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The Lost Lectures 9 & 10 – Lost in Smoke

London’s Tobacco Docks were the smoldering scene for this, our final fling of 2012 as we welcomed over 1000 Lostlings into a hazy world of tantalizing talks, sizzling sideshows, sumptuous foody feasts and detonative delights as we got ‘Lost In Smoke’ on a Dickensian winters evening in London’s sooty East End.

For those a little hazy as to the details, there was a smokin’ array of speakers, with Baronesseses, Moshi Men, campaigning doctors,  pioneering geneticists, kick ass roller derbyists, infographicists, magicians  and pyrotechnicians…with some live-art and nakedness thrown in too…all in all  an unforgettable night in the big smoke…

 

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