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March 2016 – September 2018 Mar 2016 – Sep 2018
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Mar
14
Mon
Talk: Dyne House – Highgate’s contribution to New Brutalism @ Highgate School
Tickets
Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

A talk by the Head of Art History –  Judith Jammers –  on the architecture of Dyne House, opened in 1967.

Free to former parents, pupils and staff.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Tags: Architecture art history Highgate School talk Talk
Jul
4
Mon
Bodyline post-mortem: Why did a cricket series cause an international crisis? @ Mills Centre, Highgate School
Tickets
Jul 4 @ 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm

The 1932-33 England cricket tour of Australia was one of the most widely reported of all time.  During a period when long-distance communications were either painfully slow or terrifically expensive, c. 130,000 words were wired across the world over a three-day period, costing a small fortune.  Nor did interest in the tour wane within a few years, and even today, over eighty years after the victorious English side left Australia, more is written about this series than any other.  The reason is simple: for the first time in the history of the game, controversy that took place on the field took on a political dimension, causing Dominions Secretary, Jimmy Thomas, to later recall: ‘no politics ever introduced in the British Empire caused me so much trouble as this damn bodyline bowling’.

The talk will be given by James Newton, Head of History at Highgate School.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Tags: Cricket History Highgate School talk Policical History
Jul
14
Thu
Jess Love: And the Little One Said @ Jacksons Lane
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Jul 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Combining high-level circus skills with pathos, humour and beauty, Jess Love creates a vision that is at once delicately touching, visually enchanting and heart-warmingly playful. Dark clowning, dirty acrobatics and surreal sideshow feats go hand-in-hand with slapstick, roller-skating, hula hoops, skipping and hopscotch acrobatics – phew! With crafted storytelling and awe inspiring images on a bed of roses and broken glass, it’s so sweet you’ll want to squeal!

“LIVELY AND ENTERTAINING…SERIOUSLY WACKY…EXCITING…CHARISMATIC”★★★★ THE AGE

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We have introduced a Pay What You Decide policy for Postcards Festival 2016shows.

You can attend the shows without paying for a ticket beforehand, but tickets can be reserved in advance (max 4 per booking). When the show finishes, you will have the opportunity to make a donation – either by cash on the door or card at the Box Office.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Jacksons Lane Tags: acrobatics adult and the little one said beauty cabaret circus clowning contemporary circus festivals hopscotch horror hula hoop jess love north london pay what you decide performance postcards postcards 16 roller skating sideshow skipping slapstick summer Theatre things to do
Feb
6
Mon
Mondays @ The Mills: Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Green – The Ninth Annual Kyffin Williams Lecture @ Mills Centre, Highgate School
Tickets
Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

6th February

The Ninth Annual Kyffin Williams Lecture
Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Green

Martin Bailey
The art historian Martin Bailey has published two books in the past few weeks – one on Van Gogh (Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence) and the other on the former Highgate student Anthony Green RA (Painting Life), who was taught by Kyffin Williams in the 1950s. In his lecture, Bailey will explore the links, since Green has always been strongly influenced by Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Tags: Anthony Green art Highgate School talk Martin Bailey Van Gogh
Sep
21
Fri
Highgate Gallery Talk: KYFFIN WILLIAMS @ Highgate Gallery
Tickets
Sep 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Rian Evans, Guardian critic and author of Kyffin Williams: The Light and the Dark (2018), discusses the work of Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA.

8pm (doors open 7.30pm)

Entry £5 on the door (cash or cheque only).

Brochures and books for sale.

Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, lecturer, cartoonist and raconteur, Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA is one of the most famous figures in Welsh art.  He spent much of his adult life in Highgate.  This talk is part of the Kyffin 100 celebrations in conjunction with Highgate School Museum.  Kyffin was senior art master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973, and he also taught evening classes at the HLSI in the very hall hosting this talk.

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Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Highgate Gallery Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution Tags: Kyffin Williams Rian Evans Talk
March 2016 – September 2018 Mar 2016 – Sep 2018