Secularist of the Year – get your tickets now

The next presentation of the £5,000 Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year will be special in many respects. First, we have an extraordinary list of nominees – see the full list and descriptions: and secondly because it has been timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.

So, our party will be both to honour a present-day secularist who has achieved something special and to celebrate a mind that generated perhaps the most significant scientific theory in history.

There’ll be a delicious three course meal and a glass of sparkling wine, and then our entertainment will feature a recreation of the raucous debate between Thomas Huxley (Darwin’s Bulldog) and the Bishop of Oxford (Soapy Sam) at the British Association in Oxford in 1860. Audience participation will be expected – as in the original. After that, the prize for Secularist of the Year will be presented by a surprise celebrity.

This promises to be a convivial and fun afternoon, and one that presents a unique opportunity for members and supporters from around the country to get together and celebrate. In previous years the event has been sold out well in advance, so this year we have booked a much larger venue so we are hoping no-one will be disappointed.

The date is Saturday 7 February, 2009 in central London. Tickets are £45, with a specially reduced rate of £15 for students. book online or you can send a cheque to NSS Tickets, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. Please let us know at the time of booking the names of all in your party and whether anyone needs a vegetarian meal by emailing admin@secularism.org.uk.

28 November 2008