On Sunday 14th December Duck Pond Market returns to Lauderdale House with the quarterly Highgate Artisan Food, Craft 7 Vintage Fair with over 50 stands on two floors, including Santa’s Grotto.
Duck Pond Market brings you a vibrant local market place for independent designers, crafters and food producers where everything you can buy comes from a good place.
See you on Sunday
StevenDotsch – The Speculaas Spice Company at http://www.speculaasspice.co.uk/ – bringing you the ‘Taste of Christmas’.
Dr Jonathan Black, Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University and co-author of Abstraction and Reality: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones is to give the seventh KW lecture on Monday 2nd February at 8.00 p.m. in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Book here: https://highgateoc.org.uk/kw2015-lecture
“Hornsey Wood House” talk by John Hinshelwood. 8pm, Union Church Hall www.hornseyhistorical.org.uk
Dr David McAllister will discuss attitudes to burial in the years leading up to the birth of the Garden Cemetery movement in the early nineteenth century and the establishment of Highgate Cemetery itself. His talk will focus on attempts by a series of writers including Wordsworth, Burke, Godwin and Bentham to identify the value of buried bodies, and to establish whether the grave was anything more than an inefficient dumping ground for human remains.
David McAllister is a lecturer in Victorian Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and course director of its MA in Victorian Studies.
On roller-skates and in the air, two women revisit the interweaving stories of their past lives and loves – from the post-war optimism of the late 1940s to the domestic realities of the 1950s and beyond.
Bella Kinetica’s circus theatre show has physical feats that will take your breath away as they skate, spin and fly across the stage.
Featuring the recorded experiences of real women and with a fabulous soundtrack of 40s and 50s music; Life on Wheels is a gentle, moving look back in time.
8PM & 3PM (Sat matinee)
Mondays @ the Mills Lectures – Michaelmas Term 2016
7th November 2016, Mills Centre AV Room
The hidden wildlife of Provence
Will Atkins, Highgate School
Following in the footsteps of that peculiar Victorian species, ‘the British Naturalist on the Riviera’, biology teacher Will (whose photos have appeared on The One Show, in Country Life magazine and in the British Wildlife Photography Awards) has chronicled some of the unexpected, colourful and wonderful fauna that can be seen only a small distance from the packed beaches of Provence. In showing the results of his photographic safaris, he will be aiming to add an extra dimension to your future visits to the south of France.
Tickets can be booked through Ticketsource, by clicking here
Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.
Mondays @ the Mills Lectures – Michaelmas Term 2016
28th November 2016
The Francis Crick Institute
Clare Davy and Professor Julian Downward, FRS
The Francis Crick Institute conducts ground-breaking medical research to understand why disease develops and to find new ways to prevent and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and neurodegenerative diseases. These talks will survey the history of the Crick and introduce its new home next to St Pancras, before focussing on some of the cancer research being conducted there.
Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards.
16th January
The New Junior School and Fibonacci
David Smith, former Head of Physics
Highgate’s magnificent new Junior School opened for business in September of last year. After exploring the history of the Junior School, David will describe the philosophy behind the new structure, making particular mention of the Leonardo Bonacci – known as Fibonacci – and the features around the building that his sequence inspired.
Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!
Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!
Why do whales sing? Why do humans wail? Last year, Little Bulb Theatre embarked on a quest to discover the answers to these perplexing questions and more. Now, they share their findings in an aquatic cabaret of songs, science and soundscapes with chances to win cheap prizes galore! Little Bulb Theatre return to their lo-fi roots in this haphazard two-hander that’s sure to be a whale of a time. Part gig, part lecture, part your lips and WAIL!
Mondays @ the Mills: Women and revolution from the bluestockings to Virginia Woolf |
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In an exciting and engaging lecture illustrated by contemporary cartoons, Highgate’s Head of History and Foundation Historian Dr Benjamin Dabby will draw upon his ground-breaking research into the culture of Britain’s ‘long nineteenth century’ to overturn the conventional account that women were confined to the domestic sphere and excluded from public life. In revealing a world in which public debate about the progress of the nation was shaped increasingly by women, he will show how women’s and men’s gendered identities were as hotly debated then as they are today. Dr Dabby’s latest book: Women as Public Moralists in Britain has been published recently by the Royal Historical Society, and copies will be on sale for £30. Talks take place on Mondays at 7pm in the AV Room in the Mills Centre. Refreshments, including wine, are available from 6.30 pm and afterwards. |
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Serenata celebrate the music of Brahms this April at Lauderdale House.
This concert will feature an eclectic programme of Lieder, Duets & Piano Music by the Classical Romanticist, which will include the original scoring of the Love-Song Waltzes and a special arrangement of Wiegenlied, as well as the Gipsy Songs and selected Hungarian Dances.
Serenata will perform Aimez-vous Brahms? on Friday 27 April 2018 at 7:30pm.
Tickets are £12 (£8 concessions) and will be available on the door or from: 22 Chestnut Avenue N8 8NY (020 8348 2983).
Brahms’ gorgeous, stirring Ein Deutsches Requiem is one of the great choral works, full of warm, rich harmonies. Inspired perhaps by the deaths of his mother, and his friend and fellow composer Robert Schumann, its music evokes comfort, loss, fear, peace and joy. Unlike other well known requiems, Brahms’ is not so much a mass for the dead as an offering of solace to those who mourn.
Jane Hopkins conducts Voxcetera, with soprano Ellie Sperling and baritone Jamie Sperling, using Iain Farrington’s acclaimed arrangement of the score for chamber ensemble. It promises to be both a grand and intimate experience.
There will be a bar open before and after the performance, and Voxcetera hopes you’ll stay to join us for wine and cake when the music finishes.
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Voxcetera is a north London-based choir performing regularly in north and central London. Recent activity includes concerts at St Martin-in-the-fields, East Finchley Arts Festival, tours to southern Germany and recording work for Unicef’s Generations campaign. Its most recent Highgate concert was for Christmas 2018, in St Josephs RC Church.
The Tootsie Rollers, London’s original retro girlband, fuse old-school classics with contemporary hits.
The Tootsies have taken their unique sound all over the world and played everywhere from royal palaces to music festivals. They count Colin Firth, Richard Branson and HRH Prince Charles amongst their celebrity followers.
Their charity single ‘Walk the Walk’, in aid of breast cancer awareness, shot to number one in the jazz charts, marking their proudest moment to date.
The Tootsie Rollers can’t wait to bring vintage bang up to date at Lauderdale House. Grab yourself a picnic, a glass of prosecco and come roll with The Tootsies!