name but a few. Despite the topic, there are a few light-hearted moments.
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Rachael Cumberland-Dodd
Dead positive
How exploring conversations around death and dying can help us to live bolder, braver lives. Rachael founded a new club for talking about grief more openly than we usually manage.
More speakers to be announced
Dark evenings, warm room, more short talks worth hearing. Speakers, subjects and venue announced soon.
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Nothing on the calendar right now. The next night is being plotted; follow us on Eventbrite from the home page and you'll be the first to know.
Past events
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27 Oct 2026
Next up
Autumn digging
October Night
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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.
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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.
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Gemma Ainger
My Breast Friend: turning awareness into habit
Founder of My Breast Friend, a free, not-for-profit reminder app she created out of her own experience with breast cancer. Its sole purpose is turning awareness into habit, and more than 90% of its users now check more regularly.
A passage grave that has been keeping secrets for five thousand years, what home really means, a tour of the stranger ways minds work, and an app turning awareness into habit. All with a pint to think it over.
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29 Sept 2026
Next up
Round two
September Night
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Nick Cragg
Guernsey's Fourth Plinth Project: a community-focused modern art initiative
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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. Three short, jargon-free talks with drinks and good conversation after.
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25 Aug 2026
Next up
The very first one!
The Launch Night
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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.
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Poppy Murray
What do Chelsea FC, Rob Beckett and Guernsey have in common?
Poppy Murray on men, allyship and safer nights out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing here yet, which is rather exciting: history starts Tuesday 25 August 2026. Come along and you'll be able to say you were at the first one.