Various speakers will give an overview of developments in the park including the recent planting of an orchard and an update on consultation over future management plans which include the proposal of a new Community Management group.
The Waterlow Park Centre is the low white building near the Dartmouth Park Hill lodge entrance.
We are holding a new workshop on Sunday 15 September 2013. The workshop will teach you how to sing in different styles and how to project your voice in several techniques.
This fun & practical workshop is suitable for those who have some singing experience (like singing at choirs/school/or karaoke). Total beginners are welcome too as we’ll be catching up with basic breathing & vocal projection.
This level 2 workshop will include:
Individual & group coaching
Solo singing – please bring your own song (must be emailed one week in advance)
A final performing session
The repertoire:We’ll be working on the following songs & styles:
Operetta, The Threepenny Opera: Ballad of Mack the Knife
Ivor Novello: We’ll Gather Lilacs
Jazz: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
Certificate: On completion of the level 2 you will receive a certificate of achievement for having completed and demonstrated competence in the workshop program.
Fee £55
How to book: To book and pay please email Kieran at
pianist@singinginlondon.com
or call Kieran on 0773 9704746
The workshop schedule & songs will be emailed to you upon booking.
Workshop leader: Idit Gold. Pianist and vocal coach: Kieran Stallard
The Annual General Meeting of the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum will be held at
Highgate United Reformed Church, Pond Square Chapel, London N6 6BA
Do You Feel Like you Need a Good Tune Up?
This is just what your voice, heart, lungs and confidence need. If you think improving your singing or speaking voice could help your career or personal life, then Tune up Fridays are for you.
Are you a professional singer, in a choir or band, or someone who doesn’t sing but wishes you could? Then come along to our new friendly, recharging and uplifting singing experience.
Tune Up Fridays are led by choir master and vocal coach Norman Bailey. He has helped West End performers, media people and total beginners feel more confident about what they can achieve with their voices.
No songs just beautiful harmonies and your chance to improve your voice and boost your confidence.
When: Friday May 30 2014, 7.15 to 8.30
Where: Highgate Society, Highgate, N6 6BS
Fee: £10 and a smile
Or book online and save 10% http://www.storybookers.co.uk/tune-up-fridays.php
Do You Feel Like you Need a Good Tune Up?
This is just what your voice, heart, lungs and confidence need. If you think improving your singing or speaking voice could help your career or personal life, then Tune up Fridays are for you.
Are you a professional singer, in a choir or band, or someone who doesn’t sing but wishes you could? Then come along to our new friendly, recharging and uplifting singing experience.
Tune Up Fridays are led by choir master and vocal coach Norman Bailey. He has helped West End performers, media people and total beginners feel more confident about what they can achieve with their voices.
No songs just beautiful harmonies and your chance to improve your voice and boost your confidence.
When: Friday May 30 2014, 7.15 to 8.30
Where: Highgate Society, Highgate, N6 6BS
Fee: £10 and a smile
Or book online and save 10% http://www.storybookers.co.uk/tune-up-fridays.php
Do You Feel Like you Need a Good Tune Up?
This is just what your voice, heart, lungs and confidence need. If you think improving your singing or speaking voice could help your career or personal life, then Tune up Fridays are for you.
Are you a professional singer, in a choir or band, or someone who doesn’t sing but wishes you could? Then come along to our new friendly, recharging and uplifting singing experience.
Tune Up Fridays are led by choir master and vocal coach Norman Bailey. He has helped West End performers, media people and total beginners feel more confident about what they can achieve with their voices.
No songs just beautiful harmonies and your chance to improve your voice and boost your confidence.
When: Friday May 30 2014, 7.15 to 8.30
Where: Highgate Society, Highgate, N6 6BS
Fee: £10 and a smile
Or book online and save 10% http://www.storybookers.co.uk/tune-up-fridays.php
Do You Feel Like you Need a Good Tune Up?
This is just what your voice, heart, lungs and confidence need. If you think improving your singing or speaking voice could help your career or personal life, then Tune up Fridays are for you.
Are you a professional singer, in a choir or band, or someone who doesn’t sing but wishes you could? Then come along to our new friendly, recharging and uplifting singing experience.
Tune Up Fridays are led by choir master and vocal coach Norman Bailey. He has helped West End performers, media people and total beginners feel more confident about what they can achieve with their voices.
No songs just beautiful harmonies and your chance to improve your voice and boost your confidence.
When: Friday May 30 2014, 7.15 to 8.30
Where: Highgate Society, Highgate, N6 6BS
Fee: £10 and a smile
Or book online and save 10% http://www.storybookers.co.uk/tune-up-fridays.php
Do You Feel Like you Need a Good Tune Up?
This is just what your voice, heart, lungs and confidence need. If you think improving your singing or speaking voice could help your career or personal life, then Tune up Fridays are for you.
Are you a professional singer, in a choir or band, or someone who doesn’t sing but wishes you could? Then come along to our new friendly, recharging and uplifting singing experience.
Tune Up Fridays are led by choir master and vocal coach Norman Bailey. He has helped West End performers, media people and total beginners feel more confident about what they can achieve with their voices.
No songs just beautiful harmonies and your chance to improve your voice and boost your confidence.
When: Friday May 30 2014, 7.15 to 8.30
Where: Highgate Society, Highgate, N6 6BS
Fee: £10 and a smile
Or book online and save 10% http://www.storybookers.co.uk/tune-up-fridays.php
Novice singer that would like to improve? Come to Singing in London Workshop for Beginners and learn to sing from scratch in four hours!
The workshop will teach you singing skills step by step from basic level and will show you how to use your vocal range in both singing for fun and presentation for public speaking.
We’ll be working on singing and breathing techniques and will show you how to develop your singing skills.
Are you a soprano, an alto, a baritone or bass – you’ll find out at the workshop!
To round it off together we’ll prepare you for a short group performance at the end of the workshop.
We’ve chosen two beautiful songs to practice at the workshop: Magic Moments By Perry Como & Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz. The workshop schedule & the song sheets with web links to practice will be emailed to you upon booking.
At the end of the workshop you will receive a certificate of achievement for completing the beginner level. You can follow it up with the 2nd Level workshop for Intermediates in February.
We limit places to our workshops so enrol now to secure your place before it’s booked up book online.
Adam Pettitt, Headmaster of Highgate School, will be the speaker at this year’s Highgate Society AGM
Highgate Neighbourhood Forum’s Annual General Meeting.
The Friends of Waterlow Park are holding their annual meeting in the Park Centre on Wednesday 10 June from 7 – 9, with refreshments available from 6.45. The speaker will be Shaun Kiddell, formerly Head of Parks for Camden and now Parks Policy Adviser for the Heritage Lottery Fund. He will talk about the role of the HLF in saving Britain’s parks. The talk will be followed by a short AGM and elections to the FOWP committee.
“A History Of Gardening In 40 Objects” A talk by Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum
Monday 9th May at 6.45pm at The Highgate Society 10a South Grove
Followed by the Friends of Waterlow Park AGM.
7PM Talk by John Caird ” My Life in Highgate” Guest Speaker John Caird is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a regular director with the Royal National Theatre and Highgate resident of over 20 years.
Break for light refreshments
8.15 The Highgate Society’s Annual General Meeting
Members and Non members welcome
Tony Leach, Director of Parks for London, will be talking about ‘Parks in London: ‘The Current Dilemma’ at 7 p.m. in the Park Centre. Join the Friends of Waterlow Park at 6.45 for refreshments. The talk will be followed at 8 p.m. by the AGM. This will include a report on recent developments and elections to the committee.
Friends of Waterlow Park Annual meeting – presentation on Art in Parks by Emma Underhill of UP Projects followed by FoWP AGM: Report of activities over the past year, plans for the future and elections to the committee. Refreshments from 6.45 p.m.
If you live or work within the Highgate Neighbourhood Area then you are a member of the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum. You are warmly welcome to attend our AGM on Thursday 7th June, 2018. Please visit our website to read more about our work.
We will be electing a new committee at our AGM, so if you’d like to stand for election please send a short biographical statement together with your full name, address and phone number to info@forhighgate.org by Wednesday 16th May.
Statements will be posted on the website before the AGM. You can see examples from last year’s nominations here
Guest speaker – Alicia Pivaro “The Power of Parks”.
The Conservatory, Lauderdale House – Please use the new north side entrance.
9.30—12:30 Come along any time…
Meet Hamlet and Honest who are visiting us from Uganda
Artwork, by Ugandan children, crafts and coffee for sale
10:00 Chair of Trustees: Alan West
Bishop Hamlet Mbabazi + Honest Wilkins
Founder of the Kirima Primary School and Great Lakes High
School: 20 years of development in SW Uganda and future plans
10:35 Highgate School students
Feedback after Uganda after July 2019 visit to schools
11:00 John Rutherford
News from visit to Kirima & Nyakabungo Primary Schools, Great
Lakes High School. Strategy for the next 10 years.
11:30 Dr. Karen Sennett, Trustee and High School sponsor link
Financing the schools, how can you help?
11:45—12:30 Questions/discussion
Kirima UK Charity Supporting Schools in Uganda