Free entry – complimentary tea and cake – non members welcome
This is the third in what is now becoming an annual Highgate Society event – a January afternoon
travel talk and tea. Our first, in 2016, featured visits to North America by Catherine Budgett Meakin
and to the Andes by Richard Webber. Last year it was the turn of Michael Hammerson who dusted
off his slides and diary account from 1966 to treat us to a wonderful account of his experiences as a
young man visiting the battlefields of the American Civil War.
This year our focus shifts to Asia where we will hear travellers’ accounts of visits to three countries in
the Caucasus and Central Asia that receive very few foreign visitors.
The presenters will whet your appetite for a visit with images of magnificent mountain scenery as
well as heritage site of world-wide significance. This will be presented within a broader discussion of
sustainable tourism, the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union, geo-political uncertainty and
social acceptance and resistance to the spread of Western values.
Do you need a guide to visit these countries? Or should you join a group? How safe will you be? And
how easy is it to engage in meaningful discussion with the views of local people? Come and hear.
Programme
3.15 1: Kyrgistan: Guyonne James
3.40 2: Armenia: Richard Webber
4.05 Questions, answers and discussion in response to talks 1 and 2
4.20 Tea
4.35 3: Iran: Betty Pires + team (the precise members of which are to be confirmed)
5.00 Questions, answers and discussion on practicalities of a central Asia visit
Organ Recital at St Joseph’s Church. Look at the poster here Organ Recitals 2018
Thursday 5th July
7.30 – 9pm
Organ recital, choral singing and poetry mixed programme St Joseph’s Church, Highgate Hill, N19 5NE
Free, but donations welcome www.stjosephshighgate.org.uk
Organ Recital at St Joseph’s Church. Look at the poster here Organ Recitals 2018
Thursday 5th July
7.30 – 9pm
Organ recital, choral singing and poetry mixed programme St Joseph’s Church, Highgate Hill, N19 5NE
Free, but donations welcome www.stjosephshighgate.org.uk
Organ Recital at St Joseph’s Church. Look at the poster here Organ Recitals 2018
Thursday 5th July
7.30 – 9pm
Organ recital, choral singing and poetry mixed programme St Joseph’s Church, Highgate Hill, N19 5NE
Free, but donations welcome www.stjosephshighgate.org.uk
Organ Recital at St Joseph’s Church. Look at the poster here Organ Recitals 2018
Thursday 5th July
7.30 – 9pm
Organ recital, choral singing and poetry mixed programme St Joseph’s Church, Highgate Hill, N19 5NE
Free, but donations welcome www.stjosephshighgate.org.uk
Organ Recital at St Joseph’s Church. Look at the poster here Organ Recitals 2018
Thursday 5th July
7.30 – 9pm
Organ recital, choral singing and poetry mixed programme St Joseph’s Church, Highgate Hill, N19 5NE
Free, but donations welcome www.stjosephshighgate.org.uk
Every second Saturday of the month we host our popular Saturdays at Six concert series. Programmes range from organ recitals to chamber groups to soloists and choirs. Concerts run from 6-7pm and there is a retiring collection.
Every second Saturday of the month we host our popular Saturdays at Six concert series. Programmes range from organ recitals to chamber groups to soloists and choirs. Concerts run from 6-7pm and there is a retiring collection.
Get your sturdy footwear ready for
10:30 – 12:30 on Saturday, 15 April
Rain or shine, together we’ll enhance our shared open Hillcrest spaces … no matter if litter picking isn’t your speed, join in at the E.T. Event Tent at the Hillcrest Commons cul-de-sac for freshly brewed coffee or tea & biscuits … or bring some of your own favourite Saturday morning treats to share.