Join us at Aces and Eights in London for four true, personal stories about the unexpected.
Hosted by Richard Kemeny and Michaela Agapiou.
Doors will open at 7pm, and show starts at 7:30pm.
Stories by:
Dhruti Shah is an award-winning journalist and freelance wordsmith. She's been a local newspaper chief reporter, a BBC journalist, a social storytelling specialist and a lot more. She's worked and studied across the UK, in the US and in Thailand. Her debut book Bear Markets and Beyond: A Bestiary of Business Terms won Short Business Book of the Year at the 2021 Business Book Awards. She's had her poetry and short stories published in various collections. She is also an independent consultant, an accredited relational dynamics coach and has a background in OSINT investigations. She has four global fellowships, including an Ochberg Fellowship with the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma. She's a Trustee for the charity The John Schofield Trust and an Advisor to the Museum of Colour.
Francis Windram is a PhD student at Imperial College London, working on computational approaches to extracting spider web traits. He is also a musician, poet, climber, and ex-chef, and generally spends his time being a little too enthusiastic about the minutia of life. His passion for education and outreach has led him to teach sciencey things both in the UK and USA, and he believes strongly that in sharing knowledge through humour and candid cautionary tales we can learn to treat ourselves with more kindness, love, and respect than we otherwise would.
Robyn Jay is a college English professor with a passion for neurobiology and a keen interest in human behaviour. Storyteller, stage hypnotist, and former player with Montreal Improv, Robyn is on the constant lookout for novelty, adventure, and ways we can broaden our understanding of how we define ourselves.
Sofia Castelló y Tickell grew up between Mexico and the UK. She holds an undergraduate degree in Biology and Photojournalism at Brown University, followed by an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management and a DPhil in Zoology at the University of Oxford. Her research interests have ranged from sea star feeding in the Galápagos to eels and marine mammals in the Thames, enforcement and compliance in marine protected areas, positive communication and wellbeing in conservation, and the conservation potential of human-made reefs. She is also an improvised comedian and award-winning animator, who co-founded the Conservation Optimism “Good Natured” podcast and film festival.